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 11:20 pm
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Last updated at 22:46pm on 8th January 2008
Not far back in time … I believe that soon or later,justice will be made to Madeleine,even if this takes years.
I hope you all remember this.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
i sense a very very long post coming on here soon.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
sly you sentimental old fing you !!!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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Slyfox Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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They look so stiff!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
http://picasaweb.google.com/svsport/Sociopaths/photo#5100731856966519986
Anyone remember ‘the look of love’ my memory is Cilla’s song
I think out of all the footage I’ve seen, that’s the only affectionate snap of Gerry looking at Kate….
Tje look of love is in your eyes
The look that love can’t describe
The look of love is saying so much more than words can ever say
dah de dah….
Don’t know what it means though.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Ouch
Someone shouting
I’m gone
Good night Chenier et all
January 26th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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I am enclined to think Clarrie is a real phenomenon…. a genius,a freak. He is so full of himself! thats incredible!
Surely,you will have the perfect word to describe him
January 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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Chaplins not closed yet.
This is just the follow up story form the NOTW exclusive last weekend.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
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Cheryl Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Chenier, you said below:
I have a question I haven’t seen answered or may have overlooked - was he the same man seen lurking around the resorts by several different people?
As for the Portugese being able to find and successfully prosecuting a rapist - something tells me that he and his friend were not hard to find since two teenagers were involved who could readily identify them. But as for their success in finding missing children over there and adults over the years may I suggest you do what I did quite some time ago and do a quick search on the net and google “Portugal - Missing People”!
Onc again it is all in the eye of the beholder but when I read the accompanying story that came out with the picture of the person seen lurking around to it asked if that person would please come forward if they were innocent or whoever ended up not coming forward then one could presume they could have something to do with the young child’s disappearance. But one may ask themselves, considering Portugal has no register of their sex offenders, why the police wanted to go to ask him questions.
I myself don’t believe for a second the new Investigator has shoved under the rug in his investigation that this was not a possible abduction case. One forgets he was the lead investigator in very bad children abuse scandal(s) over there a few years ago.
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I really don’t know.
You may care to bear in mind that the man has allegedly been spotted in Chile with Madeleine visiting a museum, as well as working in Gibralter.
Men in Morocco shown the sketch are reported as ‘laughing almost hysterically’, pointing out that there are a million men who look like like that in Morocco.
I do appreciate that Clarrie claims that this sketch is so good that anyone who knows the man will recognise him, but the people with the most experience of north African men, ie north african men, flatly disagree.
So who are you going to believe?
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REPLY TO THE ABOVE:
Let’s face it, many people here and yonder are going to think they see that child. How many millions of young female children have blond hair, cute as button and look like her? Walk around your local stores, malls - you’ll see them without having to look hard. As for Clarrie’s remark he just didn’t stop and think it is my presumption. I don’t think it was a deliberate error on his part at all.
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As for finding and successfully prosecuting men for rape, I suggest you take a look at the figures here; barely 6% of cases reported to police end in conviction in England and Wales. A teenage girl claiming that she has been raped here may well be able to identify her attacker; very few rapists are total strangers. A successful prosecution is a very different matter.
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REPLY TO THE ABOVE: We take rape very seriously over here in the US and a person convicted of rape spends many years in jail. Unfortunately we have had rapists who have gotten off via a jury trial; we have had men go to jail with life sentences only to find out years later the victim identified the wrong man.
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I am not aware of any evidence that a man attacking a teenage girl is likely to be a paedophile; if you know of any evidence it would be good if you cited it.
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REPLY TO THE ABOVE: I never made a statement that a man attacking a teenage girl is likely to be a paedophile. My statement wondering why the police questioned him was one of curiosity if they knew something the public didn’t know. Once again the problem with people interpreting what they want to read not the whole context of what was said.
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Equally, if you have any researched evidence as to child and adult abductions in Portugal it would be helpful if you cited that too. Most people who go missing go missing because they want to. If you really imagine that there is some vile gang abducting people in Portugal you shouldn’t be wasting your time posting on the web, you should be providing the information to the proper authorities. As you yourself have noted, the Portuguese police have conducted important investigations into child abuse; why are you not providing this information to Mr Rebello?
