Madeleine McCann: Oprah Winfrey, Barbara Walters And Rape
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “MADELEINE: £1M WAR FOR MCCANN INTERVIEW”
“AMERICA’S top chat show hosts are locked in a bidding war for an exclusive interview with the parents of Madeleine McCann. Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters have each pledged £1million in an attempt to get them in front of the TV cameras, it emerged yesterday”
Winfrey and Walters - the Pope and Queen Mother of Ameican TV chatter…
Do those shows take advertising? They do. What will the ad-breaks induce viewers to buy? What is the point of the interview? The McCanns cannot discuss the case.
Says the McCanns’ spokesman Clarence Mitchell: “We are not in the market for selling Kate and Gerry’s story to the highest bidder. And we are not impressed by big names. We talk to media from all over the world”
But money is important. The fighting fun is running low
DAILY MAIL: “Kate and Gerry McCann in £1million deal to tell all to Oprah Winfrey”
“Kate and Gerry McCann are at the centre of a bidding war between Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters.
“Both celebrities are desperate to land an exclusive deal for the couple to talk about their missing daughter. If it goes ahead, it will be the largest publicly-known amount ever paid for a broadcast interview”
Says Clarence Mitchell: “We have been approached by representatives for both Oprah and Barbara,” he added. “They want an exclusive interview with Kate and Gerry. We are discussing it but it doesn’t mean we are definitely doing it. Nothing has been agreed”
Why wouldn’t they do it?
PRESS ASSOCIATION: “US chat shows approach McCanns”
“Kate and Gerry McCann have been approached to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and for an interview with American network ABC, their spokesman has confirmed.
It was reported that the McCanns were at the centre of a bidding war worth £1 million between Winfrey and ABC star Barbara Walters who both want an exclusive interview with the couple.
THE SUN: “Maddie sketch farmer raped girl”
“The gun-toting pig farmer quizzed in the Maddie McCann hunt was once jailed for raping a British teenager — in Praia da Luz. Joaquim Jose Marques, 31, who bears a resemblance to the sketch of a mystery suspect, served five years. Portuguese cops who grilled him twice at his ramshackle farmhouse nearby are now convinced he is NOT the man in the drawing”
NOT the man. So why is he in the papers?
“But we can reveal Marques and a pal carried out a brutal attack on two British girls, aged 17 and 18, after prowling the beach in July 1995 at the resort where Maddie vanished”
A heinous crime for which he was punished. But what has it to do with Madeleine McCann?
DAILY STAR: “MADDIE WEIRDO RAPED TEEN BRIT”
“The gun-toting Portuguese pig farmer quizzed over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance raped a British teenager yards from where the four-year-old vanished. Joaquim Jose Marques put his 18-year-old victim through a horrific late-night sex ordeal while an accomplice targeted her pal”
Eighteen..
“Now locals fear he is the same man pictured on a ‘wanted’ poster issued by the McCanns as they step up the hunt for their daughter”
Local residents, or local reporters? And is “fear” really “hope”?
DAILY MIRROR: “Madeleine McCann suspect spotted ’spying on little boys’”
“Five women holidaymakers - three British and two German - have seen the “strange and disturbed” man in Altura, close to the Portuguese-Spanish border, in the past two weeks. One of the British witnesses noticed him on the beach on January 21 bending down to talk to the boys, aged about four or five.
“Clearly worried, one of the youngsters started shaking his head mid-conversation. Then a woman ran out of a nearby villa, shouting in alarm. She scooped the children up and hurried them away.”
Adults. children. Run, children, run!
DAILY TELEGRAPH (Aus): “Oprah’s $2m bid for Maddie chat”
“Mr Mitchell said the McCanns would only agree to a deal which would widen the search for their daughter. The couple, both doctors, also want to campaign for a better Europe-wide alert system for missing children, based on an American model”
A campaign
Madeleine McCann: A media event
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January 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
How strangely symbolic the whole case is;
started with a quiz
ended in a pigsty
January 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Saturn
Difficult to disagree, so I’ll agree instead.
