Madeleine McCann: Spies, Richard Branson PI And Maddy TV
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann.
DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. SPY-IN-SKY PLAN TO FIND HER KIDNAPPER.”
So she was kidnapped. Wasn’t she?
“Satellite and aerial footage as well as internet traffic should be used to help the hunt,” say “intelligence experts”, including Professor Anthony Glees, Director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. Security is his thing.
Pages 4 and 5: “Riddle of the McCanns’ day out” – Why did the McCanns go to Spain on August 3 and what did they do there? Clarence Mitchell says the TV cameras and journalists tracked their every move.
“Branson: They are innocent” – Richard Branson PI calls it a “grotesque nightmare”. He has donated £100,000 to help the McCanns clear their name. He says the McCanns have “the weight and support of Britain behind them”.
THE SUN front page: “OUTRAGE AS COPS CLAIM MADDIE ‘BURIED IN SPAIN’.”
Pages 6 and 7: “POLICE PROBE LOST 2 HOURS” – Police Claim the McCanns buried Madeleine during a “missing two hours” in Spain.
Kate and Gerry are “shattered”.
Says the Sun:
“SUSPICIOUS the trip was postponed from the day before – because Gerry had intestinal problems.
“’STRANGE’” that the couple from Rothley, Leics, chose to visit Spain on a national holiday, when the shops were shut.
“MYSTERIOUS that the McCanns racked up ‘unjustified mileage’ in their Renault Scenic – hired 25 days after Maddie disappeared.”
A source says a new ad campaign to find Madeleine will start in two weeks.
DAILY MAIL page 3: “Police use CCTV to map McCanns trips.”
As newspaper Correio de Manha reports, Spanish police have given their Portuguese counterparts CCTV footage “showing the Renault Scenic in places in Spain where there was ‘no reason’ for the couple to be.”
A TV series based on Madeleine McCann is being produced in Chile. Says Chilean newspaper El Mercurio: “The case is becoming a soap opera.”
DAILY MIRROR front page: “KATE IS SO FRAGILE. Fears for mum after latest blow.”
Kate McCann’s face is all over the front page. “The anguish is plain to see.” A friend hears that Madeleine had not been found in Morocco: “Kate is so fragile. She’s suffering a devastating disappointment.”
Page 5: “They suffered a devastating blow with the false alarm in Morocco. Kate has crashed.”
“COPS PROBE SPAIN TRIP.”
DAILY STAR pages 6 and 7: “MADDIE DUMPED IN SPAIN.” An “exclusive”.
THE TIMES page 16: Mick Hume says: “The line between investigation and emotive entertainment has disappeared.”
THE TELEGRAPH page 6: “Portuguese focus on McCanns’ Spain trip” – Clarence Mitchell says the McCanns are innocent.
THE GUARDIAN and THE INDEPENDENT: no Madeleine news today.
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September 28th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
672 - krissie
Yep, that’s an NPD. I do feel sad that people are abused but as adults they’re still supposed to be in control of their actions. Society and the law doesn’t excuse NPDs from acting outside the law. If Gerry McCann is NPD then I feel sorry for Kate and the kids. But before some accuse me of saying that - notice I said IF.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
677. nononethere Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
524,
folks you really have to stop posting such nutty theories, it really makes you look insane yourself but I am sure Stevo or Anonymous would agree with you, so you will have some takers.
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I thought 524 was being humourous?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
well yes, I did see the blog about the haircut and their jog on the beach, etc, etc. Admittedly a bit strange, but blogs are strange in general. I’d never seen anything so detailed as what stevo posted, though.
I don’t know. Does seem strange but you can look at it one of two ways. One: McCanns are guilty and act like freaks without any remorse. Two: McCanns are innocent and are deeply worried about how all this is effecting their other two children , and therefore go overboard trying to make life normal for them AND prove to others that their life is normal. Plus, you know, it’s personalities… People are weird… who knows how any of us will react to a situation like this? You see how loudly and obnoxiously people will defend themselves if someone dares to insult their opinion or intelligence on an Anorak forum….myself included here of course… imagine if you were PUBLICLY accused of so much WORSE than that? What would you do? You might spend a lot of energy trying to prove to people that you’re a good father to your two children, etc.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
541. Stevo Says:
September 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
535 - anonymous
LOL….yep…you got it just about right. But doesn’t he make you sick in the video where he goes on and on about the difference between 1.7 and 1.75m? Who gives a f**k what the exact height of the man was? Gerry ends up talking about the difference in height as if it’s so vital that we know about the variation in 2 inches!
