Madeleine McCann: Gerry On The Telly And It Could Be U
“MADELEINE: It’s not too late says mum.”
The front page of the Express contains a “Dramatic Plea”.
But it’s not dramatic so much as it is desperate. “It’s not too late, please give her back,” says Kate McCann.
As ever the Express tells readers that Mrs McCann is a GP. Gerry McCann, we learn is a “consultant cardiologist”.
Says she: “Every day is hard. Every day is very difficult… The important thing is getting Madeleine back and we hope that what we are doing increases the chance of that.”
What’s The Story?
Indeed, that is the important thing. It is the only thing. But the press want more.
Says Gerry McCann: “We have a mix of very positive days, when we have done big things and achieved things or big events with the campaign, but we are aware these things are secondary.”
He’s right. Of course he is. But the press have been pointing fingers at the police, gawping at “creepy” men, listening to anyone with a paedophile story, looking for bodies and signs. They have not been on the trail of Madeleine. They follow the McCanns around, first Spain, then Germany, then the UK, the Vatican and Morocco. They are watching the parents. The parents are the story. And we are invited to look on like voyeurs.
We can wear braclets. Find Madeleine is this year’s Make Poverty History campaign.
Infotainment
The Sun says Gerry McCann is to appear at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No, not because he’s given us hours of great telly. Although he is taking the slot once occupied by Simon Cowell and Michael Barrymore. Gerry will be “quizzed” by Newsnight presenter Kirsty Walk on the media campaign to find Madeleine McCann.
Peter Barron, organiser of the event, rated the Find Madeleine campaign a “new and moving phenomenon”. What was that about good telly?
But it’s scaring the children. The Star says an appeal to find Madeleine is being screened before cinema showings of U-rated Shrek The Third.
Children with faces full of popcorn and crisps hear that Madeleine was “snatched” from her bed. “Madeleine’s parents are devastated, but they haven’t given up hope.”
A mum says it’s “unfair” to show this to children. “It makes them fear that they too could be abducted.”
It spreads the fear. It creates anxiety. And it shows no sign whatsoever of finding Madeleine nor the person or persons who might have taken her…
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July 7th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Hi Anna
As I’ve previously said about the Gerry and black sack reference - when I first heard it I also spent a lot of time searching for it but with no results, so I came to the conclusion that it was quite simply made up and passed on from there. I have to say that I give it no credence at all.
Aside from anything else - who hasn’t had children and collected enough rubbish (especially when they are in nappies) to fill a black sack?… mine can still do that daily and they are teenagers lol. The supermarket bins would be the closest to the apartment anyway, so it seems like a logical place to take the trash out.
July 7th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Well I guess I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt - I do feel a bit queasy about questioning their innocence in all this, outside the feeling I’ve had all along that they were nuts to leave their three children alone like this let alone with the doors open. I can just about imagine it if you were just a few yards away with the doors locked and you could clearly see the doors and windows, but from where they were - across a yard with a swimming pool in between and out of sight - inconceivable. There’s no way I could ever have relaxed and enjoyed a meal with friends knowing my children were in a ground floor apartment all alone out of sight. The very thought makes me feel anxious. Even if the apartment were locked.
As others have said here, there are different ways of parenting: some go on holdiday to spend more time with their children, others go away to spend less. Perhaps the McCanns go on other holidays where they spend all their time with the children, and this was one primarily for them and their friends while their children played in the creche. A lot of British parents don’t actually enjoy doing that much with their children, unlike most southern Europeans who tend to do everything as a family, including keeping the children up much later and eating together every night as a family.
Anyway, a question: where was there any reference to Gerry McCann being seen near the supermarket bins that night with a black plastic sack? There’s probably a totally innocent explanation for this but where did the quote come from? I’ve done a google search and not found anything.
Also, does anybody know whether the Portuguese police are still waiting for the results of the Murat’s second DNA test, to see if he was the ‘fifth person’ in the room that night (his first sample got lost or contaminated, apparently)? I know the first DNA test results took a long time to come through.