The problem I have with all this is its complexity, as is being played out in the ‘pig farmer’ story.
To me, the main point here is that Clarence responded too quickly, he should have let the witnesses speak. He responded because he didnt want the PJ to steal his thunder or make them look in any way as if they have been covering all options. He needed to stamp it out quick, especially as he had spent the fund money on posters and tried to look as if he is heading a police investigation.
Once again he has revealed too much - he really cannot survive much longer surely! Personally I’d ditch him - but then I’d not have employed him anyway - indeed it may be that the McCanns didnt actually have a choice.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
chenier - physio’s are breed apart aren’t they lol. Pleased to hear the planned invasion of poland is in doubt - do you know how much longer you will have to endure the toture of hospital food??
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I do indeed; provided that the blood tests tomorrow are ok, I have my last lot of ivs at 2pm and run like hell, or at least walk slowly, into a taxi and homewards bound.
The only drawback is that I am ordered to rest for a month, which means I shall be bored rigid. Anorak is an ever ready haven in times of trouble, but I don’t do not doing things very well.
We have this farcical situation where I am surrounded by high tech 21st century medicine and advice which hasn’t changed much since the Brontes.
On the other hand, my consultant is very good at keeping people alive…
January 26th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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Ian Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
114 Garth
The PJ have taken the logical steps. I too would have focussed primarily on the McCanns, as they clearly were out to distract the investiagtion and applied massive pressure to look elsewhere.
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Clearly in your eyes. And that is because you think they are guilty. They may not be guilty, in which case your assumption is completely wrong!
And if you are wrong then your perceptions on all aspects of this case alters somewhat.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
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Ian Says:
I have no conspiracy theory, I think its a fact that the McCanns have always and will always be seeking primarily to defend themselves, not to find their child.
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Fact? No, the McCanns are not “seeking primarily to defend themselves”. They have arranged for others to do that for them. And many are willing. Clarence Mitchell, Stephen ‘the winner’ Winyard, Brian ‘the Billionaire’ Kennedy, Richard ‘the Billionaire’ Branson, Metodo3’s Marcos, Gonzalez, Paul ‘property owner’ Gordon, Amanda ‘mysterious limited company’ Mills, Gail ‘the aunt’ Cooper, Jane Tanner, Bridget ‘the four stories’ O’Donnell… are just a few of the many willing to take some trouble, risk, or expense to defend the McCanns.
Are any of these people acting out of principle? I doubt it. Well, OK, they are acting out of the “principle” of self-interest.
I would say there is a conspiracy to prevent the truth from coming to light. To use Gerry’s word, it is a huge effort at “disaster mitigation”. Defending the McCanns is just a means of damage control. If or when damage control would be most efficiently achieved by attacking the McCanns, they will be skewered alive.
This is why, though I have zero sympathy for K&G, I do not focus on them when I consider this case. It’s more interesting (for me, anyway) to wonder about why people are willing to help Team McCann cover up the truth and reap profits from their “disaster”.
I even wonder why anyone would defend the McCanns on an Internet Forum. They are most certainly being closely tracked by the police, who have access to all posting data related to the crime. imho
January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
114 Garth
The PJ have taken the logical steps. I too would have focussed primarily on the McCanns, as they clearly were out to distract the investiagtion and applied massive pressure to look elsewhere.
McCann story: ‘We left the kids but werent abandoning them cos we checked them every half hour and our friends did too’
But they didnt reciprocate by checking their friend kids because?
The McCanns themselves checked ‘every half hour’ which was actually twice. Gerry at 9:05. Kate at 10:00.
Its my belief that once they had lied, they skewed the whole investigation and generated suspicions. So even if its true that she was abducted, they have caused the investgation to go off the rails. By putting their own protection before Maddie, which should have been their only concern, they have created the whol confusion and may indeed have enabled an abductor to escape.
