Madeleine McCann: With Columnists Carole Malone And Barbara Ellen
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
THE COLUMNISTS
It’s the Big Brother reject and toothsome talker:
“The truth won’t mend the pain”
I SOMETIMES wonder if The Truth is all it’s cracked up to be. I wonder if there are times when NOT knowing is better than knowing.
Well, as Donald Rumsfeld once said, from whom Malone seems to be quoting…
Because now we think we know Madeleine McCann didn’t die, as police suspected, in her holiday apartment. Neither was she taken by an opportunist killer. Nor did she wander off into the sea.
Sure of that? Yeah, Sure of it. Positive. Sure of it? Facts are facts. Right? Facts…
However, what we now think may have happened is worse than all of those scenarios because it looks certain this angel-faced little girl was snatched to order by a vile paedophile ring and delivered to people who hunt down pretty children to degrade. Maybe even kill.
And we know this because..? Well, someone said something…it got in an email to someone else…Carole read it or heard it and it became news… and fact…and we read about it… and we told someone… and they told Carole…who knows all about it…
What kind of images are going through your mind at this minute as to the fate of this little mite?
Dunno? Tell us what we should be thinking…
“…a sex toy for a bunch of perverts so depraved that they get their kicks from abusing and killing terrified children.”
The picture is becming clearer. Thanks…
And if I can’t bear to think about what might have happened to her after she was “delivered” to those perverts I can’t imagine how Kate and Gerry can close their eyes at night without the horror of it exploding inside their heads.
Draw us a picture…
Now we know that what might have happened to her while she was alive could have been worse.
Yeah, we know what “MIGHT” have heppned. Such are the facts…
I never really understood what the phrase “Fate Worse Than Death” actually meant. Now I think I might.
BARBARA ELLEN (Observer): “The latest speculation about Madeleine feels like exploitation to keep this sad story going”
Dreadful though the thought is, is it time to hope that Madeleine McCann died the night she disappeared?
Wishing death upon a child?
Anything seems preferable to the explanation that she was abducted by a paedophile ring, and is perhaps still suffering. That it was always unlikely that some childless couple just fancied a little British girl, and all this time Madeleine has been enjoying ice cream and piano lessons. In their heart of hearts, the British public probably considered all this the moment Madeleine disappeared…
Barbara heard about the paedos… from someone, maybe it was in the Sunday Mirror…she told us…we told you…you told a friend… who knows Barabara…who knows all about it…
In the grand scheme of things, all this may seem harmless PR padding, but it isn’t. The result is that ‘Maddie-sightings’ are going to end up having the same ring of authority as your bog-standard UFO, Elvis, or Lord Lucan spottings.
And no-one has seen either of them since Madeleine went missing. Interesting…
By the same token, last week’s sensational spin on what most of us guessed anyway, has given the case a dramatic unhelpful ‘Maddie: the sequel’ feel. A background hum of just wanting to keep the story going - to keep selling and exploiting as long as possible.
Read all about it…
Posted: 10th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (258) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
August 10th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Val
The discrepancy between the official version and any others would be
significant, it could even suggest that there is/was deliberate misinformation…
or incredible incompetence or perhaps that the information was not corroborated…
It’s curious…I was hoping that someone could direct me to a reliable source..to
find out more???
August 10th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
whoops
We were told officially from the Files that Madeleine slept in their bed on 1st or 2nd
May because they had had a row.
Don”t ask me to get it, but in an Interview on the 8th August 2007 Kate says she and Gerry never row. It”s in the Daily Herald.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
DuncanR - thats not sportsman-like !!
I find it hard to understand why - after 15 months there is not a clear timeline for all the Tapas lot ! I guess, when statements are released more will become clear ?
The problem is - all the evidence CD’s are in the wrong hands - methinks we need to await our continental connections to filter the good stuff - because the British press won’t.
By the way I can’t see Clarence or Cliff at the Club Paradaiso meal ?
I think we need to get Tarantino involved and start cutting ears !!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Duncan
Spoil sport
August 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Saul
I laughed out loud (which I often do on here reading other people”s posts) at the
You tube Video, tried e-mailing it to myself which I normally do but it wouldn”t work.
Something wrong with my computer again!!!! Tried joining YouTube so they would
send it to me, must have tried about 20 outrageous Usernames, only to be told each time it was unavailable. If Duncan shows up later I shall ask him to send me a copy, Anorak has my e-mail address.
“She was in Morrison”s last week. I saw her standing in the queue in front of Elvis
and Lord Lucan”
See what I mean!
