Asking: How Come Some People Dislike The McCanns So Much?
Ted Obvious writes from Praia da Luz: Why is it that some people seem to dislike Kate and Gerry McCann so much?
I mean, they’ve lost their daughter Madeleine, who’d vanished from their holiday apartment in May 2007, and have been looking for her since then. And though on that fateful night they left their three small kids, including Maddy, all alone while they were having dinner with their friends, it’s not like they flew to another town and were having fun without a care in the world. In fact, according to Kate, she and her husband checked on the children every 15 minutes or so. So you can’t really accuse the McCanns of child neglect in a classical sense, as in: ma and pa tell their kids to piss off to bed, go out, get plastered and dance the night away in a club.
So what we have here is a devastated couple who insist they have absolutely no idea how their daughter had disappeared refusing to believe that she’s dead. They don’t really come across as people who’d harm their children or sell them to traffickers, to pay off their mortgage or something. They’re not revolting looking as well and even their habit of holding hands every time they appeared in public after Madeleine’s disappearance couldn’t really be used against them to prove that they were a couple of nutters who were up to no good. OK, holding hands at every opportunity might seem a bit excessive, but it’s not a criminal offence and it’s most definitely not a reason to despise anyone for doing it.
So what would be the reason then for the McCanns to have become hate figures in the eyes of many? I suppose it’s probably the fact that they have left their kids alone that evening, even though they could have hired a nanny to look after them. But is it really enough to suspect them of foul play? No, it’s not.
Or could it be that some people are seriously angered by the fact that the McCanns have never actually acknowledged that they carried most of the blame for the disappearance of their daughter, having left her alone? But let me ask you this: are you actually going to tell me that couples with children going on holidays never leave their kids alone to have a bit of fun? I’d never believe that. I even suspect that some of the most vocal critics of the McCanns are probably guilty of committing the same sin.
And even the fact that the couple were at one point considered by the Portuguese police to be the prime suspects in the case doesn’t really make the McCanns guilty of anything, does it? Especially as the case was shelved in 2008 as ‘cold’, meaning that cops couldn’t find any evidence to pin the blame on anyone.
Some people are apparently annoyed by the McCanns raising large amounts of money to fund the search for their missing daughter. But is it really a proper reason to dislike them. They are not that wealthy to pay private investigators to look for evidence, so we might presume that it was their determination to get to the bottom of things that drove them to run charity appeals, one after another, and get their own spokesman.
I would even go as far as saying that the diary that Kate started the next day after her daughter had disappeared would not qualify for a reason to dislike her, even though it is a bit weird, especially her mentioning in it that her sex life suffered as a result of what happened to Madeleine. Not a point a grieved mother should be making. Still, all people have their strange ways of coping with grief so why should we judge them too harshly.
So what is it then that makes some folks dislike the McCanns? I guess it’s the way they come across as people who are actually convinced that the whole world owes them something for their loss. That must be the thing that really annoys people who say to themselves: look, you’re not the only parents who have lost a child. OK? So why this strange notion that somehow you two are special? Especially as you’ve asked for it yourselves.
Yep, that is what it’s probably all about. Case cracked.
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I personally have many reasons for not liking the ‘Team McCann’. The deniers and liars.
1 Their insistance that they had NOTHING to do with Their daughters dissapearance. ( would she have been” abducted” if her parents were home)?
2 Playing down their shamefull involvment in child neglect , passing it off casually as a UK cultural thing. ( We WERE ALL, as a nation branded, as child neglectors).
3 Their very strange behaviour, exceptionally strange behaviour, with regards to the dissapearance of their baby daughter. The travelling-playing the victims-courting celebrityism-seeking money as the ONLY means of finding Their daughter. The Global marketing of the Childs dissapearance to promote themselves as tortured victims- whilst creating seedy,underhand measures to shut up anyone who dares to ‘challenge’ them about inconsistances in their statements.
