Madeleine McCann: Sometimes We Feel Like Giving Up
“SOMETIMES WE JUST FEL LIKE GIVING UP” declares the Mirror “…but Maddie just keeps us going”.
The headline is not, as you might think, an anguished crie de coeur from the paper’s editors. It is, of course, a quote from Kate McCann. The legend at the top of the page reads: “McCANNS 1 YEAR ON”.
Other papers follow suit, with the Sun featuring a 12-page special and pin-up size pictures of “The face we will never forget”.
The Star eschews such tacky emotionalism and goes for a hard news story for its cover: “MUSLIM SICKOS’ MADDIE KIDNAP SHOCK.”
The paper says police are set to investigate a “vile attack on Madeleine McCann’s parents” by Muslim extremists.
What kind of attack? A suicide bomb, perhaps?
No. In a “hysterical rant” on the internet, “fanatics blame the couple for her disappearance”.
All very interesting. But what of the Star’s stablemate, the Maddy Express? What extravaganza are they offering for Day 365? A 28-page special?
Curiously, the front page is bereft of the face we will never forget. Perhaps Express Newspapers have issued a completely separate edition of the paper devoted entirely to all things McCann?
Nope. The newsagents’ shelves are bereft.
We jest, of course. The paper has, as you know, steered clear of the subject since being hammered in court for its scurrilous and exploitative coverage of the case. Coverage that included far from subtle insinuations that the Kate and Gerry McCann were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance. (Not to be confused, we hasten to add, with “hysterical rants” by “fanatics”.)
With no Maddy and no Diana, what is “THE WORLD’S GREATEST PAPER” to do?
Read on, dear reader, read on…
Posted: 28th, April 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (459) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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April 28th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
154…Lone Pigeon
You forgot to mention the routine “changing of nappies” which is an
essential motherly, and fatherly, necessity.
Apologies. A glaring omission. One job that I actually enjoyed doing with my little one.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
154…Lone Pigeon
You forgot to mention the routine “changing of nappies” which is an
essential motherly, and fatherly, necessity.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
152
brandon flours Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
lone pigeon
do you have a 3 arguidos account?
nope….why should I?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
146
Lurker Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Listen about the mothering thing, my 23 month old daughter absoulutly loves babies and is very motherly towards any baby that is in the house, so about the mothering thing its completly taken out of context
Are you saying you could leave them to it and if a stranger pops round she’ll get the kettle on and make a cuppa and tell em to put their feet up while they wait for yuou to come back? Most odd…..
April 28th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
131…chenier
Am afraid that you will have to wait for the next MWT backfitting exercise
for that particular reassessment.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
lone pigeon
do you have a 3 arguidos account?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
146
Lurker Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Listen about the mothering thing, my 23 month old daughter absoulutly loves babies and is very motherly towards any baby that is in the house, so about the mothering thing its completly taken out of context
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By definition a 23 month old child cannot feel ‘motherly’.
And whilst I agree that a small child may well be very fond of its siblings, and may enjoy helping to care for them as well as bossing them around, it cannot be expected to adopt a protective role to them whilst its parents are out….
April 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
148
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I noticed you omitted to mention that the cadaver blood was blood taken from cadavers before the onset of rigour, if you want the full thesis read the medical paper, not wikidikipedia, tosser. grande finale your arse.
don’t believe a word of it. once a liar always a liar. Noone listens…
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Chenier says - Anyone remember K’s anguish at not looking maternal enough?
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K should have taken further advice from Madeleine.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I noticed you omitted to mention that the cadaver blood was blood taken from cadavers before the onset of rigour, if you want the full thesis read the medical paper, not wikidikipedia, tosser. grande finale your arse.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
143 Chenier - I feel suitably chastised. Will try harder…..
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Listen about the mothering thing, my 23 month old daughter absoulutly loves babies and is very motherly towards any baby that is in the house, so about the mothering thing its completly taken out of context
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
141
Miss Match Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
136
Lurker Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
134
and of course madeleine made sure she closed the door after her didnt she…………
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Well, remember she was very mature for her age, being a mother figure to the twins, baby sitter, etc….
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Anyone remember K’s anguish at not looking maternal enough?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
140…Lone Pigeon
Have the Rog Letter’s been sent yet ?
When are the PJ arriving in the UK ?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
138
Miss Match Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
134 Chenier - I’m having problems keeping up with what was open, what was closed, what was forced, what was partly open, which doors slammed with the gust of wind…..
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Shame on you!
The mere fact that there have, so far, been 1368 authorised versions of what actually happened is no excuse for failing to keep up!