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It’s difficult not to bust out laughing when Gerry speaks. I still laugh when I hear him talking about their wine quaffing and tapas eating as being as if we were in “our very own garden”. I mean I realise you Brits love your fucking gardens and everything but I doubt many are cover that huge an area unless they are connected to a castle.
Me thinks the vertically challenged Gerry was wishing he had an extra 2 inches himself.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
681 - noonethere..
Excellent…the baby left.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
675 - Batman
I know…they say there’s no known reason for NPD but there are definitely many cases of childhood abuse in known cases. My father was the first born of six and there was a 6 yr gap before the next child came along. His father was an abusive alcoholic.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
It is very interesting that now Kate McCann refuses to take a lie detector test -we did read a headline where Gerry said they would and that was the last I have heard of it until now.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
676,
dull story
see ya.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
677 - noonethere
Throwing your toys out the cot again eh?
Don’t forget to put your dummy back in as well.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
674 - krissie
I cut and pasted it from a newspaper article that Gerry did.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
#674 Krissie. This is exactly the sort of stuff that was in Gerry’s Blog (before Arguido-Day). First one I read described - his jog that day and then getting a ‘much needed haircut’. Yep. It is true.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
524,
folks you really have to stop posting such nutty theories, it really makes you look insane yourself but I am sure Stevo or Anonymous would agree with you, so you will have some takers.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
669 - anonymous
WOW…we should form our own NPD recovery center. So much of what you say applies to my experience. My father used to play guitar in a band all the years he was in the military. When I met him we discussed music and I realised that my paternal family has an amazing musical heritage. My great uncle played bass with a famous US guitarist. I play the flute and saxaphone but after playing a tune for about 2 minutes to my father, he was like ‘ok…let’s move on to something else now..’ He had the limelight taken away from him so we had to discuss or move on to something that took the spotlight back to him. That’s how N’s work.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The NPD I have had experience with did not have an abused childhood and none of her siblings have this disorder. Like psychopathy there is no consensus as to whether it is nature or nurture.
Yes enough here for a completely new thread…..
September 28th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Stevo where are you getting this “day in the life of Gerry” stuff? Is that real, or are you making it up?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
NPD - Main Disorder Symptoms:
Grandiose sense of self-importance
Preoccupied with fantasies about unlimited successes
Believes self to be “special”
Requires excessive admiration - likes to be treated like royalty
Has a sense of entitlement
Is interpersonally exploitative
Lacks empathy
Is often envious
Displays arrogant, haughty behaviour
September 28th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Yes, yes, now that sounds exactly like my friend who is NPD– he is a failed musician in fact (well, he considers himself a MISUNDERSTOOD musician) and he also fancies himself a MISUNDERSTOOD chef, and so he walks around talking down to us all pointing out how much he knows about this and that (the difference in green and white and black peppercorns, it’s SO important!). He’s a hoot. I mean, he’s absolutely unbearable, he would be MISERABLE to live with, dangerously so, I’d never leave my kids alone with him, even for a minute. But he’s also very entertaining to have as a dinner guest. And I admit I like him, and I admit that I feel bad for him. He was severely, severely sexually abused as a child.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
662 - LL Cool J
It took me 10 years to track down my father. I hadn’t ever met him until I was 37. But mentally I’d prepared myself for meeting a man who could be anything…
By doing that, I’m not disappointed that he didn’t turn out to be a decent bloke. Don’t get me wrong, when I met him he was living in a $3000/month condo in San Diego with huge pool/jacuzzi etc. But his personality is so bad once you get to know him, he’s not good to be around. The rest of my family on his side are up in Detroit. He’s the outcast.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Susie Q, please, tell me, who are you to judge what other people do with their grief?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
643. I first became interested in NPD after having been in a 3 year long relationship with a Briton suffering from the disorder. His mother had had NPD and then she passed away. Once they lose an important person in their life they need a substitute and quickly. I didn’t realize I had become that substitute. For not only had his mother died but his estranged wife divorced him too. Plus he was Jewish so he already believed he was supremely special and *chosen*.
The males tend to overwhelmingly be misogynistic and are frequently repressed homosexuals. The women are overwhelmingly misandric. Both sexes have a tendency to being sexually frigid - even the males - regardless of the sexual addictions like nymphomania they may exhibit - they hate sex, touching and intimacy. They cannot *connect* and true intimacy is impossible for them. Simple acts of kindness, compassion, friendship & love are impossible for them to express to those closest to them.
They can as another poster, and you yourself have remarked appear to be charming, generous and thoughtful to the outside world. When they’re literally and metaphorically starving and abusing their families and friends. If you observe them closely enough you will see the cracks. One of the first things I noticed was that they are extremely two-faced and will say anything to get their foot in the door so to speak. The other thing is that they will never defend, support of protect a loved one. And they hate to be challenged. My guy was a failed musician and singer (something which he couldn’t handle because his own brother was a successful jazz pianist) and he would always discuss music in a very snobby pedantic way. I know quite a bit about music myself but whenever I would challenge him about a musical fact or when I’d admit I didn’t know something he would become angry and disgusted.