4 The inconsistances in their statements and their alleged torture and harm they suffered ( not by losing their daughter who’s torn genitals ( Kate’s description) were being butchered by an alleged peadophile, but by the hurtfull accusations by the Police. SO much so, they have to attend courts-write books- go on TV-meet influential people- take out law suits. Anything but go and phisically look for their daughter. They are too busy.
5 TAKE EVERY opportunity to play down any other theory presented even to the point of suing ‘experts’ who could and have offered their assistance. The social worker in PDL – The ‘family liasion officer provided, the interpreter ( who was then accused as a paedophile and the ‘snatcher’), artists to draw a likeness for a poster campaigne on the identification by Jane Tanner. Her FIRST description was disgraceful and shameful and made a mockery of a serious attempt to try and find this ‘ABDUCTOR’. Yes, the others were even more shocking.
6 The ‘Fund’ and the use of its monies, is distasteful and tacky. Again selling Maddy’s dissapearance to convice people they are ‘searching’ for her.
I could go on and on….
I do not know what happened to little Maddy, I try not to think about it in an negative way, It would be too distressing.
However, there are two things I am absolutely sure about and it is this: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF AN ABDUCTION BY A STRANGER, Jane Tanner is untrustworthy, and it is MY BELIEF she INVENTED a Stranger ABDUCTOR.
That whole TEAM are hiding something.. that is my gut feeling, It may be just they are hiding their guilt about what happened and the part they played ie NOT CHECKING CHILDREN EVERY 15 MINS. Or something else…
I really do not like them, they disgust me. The way the blame everyone else for their distress and mental torture and deep depressions is particularly vile.
I actually met them, once, outside the court after the hearing in 2010.
I particularly dislike Gerry. If you had the chance to see him angry as I did, you’ll know that there’s something very sinister about that man.
Just felt pitty for Kate.
The worst about them is really the persecution of those who dare voice a different version from their own…
I agree. the McCanns are too smug for their own good. No one owes them anything.
As much as Gerry McCann makes my skin itch (always has done), I can’t help feeling a sense of empathy for his wife. Seriously that man would drive a Saint to distraction, imagine living with him and his childish tantrums, personally I would rather be flat broke and live in a tent.
Poor Madeleine, as a three-year-old, never quite making it to four, she must have felt like she’d been thrust into the adult, mediator role amid this entirely insalubrious dynamic. Kate should have been less of a keeping up appearances, ‘what will my parents think’ image obsessive, and put her kids first.
Ironically, press reportage and PR aside, the Liverpool quarter are not fools, and KNOW exactly who McCann really is. This is not conjecture, but words from the lips of folks that know Brian & Susan Healy are decent people, and not at all conned by the likes of the flake that their daughter just happens to be married to, (on the record, this will be denied of course). New Zealand, biological clock and classic stalking behaviour anyone??? Half board including free wine, served at the Millennium restaurant ONLY, no Tapas (outdoor dining… shiver), no neglect, no opportunity for stranger abduction.
Madeleine was most probably, no longer with us by the time any of us first heard her name, in fact I would wager my life’s savings on it.
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you” -Friedrich Nietzsche
Pete speaks for us all………
Fancy two people who you would think had only the search for their child on their mind thinks it is more important to ask for a man to be put in prison for daring to put into words that the disappearance of Madeleine is a mystery. Well Mr and Mrs MCcann if it is not a mystery then please tell us just what did happen.
Yes I truly believe that they are guilty of neglecting their children. No, I have never left my kids unattendet, if you believe me or not. Such a stange idea never occured me. They might get sick or hurt themselves, needing their parents. Our children have not opted for us as parents and it is our duty to keep them as safe as possible. Leaving kids alone in an open appartment is no choice for responsible parents. I don’t believe that the majority of people would even consider it. And it also seemed strange to me that they left their toddlers in the playgroup after Madeleines disappearence…
The McCannes themselves seem like grieving parents obviously trying everything in their power to either get their daughter back, or find out what happened to get closure on the whole nasty business.
I don’t like/dislike them…. I hate the media surrounding them.
