Madeleine McCann: Clarence Mitchell Speaks, Make Madeleine History And Breastfeeding
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY MAIL pages 10 and 11: “Madeleine cried for 18 hours a day. Kate tells of the special bond forged in the painful days of early childhood.”
Kate McCann is speaking with Portuguese magazine Flash!. This interview took place before Kate McCann was named as a suspect in Madeline’s disappearance. Kate says the first six months with Madeleine were “very difficult”. Madeleine had colic. “I had to carry her around permanently,” says Kate.
What does it mean, this interview that has “emerged”? That what you tell magazines can be taken out of context and used in evidence against you, or something else?
THE TIMES page 9: “McCanns go straight to the top in search for powerful backers.”
Gordon Brown is being kept abreast of the investigation on Kate and Gerry McCann, possibly by reading the British press and watching the news bulletins.
(Is any MP still wearing a yellow ribbon?)
The McCanns have a new spokesman. He’s called Clarence Mitchell. He resigned as head of the Government’s Media Monitoring unit to take this new post.
Mr Mitchell once offered: “There’s a whole level of debate taking place online which simply didn’t exist before and departments feel they need to be fully engaged in that.”
Look out for Kate’s blog.
DAILY MIRROR front page: “THE TIDE TURNS.”
“McCanns WON’T be ordered back to Portugal says Judge”
“Gordon Brown briefed on the case”
“New spokesman will declare Gerry and Kate innocent today”
Clarence Mitchell says: “They have nothing whatever to do with Madeleine’s disappearance.” And as the McCann’s new spokesman he should know.
Pages 4 and 5: “RAY OF HOPE.”
Madeleine has not been found but Kate and Gerry McCann will not have to fly back to Portugal for more questioning.
On the downside sales of the “Look for Madeleine” wristband are not going well in Portugal. In “LOCALS REJECTS ‘FIND HER’ BRACELETS,” this year’s Make Poverty History band is being turned down at a car boot sales in Praia da Luz.
Says one ex-pat: “It’s as if they want to forget something so horrible happened.” Or buy something less with their money?
Says another: “We can’t understand how they can carry on jogging after losing Madeleine. Gerry went to a hairdressers a few weeks after she disappeared and continued tennis lessons. The Portuguese feel they should b hysterical.” But not the British, who understand reserve…
THE SUN front page: “MADDIE COPS SLAPPED DOWN. KATE BACKED BY JUDGE. Mum won’t be hauled back to Portugal.”
Judge Pedro Anjos Frias rejected Portuguese police calls for the McCanns to return. “He is thought to have ruled the case to flimsy to justify the move.” Or, to put it another way, he has not received sufficient evidence to be convinced of the need for a trial.
Pages 4 and 5: “COPS CASE COLLAPSING.”
And: “McCanns tell Brown: We have solid defence.” Gordon Brown’s reaction to this news is not known.
THE INDEPENDENT page 32: Thomas Sutcliffe says the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been “yoked by journalists to another kind of story – the primal faction of fairytale”. Here “the beautiful child is swallowed by something that has emerged from the dark”.
It is, is it not, every child’s worst nightmare.
Page 4: “Kate McCann ‘will not be reinterviewed in Portugal’.”
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE POLICE CASE FALLS APART.”
“Judge refuses to recall the McCanns”
“Impossible to detect sedatives in hair”
“But slurs against the parents continue”
Slurs?
Pages 8 and 9: “My struggles to control Madeleine – BY KATE MCCANN.”
As told to Flash! magazine. The twins arrive. “The worst thing is that she started to demand lots of attention, especially when I was breastfeeding them.”
DAILY STAR front page: “MADDIE ALL SEVEN McCANN PALS IN FRAME.” The seven dwarves, to continue Mr Sutcliffe’s analogy?
“Cops set to name them as suspects.”
Pages 6 and 7: “BRIT PALS ALL SUSPECTS.”
The Tapas 9 are in the frame. This will put the lid – the tapas – on the case. Right?
“Maddie cops jet to UK as group face grilling” – Portuguese police are “planning” to come to the UK to continue the investigation. British police will conduct interviews.
DAILY TELEGRAPH page 8: “McCanns to be interviewed by British police.”
