Having An E-fit Over Madeleine McCann
MADELEINE McCann in missing in Portugal.
Madeline McCann’s mother is appealing for help.
“Her face is frozen with grief and fear. She smells her Madeleine’s favourite cuddly toy. And never out of her grasp is a mobile phone which she wills to ring. The wait never ends.”
So says the Mirror’s Sue Carroll on the Mirror’s front page.
“Maddy’s mother shows the strain,” says the Mail. The Sun offers hope in “MADDIE COPS HAVE E-FIT”. And more headlines inside:
“SCRUFFY WEIRDO HUNTED OVER BRIT TOT”
“PROWLER SPOTTED BEFORE MADDIE TAKEN”
“Brit police send two paedo hunters”
The investigation is ongoing. But the Sun says Portuguese police refuse to show the E-fit image of the wanted man because it breaks the law. It’s an “E-fit farce”.
Only it doesn’t seem to be. Reading on we learn that Portuguese police have shown the image in Praia da Luz, the area near to where Madeleine went missing.
The Sun’s farce is the police’s decision not to let it see the picture and broadcast it back to readers many miles removed from the crime scene.
And the Sun is not alone in its criticism of Portuguese law. In “TEN BLUNDERS”, the Mirror lists the errors. It includes the decision not to show it this E-fit picture of the wanted man. Portuguese police have only shown it to locals, to those people who might have seen the man and seen what he did.
But concerned of Leicester wants to see, so too Bianca of Waltham Forest and Gwen of Plymouth. They want to see the face of the devil. They want to know.
And here comes Dep Supt Alan Ladley, the man who caught Sarah Payne’s killer, Roy Whiting. Ladley says that “basic coppering” might have found Madeleine’s abductor by now.
Like Madeleine, Sarah went missing on a family holiday. Sarah was found dead.
Madeline McCann is missing and we are led to believe it would have been better for mum and dad and Madeleine McCann had she been taken in Britain, preferably on Ladley’s patch. But not in Soham. Not there.
But whatever the paedo panic, instances remain rare, all the more so when a stranger is involved, as appears to be the case with Madeleine McCann.
The story features what the tabloids call “every parent’s worst nightmare”.
But this is an awful reality for Madeline McCann and Madeline McCann’s parents…
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February 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am
william;i to am a serious pedo hater.as is Dr.Watson,its a fright to god that people like you still fail to see facts.the parents are suspects,and there in nothing to suguest pedos other than the family, claiming it,The father once gave an interview saying he wasnt the suspect and asked people to look at that fact.WELL news flash he is now.So in his own words look at that fact,its difficult to accept that any parent could be responsible, but it does happen.Yes the parents have risen to a good social class,that dosent put someone beyond the capability of doing wrong
February 21st, 2008 at 6:31 am
this is a sad sad story i agree with a lot of you i think its kind of half the mccanns fault for leaving 3 toddlers in an unlocked room while they dined at a restaurant.
i also think the mccanns had something to do with it because i was reading an article and it said that the mother kate said that the patio doors where unlocked, but she also said that when she went to check on them the window was opened, but they had left it shut, and the abducter had escaped through it.. now if the abducter entered via unlocked doors why would he need to escape through a window, im thinking that it wasn’t a well thought out story,
also if she was abducted why her why not the other two.
in the case that she was abducted, The mccanns are at fault, i mean we all know what kind of people are in this world, people just dont leave 3 young children alone…. They Get kidnapped.
I really hope this girl is found or the case comes to a conclusion that wil be better than not knowing its just fustrating i hope the girl is either happy or passed on.
please return her. whatever happened, i hate the b*stards who are to blame for this.
dr:21.02:06.50
February 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Dr.Watson-of what?-doctor of foul language? perhaps he has already donated his heart as he doesn’t seem to have one. Yes-I am a pedo hater- isn’t he? No- It’s not the parent’s fault. Is Dr. watson saying ‘protect the pedos and blame ordinary decent folks for being ordinary decent??
February 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am
One more thing: what really shocked me today was a rage after the statement that PJ had ‘more important things than looking for Madeleine’. It’s like everyone expect that the whole country would stop as she is the most important ever. It is a very sad case and I would love a closure too, but there has to be some reason!