Kate MacCann has demonstrated her self centred attitude by asking for a priest on May 3rd, when her only thought should have been to find her child, she was wasting time looking for self comfort. It speaks volumes.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
chenier - physio’s are breed apart aren’t they lol. Pleased to hear the planned invasion of poland is in doubt - do you know how much longer you will have to endure the toture of hospital food??
January 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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Ian Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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If you ever get the chance, do go and watch the Law Lords at work.
Even if the case itself is less than enthralling, I think you would be fascinated by the interplay between them, and between them and counsel. And they do actually care about morality, implausible as it might seem…
January 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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Peter O Says:
However, that still does not alter the probability that the McCann’s, and/or their friends and possibly by now some of the their family, know rather more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance than has currently come to light, in my opinion.
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Well lets go with that one then…….. so what do you think it could possibly be?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
112 The one that is raining on your parade………must dash…..again….TTFN.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Marie Nicholas Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
95 Garth
OK Garth, why not this pigfarmer as the perpatrator of a kidnapping? We might have a lead there, but we cannot jump on it blindly as if it was the answer to all the questions. That lead has to be tested in the light of other facts that make the PJ believe the little girl died, and not from the hand of that pigfarmer. It is your right to think they shouldn’t have dismissed it, yet it is difficult for you to justify such a view, unless you suspect the PJ of not working honestly.
The PJ have put their best detectives on the job, they work with the British police, they know an enormous amount of people are watching them and waiting for them to make a mistake. I bet they are working thoroughly. (In a system like theirs, and like ours in France, where the PJ don’t work for the prosecution, the danger is of the police being too fast and jumping to conclusions too early. It doesn’t seem there is any danger of it in this case).
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The PJ have put their best detectives on the job? That does worry me.
But I agree that the PJ need to take their time and ensure they have a case before it is brought before a court of law. However, regarding their professionalism, I have to question that. It has been quite evident that the PJ’s policing practices dont quite come up to par. Infact I would say it more akin to a double bogey.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:11 am
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noseycow Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:58 am
chenier - - you and i both know that some posters will never answer/debate some of the points and imo it is because they are indefensible (sorry - useless at spelling), however I would feel better if we left any attempts to put down others to the pro’s - and my earlier point was just a general observation - you know wanting to maintain the moral high ground and all that
Are you feeling better?
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It was just an unfortunate juxtaposition of my wishing to debate and Sledgie refusing which clashed somewhat with your post.
And I am feeling much better, thank you; the physios are still thumping me, the antibiotics are still demolishing my veins, and the bacteria appear to have reconsidered their attempt to invade poland.
We hope…
January 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
68 Garth Says: January 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
61 Ian Says:
Actually, may I suggest that you limit your ‘discussion’ of this case with sledgehammer as you have more in common with him/her than with me? He or she too has a limited agenda, wishing to protect and defend the McCanns, despite their ‘disasterous’ attempts at being parents.
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I respect your feelings of disgust towards the McCanns for their failings as parents, but to keep going on about other posters who dont share your views with regard to a conspiracy is somewhat naive.
Whether you like it or not, the McCanns may be innocent of any involvement with the disappearance of their daughter, and to that end I think it right that we question all aspects of this case and inparticular the PJ, who, after all this time, are still unable to bring charges against them.
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Morning Garth.
Charges will be brought if and when it suits Portuguese authorities. The McCann’s, along with Robert Murat, are the suspects in this case and they’ll just have to bide their time or else go talk to the Portuguese authorities.
I love the choice of words the McCann’s, their spokespersons, people close to them and people who support them use on occasions. For instance, your phrase the McCanns may be innocent of any involvement with the disappearance of their daughter may have some elements of truth in it, taken as its most generous interpretation I suspect. However, that still does not alter the probability that the McCann’s, and/or their friends and possibly by now some of the their family, know rather more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance than has currently come to light, in my opinion.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
95 Sledgehammer
Missed the mention you made of law and morality.