The media (including this website) absolutely adore writing about them as it’s gets the attention of people which subsequently gets more advertisers.
The McCannes are happy to whore themselves out as it gets more donations and focusses everyone on their goal of finding her/closure.
It’s the media I blame for focussing on two white, Christian, photogenic people for their agenda (easy advertising money), while ignoring all the other things in this world which takes effort to research and write about.
I believe that the media has created (and fostered) this love/hate relationship with the McCannes in the eyes of the public. People (and the media) adore titles like ‘Do you like or loath the McCannes’.
I don’t really hate them. But there is a lot about all this that doesn’t quite make sense.
They left their children alone which is incredibly neglectful. Though having actually been to the resort where it happened I see how little distance there was between where their apartment was and where they were drinking. But i’ve also seen that the location of the apartment and I don’t understand how a child could be abducted without somebody noticing. Even if it was late in the night.
There’s also the fact that Madeline was very distinguishable because of her eye. So even if she was kidnapped, as soon as the police were contacted the kidnappers would have been stuck with a child that can be noticed too easily. She’d have been killed and the body dumped.
Personally I believe she died in the night and her parents covered it up to avoid any thoughts of neglect. That theory can be backed up by the fact that the location of praia de luz could easily allow them to drop the body into the sea. The water below the sea wall is deep and if timed right with the tide, she’d be gone.
I also met them on the 100 day mark. They were sitting in the bar in praia de luz having a drink. Maybe this is just me but i wouldn’t just sit in a bar even after 100 days
Even though the post is old, i’m just going to leave one explanation.
People are fucking stupid! They need to blame someone, are there no suspects, then they make one. Pretty much the same with every unsolved murder case. People just need someone to demonize so they can still their retarded primal instincts.
Parents leave their child unattended when they are on vacation, it’s not a British thing either, most parents probably do. I’ve been left alone several times at night while my parents have taken a trip to the hotel pub. Chances something will happen are abysmal, there are bigger risks your children will go on and get themselves killed in their own country while climbing trees and hillsides. This is not child neglect, so get over yourself.
Their strange behavior can also be easily explained. They had one of their child abducted…that will kind of change your personality, especially if your are a subject of suspicion from a broad field of amateur criminologists.
People need to fucking stop being idiots. If all crimes were to be solved and judged after the publics opinion we would have to transcend 1000 years backwards in time (or too another continent). The police tried to tie the McCanns to their daughters disappearance and failed miserably.
As a Norwegian I’ve been bombarded with such idiocy all spring and I’m feed up with the portion of people out there believing that their opinion should matter in a investigation or trial. Until someone are rightfully convicted they should be treated with respect and most importantly as innocent (the latter quite fucking hard in the case of ABB). It’s a shame that people are to ignorant to respect those kind of judicial principle and spread their narrow minded bigotry based on their gut feeling, creating a more frustration situation for those involved.
Grow the fuck up. Your gut feeling and intuition is useless, most likely because you have no relevant education to make a proper hypothesis. Feel sorry for the McCanns and if they act strange assume it is because they have been living under a heavy amount of stress.
Guest, were you too ashamed to leave your name? What an appalling rant, is that the kind of language people use in Norway?
People resort to your kind of abuse when they haven’t a clue what they are talking about. I think it you who need to grow up!
Come back to discuss the case when you done some research and know what you are talking about, because from the nonsense you spout it is clear that you know nothing of which you speak.
A good start might be for your to read the signed statements made by those involved.
