Madeleine McCann: The A-Team, Ruining Lives And Spinning The Single Thread
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY STAR: “SECRET A-TEAM IN HUNT FOR MADDIE”
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
Desperate Kate and Gerry McCann have forked out £500,000 on an “A-Team” of former top spooks to find missing daughter Madeleine.
Can the plan come together?
The couple now have “a global operation” of dozens of retired FBI, CIA and even MI5 agents dedicated to solving the mystery of her disappearance. The top secret team has been given six months to solve the riddle.
Pah! The A Team can do it in 40 minutes WITH ad breaks…
Says the McCanns’ spokesman – and still the McCanns’ spokesman – Clarence Mitchell:
“They have been on board for a few months and are on a six-month contract. For security reasons we can’t go into detail of the experts involved but it would not be wrong to say some are former military and police personnel with a degree of expertise.”
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The A-Team.
THE GUARDIAN: “Diary: Esther Addley”
Our sympathies today are split, however, for we must also spare a small pang of pity for the security guard in Brussels who on Tuesday told the Sun about his sighting of a young girl who absolutely, definitely, without question was Madeleine McCann. “I saw her face and recognised that it was her,” said the man. “I would bet everything I own that it was her.”
It was our Maddie?
And sure enough, Belgian police later confirmed - dear reader, you are ahead of me - that it wasn’t. We can find nothing, as yet, on eBay, but Kate and Gerry McCann will be heartened that the man is without doubt now living under a cardboard box with only his own gnawed fists and his shame for sustenance.
The McCann case ruins lives..?
SPIKED: “‘Our Maddie’ makes a media comeback - The silly-season resurrection of the McCann tragedy shows that this was always a cynical, elite-scripted drama.”
Not that the absence of anything beyond hypothesis has inhibited the frontpage speculation. Indeed, the absence of hard evidence at the heart of the Maddie phenomenon has been its lifeblood. With nothing known beyond the barest of facts, anything, no matter how macabre, can be guessed at. And what better than a mail-order paedophile ring based, of course, in Belgium? In lieu of evidence, good old-fashioned prejudice will do. Indeed, over the past year, two pictures showing obviously Muslim women carrying or walking with a blonde-haired girl have been splashed under the headline: ‘IS THIS MADDIE?’ Well, Arab women with a European-looking child – it’s got to be dodgy.
Madeleine McCann: spinning news from a single thread
Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (527) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 14th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
I think he’s not a dog - but a monkey - and his organ-grinding boss has worn them out for him.
I suppose it’s part of the strategy that he’s forced to continue posting long after we think he should have gone!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
When you are a dog with no boll*cks, it is easy to answer to the name of Pavlov.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Why thank you, it seems you are at last beginning to know your place.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Saul! Methinks that you give the dim-witted one too much credit.
I think this strange creature was born without bollocks in the first place. Never seen any evidence of his bollocks anyway.
He just starts talking to himself through another post name when he gets distressed.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Dontya jest love layin on triggs mate Dave………………….me a know all surely a korect and full description, ok maybe a tad exaggerated…………….
Dave was bragging to his boss one day, “You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them.”
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, “OK, Dave, how about Tom Cruise?” “No drama’s boss, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it.”
So Dave and his boss fly out to Hollywood and knock on Tom Cruise’s door and Tom Cruise shouts, “Dave! What’s happenin?!? Great to see you! Come on in for a beer!”
Although impressed, Dave’s boss is still sceptical. After they leave Cruise’s house, he tells Dave that he thinks him knowing Cruise was just lucky.
“No, no, just name anyone else,” Dave says. “President Bush,” his boss quickly retorts. “Yup,” Dave says, “Old buddies, let’s fly out to Washington.” And off they go.
At the White House, Bush spots Dave on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, “Dave, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let’s have a cup of coffee first and catch up.”
Well, the boss is very shaken by now but still not totally convinced.
After they leave the White House grounds he expresses his doubts to Dave, who again implores him to name anyone else. “The pope,” his boss replies. “Sure!” says Dave. “My folks are from Poland, and I’ve known the Pope a long time.”
So off they fly to Rome. Dave and his boss are assembled with the
masses in Vatican Square when Dave says,
“This will never work. I can’t catch the Pope’s eye among all
these people.
Tell you what, I know all the guards so let me just go upstairs
and I’ll come out on the balcony with the Pope.”
And he disappears into the crowd headed toward the Vatican. Sure enough, half an hour later Dave emerges with the Pope on the balcony but by the time Dave returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by paramedics.
Working his way to his boss’ side, Dave asks him, “What happened?”
His boss looks up and says, “I was doing fine until you and the Pope came out on the balcony and the man next to me said, “Who the f*#k’s that on the balcony with Dave?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Gandolf’s your b*******s have been removed, you are surplus to requirements now.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Carmen Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Matt
Anorakians are a very special breed that have to be protected at all costs - they are a fledgling new order that will stick two proverbial fingers up to the establishment eventually - time will tell.
I do not mean to the monarchy, that is another matter, but to the establishment, to those people who imagine that because they tread the corridors of Whitehall that they have a God given right to be ‘right’ about everything.