At last! I knew if we sledghammered it into you, you would finally get it!
We have been discussing morality and the delta between legal rules and morality over and over again, yet you have been constantly ignoring the morality argument and banging on about legal evidence in a court and not evidence outside of a court.
You really are carrying a two dimentional handicap intellectually and it makes for very difficult conversation with you. Somone said earlier (chenier I think) that you will not engage in proper debate - and that is 103% true.
Its why you fall back on ‘no evidence’ and bunging links to legislation (never case law, interestingly) at us. You dont want and cannot engage in a debate can you.
Bless you M’Lud, you need to go to school..
January 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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Ian Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Not quite Ian
Justice for Madeleine is only formed by looking at every possibility surrounding this case. The PJ imo have not persued the claims by the McCanns but, have infact, discounted them from day one.
However, of course, they could have all the necessary evidence required to bring charges against the McCanns. And if they do and succeed then I will acknowledge the fact. But at this point in time, it really looks unlikely imo.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
95 Garth
OK Garth, why not this pigfarmer as the perpatrator of a kidnapping? We might have a lead there, but we cannot jump on it blindly as if it was the answer to all the questions. That lead has to be tested in the light of other facts that make the PJ believe the little girl died, and not from the hand of that pigfarmer. It is your right to think they shouldn’t have dismissed it, yet it is difficult for you to justify such a view, unless you suspect the PJ of not working honestly.
The PJ have put their best detectives on the job, they work with the British police, they know an enormous amount of people are watching them and waiting for them to make a mistake. I bet they are working thoroughly. (In a system like theirs, and like ours in France, where the PJ don’t work for the prosecution, the danger is of the police being too fast and jumping to conclusions too early. It doesn’t seem there is any danger of it in this case).
As for the time it takes, I don’t see why it proves the MCs are not guilty of anything. Time is of no relevance here. The PJ is allowed to take the time it needs to study the case, they take it. To me it shows they want to do the job well. If they had no reasons to keep the MCs as arguidos, they would not be allowed to. It doesn’t necessarily mean that in the end they’ll be able to bring charges against them, but it doesn’t speak either in favour of their innocence.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
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Sledgehammer Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Chenier, a tad rattled, we know all about Adam Smith up here, it is people who misrepresent his works that are the problem. If you require a Law Lord to tell you wrong from right, I suggest you ask the Danny DeVitto school of law, correspondence degree for a refund along with your fellow student Ian. Anyone who thinks law has anything to with morality in this day and age, is rather quaint. Perhaps if you could confine your extremely limited grasp of play ground law to post 39, perhaps that is also a sandwich to advanced for the pair of you.
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Buried in that mess of verbiage appears to be the statement that the Law Lords are indifferent to issues of morality.
I don’t agree.
The concept of justice takes its knocks, like any other concept, but no-one known to me who has made their living from interpreting, and predicting the Law Lords’ views, has believed that the Law Lords ignore issues of morality. By the time they get to take the robes off and dress like other mortals they tend to have developed an immunity to the belief that all questions can be resolved by sufficiently adept Parliamentary Counsel.
There are, of course, occasions when litigants hope they will ignore it. But ‘the public interest’ which the Law Lords are charged to protect is a moral concept.
Incidentally, I am intrigued by your belief that you are ‘up here’.
Which part of cloud 9 would that be?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
thanks brandon - was looking for references to the blanket - and found this:
http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=20&num=86558
published june 15th - talks about a towel found at the site pinpointed by the anonymous letter
- makes me wonder whether the scenic clues are all bull and the car with the evidence in is the one which was posted on here the other day. Perhaps the mobile phone data pinpointed a tapas 9/10 to the same location???
January 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am
nevermind Oprah Why have’nt they been on the Paul O’Grady show yet or better still Jonathon Ross ….even better Al Murray’s happy Hour.
The only reason The TV bods are prepared to see them …..have you ever tried to get an appointment with a doctor on the NHS…..?