I never paid that much attention to this subject, until I came across an interesting uploaad on youtube of an interviewer speaking to Kate and Gerry Mccann. I don’t normally read comments, but this time I did. I was dumb-founded by the vitriol, judgement and pilloring of the Mccanns, as I never really knew that it existed. Intrigued, I went to another upload about the Mccanns, and it wasn’t too long before I realised that there are a whole tribe of Mccann haters on the net, who, even five years down the track, seem to spend an inordinate amount of time focussed on this subject. Their ‘excuse’ is that they care about ‘justice’ for Maddie, but I don’t believe that for a second. There are many more positive ways that one can campaign for the justice of children. And that’s my point: People who genuinely care about a ’cause’, DO sommeting about it in LIFE. And why would all these people ‘care’ about one child only, when there are so many abused children in the world. No. These people LOVE to HATE Kate and Gerry. If any other blogger even remotely questions their ‘theories’, they respond with something like ‘F..k off you stupid C…t. etc…Fascinated, I wanted to understand why so many people hate the Mccanns. And this is the conclusion of my brief social study: The people who devote their lives to hating the Mccanns, are the same kind of poeple that would love to be the stars of a Reality TV show, or attain some kind of celebrity status in the world. They would never have the confidence to actually try to achieve this, or much else for that matter! Their celebrity status only goes as far as their blogs about the Mccanns, and even then, they mostly chat with each other, under the strangest names I’ve ever seen- EG: HiDeHO4. Willyboo etc… They are very angry because the Mccanns, without even trying, have become A grade celebrities! They’ve appeared on Oprah, travelled in style, and, apart from the abuse they’ve had to endure, they are pretty much treated like the Royals! These people don’t have much love in their lives and they cannot see that Kate and Gerry Mccann are very reluctant celebrities. Prior to their child going missing, I cannot imagine Kate or Gerry on Master Chef, American Idol, or Big Brother! Their sole purpose for all this attention is Madeleine. Their detractors, however, see themselves in the Mccanns, and believe that they MUST have done all of this for FAME and FORTUNE. They are simply jealous of the Mccanns. And of course, they have to convince themselves and each other that Kate and Gerry are GUILTY, because if they were innocent, well… then, the haters would be truly nasty people, and they don’t want to be seen that way.
Geraldine Wiseman , are you a paid Team McCann spammer ?
Based on the reliability of the Cadaver Dogs detection of the scent of Death in appt.5a it is unlikely that Madeleine is still alive. What is not sure is what happened to her, if it was an accident or an intruder who harmed her & took her body, the involvement of her parents in her death ( that is unproven ) but their actions in leaving their 3 children night after night unsupervised by an adult does IMO meet the threshold for Child Neglect.
I am also extremely disapointed that the estimated £3.5 million they have amassed since then has not been spent on searching for her but on Defense Lawyers & PR men.
They need to return to Portugal & spend that cash on looking for her before it becomes too late to find her, be she dead or alive.
It’s bad enough that the parents are treated like celebrities,but it’s also unfair on the brother and sister now they are older,because they probably don’t want too much attention about it,but kids at school will either bully them or give them too much sympathy,and either way,it’s not going to look good.
I find it refreshing Sue- to see a vitriolic Mccann supporter from Norway! It’s hardly relevent that Norway’s name was not left. I can’t know for sure if you are Sue, and even if you are Sue, it doesn’t mean much, because we are all pretty anonymous on these blogs. The comments from Norway are nothing close to the level of vitriol that exists in the overwhelming majority of the Mccann doubters and haters. I also agree with Norway 100%. Even ‘if’ I had a gut instinct that told me the Mccanns were guilty, (which I don’t by the way), I would still not resort to putting my theories all over the internet. Because, my instinct might be wrong, and I would know that. I would also know that ‘if’ I turned out to be wrong, I would be part of a very cruel and exceptionally nasty group of people, who suspected two innocent people, going through the worst possible kind of anguish I can imagine. I think this is the point that Norway is making. We do not KNOW. The forensic evidence- that is the REAL, bone-fide forensic evidence- that was NOT written about in the Tabloid press, or leaded by the Portuguese police- informs us that there IS NO BONE FIDE SCIENTIFIC EVDIDENCE to show the Mccanns are guilty. If there WERE such evidence, they would have been charged and gone to trial. It was the ‘gut instinct’ of key members of the original investigation that stopped