Just because you were neglectful and did not watch your kid, now you demand everyone will halt their lifes and solve the problem caused mainly by you. That is very self-centered attitude. Even if parents are not guilty and the abduction did happen - there is no reason the whole Portuguese police force work on it until infinity. They have their own crimes, their own missing kids/adults cases and noone in his right mind would not expect they will focus on this one case only. I laughed when someone on a Mirror forum (then existing) suggested the MI5 should look for her! With all other conflicts, crimes, Darfur, kids soldiers in Africa etc. - pouring resources to this one case is simply immoral.
I understand that for the parents this is the most important case in the universe; but, for God’s sake, even they cannot expect it will go on forever like that. Usually people do understand it is not always about their kids; there are other priorities, other poeple.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Paolo Reis
I cannot agree with you more. British media are racist - or at least patronising. When a Polish student Angelika Kluk has been murdered by a (we know now) serial killer Peter Tobin, one newspapaper wrote what a great adventure it must have been for her, coming from a ‘deathbed’ town, cleaning a parish in Scotland. For those, who have never been there, that’s the town mentioned:
http://jophan.org/eurodiary/gdansk.jpg
http://www.experiencepoland.com/images/gdansk-dlugi-targ-street.jpg
And the girl could speak 3 languages.
Even now, when Peter Tobin is mentioned, there is always talk about Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol - Angelika is almost never mentioned, even if she was his first known victim.
There are many other racists comments in the press - which is still nothing compared with the behaviour I’ve spotted in Gibraltar. I was shocked by this - let’s name it -colonial attitude and I find it not acceptable. The way Portugal is pictured in the newspapers now is beyond justification.
There are, thanks God, sensible people here on Anorak and I do believe this attitude is not shared by majority of British people. I am marrying a British guy myself and I know it is not a common state of mind. I think the main problem is remains of a colonial thinking and unjustified superiority feeling. Unjustified, as the world moved on and GB is not an empire anymore. What’s more, there are things in other countries which are far better than here (let’s say, NHS in Poland is so much better than in the UK - compared, GP’s are like witchdoctors). GN is a wonderful place and it is nothing wrong to be proud of it - but a reality check would be required.
I would never want to offend anyone here and - as a migrant myself - I do appreciate the British culture a great deal. But, I do understand your position, Paolo, and I do agree that British media should re-thing their role. Creating xenophobic atmosphere will not help anyone.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am
That is truly bloody hilarious.
February 6th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
i hope and pray that madeleine is safe and well. if not i’d rather she was dead than suffering in pain or fear. when all is said and done we may never know. but i so sincerely wish her parents had not put the welfare of their friends first that night above the wellbing of their own children, friends come and go. but hey family is for life, or should be! i am so glad i am not kate or gerry, i find sleeping at night difficult enough, bless thej all.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
What do those visits have to do with anything other than to raise awareness to their plight, to keep it in the public’s eye. As far as the Pope he may have given them comfort. I am not catholic so he doesn’t do it for me, but they being catholic…… They are really unable to look, as such, themselves. That is for the professionals. They just have to try to keep it going, keep the interest up, so it doesn’t die. Also I think over all this is going to do alot for other children gone missing. Perhaps there will be better alert systems put in place. No matter how vigilant a parent is, sadly, children will go missing.
February 6th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Ann Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Has nothing to do with religion. Hope is what you cling to in the face of no concrete evidence. Can you blame them for hoping?
ah
so why visit the white house?
did they expect to find her there ?
and to visit the pope ?
etc etc etc
not things i would do if i had a missing child
February 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Ann Says:
February 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Even if you don’t believe He exists, basic human sympathy and compassion should. Or isn’t that good living? Or is it that anyone with the ability to put on a campaign like the one the McCanns have done not worthy of sympathy. They have money and know people who are able to get things done, so ostracize them. Maybe without Him we don’t need to forgive poor judgement or mistakes. The holier than thou single mother probably has done things that others would think bad parenting or risky. It just hasn’t been so public.
ha ha ha
bad parenting is bad parenting to me no matter who or what you are, or believe in ! !
however
it seems to me that middle class proffesionals who belong to a religion with a very bad record when it comes to child abuse are seen as better than a couple of chavs who left 3 kids alone ,
to go on the piss at the working mens club to play bingo.
i’m sure the chav couple would have been crucified by the public/press and their kids taken into care.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Has nothing to do with religion. Hope is what you cling to in the face of no concrete evidence. Can you blame them for hoping?