July 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Hi Anne, good point “la belle indifference” is in fact a psychiatric condition, which is in fact an excellent in-built defence mechanism against trauma. It is however, a temporary phase which helps us all in times of grief.
Not to be confused with a plausible presentation everytime we meet the press.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Anna,
It could be an explanation, but in all honesty isn’t it just postponing the inevitable.
Any child really deserves the family’s angst anyway, but brainwashing or hypnotising the parents into a state of ‘unreality’ won’t help them or the child.
It sounds callous, but the twins are not the number one priority to protect from reality, its possible in their short lives they have ‘wiped ‘ their sister already from unconscious memory, and I think until they mature they will feel Madeleine’s absence the least. Small children are by their very nature very self obsessed , and for now that must be a blessing, if not for all the family , at least for them.
But really what is the point of postponing grief, meeting it head on is sometimes the best way. Indifference is never the best option to the loss of a family member, and perhaps the ‘therapist’ is the McCann family’s worst enemy.
Our own minds brains do cut out pain when it becomes so intolerable, otherwise we become immune to life itself.
Do you know Anna, that is the first pro McCann post that anyone has made that won’t be dismissed out of hand by any of us cynics.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
In trying to explain the strangely dispassionate tone of Gerry McCann’s blog, does anybody remember the early days after Madeleine disappeared… the parents were in a terrible state until they saw a trauma therapist who apparently helped enable them to focus on the positive, for the sake of their sanity, and also for the well-being of their other two children. The McCanns did say at the time that this therapist had helped them immensely, and this could explain their apparent optimism about getting her back, as well as the lack of visible grief on the blog.
Also, they do have to be strong for the sake of their other two children; after all, what would it do to them to see their parents constantly wracked with grief? All parents of young children know how they have to do their best to conceal feelings of grief from their children for the most part. You don’t want to be dishonest but neither do you want to fall apart around them and make them insecure.
Could they have become habituated to putting on a brave face and could this explain the dispassionate tone of the blog?
July 7th, 2007 at 11:39 am
The hatches are well battened down . But anyone foolish enough to use FW’s addy….
July 7th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Molly,
real dog!!
Sangria oh yes, the waiter has taken early retirement,shattered by the tweens, so we have to get our own, which is right there in the Forums, if you click.
Marian, have emailed you from S. P.
July 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Marian and Lab
Absolutely,I agree with you both.
possibly FW will bite off more than she can chew, or maybe even the biter bit. She hasn’t tangled with ‘Hecate’ yet……or her friends
(Lab , in a moment of ‘weakness’ I have reserved an as yet unconceived black lab pup, the Mum is only 15 months and nothing will happen until the heat after next)
July 7th, 2007 at 10:06 am
For the record, my last actual post was this one:
Molly Says:
July 6th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
AND I haven’t posted even once on the Emily Parr thread … well they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (although it would be nice if imitators at least tried to get the style of my postings a little more accurate and with a little less swearing - please note that I rarely swear in posts. I find that the English Language, if used correctly, has FAR more effective ways of getting my message across than resorting to obcenities - which I always feel are a sign of a poor vocabulary).
July 7th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Everyday I check the news to see if this wee lass is back yet. I then come on to the Anorak site to have an interesting discussion with whom I believe to be other interested adults.
Folks who might make their points and move on. And agree to disagree.
Madeleine is still missing and her folks are still creaming it.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Madeleine is still missing ….
July 7th, 2007 at 3:01 am
Oh do shut up Frances. Go away. At least confine yourself to one thread, so we can all avoid it, and you and your special friends can carry on with the McCannonisation Project.
Like already said, it’s not only obvious that Anti and Ross are different people (completely different styles, and by running their posts through a language gender-checker they come out totally at odds, with Anti appearing female and Ross male. Not the sort of thing you can fake easily btw) It’s also glaringly obvious that the posts made by ‘Anti Idiot’ (congrats on getting that wrong too) are made by you or one of your acolytes, as you even reproduce the same grammatical and punctuation errors that litter your posts.
