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…
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August 11th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:15 am
SNAP!
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August 11th, 2008 at 12:17 am
I thought it was Wilkins that saw the woman in purple dress!
Brain frazzled! Going to bed. Nite all. Saul?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:15 am
GF
SNAP!
August 11th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Grande Finale Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The sketch here……..notice position of G M and Jez Wilko chatting ?
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Ah, that one. Understood that this is opposite of what she said on Panorama. Right?
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GM said he crossed the road to talk to Jez Wilko (who had said that he didn’t see J Tanner).
With this sketch they would practically have fallen over each other.
I think it is strange that at precisely the time Maddie was aledgedly taken they can’t agree which side of the road they were on ?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Châtelaine Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Grande Finale Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The sketch here……..notice position of G M and Jez Wilko chatting ?
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Ah, that one. Understood that this is opposite of what she said on Panorama. Right?
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I mean, Gerry crossed the street to talk to Jeremy, didn’t he? So they would have been on the other side of the road.
Apart from that, Jes hadn’t seen Tanner then, but she had seen earlier an unknown woman in a purple dress outside one of the apartments, which he later could identify as Tanner
August 11th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Oh …
August 11th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Fair Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Quinta do Moinho?
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Yes
August 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Grande Finale Says:
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The sketch here……..notice position of G M and Jez Wilko chatting ?
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Ah, that one. Understood that this is opposite of what she said on Panorama. Right?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Quinta do Moinho?
August 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
The sketch here……..notice position of G M and Jez Wilko chatting ?
http://news.sky.com/
sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2008/Aug/Week1/15070968.jpg
August 10th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
And, Saul, think I will rather google some even darker horses now, as well as possible summer guests at Quinta do Moinho
August 10th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Saul Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
For all you out there worried about Gandolf.
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What makes you think we/I would be worried…
August 10th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Saul
Not got any bones at the mo. What else could I throw?
Have some old tomatoes in the bin I could salvage. Would that do?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Grande Finale Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
.Have you seen The sketch from JT ?
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Sorry, which sketch from Tanner do you mean?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Grande Finale, I couldn’t agree more. The Mods are doing an exceptional work and I’m very grateful to them too. We cannot thank them enough. I’m sorry, if it may have sound like a criticism, which it definitely not was meant to be. I was just slightly disorientated, reading Val’s post referring to you.
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Yes I quite understand……..Have you seen The sketch from JT ?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
For all you out there worried about Gandolf.
Today we visited Mr Snippy the Vet. At the moment he is sitting in his basket feeling very sorry for himself. But fear not, like all Lap Dogs, I’m sure he will soon be running around, eager to please his Master.
Please feel free to throw him a bone any time you want.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Chateleine
Like Harry Potter they are childrens books that more adults actually read!
August 10th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Ah Terry Pratchet’isms!
Of course why didn’t i think of that!
Simply everyone has read those books, haven’t they?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Saul Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment
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Ah! That’s only 4,770 hits. I should be able to do that before dawn
August 10th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Nite Chenier
Ps can you shed any light on what the hell Saul is talking about?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment
August 10th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Saul! It’s 00:40 am over here. “Monstrous Regiment” gives exactly 122,000 hits [because I've limited it to 4 languages only...]. Aiuto !
August 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Chateleine
Don’t worry I’m stoooopid too!
Don’t understand a word of any of it, even the Monstrous Regiment!
August 10th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Chatelaine, try, Monstrous Regiment
August 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Well, another fun filled day draws to an end.
Where the bit that goes on the hoover has gone to I really do not know; I’m sure it was there last week.
The offspring returns from NYC tomorrow, having been there for months, and i have been trying to hoover her room.
Two inches at a time.
Due to the absence of the aforementioned thing that goes on the end of the hoover.
This domestic goddess bit is beyond me…
good night all…
August 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Saul Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Unless you are Polly Perks.
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Good evening, Saul. Would you mind enlightening me about “Polly Perks”, “After a frantic Google, never volounteer for nowt.? and “Sometimes when a mouse is sniffing for cheese…… it gets it in the back of the neck”. Artemis seems to understand, but to me speaks in riddles too, so I start feeling rather stoooopid
August 10th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Grande Finale, I couldn’t agree more. The Mods are doing an exceptional work and I’m very grateful to them too. We cannot thank them enough. I’m sorry, if it may have sound like a criticism, which it definitely not was meant to be. I was just slightly disorientated, reading Val’s post referring to you.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Unless you are Polly Perks.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Katy, Ireland Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Was away all week so missed the Cliff piece- I WAS THERE!!! I HAVE TWO BOTTLES OF PLONK SIGNED BY CLIFF!!! AND HE WAS LOVELY!!!
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So you can confirm first-hand whether the internet wine reviews are correct or Anorak, describing it as “crushed mistletoe on a bed of bachelor pad and new tennis ball” …
BTW I heard the friend of the woman on the scene mention that Sir Cliff was only signing his bottles, NOT his book and that his vineyard is in closeby Albufeira [to be precise
].
August 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Châtelaine Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
ARTEMIS, it seemed to me that a post from Grande Finale was missing
val August 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm says
“Grand finale
Thanks for that,
He has taken an inordinate interest in this case and for me is definitely the dark horse.”
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Hi Chatelaine,
No missing post from me………Val acknowledged my post and then it looks like the first lines or words were “woosh cluncked” from Val’s !
All down to the skillful Moderators on this site keeping us all safe
thank goodness for that !
Yes thanks for this site and thanks to the exceptionaly skilled Mods