February 6th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
dr watson
while i agree with most of what you say i truly hope that maddy is found.
sadly i do not think she will be found alive and those who do are religeous cranks and the feeble minded.
i hope she is found because then this whole thing will have some sort of closure.
however
Richey James Edwards from the manic street preachers went missing in 1995. A high profile rock star recognised the world over went missing.
he is still missing today.
no body has been found.
perhaps this will be the same.
i hope not because someone out there is responsible for whatever happened to this little girl.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Even if you don’t believe He exists, basic human sympathy and compassion should. Or isn’t that good living? Or is it that anyone with the ability to put on a campaign like the one the McCanns have done not worthy of sympathy. They have money and know people who are able to get things done, so ostracize them. Maybe without Him we don’t need to forgive poor judgement or mistakes. The holier than thou single mother probably has done things that others would think bad parenting or risky. It just hasn’t been so public.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
swanky says
Madeleine McCann was abducted folks. That means TAKEN. Madeleine’s parents are not responsible for the sick actions of another individual.
where is your proof of abduction ?
and they were irresponsible in leaving all 3 small children alone. FACT
February 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
ann says
He will be there for even the likes of you.
HE does not exist.
February 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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caz Says:
Perhaps we as a british nation should put a boycott on holidaying in portugal as a way of hitting hard the portegese pocket maybe then someone will find that poor child and return her to her mum and dad.
perhaps we as a british nation should stop being so racist ! !
we as a british nation have more than our share of police blunders / political scandal / sex crimes / child murders / yob culture / xenophobia / single parents / drugs / alcohol problems / and a health service that can’t seem to grasp basic hygene .
so why caz do you feel so superior ?
February 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Good living also would suggest not to offend people with your foul mouth Dr Watson,. Your level of intelligence is showing in several ways in your diatribes against the McCanns. They don’t need your good opinion or the forgiveness of you who will not give it. Or any of you folks so bent on blaming them for leaving them alone. You are the ones in dire need of forgiveness. It is sick the way everything they do or the things you think they should do is up for your criticism. Also Dr Watson you are very inhumane to say that you wish she is never found. Why would you wish a lifetime of not knowing and pain on these people? Is the mistake they made worth your heaping ill will of the worst kind on them? God help you if you ever make a mistake, but then by the sounds of it, you don’t need Him. Maybe you will need Him one day; and maybe He will be there for even the likes of you.
February 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Yet again we have the contention that leaving 2 babies and a toddler alone in an unlocked holiday apartment is like leaving your kid in your garden or another room in your house. Of course crimes happen on our own turf but it isn’t the same, not on any level. How can this be so difficult to grasp?
And just because some other people might do this doesn’t make it right.
Plus yet another call to boycott Portugal. By the same token maybe tourists should boycott the UK? This is after all the country where an innocent man was held down and murdered in public.
Portugal hopefully has learnt some lessons in this but it isn’t a mega rich country. It can’t keep a case active forever. No police force does.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Perhaps we as a british nation should put a boycott on holidaying in portugal as a way of hitting hard the portegese pocket maybe then someone will find that poor child and return her to her mum and dad.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Oh dear God. I had to read these posts several times. Perhaps if any of you actually knew any real facts instead of basing your “opinions” on speculation.
Madeleine McCann is a victim. Period. She deserves to be found, she deserves life. Any person(s) who participates in the removing of a child from that child’s current area without the knowledge of the parent(s), is called a kidnapper. This is an illegal action. It is also a morally wrong action.
Any person(s) who participates in the planning of, or the carrrying out of willful harm to a child is called a perpetrator, perp for short.
Madeleine McCann’s parents did what many of our parents did at home and abroad. Left us unattended. Check back through your granny’s pictures and see how many babies were left outside in their prams in the front garden.
It is not a crime to leave your toddler sleeping in their bed for most of the night while you are watching t.v. is it? Or while you swim outside in your pool at night? Or while you sip drinks in your hot-tub in the back garden? Or even sit in your next neighbours garden having a drink after the children are well asleep? I can guess not one person in their right mind would expect to come across the garden and find their child gone. Not one. Nor should they. Madeleine McCann was abducted folks. That means TAKEN. Madeleine’s parents are not responsible for the sick actions of another individual.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:11 pm
[...] Sousa is not a recognisable face to British readers and TV watchers from press conferences. The E-fit picture of Madeleine was not made available to the Sun. So instead of the Sun saying how tireless [...]