Kate and Gerry are also keen to reach Gordon Brown. A source tell the paper: “The McCanns do not expect help or influence to be exerted on their behalf but want to get messages to the very top that they are innocent.”
Does Brown read the Telegraph?
THE GUARDIAN page 35: “Never mind the high street: Branson sells his Virgin Megastores.”
No mention of Madeleine McCann, granted, but this news one day after Branson pledged to help the parents clear their names looks like interesting timing?
Posted: 18th, September 2007 | In: Madeleine McCann Comments (1,047) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
485 - I did not say that. That is not me.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
497 ~ SSS as long as there’s a fork in it for me I don’t care what you look like !!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
485 - Real Stig
Sometimes, you surprise people in here by being quite decent and contributing to the mix of opinions.
Other times, you are downright obnoxious.
There is no “Approved” book on Amazon or wherever you look. But, if you cared to study psychology then you’d find that human responses and emotions play a HUGE part in reading what’s going on with someone’s life. It’s absurd that you can’t understand that because you seem like a reasonably intelligent person.
I can’t understand why you get obnoxious because you don’t like other people’s opinions.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
496 ~ SSS oops my mistake [sorry clarence]…. did you see that brave little smile of the stunning kate mccann at church last sunday….did she look like she was grieving…. no she did not…she looked like she didn’t have a care in the world…empathy my arse !
September 18th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
494 Impressed
You need to get a grip!! If I leave Mr SSS I will lose half of everything
And I can assure you, he wouldn’t be the live in nanny pmsl.
For all you know, I look like Jane “Fork Tongue” Tanner!!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
490 Be fair and impartial Impressed (YOOHOO I NEED A JOB) The caption DID say that she MANAGED a BRAVE LITTLE smile!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
LOL
have a great evening I am off to reherse my lines as I C I have been cast as Kate Mccann in Judge dread’s new movie
September 18th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
487 ~ SSS…age - how do you know…. but what a great idea…hubby can be our live in nanny…. he can do all the ironing while we make sweet whoopie…. oh yeah baby….
September 18th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
491 LOL I haven’t heard that expression since I moved North. Maybe indeed. But would they need IVF or just AID?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Gerry McCann - Stig
Kate McCann - Toni
O’Brien - Moderator
Cuddle Cat - Teddy Boy
PJ - Judge Dread
Comical Ali - SSS
September 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Getting back to my “Tanner jealous blackmail mind games theory”
was it her who sent in the Gerry shows his true colours video to utube?
If K is pregnant by o brien she can hardly deny it, maybe gerry was a jaffa.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
485 ~ TrStig…. you miss the point lack of tears does not equal guilt not more than tears prove innocent….. history is littered with the evidence to prove it…
what the lack of tears of the alluring and delectable kate mccann equals is lack of sympathy… thats why the public turned [have they turned back i wonder] against them….. why…. because the british love vicarious grief….
did you see that loverly smiling face of the delectable kate mccann standing outside of church last sunday… did she look like she was grieving…no she did not ….she looked like she didn’t have a care in the world….. empathy my arse !!!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
486 WOW I wonder what my house would buy me in SA? Or elsewhere? But remember Toni, I am not South African, would I be able to work there
Would I get a work permit? No, I better stay here after all! Think of the risks - skin cancer, horse allergy, dog bites…….it wouldn’t work!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Who should be cast in the roles of the principle people if a film were to be made
Gerry McCann - Stig
Kate McCann - Toni
O’Brien - Moderator
Cuddle Cat - Teddy Boy
PJ - Judge Dread
Copy and paste to comment box to add more characters and actors
September 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
484 LOL I am too old for you! And have too many children. Mr SSS couldn’t live without me! Plus he does all the ironing - would you do all the ironing????
September 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
NO WUKKIN FURRIES, Life in SA is brilliant, bring the clan bring the cars bring the lifestyle, but main thing BRING THE POUNDS !!!1 LOL
gotta go now, I have 4 horses, 3 dogs, 2 parrots, 2 kids and 1 husband to feed
jump in my subaru forester and zoom off to my 6 bedroom 5 bathroom abode on my 5 acre plot
chow
September 18th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
449. Karen
The current indications are that the Judge reviewing the police evidence is suggesting there isn’t any that implicates them. The Corollary of that is they are currently suspects, but shouldn’t be because there is no evidence that warrants that status.