April 28th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
138…Miss Match
That is the intended function of the contradictory “spins”……to create
confusion…..and not to enlighten.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
136
Lurker Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
134
and of course madeleine made sure she closed the door after her didnt she…………
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Well, remember she was very mature for her age, being a mother figure to the twins, baby sitter, etc….
April 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
You KNOW you can rely on Gandy for the facts …not… he he he
April 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
135…Salomon ES
I would think that Mr Amaral’s Professional insights into the Political
Interferences will be as unwelcome to the eyes of the Portuguese Politico’s
as elsewhere.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
134 Chenier - I’m having problems keeping up with what was open, what was closed, what was forced, what was partly open, which doors slammed with the gust of wind…..
April 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
122
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
That must have been the mission where arrests were expected in days, stories changed etc. etc., your grande finale must be pulling your head out of your arse.
ps……….you don’t get blood from cadavers.
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Have you got a fixation with blokes arses ?…………………..
Better tell these people then ?
Cadaveric blood transfusion
In 1929, professor Shamov of Kharkov, USSR, reported the experimental use of cadaveric blood and demonstrated the absence of toxicity. Russian surgeon Sergei Yudin pioneered the transfusion of cadaveric blood and performed this successfully for the first time on March 23, 1930. Yudin also reported his first seven clinical transfusions with cadaveric blood at the Fourth Congress of Ukrainian Surgeons at Kharkov in September 1930.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
134
and of course madeleine made sure she closed the door after her didnt she…………
April 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Jo 130 - the one thing I’m still not sure about is what is the result that the announcement of Amaral publishing a book will have in POrtugal.
There are enough reasons to suspect that this all story got out of hand. It sounds like the intention was to have Britain’s diplomatic muscle closing down this case as an abduction and discrediting the portuguese police for failing to resolve it. I reckon sometime by end of 2007.
That would have been the intention also of many a portuguese politicians that want to reform the multi-tiered police structure in portugal (particularly in criminal field), and possibly were not able to say NO to a bit of PJ-bashing by some foreign newspapers.
Amaral is now threatening to re-gain his freedom of speech and exercise it. He’ll not be able to do so until the inquiry is closed. But i don’t think the McCanns are the only ones worried with what Mr Amaral will have to say about the way third parties have tried to or influenced this criminal investigation. We’ve been thinking a lot about the potential political casualties that Mr Amaral could cause in the UK, but what about in Portugal?
April 28th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
133
Miss Match Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Mark Williams-Thomas’ theory of Madeleine wandering off has a fatal flaw. Who opened the window?
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Allegedly it wasn’t.
‘She found the back patio door partly open so she walked out, went down the small flight of steps, through the metal gate and turned right down towards the entrance to the tapas bar. ‘
And the PJ did investigate the possibility of an opportunistic paedophile; see, for example, the guy with a shotgun…
April 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Mark Williams-Thomas’ theory of Madeleine wandering off has a fatal flaw. Who opened the window?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The changing threads on Anorak seem to bring out the same “bloggers” with the same unhelpful and judgemental comments over and over again. It says much more about you as people than the McCanns. Yes surely we all know the fact they left their children un-attended was clearly a mistake and they completely misjudged the situation and safety of their children. They are paying the highest price for this and don’t you think they know this? They will live with this for the rest of their lives. Why does everyone want to find a more sinister side to a story like this .
April 28th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
129
Matt.
I have no words for this,Matt
I dont even think “horrible” is powerful enough
Anyhow,see you all later
I am off to a work shop now: “women and tods”
OMG! where is my copy of “Good Abduction Scam” from the mccanns for my little immigrant moms???Cant go without it!!
April 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
126
Matt. Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
124…chenier
MWT…for a so-called Child Protection Expert…has also never criticised
the McCann’s for leaving their children unsupervised.
And …like Dr G P….he backfits +++.
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Yep; it’s blindingly obvious that he’s very carefully not giving a time for this presumed wake and wander.
So in MWT’s scenario, who was it who left the patio door ajar?
April 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
128
Salomon ES Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
jo 133
The longer this goes the worst it’s going to be for the McCanns. And I’m not even talking about the criminal investigation into their role.
The longer this goes, the more links will be uncovered C. Meyer Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission is indeed married to Lady C Mayer.
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but I had enough to see the PJ being smeared and treated like bestias when really,what they are doing is their job as criminal investigators…
True .Yes…the longer it lasts, the worst it is going to be for all of them- this fits the PJ like a pair of gloves-also the longest it goes,the longest the pair will stay arguido which they dislike more than even having lost a child
It is also worrying because this ramifications all over do not help the PJ at the political/jetset level
I just wish I was not so impatient
Please,Mr.Rebelo,if you read us : GO for them,make justice for Madeleine
April 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Press Report from Austria…..Harrowing in the extreme.