August 31st, 2007 at 10:42 am
Interesting that their website took a surprisingly quick time to register after the ‘abduction’. It is of course at the forefront of every parent who has had their child abducted. Does anyone have any figures for Infohost’s increased activity since their ’sponsorship’ ? Calum told us 3 months ago
‘In all my years in this business, I’ve never experienced anything like it. It’s unbelievable. As the media hype spreads further and further across the globe, more and more people are visiting and posting messages.’
So at the ripe old age of 19, he has had his years in the business….
So he himself believes that the media hype had already spread far.
Interesting that the fund collected = £1,005,000
Interesting that the fund is :
‘3.1.3 To provide support, including financial assistance, to Madeleine’s family.’
Interesting that if she is found or the perpetrators are brought to justice then the monies will be used in similar cases. (administered by who?)
Interesting that there are thousands of young children who are abducted yearly……Why not cover every single one of these? They all deserve it, don’t they?
Interesting that they aren’t looking after their other children….
Oh well…Let’s hope she is alive, let’s hope that this isn’t all a CSIesque cover up. Let’s hope that the British press concentrates on more pressing international stories. Let’s hope that these well to do parents realise they are setting themselves up for a life of misery.
May 30th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hmmm… well, good points being made there. I remember first hearing about the story as it broke, sometime in the wee small hours of May 4. It merely said “Girl, left in apartment, abducted”.
See I have this really stupid thing I do, it’s called “thinking”. My first thought was “Alone? Who left them alone? Fucking morons - deserve everything they get”. I must admit I was stunned when the story spun out to the dizzyign heights of cheerleading it has now become. Rather, I’m angry at myself for thinking that the way the story is being reported now WASN’T what i was expecting. I should have known better from the “Kill-A-Pedo” newspapers.
Absolutely nowhere has accused, or even suggested, that the McCann’s are entirely 100% accountable for pure negligence. The abduction is a whole other story. Let’s go back to the megligence aspect. You just don’t leave three toddlers alone ANYWHERE, EVER.
The media, bless ‘em, are doing their best to make the McCann’s some sort of poster couple for poor, poor parents everywhere. Our priorities are wrong. Those of us who do think for ourselves - yes, all thirteen of us - are getting less symapthetic and more angered by the update. Thos sheep who are lapping it up because they’re programmed to hate Pedos etc are falling for it each update.
We live in a nation of fuckwittted parents who have their priorities wrong. We live in a nation where the media play to that very fact. We deserve everythign we get. I’m so angry now that - and I’m ashemed to say this - I’m kinda hoping Madeleine is never found. Mind you, I think we all know that’s the case anyway - no matter how much would you intend to touch.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
the parents are totally guilty of NEGLIGENCE!!!!!!!
Why have the parents now become celebrities???….im half expecting them to pop into the Big Brother 8 house tonight. what next on their world tour?? red carpet film premiers?? they already have the loan of private jets and a meeting with the Pope…..because we are constantly being reminded what pious good catholics they are…..i want to vomit!!!will they want Geldof to put on a Live Aid event for them next?
their other children should be placed into care ….NOW!!! if this crime ….yes CRIME… had been committed by a ‘lower class family’ or lone parent…. the media would have turned on them….but no!!…the mccanns can afford lawyers, publicists and spin doctors….yes spin doctors must be telling a grown woman [kate the lovely responsible mother...not!] to wear yellow and green ribbons in her hair!! and announcing to the media the significance of it.
i have raised my daughter alone….and there have been many times when i have had to miss nights or days out with friends because i was unable to get a babysitter…..not once have i nipped out to wine @ dine, leaving her alone….its one of the things you dont do…..full stop…no arguements!! the mccanns did not want to give up their luxury lifestyle for the sake of looking after and caring for their 3 children…alll under 4 years old….non of them had the mental reasoning and capability to look after themselves…..and as doctors they will have known that……so they can not even pretend to be thick about this fact.
also in their working capacity as doctors …how many parents have they reported to social services…for neglecting children?? stinks of hypocracy!!!
Dr Watson & Single Parent …plus others on this site ….we are not alone [many people i know are voicing the same opinions] in saying these ideas and being sickened at the lack of blame being put on the mccanns……when are the media, police and social services going to take action against these negligent parents? this problem started with them…and their selfish attitude to child care.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I care not that they, you or anyone else is religious, I’m afraid. What we’re dealing with here is a case of stupidity. I don’t much care what The Bibble has to say on the subject of children because, afterall, as we all know, the missing page of The Bible actually reads:- “The events and characters in this novel are fictitious: any resemblance to living people is purely coincidental”.