Foul spine-chilling undercurrent? Nah, just someone who disagrees with your rose-tinted view of the McCanns and their version of events. The only sick individual here is you, baiting anyone who disagrees, stifling debate by hurling venomous abuse, and inventing personae for your own spiteful ends.
July 7th, 2007 at 12:12 am
OK understood. So can’t she just be banned by the adminstrators? There’s a lot if interesting people here and it’s a real shame to see the place ruined by a tosser.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Ah that’s better. She can’t impersonate me now I’m a member!
July 6th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Please do go away Frances/Janet. Your odd little vendettas are grating on people.
BTW - I did find some of Anti’s stuff. The posts obviously written by that person seemed reasonable, intelligent, and had a Devil’s Advocate type quality to them. Then I found a few which were obviously written by a totally different entity, and shared exactly the same writing style as yours. The only sickening thing was that you tried to ruin someone’s reputation simply because they did not agree with your distorted world-view.
We’re not stupid Frances. This labrador is not a little lap-dog.
You cannot silence everyone, and one day the truth will come out about the McCanns.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
You know what’s sad? This is virtually the only uncensored place on the internet that we can yap about the case, but the people who really have something to contribute are being scared off by the trolls, weirdos, sockpuppets and the McCannonisation Committee.
Yes Frances, I am looking at you. It’s scary how you obsess over people who disagree, rather than just saying “OK” and moving on.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Oh God, here’s Frances off on her Anti_Idiot rant again.
Frances - I don’t think A_I has posted here in weeks! S/he was probably scared off by you and your band of chattering cretins. You have a go at Molly, Hal, or anyone else who dares to doubt the McCann version of events. They’re even talking about how crazy you are on Australian websites, it’s hilarious.
I know that you’re Janet/Denise/whoever, because you don’t even make an attempt to change your writing style, and all the posts are laughably replete with the same errors.
It’s really sad that a middle-aged woman has nothing better to do than spout vitriol on the internet. Don’t you have a partner, or kids, or any pets? It’s depressing really. Older people should be cherished, so that they don’t become bitter and eaten up with inner rage, like you clearly are.
I wish you all the best, but this pattern of pretending to be someone else every time people tire of you, then insulting, and claiming that every single poster who doesn’t share your point of view is Ross, or A_I, or Molly, is really tiresome.
Please just go away.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
gee there alot of perfect people on here,
take the log out of your own eye before poking a stick in someone elses!!!!!!
July 6th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
LOL OK I get it.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Molly’s post a little while back is absolutely BRILLIANT and says it all. Very well written and straight to the point - and I couldn’t agree more with everything you say.
To Frances: you said this to me during one of your latest rants:
‘Still, after the number of times you have lost your kids - according to your post - you must be something of an expert at this now i reckon.
Maybe you should stop worrying about the mccanns so much and start planning for your own child`s next disappearing act. Seems to be a regular occurance in your family by the sound of it.’
Show me a mother who has never thought they’d lost their kid and I’ll show you a liar.
The first occasion my son was playing behind a slide and I couldn’t see him. I thought he’d vanished but he hadn’t - this is hardly losing a child.
The second occasion he was hiding in a cupboard - I couldn’t find him so rushed out into the street in a panic but he was in the house all along - this is hardly losing a child.
The third occasion I couldn’t see him on a beach but he was playing very nearby behind a group of people - this is hardly losing a child.
I have never ‘lost a child’ - I just went into a blind panic on three occasions because I thought I had, and went through horrific scenarios in my head before I realised he was there all along.
If you are a parent and this has never happened to you, then either you’re a liar or a very laid back parent. I tended to err on the side of caution when he was small, hence the panic when he seemed to have disappeared for longer than was comfortable.
Anyway, wouldn’t any parent call the police within half an hour of realising their 4-year-old child has really vanished? Wouldn’t any parent here?
It’s not a crime or uncompassionate to question the actions of the McCanns, and neither does it mean the questioners are oblivious to their suffering, least of all to the suffering of Madeleine, wherever she is, god forbid. All any of us hope here is that Madeleine is found safe, well and unharmed, and as soon as humanly possible.
