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…
August 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am
FRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Note the single exclamation mark…
August 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
What can one say about this sort of ‘thinking’?
Bugger all, but that won’t stop us saying it…
August 10th, 2008 at 10:46 am
FFS how can we keep up!!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Is Miss High and Mighty here today?
August 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Down and dirty is
August 10th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I find it sad thatThe Press get together to report the facts on the latest In South Ossetia, yet when it comes to this story they are only interested in making money.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Saul
You can’t get more together than every single newspaper in the country reprinting a team mcC press release.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Nosey, Saul
The expression ‘give them enough rope’ comes to mind…
August 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
chenier Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Nosey, Saul
The expression ‘give them enough rope’ comes to mind…
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& we cannot say it enough and hope for …
August 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Chenier
You’re always so nice! Whats wrong with giving them the left over barbed wire?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I discovered, this morning, why youngest son was ‘feeling sick’ last night.
I should have realised but no I had thought that he might actually be feeling ill.
He gets up this morning and demands to be taken to footy practice
Whats that song? ‘I should’ve know better’
August 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I didn’t know there was any left over barbed wire!
You told me you’d used it all up lashing agw to the mast!
But I do think that at some point the more up-stream media are going to have an orgy of ‘my god we didn’t really print that, did we, please tell me it’s all a bad dream’ as the hacks and hackettes morph into eternal companions of whatever redtop they are currently copying from…
August 10th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Noseycow Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Saul
You can’t get more together than every single newspaper in the country reprinting a team mcC press release.
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The question is maybe not “have they no shame”, but “have they no pride?” …
August 10th, 2008 at 11:23 am
No, Carole and Barbara. You have got it wrong.
Kate said very clearly that M was being treated like a princess and that wherever she was she would be giving someone her tuppenceworth.
Paedophiles indeed. What nonsense.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Chenier
Sorry I forgot to mention I bought some spare from ebay (bargain) in case he escaped.
Chantelaine
No shame, no pride, no brains. Now where have I heard that before?
August 10th, 2008 at 11:30 am
‘EARLIER this week the Metropolitan Police said the tip-off, recorded by an intelligence officer working for Scotland Yard’s CO14 clubs and vice unit, was second or even third-hand and impossible to corroborate in the UK or abroad.
Yet last night a former senior detective said the material was “a gold mine” for the detectives hired by the family. ‘
The Scotsman displaying a note of intelligence not matched by any of the other media…
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 ?
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 11:52 am
Got to go mass !
Matt answer me and I will read later!
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 11:59 am
Good I am of the same thoughts, catch you later !
When is the doggie video released ?
August 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Frist I was afraid….I was pertrified
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 12:06 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 12:07 pm
Time for some eats.
Good sleuthing !!!!
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 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 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 1:19 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…