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 2:07 pm
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Chenier, I do believe there appears to be similarities between them, as someone noted the emotion factor and the press. Personally, I do think they can be compared on that level, although, as I’ve said, that comes about from totally different angles as the McCanns did have a reasonable sounding story at first, while the dingo thing was a bit odd from the start. Then, looking at the cases more, you see more holes in the McCann story with times and such.
I don’t think the Chamberlains had as much automatic sympathy shown to them, while the McCanns did and eventually lost it; so while I would compare the press/public reaction, they’re just too different for me in that sense to really support that connection/similarity (I’m probably not making any sense, I apologize).
January 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
sorry - not got the hang of turning off the bold text yet - Mrs Smudd - i need you
January 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
273 May
You don’t see a Dr David Kelly type demise?
i think it was a distinct possible way out some months ago but it’s too late now
the scousers would gang up against the jocks if they thought their fragrant one was being set up or eyeballed to be bumped off
the problem is too many people know too much that is incriminating to others
they stand or fall together now, i’m afraid
wonderful sport
January 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
273
May Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
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Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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You don’t see a Dr David Kelly type demise?
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No.
One is possible, two is carelessness.
And then there’s the total absence of evidence that the McCanns know anything at all which could potentially make it worth someone’s while to have them polished off…
January 13th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
a slight aside - i couldn’t access the findmadeleine.com website yesterday and still can’t today even though i am using a different computer - can any one else access it? please?
Interestingly I can access the findmadeleine online store
January 13th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
PLEASE can we cut the demise of the Mc’s subject? IMO not a relevant subject.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Richard and Ade,
January 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
160
Richard Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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You don’t see a Dr David Kelly type demise?
January 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
268
Wanderer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
One basic problem I have with comparing this to Azaria Chamberlain case is that, even now, that sounds far fetched (I know, it’s true). More so than an abductor actually just taking the child (which is still a possibility in this case) when parents appeared to be acting in a neglectful manner. I know there are similarities between that case (and others) but that is just one thing I can’t get over.
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We are still waiting for someone to demonstrate that there are, in fact, similarities between the 2 cases.
As I noted yesterday, about the only thing they have in common is that they both involved small females, and even that’s pushing it.
One was a newborn baby and the other was almost 4.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
268
And to clear that up, I’m not speaking in broad terms about where the press and public have gone with this. I mean the initial story that the cops would have heard and that initial reaction. Two accounts side-by-side with parents who seem to act similar, etc. one claims there was an abductor, the other a dingo, I know which one I’d automatically have more faith in and not question as much, before hearing more details and such.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Morning all
Mr / Ms the watcher - please note that I am extremely vain and DO use my real name on this forum
January 13th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
258 the watcher says (January 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm):
“some people believe in…god jesus krishna allah mohamed…and yet there is no proof any of them exist”
REPLY: There is overwhelming historical certainty about the lives and death of both Jesus Christ and Mohammed.
Christ’s 33-year life almost certainly began in 2 BC (September/october0 and ended in 31 AD (March/April - Passover time).
Mohammed was born in 568 or 569 AD and died in 632 AD.
No serious historian disputes these facts.
Christ’s resurrection is of course disputed
January 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
One basic problem I have with comparing this to Azaria Chamberlain case is that, even now, that sounds far fetched (I know, it’s true). More so than an abductor actually just taking the child (which is still a possibility in this case) when parents appeared to be acting in a neglectful manner. I know there are similarities between that case (and others) but that is just one thing I can’t get over.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
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Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
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the watcher Says:
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 ?
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The Watcher,
I object!! I object not only to these sickening wishes of some posters but also to the unsubstantiated claims, which are all based on allegations released/leaked by/to the Media.
No-one has any concrete proof of anything, except maybe the PJ.
And I will bring in the following case: Lindy Chamberlaine spent 6 years in jail for a crime she did not commit. Everybody found it impossible that a dingo could have taken the baby and the majority of the public hated her and the media also. There were no internet forums back then, but the same hatered that is displayed by many here, was then printed in the media and reported on TV.
Since that case, there have been several attacks by dingos on toddlers, but thankfully family members were nearby to rescue the child from the hungry animal.
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Daisy,
The Watcher’s cry of ‘Am I alone in this’ was pure rhetoric; s/he knew perfectly well that I had already responded to Richard’s post, and that the Mods and Admin had commented also:
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
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You are, of course, also engaging in rhetoric…
January 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
248 daisy
so it was a dingo now was it?
January 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
think!
some people believe in…
god
jesus
krishna
allah
mohamed
and yet there is no proof any of them exist
a child is programmed from birth by its parents and in most cases does not question that belief system .
people have to think
but hands up how many do !
despite technology our minds are still in the middle ages
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NOW who’s going off-topic? You lodged a complaint against certain of us earlier (which was denied), and now you come up with this! I suppose you’ll morph this back into the topic somehow! As you’ve said earlier, you’ve been attacked many times …. well then I say to you, if you do not want to be attacked, then leave NO room for attack!
