Who wants to be emotionally manipulated? Anyone?

We're sure that the story which appears in this morning's Sun - Madge dash to let dad see Dave: MADONNA is taking baby DAVID on a sad visit to see her dad – who is being treated for cancer - is a genuine report on a serious private matter and not a cynical attempt to try and manipulate the press coverage of Madonna's law-skirting taking of a child from his home country.

Even although, as the report concedes a few paragraphs in:

A family source tells me that Tony is not in immediate trouble and his treatment is going well.

But, clearly, this is a serious illness and Madonna is keen for her kids to meet Tony while he is in relatively good form.

So, not exactly a "dash", then, is it? Indeed, had a "dash" been the order of the day, wouldn't they have gone there straight from the orphanage to the hospital?

Mind you, since Madonna has claimed that David is "still" ill with the infections he picked up in the orphanage, it's strange he's being introduced to his foster grandfather at all - someone recovering from chemo spending time with someone apparently recovering from pneumonia? I'm no doctor, but that sounds kind of risky to me.

The quote from a "family pal" crystalises what this is all about:

“It is just a shame that the family are going through this secret sadness when it should be a joyful time with the new baby.

“And Madonna has been getting a lot of criticism for the baby adoption.”

Do you see? Do you see how terrible you are as a person? How dare you try and insist that Madonna is made to follow the same laws as everyone else while her Dad is so ill. Just ill enough to appear in this story. What are you, some kind of monster?

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