the borders from being closed- the most obvious action that might have saved this child. In the absence of KNOWING, via fact, this kind of ‘instict’ is potentially extremely dangerous. To believe that the Mccanns are guilty, one must also believe that they are A grade sociopaths. Because, not only would they have disposed of their own daughter’s body, they would have ALSO carried on an expensive facade for five long years, much of coming from the British tax payer. And the guilty theory also means their friends are sociopaths, prepared to watch this endless facade, without saying a word! These people were not all close friends of the Mccanns, and there is NO WAY that all of them would have agreed on this cover up, unless you believe that nine sociopaths went on holidays together. But the problem with THAT theory is that sociopaths don’t just ‘spring’ into action in their mid-late thirties as these people were at the time. There would be a HISTORY of highly destructive, uncaring actions, and there would have been people coming out of the woodwork by now to tell ‘their’ story. But there are none. Unless you want to include the mere invented rumours from the Mccann haters/doubters. I don’t see any sense in the theory expressed by Adam, because one thing you cannot accuse the Mccanns of being is stupid. “If” Madeleine had died in her sleep, I can’t imagine how anything they could have been hiding would be worse than two people faking the abduction of their own child to hide something. They would KNOW that the chances of being caught would be SO HIGH, that whatever ‘neglect’ had caused Madeleine’s death, would be insignificant by comparison. I also do not believe this theory, or any others that doubt the Mccanns, mostly because I have watched so many of their interviews, and it is impossible that two people could fake this level of grief over such a long period of time. Also, they did not attempt to disguise the fact that they had left their children alone, so if fear of being found guilty of neglect presented as a possiblity for a big cover up, then they would surely have not told the truth about leaving her alone! I see them as two people who, from day one. have done everything in their power to find their daughter. That is the SOLE motivation that I see in their interviews etc… These people are doctors, for God’s sake- not people who are savvy with the media, and they got caught right in the midst of some of the most savage, unrelenting, and entirely unprincipled media outlets. I totally understand why they felt the need to accept help form a media advisor, for protection! Most people who receive this level of scrutiny from the press, have grown into it via the choice of a certain career, and are afforded body guards etc… and mostly- they UNDERSTAND the medium of the camera etc… far better than these people do. I see Gerry, in particular, as someone who is not at all confident with the gaze of the camera on him. These poeple have not lead lives or chosen careers that would put them in the spotlight. But instead of recognising that, people just read a whole lot of garbage into their every slight uncomfortable gesture etc… I toally agree with the guest from Norway. It is not our business to crucify people who have not been proven to be guilty. I have no respect for anyone who vilifies the Mccanns, because at the end of the day, those people KNOW they COULD be wrong, but that is not enough to stop them! And it SHOULD be! That tells me they are also likely to be the kind of people who wouldn’t care ‘if’ the Mccanns were innocent. They just believe that their opinion matters, regardless of the fact that every sophisticated forensic examination of every scientific aspect of this case, has shown no evidence to convict them. I believe, therefore, that the people who vilify the Mccanns are extraordinarily arrogant, and pathologically uncaring when it comes to other human beings that they do not KNOW, and cannot say FOR SURE are ‘guilty’, but are prepared, nevertheless to vilify with what is very often the vilest kind of attack and abuse that even a convicted criminal might not deserve.
Una, try using paragraphs if you want your splurge to be read. I’ll be damned if I’m going to strain my eyer in order to make sense of your ramblings.
Una, unable to make sense of what you are saying. Might help if you use paragraphs.
…´´But let me ask you this: are you actually going to tell me that couples with children going on holidays never leave their kids alone to have a bit of fun? I’d never believe that.´´
Are you kiding me?!!!!!!!!!!
Probably you dont have children.
And yes, has a foreigner i can tell you: The Maccans made it seem that it was cultural and ok in England to leave their children alone in a foreigner country,in a hotel you have never been before, even for 15 minuts.
NO!!! IT IS NOT OK.
By reading all the comments from other mothers from England,I realized that they think its wrong attitude, that they would never had left their children in this situation. Excuse-me if they are not guilty of their daugther,s death at least they are gulty for negleting the children.