They are people who honestly believe that they rule the world, they have fancy titles and boast of their qualifications, but they only rule with the consent of the people……..I live in the country that invented the guillotine!
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CARMEN! You are definitely in the COMMENTARIAT KITTEN CLUB!
I have just designed the car-stickers!
I propose to use a similar campaign to one that Orange communications used some years ago when they were handing out a leaflet saying that the future would be orange - and nobody had a fucking clue what it meant!
The arrival of the Commentariat has been rather like that - and now we’re gonna whup their arses!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Coco
A truly innovative approach!
I salute you!
Now all we have to do is drag the AG down the bookies and give him a crash course on why little old ladies rarely make a killing at the races…
August 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Artemis
“Describing Gandolf as a knowall is not exactly polite about him, is it?”
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No it certainly isn’t.
I’m sorry.
In future I will give him all the politeness that he shows to others.
Goodnight.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Coco honey how you doin, the knob polisher Dave has designs on your trumpet, but you are mine I bags foist blow Olive Oil………
August 14th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Surprise Surprise, coco pitches up and The Gandolf’s f**k off.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Bountyhunter! LOL 15 out of 19 markers is enough in most cases!
Forgot to say - I popped into 3 dufferent bookmakers to see what odds they would give me on the crack team coming up with a trump card!
The odds are - according to the bookies - that M will not be found alive.
And they know - you know!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Name (required) ……………Some Gandolf’s
Mail (will not be published) (required)………..Dickheads.com
Website……..Whatever we have been told to say
August 14th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Kittens! Popping in briefly to see if the little girl has been found by the A-team!
When I used to watch the A team - they always cracked it in an hour - on national telly with camers on them!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Artemis
I don’t think it was a complaint. It was merely informing AF that Gandolf knew things because of his brother in law being in situ. He has told of that often enough has he not?
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M&A
Artemis
What you said was:
‘Because Gandy has his brother Seb as the man on the spot in the Algarve.
He knows everything you know. Just ask him, he knows…’
Describing Gandolf as a knowall is not exactly polite about him, is it?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
M&A
ARTEMIS
Thank you and goodnight to you tooxxxx
August 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
SECRET
She will not be found here, surely you have formed some opinions of your own, after all this time ?
anyway i am off goodnight a real pleasure talking to you.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Gandolf Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
People who think of bed and dreaming of big shiny aftermarket exhausts at the same time have hangups about size and need counseling, seek immediate remedial treatment Dave, there are many todger increasing remedies on the market, there must be some that you have not tried………probably not, what a waste of brass.
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That’s a relief, I’m sure you have them saved in your favourites.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Pffff! Still at it!
Bye
August 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
where is the little girl called Madeleine ?
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Don’t you think if I knew that I’d be famous??
That’s why I’m here!
Not to argue with other, alleged adults, who “say” they are here for the same reasons.
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M&A
Artemis
Your first post this evening was a complaint about your fellow posters. I would suggest that you try leading by example.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
People who think of bed and dreaming of big shiny aftermarket exhausts at the same time have hangups about size and need counseling, seek immediate remedial treatment Dave, there are many todger increasing remedies on the market, there must be some that you have not tried………probably not, what a waste of brass.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
What happened to The Gandolf’s, are they trying to find their Bo*****s?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
SECRET
Ihave not ever seen you around, have you just changed your name ?
the gs are here for her parents, they have not a word to say about Madeleine.
i have had a couple of pops at Totje but she started it all, and i will do it again if she starts f2cking around with me.
so what do you think ? where is the little girl called Madeleine ?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Whoever is at the moment posting on behalf of The Gandolf’s. Does Mr R know you are here?
Shouldn’t you be in bed dreaming of big shiny after market exhausts!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Saul Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
secret Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Tedious!
Gandy / Garth have a go at (where do I start?) Saul, coolandcalm, Julie, Maria etc. Well anyone really!
Bounty has a go at Totje & others (can’t remember)
Why????
I thought we were here because of a little girl………..??
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Secret, we are indeed here because of a little girl. I’m afraid it may be too late for her.
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Oh well that’s ok then! Carry on with your childish bun fight then…….
August 14th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Fer fook sake Garth bleedin Norah, you are 103% correct about the lack of challenging debate, but we know that is because their remit is non existent, windylickers…..
August 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
bountyhunter Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
SECRET
i do not know what you are on about ?
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I can assume that you’re having a laugh!!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
secret Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Tedious!
Gandy / Garth have a go at (where do I start?) Saul, coolandcalm, Julie, Maria etc. Well anyone really!
Bounty has a go at Totje & others (can’t remember)
Why????
I thought we were here because of a little girl………..??
´´´´´´´´
Secret, we are indeed here because of a little girl. I’m afraid it may be too late for her.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
SECRET
i do not know what you are on about ?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Tedious!
Gandy / Garth have a go at (where do I start?) Saul, coolandcalm, Julie, Maria etc. Well anyone really!
Bounty has a go at Totje & others (can’t remember)
Why????
I thought we were here because of a little girl………..??