I will not, however, totally dismiss The Good Book - because it does contain, somewhat enigmatically, a code for good living. The ten commandments is stretching it a bit (it could be cut down to around five and still be saying the same damn thing) but, hey ho… things are always more psychologically satisfying when they come in tens, I guess.
What I’m saying, really, is that if the media think that showing two idiots to be religious is going to amke me sympathise even more - then they’re having a FUCKING LAUGH.
As for the McCanns… did you hear of their latest developments> BIG, FUCK-OFF INFLATABLE ADVERTS. They’re about 15 storeys high, plastered all over the Pedo=gese sandy beaches.
But… and I love the hypocrysy of it all - look at the advert a bit more closely. Is this an advert for “Finding Maddy” - or is it a News of the World advert? BEcause when I look at it, I see a little blonde giorl, with NotW written all over it. It looks like a major newspaper ad.
Bit of free advertising, eh, Rupert? I bet you wish more innocent fuck-worthy children get kidnapped and raped to up the profits on your messily-rustled-up rag mag. You twat.
Face it, they’re journalism is about as sloppy as “Poor Maddy, the Nation’s Fuckin’ Treasure”’s abused body is bound to be right about now.
May 29th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Dr Watson I have to fess up that I may have taken the Bible a little out of context (I blame it on my emotional state at the time of my entry resulting from a deep rooted disdain for brazen parental hypocrisy and the tabloid press).
When I said that the Bible decrees that “children should be revered above all else” I was somewhat overstating the issue. In fact, I was misquoting a bit of biblical hearsay I picked up years ago from my Catholic schooling.
Anyways, what I should have really said was that the Bible preaches the nurturing of children not the willful neglect of them. In fairness, the Bible also preaches forgiveness, but unluckily for the McCanns I am not a practicing Catholic!
Maybe the McCanns should privately read the Bible one day. But then again, what’s the good of doing something when there is no one watching huh?
Incidently my parents are highly intelligent Catholics, who were also blessed with common sense, and they never left me or my siblings alone to go out on the piss while on holiday. They never even left us alone to go to church so they could put on a public display of “goodness”- God, Buddha, Allah etc forbid! In fact, they refuse to advertise their faith and rarely go to church because they believe that true faith is a private and very individual thing. My experience within the Catholic Church has taught me that the louder a Catholic is about their Catholisism, the more like Jesus they ARE NOT!
Yes Dr Watson you make a great point about media anomalies and the seemingly apparent apatheticness of the media and general public towards the truth.
The McCanns are the religious equivalent of fast food – overtly flavorsome and immediately satisfying but devoid of nutrition and heavy on the seedy aftertaste.
Hello Jesus, did you want some fries with your McCanns??
May 29th, 2007 at 1:39 am
I am not religious a religious Doctor, but I do believe somewhat emphatically that responsible parents should not leave three toddlers alone in a ground floor apartment, locked or otherwise.
As much as I believe in that cold, hard fact, I must disagree with the bible. Children should NOT be revered above all else. No, HUMANS should be revered above all else. Children are dangerous; they are ignorant and have no sense of right and wrong, for the most part. They cannot distinguish between fact and fiction and have totally selfish motives at heart. This is NOT the fault of children, but rather, adults.; they accept the responsibility to nuture these little sponges waiting to soak up life lessons, if they choose to spawn them.
Yes, Sonia, you have underlined a niggling anomaly within the abduction. The McCann’s purport to be Christians (actually, probably Catholic) now that they’re dipping into the “Maddy Pot” to fund a no doubt first class flight to Rome to see El Pope.
This obviously makes them look symapthetic and innocent, and good people, according to the media. I can imagine some fat bigwig with a stogie saying “Hey, McCann’s - get religious, get saved. They’ll love it. I have the Pope’s cell number right here, lemme make a call”.
Unfortunately the media underestimate the general public’s itelligence. Or, at least, MY intelligence. Sonia, you’ve identified a huge critical error in the media’s plans. It matters not that they these nitwits are religious. IN my eyes, infact, it makes them seem even more illogical and stupid now that we discover they ar etold to be seen to be Catholics.
