Madeleine McCann: McCann Incorporated, McCann Ink And Going Back To Portugal
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SUNDAY MIRROR: “Tapas 7 in despair at all the ‘lies’”
They say they are also called the Tapas Nine? And the Sangria Seven
“The Tapas Seven are “in meltdown” over the failure of Portuguese police to make any meaningful progress in the hunt for Madeleine”
“IT’S OUR D-DAY - McCanns return to Portugal - EXCLUSIVE Kate and Gerry set date in April for Algarve showdown They’ll tell cops: show your evidence or clear us for good”. Like that D-Day back on November?
“Despairing Kate and Gerry McCann are planning to return to Portugal for a face-to-face showdown with police who think they killed their daughter Madeleine”
They are going back. Now..?
Well, not exactly: “A close friend said the the couple were likely to go back after their ‘D-Day’ of April 11, when their three-month extension is up, and added: ‘They feel they’ve waited long enough with this cloud of suspicion hanging over them. They know their return would be very high-profile. They believe investigators do not have the evidence against them to bring charges, and their presence in Portugal would embarrass them. They’ve so far held off going back there, but they see it as their trump card”
They will go back once they have been allowed to see the police first on them
Says the paper’s source: “They see April 11 as their D-day. They have decided to give the police reasonable time to clear them, or at least open the case files so they can see the evidence against them”
That’s good of them…
FIONA Philips, of GMTV writes: “Have a heart”. Yes, that Fiona Philips
“Unbelievably, every time I write about the McCanns I get messages saying, ‘I used to like you, until you started supporting the McCanns.’ Nice, eh? So I hope you’re happy now that Kate and Gerry have blamed themselves for Madeleine’s disappearance”
Happy?
“In a list of ‘if onlys’, Gerry said: ‘I wish I’d stayed in the apartment that night.’ Now, I expect more bile on praising them for considering making a documentary on the case. Surely you can’t tell me that there’s a parent out there who wouldn’t do anything possible to find their missing child?”
SUNDAY PEOPLE: “’We pray she’ll be at party for twins’”
“Brave Kate McCann is planning a huge birthday party for her twins - and dreams missing Maddie will be there too. Kate, 39, has vowed to go ahead with the bash for Sean and Amelie even though she is still waiting for cops to quiz her again. Mother-in-law Eileen said: ‘The party’s on and it will be an even bigger one if wee Madeleine is back. All we can do is hope and pray.’ Sean and Amelie turn three on February”
Touching stuff. Gerry McCann is a “heart specialist”
MAIL ON SUNDAY: “Madeleine: No film will be made unless she’s found - alive or dead”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been told that the proposed documentary about their daughter’s disappearance can go ahead only if she is found – alive or dead.
A source says: “It was awkward to raise but there would need to be an ending – either Madeleine being found alive or a body being discovered. If this wasn’t the case, and there was a major development after filming and editing, it could render the documentary redundant”
Or the parents or some other person or persons are charged, perhaps?
THE OBSERVER: “A good week for … a bad week for …”
“A bad week for …
“Tradition – A Lib Dem MP called Lynne Featherstone has made a bid for the limelight by reporting the monarchy to the Equality Commission because it goes in for primogeniture”
“Marcus Agius The chairman of Barclay’s was the target of £10,000 fraud”
“Good Taste - Or indeed any taste at all. A London based agency which supplies celebrity doubles has employed a small girl to rent out as Madeleine McCann. 20 per cent”
It was a “good weeks for… Washing up”
“THE Maddie story is already a soap opera, so why the moral panic over a movie? - Don’t get me wrong - nobody wants to see Maddie: The Musical. However, needs must if the McCanns want to continue trying to find out what happened to their daughter and they do, despite the devastating expense (their somewhat unproductive detective agency alone costs £50,000 a month) and the increasingly shabby odds.”
Maddie: The Musical, eh..?
THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: “Strange case of the detectives trying to trace Madeleine”
“After a week when commercials deals were more apparent than clues, we investigate the investigators”. Why not investigate the case?
“Just when the Madeleine McCann saga couldn’t get any more agonising, along came a raft of developments last week that began to achieve what you would hope would be impossible: turning a little missing girl into an industry – Madeleine Inc. Item: a London agency hawking around various small girls as Madeleine lookalikes. Item: US television bringing a team of psychics to bear on the disappearance as part of what they no doubt hoped would be a money-spinner of a show. Item: her parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, exploring the possibility of selling the book and film rights to the case”
Madeleine became a brand long ago. Brand McCann…
“Madeleine Inc bring benefits to some, but not, so far, to the girl herself or her distraught parents”
Or Madeleine Ink – see the press
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ron Liddle writes:
“So, get yourself ready for Maddie – The Movie (PG, until you fancy nipping out for something to eat). Kate and Gerry McCann’s press spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, has confirmed that the couple met with representatives from the US entertainment company IMG before Christmas and that while nothing was agreed, the meeting had been ‘positive’. A day later Gerry McCann hastily backtracked and said no, no, they weren’t planning a movie. Who to believe? And which British actors will Hollywood cast as the parents if there is a film? Sacha Baron Cohen and Catherine Tate? Am I bovvered? Look at my face – is it bovvered? And maybe Matt Lucas as the shady-looking Robert Murat? Norman Wisdom as the Portuguese chief of police?”
