Madeleine McCann: Blown Out Of All Proportion
MADELEINE McCann is on the beach at Praia da Luz. Or at least her likeness is.
As the Mail reports, Chris Lennox and Les Harley, have driven 2,200 miles from Scotland. They have brought along a 800 sq ft giant inflatable billboard appealing for Madeleine’s safe return.
The Mail doesn’t say anything about Chris Lennox and Les Harle nor why they should choose to display Madeleine’s image in such a fashion. Is this not a little unusual, creepy even?
At least the BBC bothers to speak with campaigners. It hears Mr Lennox tell us: “My heartstrings have been pulled on this and I want to help. I have a family with small kids and my wife has been following this from day one. She told me to come out here and do what I could. I am clearly here to help raise awareness.”
Such is the way of public spectacles, like the Madeleine McCann mystery, that many feel involved. They want to do their bit. But what can they do? Put themselves in the public eye? Make a huge inflatable and show the world how much they care?
Lennox and Hale plan to tour the area with their massive inflatable sign. And surely it will keep Madeleine’s name in the public eye. People will be reminded that Madeleine McCann has gone missing. Parents on holiday will be made aware that children can be taken. They will anxiously hug their children closer. And, if they’ve read some of the over the top media coverage, they will worry over holidaying in Portugal.
Meanwhile, back in the UK, Sun readers can go online and watch a video of Madeleine. It’s called “Maddie on Mobile”. The Mail has stills of Madeleine McCann at the airport, excitedly climbing the airplane’s steps.
The two films, one of 13 seconds and another of nine, were taken on camera phones. “Somewhere in the background there’s even the sound of her voice,” says the Mail. Ghouls will love it.
And they can see it on the Sun’s website. Right after an advert for a film called Paradise Lost, featuring lot of babes in bikinis, and before “Sex in the City, a video showing a couple shagging on a London rooftop, there’s Madeleine on the airport shuttle bus.
So we look. But what does it teach us? Only that the media owns the story of Madeleine McCann. And that she is just another form of entertainment to pass the time before the next show…
Posted: 29th, May 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (262) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 29th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Clearly this is the little boys classroom. I’m having no further part in this!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I never said any of it. I am just a figment of your imagination.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Hey - I never said that!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
How about you stop hurling abuse and actually justify your opinion Sarah
May 29th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
who ever is using my name can you stop it! Its really irritating
i didn’t say ‘nobody even asked you to come here’
May 29th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
YOU’RE my problem, you childish little troll!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I disagree with the above article, i dont think the McCanns deserve what they are going through, i hope Madeleine is found safe, Anourmouse was being a loser so i tild him/ her so in no uncertain terms
What is your problem Sarah?
May 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I actually think anourmouse is doing a wonderful job in parodying the numbnuts who come on here and weep about how they haven’t been able to sleep cos ’someone’s’ taken OUR MADDIE!!!
Anyone who comes on here and disapproves of anything to do with Team McCan’t is accused of being a ‘paedo, child abusing, sadistic heathen’ who is in some way supporting the person/persons/aliens that may or may not have taken the kid!
There is no debate anymore, it has just become a series of - you’re talking shit - bet you fuck kids!’ type comments (see KayholeKate and Frances Wicks on the ‘watching the parenst thread’ if you don’t believe me)
It is as if there is no REAL news to talk about!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
shutt UP sarrah
May 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
nobody even asked you to come here
May 29th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Go back to school, bla.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I dont know why you are being so rude!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I’m not going to lower myself to your childish levels, bla.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Umm I didn’t say that, who stole my name?
May 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
yeah, go away sarah.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
What?
May 29th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Bla, you’re just as bad as everyone else! I hope that dearest, dear little angel is (God helping) found!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
hey, i said that they dont deserve it!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
shut up sarrah, nobody asked you
May 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
You are all disgusting and I dont know how you can say Madeline’s mum an dad deserve this?
HOW do they!?! They made a mistake and feel tremendous guilt about it… they dont need morons like you makin them feel even worse. No one deserves to have their child taken from them (except like, heroin addicts)… I think you’re all pathetic and disgusting. I hope something HORRIBLE like this happens to you one day and some small minded mings say ‘Oh they deserved it.’
May 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
david storum - don’t be so wet - i suggest you re-read the posts from anourmouse. i have no problem with anyone disagreeing with me, i welcome it etc. of course you’ll see that anourmouse is being deliberately controversial (what an amusing technique) but at the expense of any cogent signs of wit, reason or humanity.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Just been told by my English friend that this is school vacation time? Guess I am on the wrong thread.
bye guys
May 29th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
That’s enough. Everyone’s entitled to views and opinions, you three are just bashing anyone who fails to agree with you. Stop it, you’re ruining it.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Portugal Police Find New Suspect- Goes by the Name Anourmouse!!!
May 29th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
anourmouse, despite what you clearly believe, you are a person of astonishingly low intellect.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
anourmouse.. i guess the drop on your head as a baby is to blame, but you know if you were abused you can get therapy for this. or is it just a case of you being a complete and utter dick!!
May 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
By the amount of public outpouring of grief and sympathy by users such as dd, bla and spidermanic, it would seem that all three are greatly overcompensating for something… perhaps a guilty conscience? No doubt all three are involved in this case, or a similar one, and are in fact, child molesters or child pornographers. Prove otherwise, because we all know it’s true. No normal person would masturbate their sympathy in public like that.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
ill say again “no child is insignificant”… but you are!! mr anourmouse.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I here-by apologize to all the assholes of the world
May 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
WAH WHA KUM BAK MADDI U REED DIS KIM BAK MADDY WAHJ WAH BY A WRISTBAND