Frankly, I can’t understand why anyone would want to come on this site and throw gratuitous insults around. Why can’t we discuss the whole thing in a rational way, even if we don’t all agree, without some of us descending into personal abuse? It’s a bit immature, putting it mildly.
July 6th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
unteel 12.00
July 6th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Si Senhora? so sorry was baby minding some tweens again…
July 6th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Isn’t it odd how it is always the rabid McCann sycophants who inevitably bring up the money?
No-one else on this thread even mentioned it before you did Frances - what’s up? Are you hoping that if you kiss ass enough they will give you a slice? LOL
Hope this post is short enough for you petal - I should have realised that your intellect wasn’t up to a long post
July 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Frances. Grow up. Stop impersonating other forum posters. Last time I saw A_I post was weeks ago. S/he probably left after dealing with your nonsense.
Why on Earth does a grown woman like yourself, who feels so sure about the ‘truth’ need to resort to namecalling, lies, abuse, and pretence to get a point across? It’s sad really.
If you were really sure about the McCanns you’d be able to defend them without this childish behaviour.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
i think it is outrageous that some of you seem to think the mccanns are using the madeleine fund money to ‘fund’ their lifestyle. I think you may find these are fraud allegations and would invite members to be aware of this. You are outraged by their publicity? You are giving them free publicity which is good.
I think for any sane person it is a pointless activity to challenge any of these arguements you are maintaining. I will not defend or attack the family, surely anyone can see past this nonsense to the issue of an abducted child and find the compassion within themselves to take positive activity. You all have enough time to post pointless speculation here, why not do something positive like sending emails including attached posters and photos and links to websites to hotels, corporations, places of education and ask them to circulate. I have been doing this and to great success with replies of anticipated action. Should there be anything untoward in the ‘McCann’ camp then surely it will come to light more quickley and maybe just maybe your actions may lead to Madeleine being found. Wouldn’t that make you feel better than using this as a forum to culminate negativity. Even changing the tone of this site may reach someone important in Madeleine’s current situation. You may just be making it easier for them to sleep at night in the knowledge they have someone elses child.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Frances - you rest your case? Oh thank the stars for that!
*breaks open the Champagne*
July 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I get it, Frances Winks / anorak, you are purely a wind up merchant, of course you’re not a fan of the McCann’s. No one could be.
You just enjoy the attention. You need it probably as much as they do.
I will ignore your every post from here on.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
No!!! The anger is based on the fact that they assume that amasing a large amount of money is the way to get their child back. As I said before, put it up as a reward, use it to buy a team of private detectives to suppliment the police but please don’t use it to continue these cheesy campaigns such as bracelets or ribbons - these are chav reactions. Surprised the whole of Liverpool haven’t been over to lay flowers in Portugal.
The whole tawdry media circus makes me want to puke. Interest seems to be dwindling, so what amazing thing will befall Mr McCann next - abducted by aliens perhaps? That should get his sorry face back in the news.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Frances winks / anorak whatever you call yourself, the penny has finally dropped for you has it????
“I rest my case” and you call me “judgmental”?????
OF COURSE ITS THE MONEY you dimwit, the Money the McCann’s are creaming off the gullible folks who are financing their lifestyle while they should be looking for their poor neglected home alone child, Madeleine. Instead of running campaigns and going from shrine to bloody shrine, and photo-opportunities, and spinning their tale of woe is us, help the police find their child. Get off the telly and off their arses and look, go door to door asking, not for money, but THEIR CHILD WHO THEY ABANDONED.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Well said John, and a lesser fund could pay for what has been achieved so far. Wondering also if the NHS still paying Consultant’s salary which would still give them ample means for living costs. But any negativity towards the McCanns is a red rag to the ‘fanclub’
But sadly it is all about the McCann parents isn’t it, not much about Madeleine. She certainly seems to be the sacrificial lamb to the God Mammon.
But a hell of a mess when it all hits the buffers, as I for one think the ‘Maddy’ gravy train is just out of control now