Madeleine McCann: Fiction, faction and a single unbearable fact
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January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
142 Jolie, quoting from the Daily Mirror: “…they see it as their trump card.”
REPLY: So this is seen as a card game.
And Clarence Mitchell thinks discussing a cast list of ‘Maddie the Movie’ would be ”hugely entertainig and great fun”.
The analogy that works for me is that of a stage play. The McCanns are actors, playing the role of distraught parents and victims.
Scrunched-up faces (Kate), the ’serious, concerned look’ (Gerry - very similar to Ian Huntley IMO), photo-ops galore with Cuddle Cat, photo-ops galore in church, candles and priests in the background, shrines; walking out on the balcony pretending to sob in front of the photographers in Praia da Luz (see Panorama programme), fake tears for Spanish TV, self-serving comments like ‘Madeleine said this was the best day of her life’ and Gerry: ‘I looked down on my lovely daughter and thought how lucky I was’ - and so much more that looks and feels like a drama being played out on a world stage in front of the cameras. With Gerry the chief script-writer but with a team of fellow script-writers helping him, a bit like the story-line of EastEnders or Corrie.
There is then a cast of unlikely characters supporting them - the arrogant and ‘comical’ PR chief, Clarence Mitcehll, the slimy Jon Corner, the highly-paid lawyers, Gordon Brown and the Pope, mysterious anonymous witnesses like the unnamed barrister who saw Robert Murat and the one who claims Madeleine was raped, murdered and dumped in a lake - and then trolls like Sledgehammer, Garth and The Real Stig, all play their part in maintaining this elaborate charade.
Surely Jon Corner - now promoted to Trustee of the Find Madeleine Fund Trust as the other Trustee rats leave the sinking ship - gave the gane away in that notorious McCannorama programme (19 November), when he was asked if he had any way ‘prompted’ the McCanns, while filming, in how to act or what to say.
His denial was to say: ‘No, I was just backstage really’.
Exactly!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
am i alone on this or do others on the forum object to this sort of sick fantasy ?
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No, you are not alone on this one. That is why I chose not to respond to this particular topic, M&A will intervene, I’m sure of that!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
182…Jo
Yes….Their very own Dr Jekyll has now emerged as the very evil Mr Hyde.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Off topic but another recent, sad story of children killed by a parent:
Body found in Alabama bridge case
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The body of an infant has been found on the coast in the US state of Alabama, near where four children were allegedly thrown off a bridge by their father.
Lam Luong, 37, initially confessed to throwing the young children off the Dauphin Island bridge on Monday, but later retracted his confession.
He has now been charged with capital murder, and the search for the bodies of the other children continues.
“Why didn’t he kill me instead?” said his wife, Kieu Ngoc Phan, 23.
“It’s too much hurting.”
(ARTICLE SNIPPED HERE)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7185646.stm
January 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
120 Julie Says: January 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Miss Match … welcome back
Would you kindly perform the test on the shutters that I’ve requested just after you dared to go out earlier
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Presumably whilst cartwheeling past knickerless?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Off topic but another recent, sad story of children killed by a parent:
Body found in Alabama bridge case
QUOTE
The body of an infant has been found on the coast in the US state of Alabama, near where four children were allegedly thrown off a bridge by their father.
Lam Luong, 37, initially confessed to throwing the young children off the Dauphin Island bridge on Monday, but later retracted his confession.
He has now been charged with capital murder, and the search for the bodies of the other children continues.
“Why didn’t he kill me instead?” said his wife, Kieu Ngoc Phan, 23.
“It’s too much hurting.”
(ARTICLE SNIPPED HERE)
UNQUOTE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7185646.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7185646.stm
January 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
the watcher — “and yet on this very forum people take very seriously reports in the tabloids from unamed source’s because it happens to fit into their personal belief of what happened. most people on here fall into this trap both pro and anti McCann.”
Well, then, what do you recommend people take seriously?
richard
what we have here is a witch hunt mentality.
what we all need to do is keep a clear mind.
anyone who believes what they read in tabloids are beyond hope
January 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
the watcher– ” this sort of sick fantasy ?”
No, I am not having fun with fantasy. Rather, it is brute reality that I am bringing up. Do you think that people are snuffed out to silence them only in the movies?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I dont think their is any fun in this case at all,something went wrong and it shouldnt have,and the parents are trying to cash in on it,if proven then they should get a maximum punishment,and madeleine should have justice,But no fun at all,I find the whole thing very sad……….and I hope justice will be found…
January 13th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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Ade Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
164 the watcher
they are suffering at the hands of the media spin/lies monster they created
excellent fun to watch
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Very true and now it seems almost impossible for them to stop the monster/media spin/lies and the like
January 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
the watcher …. just in case you’re wondering about my stance on this whole saga. Sympathy does not come very high on my list of priorities with people who abuse and/or neglect children, whether it be their own or not.