January 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Sunday Times 13 Jan,2008 “Brown’s new spin doctor…” The Times reports that PM Brown’s new PR advisor, Stephen Carter, has misled shareholders and stated that “WHAT I TELL THEM IS NINE TENTHS BULLSHIT AND ONE TENTH SELECTED FACTS”…… Now doesn’t this just sound a tad like the McCanns…I wonder what Mr Carter will have to say about the PMs involvement with the McCs in the early days?!
January 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
There is a nice interactive tour of the Ocean Club on the following link:
http://www.luzoceanclub.com/tour/1664_4991/index.html
I think it is the right place.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Mods and Admin
YELLOW CARD
To Watcher
Following your ad hominem attack on Tony Bennett, you have been awarded the above Yellow card
January 13th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
So, Daisy, Madeleine was abducted by a predator dingo? That is quite a novel idea. Unfortunately, you have no evidence, and no witnesses saw a dingo carrying a girl. Not even Jane Tanner, unless she changes her story again. Who knows, maybe she will say it was a dingo.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
254 chenier says (January 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm):
“I think I’ve found Garth’s ‘trump card’, but it doesn’t look like a trump card to me…”
REPLY: I think you are forgetting that altogether there are *13 cards* in any trump suit.
Maybe only the two and three of trumps have been played so far by Team McCann?
I think the Ace of Trumps may prove to be: “But there’s been so much discussion of this case in the media that we can’t possibly get a fair trial anywhere”.
We don’t of course know what the trump suit is yet.
Tough call, but my vote would be for…spades
January 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
K & G obviously think they are the Posh and Becks of Rothley as they swank hand in hand like lovesick school kids wherever there is a camera about. Unfortunately, the easily duped media have fallen for it hook line and sinker and as long as they continue to protect them at all costs and by hook or by crook do their utmost to distract attention, then the judicial process will obviously take longer (as they know it will).
Fortunately however, the one people not fooled by this maniacal English media pressure to do their damnedest to make sure at all costs the McCanns will walk free are the Policia Judiciari who, I am sure, will eventually charge these two who are constantly giving out the garbage that they had no part to play in the disappearance (if of course she really DID disappear by abduction) of their lovely daughter.
Well, McCanns, you did in actual fact have a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT part to play in whatever sinister method was used for the disappearance of a defenceless three year old child. It’s amazing how much money is being paid for the finding of Maddie when, if for the sake of just a few pounds, you could have had the intelligence to have secured your children’s safety with the hotel offered babysitter.
This shows a lack of child consideration which came second to booze and food and a good time. I sincerely hope that your next food and drink will be bread and water without the trimmings, and without a sea view. To think of the amount of people that have been dragged through the mud and discredited in the English media because of you is shameful. And the continuous rubbish that you have overwhelming support from people is simply a myth.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
258…the watcher
What are you ranting about ?
PS…Glad you’ve learnt how to work the Caps Lock and stop shouting.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
think!
some people believe in…
god
jesus
krishna
allah
mohamed
and yet there is no proof any of them exist
a child is programmed from birth by its parents and in most cases does not question that belief system .
people have to think
but hands up how many do !
despite technology our minds are still in the middle ages
January 13th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
254…chenier
Darn.
Poor Garth…..firmly believing that the McCann’s hold all the cards.
But failing to realise that it is the PJ who deal.
January 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
50
Can’t say no, that little article was very nice!
253
Let’s try to get past the name thing unless it is someone trolling, etc.
Plus, I imagine, using our real names or not, readers/contributors have a few other names in their heads they’d like to call some of us…
January 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
222 Ade says (January 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm):
“The basic story in the film “The Truman Show” is exactly that - the mass manipulation of public opinion”
REPLY: I watch films extremely rarely and don’t have a telly, but will look out for it. The powers-that-be already exert a considerable influence over public opinion. Even a BBC internal report recently conceded definite political bias on a range of issues. And a recent poll of BBC staff showed that they supported the main three political parties in these proportions:
Labour - 44%
Liberal Democrat - 43%
Conservative - 4%.
Something not quite right there!
Given that the BBC advertise almost exclusively in ‘The Guardian’, this is perhaps not too surprising result.
But it explains the political bias of the BBC
January 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
252
Matt. Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
251…chenier
Out Trumping somewhere I expect.
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And I claim my reward:
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chenier Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I think I’ve found Garth’s ‘trump card’, but it doesn’t look like a trump card to me…
on the previous thread…
January 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
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the watcher Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
it seems Mr Tony Bennett enjoys using his ‘position’ to be taken seriously on this forum.
however his track record would seem to be lacking having failed to bring a case against both barrymore and the McCanns .
nothing personal tony
but why use your real identity on here?
vanity?
or something more?
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I note that you diplomatically added “nothing personal tony” just to ensure that you’re in the clear. However, as the day progresses and the anger against him mounts again …. I’m sure we’ll hear more from you! In actual fact, in case you’re wondering, the name I use is ALSO my real name …. and so frikkin’ what?????
January 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
251…chenier
Out Trumping somewhere I expect.