Out of interest, do you live in the U/K.?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
does anyone know whether the McCanns had ever spent long periods with all 3 children on their own? From all the bickering and resentment over who did what and who wasn’t pulling their weight, I surmise that the nanny did much of the hands-on stuff back home. The act of looking after them together seems to have come as a bit of a shock to them.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Whoops
Never mind my TV - it takes me much longer than that to warm up!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Fair
After what happened last night I’ve decided it’s best to keep my viewing preferences private
August 10th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Off subject- does anyone know when Paula Radcliffe is running in the 16 and a half mile-whoops, i mean marathon this week.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Duncan
Do you like Meg Ryan? If so “you’ve got mail” has just started.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
How did they get to Praia de Zavial 20 mins drive away ?
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What? Where? Why?
just got back after dinner & having to share pc..grrrr!
The above jumped out at me! What’s all that about?
Sorry……………….Evening all!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Grand Finale
THey had hired two cars between them, a Scenic and a Jeep.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Rationalist
Who knows? Maybe when it was first reported it wasnt accurate, or more likely it
was “buried”. I remember reading that the PJ could not account for a certain period
the whereabouts of Madeleine.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
val Says:
August 10th, 2008
This is where it gets interesting. If true as the U.K. Press reported, Gerry asked David Payne to check on Kate at about 6.30pm, did Kate bring the children back on her own
at 6.pm, if so, how, if they had no Buggy as claimed.
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How did they get to Praia de Zavial 20 mins drive away ?
No Car ? No Buggy? would make for a very difficult trip ?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Saul-it takes that long for his television to warm up.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Chatelaine,
Here we go again trying to find out who done what!!!
Do me a favour, look at the pic of the Tapas 7 again and tell me what you think of the person facing sitting at the end of the table? Would you say it is a boy, if so, it is very relevant, but don”t see anything that isn”t there.
I,m sure there were only 7 children among the Tapas 9 ………..3 for GM, two for JT
1 for FP and one for RO
August 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Duncan, I hear there’s a good 2 min short Hungarian movie on, maybe you can squeeze in the first 60 secs
August 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Good evening, Grande F.
In that case we might have not only one child too many, but also one adult or adolescent …
hm …
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Hmmm! indeed another mystery ?
Has anyone discussed the J Tanner sketch? GM and Jez Wilkins standing on the path nearest to the apartment 5A, as opposed to the opposite pavement re: Panorama, so is someone mistaken or deliberately misleading ? looks like they would have practically fallen over each other in JT’s version ?? IMO
http://news.sky.com/skynews/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Aug/Week1/15070968.jpg
August 10th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Val
How is it that this information…which would have been critical..does
not wind up in the official summary?
August 10th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
whoops Says:
Any good films on the box tonight?
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Not telling !!!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
166,000 GBP / mth - DE money will not last long !!
August 10th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Rationalist
According to the statement of their Nanny in the creche, she gave them tea at 5.30pm
and the were collected at 6.0pm.
This is where it gets interesting. If true as the U.K. Press reported, Gerry asked David Payne to check on Kate at about 6.30pm, did Kate bring the children back on her own
at 6.pm, if so, how, if they had no Buggy as claimed.
I think Gerry said in his blog that David Payne had reported Kate was bathing the
children,Gerry went to the local supermarket to get wine, they got ready, had a drink
and were first to arrive at the Tapas Bar at 8.30pm
August 10th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Chatelaine, Chelsea Mother, very funny.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Grande Finale Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
“According to “Amarals” book Dianne webster wasn’t at this restaurant, neither where the Mccann family. (Ithink the paper have mistaken her for Rachael oldfield and the one labelled Rachael Oldfield is in fact Mrs Payne).”
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Good evening, Grande F.
In that case we might have not only one child too many, but also one adult or adolescent …
hm …
August 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Bye Nosey,
just read your post again, you are joking aren”t you about the new Investigators. lol
August 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Any good films on the box tonight?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
val Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Grand Finale,
How appropriate your name at this time!!!!!! Still nothing conclusive, except the bias of the British Press
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Hi Val nice to hear from you…….
IMO TV and press are fighting for survival (See recent financial figures for ITV) they needed a good story and won’t get the inside info if negative so purely mercinary commercialism I reckon ?
August 10th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Val
read my post about it again.
Must dash - crying is turning rapidly into a paddy (not good for 9 yr old boys! or their bedroom furniture)
August 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Must dash
No 2 son is now crying because he’s missing Reverend and the bloody makers. (His blooming choice not to go back
)
so I shall attempt to calm him down and play the sympathetic mum - I might need that vodka to get me through it without shouting though. grrrrr
be good all
August 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Noseycow
CM reported a couple of weeks ago that this new Agency who he refused to name,
would be based in the U.K., travel abroad when necessary, liaise with Metodo 3, who are on a retainer, and according to TOL, start from scratch.
You have to ask, what good will they do based in Britain? Oh, and CM said they will
use the Secret Service at times.
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M&A
Artemis
CM is telling porkies if he claims they will be using the Secret Service; firstly it doesn’t exist, and secondly the intelligence agencies don’t work for individual citizens. They work for the State.