If they really are and it’s not a publicity stunt - then they’re bad Catholics, and are dragging The Pope’s name into the mud.
If it’s really a big game the media are playing to make us feel even more symapthy to what is already a hugely sympathetic case, then everyone invovled are a bunch of greedy, bandwagon-jumping fucking liars.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:04 am
At the risk of sounding repetitious can I just reiterate what I said on May 24 at 2.10 pm with regard to recent comments…
“If they (the McCanns) were truly as religious as they pretend to be they wouldn’t have left their toddlers alone while they went out to have some fun. The Bible specifically states that children should be revered above all else.”
May 28th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Thanks “Single Parent” for those words of support. I know now how the McCann’s are feeling: I’m dead scared that the media are going to ignore me anytime now!
I won’t make this response a long one (it’s getting tiring now, and am in danger of repeating myself): I don’t wanna fall into the media/McCann trap of coming here and NOT saying anything new.
With regarding to all this piety and the REAL DISTINCT ABSENCE of the other two kids… I confess, I just don’t get it. I know precisely what you mean: if you had a third of your kids snatched away from you, then you’d be very reluctant to let the remaining two thirds out of your sight.
:et’s put it this way: if the McCann’s have left them both in the same apartment Madeleine was snatched from, then - think about it seriously - it’s the SAFEST PLACE in the world for children right now. NO-ONE would DARE go anywhere near there anymore.
In fact, let me develop the question farther. WHY aren’t the media asking the following questions:
1: “Are you guys still staying in the same apartment Madeleine was taken?”
2: “Where are the kids when you two are doing a ‘awww, bless, poor sods’ photoshoot.
3: “What benefit do you think staying in Portugal has for your case.
4: “When is enough, enough? What cut-off date will you two set where you finally wave the white flag and say “Hey, it’s June 10, 2013 - maybe we should go back home and WORK for a fucking change”.
5: “How does it feel to have total and utter sympathy and autonomy from the press in general, and bask in the knowledge that, even though you’ve clearly fucked up, that no-one - at least anyone with any real way of influencing any collective social conscience - can lambast you two fucking cretins for the irresponsible and negligent parents you really are?”
and finally, the qurstion I am DYING to know:
6: “Okay… let’s pretend we can go back to May 3, that fateful Thursday night. Let’s say you have the opportunity to stay at home with the kids, or bring them with you to the pub, or, you know, whatever - the ability to have Madeleine NOT abducted. Would you take that opportunity and risk not being in the public eye?
Now, to that last question, I’m sure that even the McCann’s - in all their infinite stupidty and gross misconduct - would jump at the chance to go back in time and not have this happen.
A££ I’M SAYING IS… you cannot deny, right now, the forseen opportunity of novelisations, made-for-TV-movies, autobiographies, talk show appearances, travel-writing, radio shows, celebrity-mingling… etc… literally, a “small” (ahem) price to pay for … you know, what each and every one of us News of the World readers really want…
££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
May 28th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Dr Watson, are you psychic or were you sat behind me at the cinema last night when I was saying (virtually word for word) what you have just so eloquently put in your final four paragraphs?
You, sir, are a great example of someone who has remained un-blinded by these ridiculous diversionary tactics designed to prevent us mere mortals from asking the important questions like “What the FUCK do you think you were doing, you morons?”
God I hope that they do something else stupid, and hang themselves (figuratively of course!).
Just one more question, when they go off to these shrines and chapels etc…where are the other two kids? Are they being left home alone? If I’d lost one (not that I’m that careless), I wouldn’t let the others out of my sight!
May 28th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Aha, Single Parent - a voice of reason!
Actually I’ve been mega-busy this weekend, and have admittedly lost my natural touch with developments. Although I do hear, somewhat unsurprisingly, that - yes - the McCann’s now have an audience with The Pope. Very impressive. Now piety has pretty much gone off the charts.
So what’s the Pope gonna do? Well, not much, probably do his “ad infinitum ipso facto dominoes pizza” thing, wave his hand around and ask “So, do you have the child for the baptism”, to wit Gerry will respond in his unusually high-pitched brains-without-common-sense retort “Eh, no, Mister Pope. She’s been nicked. That’s why wuzz’re here to see ye”.
