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 4:30 pm
442 Totje - you may want to revise your opinion of me after reading my later confused ramblings.
I have some friends coming round for dinner this evening and I have to cook. Delia Smith I am not, and I get very intimidated when having to cook for Italians, who have much higher culinary standards than I do.
Sorry for the rubbish I typed earlier on everyone!
Ciao.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
448
Julie,
years ago friends made me compliments they were sooooo glad they finally got a positive indication of a [rude/elementary] indication of brains in my head, when I got a concussion.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
451 carmen
we should be told indeed
maybe the offer to go to see the pj is just a way of getting in a sneaky break - without the bloody twins in the way of course - and get a waiver from the asbo.
some gullible prat like beardie will probably pay for the travel etc.
3 to 4 games of tennis a day
jogs up to the top of the hill
dodge the stones being thrown by the locals on the way down.
hoof back some seriously cheap plonk in el tappo
great fun
January 13th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Just a thought - Do you think they are still claiming Madeleines Child Benefit ?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
456
Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
443 Sledgehammer Says: January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Julie. you have neither the wit nor the brain to answer me.
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Point of order M’Lud! Do you have any evidence to support that ludicrous, scurrilous and hurtful assertion
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sledge has no evidence of anything remember he is a troll
not a very god one but a troll
all the same
January 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
453…Miss Match
No problem, Miss Match
A couple of hours rest and you’ll be back fit as a fiddle.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
450
Daisy Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
428
Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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Before I go (it’s very late here), I’ll reply to your comment. I do feel for her, what can I say. I don’t think she is as bad as people portray her. Yes, they left the kids alone and that is horrible and if found guilty, should be punished.
You see my posts as protest, but it was a whole conversation regarding me having said that I wished people would keep an open mind (to which you also replied). Now, suddenly, it has become that I protest too much? Sorry, but I disagree with you.
Okay, that’s it for tonight. Good Night all.
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but they are guilty of that, they admitted leaving them remember???
nite nite 
January 13th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
443 Sledgehammer Says: January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Julie. you have neither the wit nor the brain to answer me.
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Point of order M’Lud! Do you have any evidence to support that ludicrous, scurrilous and hurtful assertion?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
441
Ferdinand Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
1005 (yesterday) jo Says:
1003 Ferdinand Says:
“Ferdinand,I know you have a theory/hypothesis (which is not far from what I think)If what you think is correct,then,if the Mccanns were involved in something bigger than we all think,dont you think it was absolutely,completely irresponsible to leave the children unattended while anything,like an abduction,could happen?”
I answer this in today’s thread.
Yes, if the McCanns had been warned.
But in my theory, the target are not the McCanns. What if the british government had been blackmailed, something like “if you don’t release person XY from prison by April 30., we will kidnap a british child”. (just a wiild guess) And they ignored that warning?
This would explain the fast and helpul reaction by the british authorities as well as their secrecy.
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No, it wouldn’t.
Tony Blair would have revelled in the opportunity to show that he was as tough as ever and that the British Government would never give way to terrorists.
Ditto Gordon Brown.
Politicians proffered the opportunity to demonstrate their credentials as masters of war without actually having to fight a war tend to be happy politicians…
January 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
441 Ferdinand
i see your brilliant application of occam’s razor principle
keep to the simplest explanation - it’s probably the right one
i think “they” trained a wolf in grannie’s clothes to do the kidnap
after all it was a full moon on 3 may in the algarve.
this is the simplest way an abduction could be carried out after all.
case solved
time for a cuppa
January 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
434 - Matt. It is senile city for me!!!! The post explaining about Metodo 3 was yours and not Peter O, and after reading it again, you clearly explain that it is ‘unclear’. Time for a break I think because I am typing complete rubbish! That shutter experiment has taken it out of me I think.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
443
Sledgehammer Says:
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LOL - sits back with shit screen on to watch the action.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
428
Peter O Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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Before I go (it’s very late here), I’ll reply to your comment. I do feel for her, what can I say. I don’t think she is as bad as people portray her. Yes, they left the kids alone and that is horrible and if found guilty, should be punished.
You see my posts as protest, but it was a whole conversation regarding me having said that I wished people would keep an open mind (to which you also replied). Now, suddenly, it has become that I protest too much? Sorry, but I disagree with you.
Okay, that’s it for tonight. Good Night all.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
440
RedRooster,
While I’m able to confess, you’re allways in denial! No birds of a feather then?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
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443
Sledgehammer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Julie. you have neither the wit nor the brain to answer me.
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And I have the utmost respect for you too! Forgot my brain in bed when I got up this morning.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
444 Miss Match Says: January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Peter O - I always thought that Metodo 3 were being paid for out of the fund. Thank you for correcting me. Without the bill for Metodo 3, that makes the expenditure from the fund even more spectacular.
