After last week’s goings-on with Gary Lineker, you’d imagine plenty of people will have wanted to give The Sun‘s editor-in-chief an earful.
Incredibly, that situation presented itself today as Tony Gallagher answered a series of questions posed to him on Twitter. Sure, few of them were the questions most people wanted answering, but beggars can’t be choosers.
Following Gallagher’s failure to provide a direct answer to the following question, the #asktonygallagher hashtag was set up.
Of these two comments, which offends you more and why please, @tonygallagher? pic.twitter.com/pv6lDxLval
— Huw (@ed_son) October 22, 2016
As you can probably guess, it wasn’t Gallagher himself who was responsible.
Fair play to @thesun's @tonygallagher for agreeing to answer questions via #asktonygallagher. His commitment to dialogue is to be applauded.
— hrtbps (@hrtbps) October 26, 2016
Of course, some of the same questions arose, and were met with silence.
Hi @tonygallagher – Of these two comments, which offends you more and why? #AskTonyGallagher pic.twitter.com/aiPLjxLyWF
— Huw (@ed_son) October 26, 2016
As well as some more rhetorical offerings.
Why are you so mean? What hurt you?#asktonygallagher
— Daniel Blake (@rozakthegoon) October 26, 2016
.@tonygallagher at what point did you decide that it was morally acceptable to tell lies about the EU? #asktonygallagher
— (((David Scutter))) (@DavidScutter1) October 26, 2016
How do you sleep at night? #askTonyGallagher
— SeanKDLA on Psn (@SeanKDLA) October 26, 2016
But soon we got onto the really hard-hitting stuff.
#askTonyGallagher Do you think the Orangutan chauffeur in Cannonball Run 2 was a bit far fetched?
— Ken Shabby ? (@MrKenShabby) October 26, 2016
Do you believe in life after love? #asktonygallagher
— Robin Harrison (@rharrison744) October 26, 2016
But Gallagher was happy to give his two cents on a number of other matters.
@Baron_Flumpy no. The remakes are always awful. Am more a Curb Your Enthusiasm chap
— Tony Gallagher (@tonygallagher) October 26, 2016
@DayveIrving but Buzz knows. Doesn't Woody shake him very hard to tell him this?
— Tony Gallagher (@tonygallagher) October 26, 2016
@DaleyAFC is it the adrenaline syringe?
— Tony Gallagher (@tonygallagher) October 26, 2016
@SmokeyHudson an armpit
— Tony Gallagher (@tonygallagher) October 26, 2016
Still, at the time of writing, he is yet to provide an answer to the following.
Do you remember the last time you thought you had a shred of credibility left? #asktonygallagher #dontbuythesun
— Ian Bradley (@ijbrads66) October 26, 2016
Hi @tonygallagher: why will you show the faces of migrant kids arriving from Calais, but not the gun-stripping jihadist fake migrant child?
— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) October 26, 2016
Maybe he missed that one because it didn’t use the hashtag.