January 26th, 2008 at 11:03 am
http://trannyfattyacid.blogspot.com/2008/01/drawing-not-from-real-life-and-whole.html
Read all about black propagande against the usual suspects.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Cant say know, one question before I head of to Ibrox Stadium for some corporate entertainment, with my good friend Mr. Finlay.+++++++Why would you want your Authorities to hand the case over to the UK, after all you keep telling us that the PJ are very close, close to what exactly ?++++++++TTFN!!!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am
95 Sledgehammer
Whats wrong with Danny, he is as entitled to confer a law degree as….well as you are M’Lud.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Nope Ian, only ONE thing wrong there, I say : “children should be seen and not HURT”
January 26th, 2008 at 10:58 am
chenier -
- you and i both know that some posters will never answer/debate some of the points and imo it is because they are indefensible (sorry - useless at spelling), however I would feel better if we left any attempts to put down others to the pro’s 
- and my earlier point was just a general observation 
- you know wanting to maintain the moral high ground and all that 
Are you feeling better?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:58 am
noseycow
3 December they found it from mobile record checking on Gerry and O Brien
it had matches to the Senic they hired.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Garth
Surely common sense tells you that the McCanns are seeking primarily to defend themselves from neglect charges? Surely this tells you therefore that they are ‘career concerned’?
There seems to be very little evidence (sledgie will love this acceptance that there is some evidence lacking!!) of common sense in the pro-McCann blind faithers brigade.
Surely you feel a littleuncomfortable with all the shifiting dates and events and especially with Clarence! You really dont seem to me to be on the right side of the ‘debate’ - I think in your case its dislike of law and the PJ.
You dont believe the McCanns either, but you dont like the portuguese ‘old bill’ do you Garth.
It matters not anyway (sledgie will love me saying that too) as only time will tell. Its just that some hope for justice for Madeleine and others hope for justice for the parents - after all they relate to the parents and children should be seen and not heard, right?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
CLARENCE ADMITS:
Illegal(?) use of media surveillance unit.
Monitoring bad bad journalists Mirror forum and bloggers(us?) who DARE to step outside Clarence discipline.
SEGREGATION: as Clarence separates journalists on the basis of their nationality: Brits first.
Clarence Mitchell, the public relations consultant and spokesman for McCann, continues to use the services of the British govern despite having officially resigned from his post as director of the Surveillance Unit Media with Gordon Brown. The accusation was made by a source from the Ministry of Interior (Home Office), which asserts that the director has resigned reportedly appealed to his former service to monitor several journalists, but also the behavior on a list of forums and blogs considered be “highly damaging” to the image of McCann and the British government.
Clarence Mitchell, a former journalist for the Daily Express and the BBC, was appointed by the Foreign Office as liaison between the media and the parents of Madeleine. It was he who had arranged, through the respective British embassies, McCann visits to the Vatican, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam and Rabat.
Monitoring and control of the media have become, since the early days, an important aspect of the work of Clarence Mitchell. During the stay of McCann in Praia da Luz, it was he who decided to separate journalists on the basis of their nationality: first the British, the last Portuguese.
Today, the public relations campaign of McCann passes, more than ever, by controlling public opinion in the past few days several forum and blogs were closed overseas race because of comments “against McCann” . This is the case of forum Mirror newspaper that, without any warning, erased all comments to the case after the Internet began to discuss the interference of the Ministry of Interior.
Users, mostly British, have not given up and the exchange of comments are now done in an open forum called The Three Arguidos (The Three Suspects).
January 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
97 Garth
?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:53 am
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Garth
Of course ,there a lot a men like the sketch
If they found 1 without alibi ,and manage to put him in jail ,instead of the “Holys” ,they will stop
Because ,it’s what they have always done , blame everyone but them
Tipiical of criminals
Now i’m gone ,
to vomit
January 26th, 2008 at 10:52 am
No man Garth, speak English