In addition to this joyous experience in my life I also studied this disease along with other similar ones sociopathic etc….due to my job working with prison inmates and troubled kids.
Krissie is right that some NPD’s and socio-psychopaths cannot hold jobs and are obviously troubled people but the majority of them walk amongst us like pod people.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
665 Stevo - exactly!
September 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Stevo- Well, I’m in the Southwest. But yeah, in June/July, my whole house REEKS of garlic… it’s crazy. We have a room in our house where we process it. By the end, we ALL smell like it. No sniffer dog could get through that, for sure.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
665 Luckily my keyboard has a wipe clean cover on it. I can just rinse it off.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Here Gerry McCann recounts how the couple get through each day:
“Our day starts around 6.30am with us all waking up around the same time. We have breakfast with Sean and Amelie and our close family/friends who are here with us. Then it’s clean nappies and clothes for Sean and Amelie followed by showers etc for the rest of us.
“Usually there’s some free time then for a few stories or games with the twins before heading out.
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Doesn’t this sound like a pen-picture you’d find about how your favourite sport’s star spends his day?
Doesn’t this kind of stuff make you want to puke?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
651 Anonymous. First of all, I’m NOT a defender of the McCanns and do NOT know whether they killed their daughter. The funny thing about this forum is that if you dare suggest we are jumping to conclusions about the McCanns, you get this label slapped on you REAL FAST as being “pro-McCann” and thinking they are innocent.
But to me, what they are doing DOES make sense. They are in WAY over their heads, and they know it. Their saga is not just out of control, it’s a freakin’ nightmare… As I read somewhere, we’ve now got five categories of news “Politics, sports, editorial, features, Madeleine.” The McCanns almost HAVE to do something right now.
And, let’s recall, for months on this forum and others, people asked that question: WHY haven’t the McCanns done anything to find their daughter? WHY haven’t they hired a private detective? Many people pointed to this as the reason they were guilty (as if that is any kind of evidence, sigh).
But now, come to find out, they have clandestinely hired a PI to find their daughter, and (initial stories suggest) had done so MONTHS ago but didn’t want the information public because it was ILLEGAL.
What would YOU do to find your daughter, in their situation? Walk door to door? Start digging? Please, share with us, what WOULD you do?
I have seen a few statements from the McCanns that do give me pause, yes. However, I also understand that some of their statements are reponses NOT to the police, but to the media, and the media are reporting some crazy stuff that is NOT true. I mean, tell me, what would YOU do in their shoes? I know that if my daughter disappeared, and it started appearing in print that I’d killed her, I would in fact defend myself vociferously and angrily.
We can go point-by-point over the “contradictions” but I don’t have time, and, in the end, what I’d be arguing is that a lot of it isn’t necessarily a contradiction, only that some newspaper attributed something to K or G that wasn’t true, and they said so, and people then start pointing fingers about “contradictions” when in fact, I’d say 90 percent of the stuff going around and going on in print is due entirely to BAD REPORTING and nothing else. And most of the BAD REPORTING is due to the secrecy laws in Portugal.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
656 - krissie
When I walked across the ramp at Hollister Airport I could smell the garlic in the air. I thought it was something else until someone told me what it was. What state are you at?
September 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
661 Stevo
yes, definitely a new thread is called for.
You poor guy! IMO you took the right action (the frogmarching) especially with kiddiewinks in the frame.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
638 - LL Cool J
My family history is incredibly interesting…that’s why I emigrated here from the UK. My estranged narcissistic dad was in the USAF and he met my mother over in Europe. He then went off to serve in Vietnam in the 60s. I never met him till I was 37 years old. I shave my head smooth/bald because I like that look. 2 days after I met my dad for the 1st time, he chewed me out for shaving my head bald. It took me a few years to find out what his problem was and why the rest of his family disowned him. The last time I saw him was about 6 months ago. He started his dictatorial stuff and told me I should do something because that’s how you do it in the USA. He then told me to f**k England. I frogmarched him out and that’s the last I’ll see of him. Like I say, they are hell.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I have a friend in the states I spoke with on the phone yesterday and she said, “your cops are really bad!”.
You’re friend in the U.S. is right. Edna, get a brain!
September 28th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Krissie 640. Gee you’re brave!! You’ll be on the naughty step with me if you carry on!
Re: Tony Bennett, I posted that old Anorak link just for information.
At least I’ve always been honest about why I’m here!