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 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Nosey
No; I don’t think it’s for real; it sounds like something composed by Lewis Carroll on magic mushrooms..
I shall now listen to White Rabbit, which is, by comparison, perfectly sane…
August 10th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Fair
There were so many versions - perhaps I ought to read what they say in the report.. might shed some light on it afterall
August 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Chenier
Storming off without waking him?? Is she for real???
She just can’t be female!!
Maybe she’s transgender and that why no history has been published in that papers and all that talk about IVF/Surogacy.
Please note the above post is meant to be satirical and not libelous!
August 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Saul
Brilliant!
Have saved it.
Val
Yes I read it, very funny!
Never heard that bit about the Leic police before. Interesting…
August 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Fair
“Afternoon. Did you read my first post? If not it”s on page 1 1.17pm…funny!!!
I can”t respond to all these sightings , what interested me is the comment from
Kate”s mother that the English Police in PDL after the first week Madeleine went
missing . Apparently, Kate didn”t get on with them at all because they kept inferring
that Kate had something to do with her disappearance. this is apparently an extract
from Amaral”s book
August 10th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Nosey
Seems strange to me. Perhaps someone can find the article about it. I seem to remember 2 versions.
1 that they both had tea at the creche with the kids & 1 that G was playing tennis.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
After, Saturday night at the movies, what about a spot of Christmas Lunch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SSwgeBqgSY
August 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Nosey
I do agree that it’s much healthier to let off steam than bottle it up, though some of the guys I’ve thrown crockery at may beg to differ.
But it simply makes the storming off without waking Gerry so he could see the storming off yet more implausible…
August 10th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Fair
Its a possibility - did he actually play tennis with G or just turn up at the tennis courts where G was playing? If they were playing each other then they would both go and ‘check’ on grumpy pants.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Hi Val!
August 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
What”s happening, no Page numbers !!! where is everyone?
August 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Nosey
So after this photo was recorded (5pm +) Payne had time to go back to apartment & change for tennis. Then go & play tennis. Then check on Kate at around 6.30?
August 10th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Chenier
Oh I’m not sure - now let me think… mmmm
Actually its healthy to get angry now and again. The ones to worry about are the ones who don’t let it out and may, when wound up, do something ‘out of character’ IMO of course.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Fair
Yes it was - but I think it was a hour or so later around 6.30pm.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Good question, Nosey.
And why has it always been Gerry’s family who have made the claims about Kate being incandescent with rage…
August 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Nosey
So am I wrong with what I said above?
I thought it was the 3rd that Gerry asked Payne to call in & see if Kate was OK.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Brandon
So if all the men were there and K was mad because she bumped into them all will out jogging and her kids were in the creche, where was G?
Wasn’t this the day that he cancelled his tennis lesson?
August 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
saul
I certainly feel as if I’ve copped a lot of other people’s morning afters; I can’t even try the hair of the dog that bit me because the dog didn’t bite me in the first place…
August 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
What happens when Mitchell and the Meturdos run out of world to spot her in?
… and here’s next week’s news …
“It has been reported that Madeleine McCann has been sighted on several planets in close proximity to Earth.
On each occasion the girl was spotted in a sweet shop eating Mars Bars, Galaxies and Milky Ways. She was in the company of a little green swarthy creature believed to be from the planet Tharg.”
Inter-Galactic Police have issued this photo-fit.
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Afternoon all, couldn”t resist posting this, with apologies and admiration to the poster
who wrote this. There was a little Green Man, but it didn”t copy…..
August 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
chenier Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Keep it down, please, saul; I’ve got a blinding headache.
I always feel aggrieved if I wake up with a headache when I didn’t get drunk the night before.
Seems unfair, somehow…
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Maybe you are the Oh God of hangovers!
August 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Was that cctv photo the 3rd?
All the other (3) men are there.
Wasn’t one of them (Payne?) supposed to be playing tennis with Gerry? Then asked to check on Kate etc?
August 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Time for some eats.
Good sleuthing !!!!
August 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Keep it down, please, saul; I’ve got a blinding headache.
I always feel aggrieved if I wake up with a headache when I didn’t get drunk the night before.
Seems unfair, somehow…
August 10th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Bloody hell, people
You are all still here 
I managed to get married in the meantime!
Just came to say hello and leaving you now … but will be back at some point!
cheers
August 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Frist I was afraid….I was pertrified
August 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Good I am of the same thoughts, catch you later !
When is the doggie video released ?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:56 am
brandon flours Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Matt
1,
What do you think of the paper trying to discredit the dogs by implying its eddie and keela? (sunday mail).
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Because they can’t criticise E’s & K’s 103% record of 200/200 successful cases.
Thus they imply that the ordinary dogs used earlier were E & K.
They fear the dogs.
Greatly.
2,
The tappas7 cctv picture?
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They should print only that which is in the Files and not put their own little
mistaken interpretations upon it.
One pic from a CCTV sequence doesn’t say much.
Was D Webster actually in that pic ?
Mr Amaral’s book suggests otherwise.
Where were the McDoc’s ?
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3,
“They believe someone could let slip a crucial clue when they think they are having a secret chat about their evil desires.
“And one slip of the tongue could unlock the whole mystery of what happened to Maddie.”
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That could indeed happen.
But not in the way, or by whom, that the spineless People’s reporter suggests.
A pain in the butt might cause someone to cry out.
And such a cry might not be in the Devout One’s best interests.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Got to go mass !
Matt answer me and I will read later!
August 10th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Matt
1,
What do you think of the paper trying to discredit the dogs by implying its eddie and keela? (sunday mail)
2,
The tappas7 cctv picture?
3,
“They believe someone could let slip a crucial clue when they think they are having a secret chat about their evil desires.
“And one slip of the tongue could unlock the whole mystery of what happened to Maddie.”
http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headlin … _page.html
August 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
CdM……
“”"”Interpol followed over one hundred leads in Belgium….
In Belgium, 107 persons state that they saw Maddie. Nevertheless, Interpol
in Brussels revealed that they had no success in collecting indicia that lead
to the child’s abductors. At the police station in Leicestershire, the area
where the McCanns live, detective John Hughes also traced a disheartening
result concerning the searches, in June last year. Meanwhile, the private
detectives of Metodo 3 informed that they will sue the British papers that
accuse them of being ‘maffiosi’. The Spanish now say that their participation
in the searches was “reduced”.”"”"
If there were so many “sightings” in Belgium why were the McDoc’s so insistent
upon their dodgy tec’s going to Morocco and carrying around their dolly filled
suitcases in that part of the world ?