You have empathy for Madeline but their massive campaign is pointless? A campaign to find your abducted daughter is pointless? Can’t argue with that - flawless logic.
Karen, can you help me please - I’ve been looking on Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc., for a book called ‘Standard Approved Displays of Emotion in Times of Stress’ I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Seeing as how you must be a notable world authority on the subject, I feel that surely you can tell me where I can find this book.
“Was it because Lindy was never seen to be crying on television? That does not mean she didn’t cry, it only means that the controllers of what you saw on television did not choose to show that. Was it because she didn’t behave like people thought they would in such circumstances? Sure, that was part of it, but how does anyone know how they would react under horrific circumstances they will most likely never have to face? There are no guidebooks written to help one through such circumstances, and Lindy was doing her best to keep it all together. She is proud of her independence, and only shows her emotions to those very close to her. A lesser woman would probably still be in prison today.”
http://www.lindychamberlain.com/content/story/why
September 18th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
483 ~ SSS ….. stuff the job…. marry me x
September 18th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
479 What about Mr SSS though and the Magnificent 7? I don’t mind leaving those hairy stinking BOYS but my gorgeous darling daughters
I can’t do it!! Well, I could but where would I live? And work? And and and…….let me think on it 
P.S What is the cost of living like compared to standard of living (Both my husband and I own a car, live in a 5 bed house and have a holiday home that we bog off to every weekend too - could I have that lifestyle over there?)
September 18th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thats right so on TM programme last night and in their statement today why are they claiming it fell of a shoe?
Sniffer Dogs cant lie
Also wouldnt these Dogs be given maddies smell to track
so DR ks death note signing must be bollox
Also if she signed 6 in the 2 weeks before their holday shouldnt people check the circumstances
why would you wear your work clothes on a beach holiday?
plus it was on the dressing gown wasnt it?
September 18th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
474 ~ Judith C … fear not …. we shall not be censored… team mccsham may have friends in high places but what they can never do is stop free thinkers….
as long as you stay with in the law, they in a word, are fkd….
whats the difference between free thinkers and the dim witted gullible journos of the british press…. answer - we are both born with a brain but free thinkers are the only ones who use it….
September 18th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
477 I am not wearing a coat and you can’t prove I am!!
YOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO JOB NEEDED HERE
JERRY WE LOVE YOU (Jerry Hall that is not GM!)
September 18th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
SSS get your arse to SA you can surf all day with your laptop on your surf board, and at £1.00 = R11.50 you will earn R100 per hour (you can buy 28 mars bars for that) you will definately be better off, doesnt matter about modulated tones or not, (no one understands afrikaans) they just pretend to. If you dont have any criminal convictions, we can soon sort that out. hard working yes that is good, play hard is better, will have to eat boerwors though, we work normally 7.30 to 4.30 and it is SUNNY all the time
interested
September 18th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Just read this on the daily mail web site
Revealed: The evidence ‘that will prove that Kate McCann is innocent’
September 18th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
470 ~ Oi SSS you turn coat…it was only yesterday you resigned from the wonderful and caring team mccsham and now you’re appealing to them again for a job…
September 18th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Brandon
Most people take the spare tyre from the well put it on the back seat and fill up the dusty tyre well with clothing - don’t you? LOL
September 18th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
468 - interestingly. However, it is usually more trouble than it is worth to try and swat any annoying fly.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
The involvement of this government with the over-kill attempt to whitewash and sanctify the McCanns is plain for all to see, and has been from the beginning. I don’t think Gordon Brown, however, will be too happy to have it reported that the McCanns have sent him a series of e-mails begging for his help to clear their name, but if you play with fire, you get burned. However, the fact - and despite weasel words to the opposite, it is a fact - that they (and we know who ‘they’ are) are monitoring this site with a view to censoring it, is yet another confirmation that we live in a fascist country now. What’s the difference between what the Nazis did to control and brainwash their population and what’s happening here? My postings on all the online newspapers are never used because what I say doesn’t fit, and now I suppose I can look forward to being censored here. What a tragedy, what a future!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
469. Brandon - according to some reports you are correct, although this is merely speculation. There is no definitive proof available in the public realm, to my knowledge.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
469 That’s right. Exactly where you would put toys, clothes and anything else you were moving from one place to another!