So sorry, sympathetic you will NOT find my posts either unfortunately.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
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Richard
I don’t want anyone to die either. That is sick!
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the watcher
Who believes in the tabloids? No one with half a brain cell.
However it is interesting to see what is written?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
167…chenier
Mind you…a Sociopath would find it very very difficult to cope
with the ridicule of a huge percentage of the population..that
very population which he/she would consider to be much lesser
mortals and much beneath him/her intellectually and socially.
A hard stone to swallow.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
chenier– “But I really don’t want anyone to die…”
Neither do I. But when someone commits murder, they do want someone to die. A common motivation for murder is to shut someone up, and make sure some truth is not revealed. This is unfortunate reality.
The McCanns do not seem very aware of reality in any respect, do they? Gerry looks like a dunce puppet on a string.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Can somebody explain why the Mccans would go back to Portugal? I miss on that one.I think the only time they are going to portugal is when they are formally accused and go to jail…I may be wrong
January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I personally would much rather the McCanns, if guilty, do the hard work of prison time, instead of getting off lightly by taking their own lives.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
164 the watcher
they are suffering at the hands of the media spin/lies monster they created
excellent fun to watch
January 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
For those not wishing to think of Kate dying by apparent suicide, there is another, perhaps more palatable alternative possible outcome. That is that they both are killed in an apparent accident/suicide.
is this your idea of fun??
am i alone on this or do others on the forum object to this sort of sick fantasy ?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
167 Chenier - well said!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
162 afternoon carmen
ain’t cherry red brilliant…
seems to me that going back to portugal is not gonna be a nice experience
not much of a sympathy vote any more and certainly no “celeb” welcome, i fear
and as matt 161 says they don’t come off well when they try to take the initiative
i can’t see then going back unless it’s kicking and screaming and in handcuffs
what fun that will be
January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
sorry but i dont find fun in watching anyone suffer !
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Well then I’m sure glad you weren’t around to watch when those kids were left alone!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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can’t say no Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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The PJ has been watching all the time and when the time is right they are going to struck and hard….
Hey…what about Madeleine”s sufferings?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
mods and Admin
It’s much easier to write my posts now i’ve got you to help. lol. I’ll get better at this libel stuff in time, honest.
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Mods and Admin
Not to worry , thats one of the reasons we are here.
Posted one myself not too long ago, got an email from agw to’ PULL that bloody post, its all libel’
January 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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I don’t want anyone to die.
I don’t think anyone usually posting on this blog at the moment wants anyone to die either.
I do want the police investigation to continue, and I would like to know what happened.
But I really don’t want anyone to die…
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Mods and Admin
Agreed , we all want JUSTICE done and seen to be done too
January 13th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
the watcher — “and yet on this very forum people take very seriously reports in the tabloids from unamed source’s because it happens to fit into their personal belief of what happened. most people on here fall into this trap both pro and anti McCann.”
Well, then, what do you recommend people take seriously?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
163,,,julie….oh yes..
January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Ade Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
142 jolie
i remember garth mumbling about a trump card
but trump card = going back to portugal?
not much of a trump card to me…
anyway if you read between the lines i don’t see them intent on going back
too afraid of arrest
these people are nuts
fun watching them suffer though
sorry but i dont find fun in watching anyone suffer !
January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I think that the PJ are quite rightly biding their time, they want that net FULL of all the little and big fishies when they reel it in!
January 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
150…Ade
Last time the McCann’s got uppity against the PJ…and insisted on
an interview….the PJ slapped them in the face (virtually) and they
ended up as Arguidos.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
For those not wishing to think of Kate dying by apparent suicide, there is another, perhaps more palatable alternative possible outcome. That is that they both are killed in an apparent accident/suicide.
No, not a Parisian tunnel. More likely that they would drive their car over a cliff, or off a bridge. Again, if there was some kind of suggestive (but not definite) note written previous to this, then there would be all kinds of feverish speculation about whether it was accident, suicide or murder.
This version is more likely if the PJ evidence is heavy against both of them. Thanks to Clarence Mitchell’s brilliant PR, the public has been primed to hate the McCanns, and no one will be sad at their plunging off the cliff of their own guilt. Everyone would be aghast at these horrible people, and feel somewhat relieved that God’s justice prevailed.
Meanwhile, no one will bother to look for the people who were with Madeleine when she died. And the McCanns won’t be around to change their story one more time, to let us know who they are.
If the McCanns want to make money, they should take out a very large life insurance policy.
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rather think given the current state of their lives they may be considered uninsurable or so high risk…