In the most recent sit-down interview, which lasted twelve of my Earth minutes - the McCann’s sat very quietly and still and answered some of the questions the BBC had the dappiest, sycophantic reporter on Earth rustle up at the last minute. It suddenly occured to me - hey, Kate McCann (Mom) is a bit of a hottie! Christ, no wonder she’s being kept in the news - dang! - page 3 in The Sun will have a field day; “POOR MOTHER OF KIDNAPPED DAUGHTER AIN’T AFRAID TO SHOW YOU *HER* ALIBIS! Kae, 33, from Leicester says “I’m just a sucker for quick backdoor snatchers” - “Yes Kate, and quite a splendid backdoor it is too!”. Haha…ahhhhhh.
I wouldn’t put it past them. I’m guessing maybe X Factor with Pato Banton’s “Baby Come Back (With My CD Collection of Bob Marley)” - and, perhaps more sickeningly, T’Pau with “The Man With the Child in his Eyes”.
As Whatsherface Liverpool short-cut dark-haired bird Lisa Stansfield once sang “Been Around the World and I-I-I…. I Can’t Find my Baby”.
And around the world they say they shall go. With the money those stupid News of the World readers donated after they got their £1.25 change from the fiiver they spent on booze “daaaahn the pub”. “Coz it’s the pedo’z what’s fucked in the head, innit. It ain’t right, they gotta have their balls lopped off”. Fucking morons.
I’m really at a loss as to what to say - The Pope??? Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? Is it just me, or does this act REALLY seem to be scraping the very very bottom of the barrel now? I think so.
As for this “new lead” - it may have well read like this “Police are looking for a man with distinctive non-female features, wearing trousers, and possibly a t-shirt with or without a jacket, possibly long or short-sleeved. The man is thought to have had hair, and is aged around 18-60 - any information can be given anonymously”. What a shambles. This case has become an utter farce.
And so, back to our quizzically-challenged interviewer asking such the distraught (and quite busy) couple classics like: “So how are you feeling right now?”, and “What you doing next?”. I was PRAYING for her to ask “So, where are the pair of you going on holiday next?”.
What I think is majorly lacking in contemporary reporting (or perhaps I should say CUNTemporary) is the ability to ask direct questions, even personal ones. Not the cookie-cutter banality that seems to excrete with distressing inevitabilty. For example, why doesn’t said interviewer say “Look, I’m really sorry, fuck these questions, but I need to ask - what the fuck were you two thinking? I mean REALLY Kate, Gerry, you left three toddlers in a half-locked, half-unlocked ground floor apartment to go out boozing. Now I know everyone has fits of madness, but seriously, COUPLES tend not to have synchronized stupidity. You’re clearly reckless and most of the people back home are thinking you’re either a bunch of cunts, or a bunch of irresponsible cunts who are now paying a very approporiate price. How would you respond to those aalegations?”.
See, it’s all down to the last sentence? Dress it up as “others are saying”. Why the fuck not? They do it to the viewers. Why doesn’t she say “People are saying - and this is not neccessarily my opnion - but people are saying that you two are fucking idiots. Any thoughts there, at all?”
Here’s another slab of meat (Please, no Madeleine puns just yet!) for thought: Imagine, if you will, that this WHOLE THING IS A BIG FUCKING ROUSE. Imagine Madeleine is safe and well. Imagine the McCann’s know everything - and that “our Maddy, the nation’s fucking treasure” is safely holed up with Kate’s Aunt somewhere in Bicester *NB Police, don’t go there, it’s just a supposition* - hey, it’ll make you famous? Not a bad little plan. Quite a nice little earner. Let’s put it this way, shall we? Either Dad, in the interviews is showing a remarkably brave face in light of the events, or he’s a daaaaaammmmnnnnn good actor.
But, all joking aside, I think on or around June 15 (provided of course Maddy’s abused, bloated decapitated corpse *hasn’t* been discovered by some poor kid out fishing for his family’s food on the Med) we will start to see the “money pot” swell to around £10 million. By that point, I think it should be down to a gameshow. The McCann’s should leave the money in a secret Mark Warner apartment, and the first person who can identify their moves and figure out where it is, and nick it while they’re downing shots of Aftershock in a bar with fuck-all visibility with pounding music and no windows, gets to keep it. They could call the show “Watch the McCann’s Being Fucking Idiots At Our Expense Again… Factor”.
Perhaps The Pope could adjudicate.
Afterall, they’re hungry for the publicity, aren’t they?