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Where did I correct you?
And I thought M3 were being paid for out of the fund?
Interesting and irrelevant aside… SHIFT and 3 on a UK keyboard gives you a £ sign. Hence, M3 becomes M£….. Surely just a ludicrous coincidence?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
443
Sledgehammer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Julie. you have neither the wit nor the brain to answer me.
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you should be on the stage, you’re so funny NOT
January 13th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Well, if Gloria Smudd can adapt Hilaire Belloc, then let’s see what T S Eliot updated might look like.
Here’s the original ‘Macavity’ - together with a modern update:
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ORIGINAL
Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place - MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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MODERN ADAPTATION
Kate McCann, Gerry McCann, there’s no one like the McCanns,
Due to the media and the TV, they have multitudes of fans.
They always have an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place – THE MCCANNS WEREN’T THERE!
We mention other people - we’ll blame them if we can
(I might mention paedophiles, I might mention ‘bundleman’)
They’re no more than inventions by the fox who all the time
Controls Team McCann’s operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Peter O - I always thought that Metodo 3 were being paid for out of the fund. Thank you for correcting me. Without the bill for Metodo 3, that makes the expenditure from the fund even more spectacular.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Julie. you have neither the wit nor the brain to answer me.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I quote Miss Match [post 289]
[..] Despite our differing of opinions amongst forum users, I think the one thing we have in common is for the truth to be reached and for justice for Madeleine. A miscarriage of justice in this case would be terrible.
Very wise woman
January 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
1005 (yesterday) jo Says:
1003 Ferdinand Says:
“Ferdinand,I know you have a theory/hypothesis (which is not far from what I think)If what you think is correct,then,if the Mccanns were involved in something bigger than we all think,dont you think it was absolutely,completely irresponsible to leave the children unattended while anything,like an abduction,could happen?”
I answer this in today’s thread.
Yes, if the McCanns had been warned.
But in my theory, the target are not the McCanns. What if the british government had been blackmailed, something like “if you don’t release person XY from prison by April 30., we will kidnap a british child”. (just a wiild guess) And they ignored that warning?
This would explain the fast and helpul reaction by the british authorities as well as their secrecy.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
436
Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
433
RedRooster,
prove, why, what? We’re not in a court of law, remember?
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whats that i hear “law court” oh sh#t wheres my lawyer . It wasnt me guv honestly!!
January 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
411 Wanderer Says: January 13th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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Peter (I agree with your post), but I’d like to add that I don’t think that closes off the film to other companies. Although that would be quite risky for them. On top of that, they do seem to be touting how one film could focus on how the McCanns are dealing with everything and the search for missing children. (alright, they aren’t touting it, I just paid great attention to that)
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I concur. If you read Gerry’s latest blog he does in fact make it clear that they would be interested in a “Movie/DocuDrama/Money Making Thing” where he/they could pontificate about the inadequate missing child search facilities compared say to the USA. He would also like the opportunity to explain all the issues they have had to endure in this respect since Madeleine went ‘missing’.
In my opinion this is a fairly reprehensible idea that someone who is an arguido in the disappearance of his own daughter should be allowed to lecture the rest of us about the inadequacies of the authorities searching for Madeleine. Of course at the same time he’ll be generating further income for the Limited Company colloquially known as “The Fund”.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
435
Julie,
Love you
January 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
382
Wanderer Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
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Thanks for the advise.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
433
RedRooster,
prove, why, what? We’re not in a court of law, remember?
January 13th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Daisy, I am prepared to call it quits with you for know (however, please take my advice on not generalising). Otherwise I have no objection to you posting here (you have your reasons, as do I), that is not my motive at all.
Wanderer - thank you for the compliment (although I know I have made some bloopers now and then, nobobdy seems to pick up on them - wheeeew!)
Sledgie …. oh holy one with the flat head …. have you had a lovely day? See you’re trying to start with me early ….. take a pink pill will you, then I wont have to answer you.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
417…Miss Match
It still isn ‘t clear who is actually paying for M3.
The general public via the Fund.
Or Mr Kennedy .
McVey made a statement last year that the cost of M3 was not
to the Fund….and that Mr Kennedy was funding it.
Then it has gradually morphed in the Press quoting unnamed family
sources saying that the Fund was paying for the “cowboys”.
No retraction by McVey has ever been made re this change from
Mr Kennedy paying to the Fund paying.
And in Friday’s Telegraph…)link posted by Sally a little earlier), it
says “That Mr Kennedy bankrolled and holds the contract for M3″.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
427
Totje Says:
January 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
412
RedRooster,
admit it: you love it when he’s here
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i will admit nothing and you cant proove a thing…..