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REPLY: Once again, this is why I seldom like to post on here - total misinterpretations or not reading what I tried to say. I was merely telling you to research the children/people missing in Portugal - if you had done what I suggested you would have found yourself in the Police files with pictures of children missing and adults missing yet to be found. Why in the hell should I tell them about the missing children/adults since it was put on the site by them?
Once again if you had read exactly what I wrote Mr. Rebello is the one who investigated cases oof child abuse in Portugal and brought the perpetrators to justice! You may-and please read my words carefully on this: do your own research, as I did, and read of the cases that took place over there in institutions in Portugal of the terrible abuse of the young children and who in Portugal was charged with doing it.
Very simple, nothing sinister meant by it and I was in fact praising the fact that Mr. Rebllo was put in charge of the McCann case since he had been involved in investigating other cases.
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And why are you objecting to the Portuguese police checking again on an individual? Surely you should be glad that the Portuguese police not only check, but double check?
REPLY TO ABOVE:: What are you talking about? Where did I state I objected to the Police investigating the individual again? Once again, as always on here, one reads what they want to read not what is written.
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As for your bizarre belief that anyone who did not come forward and identify themselves to the press officer of two private inviduals must be presumed to be guilty of involvement in the abduction of a small child, I can only suggest that you pray, for your own sake, that you never live in a country where that assumption is applied….
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REPLY TO ABOVE: Your responses get more ridiculous as I read them above. Where did you read that I said ‘must be presumed to be guilty”?????? YOU SHOW ME THOSE EXACT WORDS YOU CLAIM I SAID! GO AHEAD POINT OUT THOSE EXACT WORDS TO ME. AND IF YOU CAN’T THEN DON’T BOTHER WRITING BACK TO ME AGAIN UNLESS YOU MAKE IT A POINT TO READ VERY CAREFULLY EVERY WORD I WRITE AND WHAT I AM SAYING. I very carefully chose my words “could presume” I didn’t say would presume or should presume or must be presumed at all. Those are YOUR words NOT MINE.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I like your “paraphrases”, Chenier.
And glad to hear you may be going home - at last - tomorrow. Got a a very bad bug didn’t you?
Enjoy the bread to live by …
January 26th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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dcb Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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I’ll wait for Gail’s assessment.
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I wonder why she hasn’t already given it?
Surely the newspaper would not interfere with the course of justice by holding off from the identification by a witness of what they claim to be a prime suspect in the disappearance of a little girl?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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Marie Nicholas Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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Thank you; I’m very much looking forward to going home tomorrow.
It would be extremely odd for a person in this country to seek to lay charges in this country against someone who has never been in this country in respect of an action which took place outside this country.
I don’t think that there is any legal mechanism which exists; the only thing I can think of is, possibly, war crimes.
Tony Bennett would know, but I don’t think he’s around tonight…
I don’t think Clarrie believes that he could; I think he is trying to pretend that he has the standing to do so.
I would imagine that the gentleman identified by the News of the World is not in danger of anything other than someone becoming curious about his source of income; man does not live by beer alone…
January 26th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
it’s getting late here [and some red wine]. turning in early as dogs and chickens need early attendance tomorrow morning.
BUT… would like to share again my Maman’s [90-years-old] feelings
when I told her about “libel”& Forums being shut down.
She wants to be sued, so that she can finally say what she thinks about this whole business
You want a Mum like that too …?!
January 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Take a look at this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/svsport/Sociopaths
January 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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I’ll wait for Gail’s assessment.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
564 567 Chenier
Mitchell is actively seeking to “trackdown, charge, and make amenable”…
Chenier, help as you seem to know a lot. Is it a private person that can charge someone or is it justice?
I bet you’ll enjoy going back home. XXX
Your posts are great.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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dcb Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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Well, apart from the fact that the face is wrong, and the body is wrong, it’s a perfect likeness…
January 26th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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chenier Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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Bar bills and ……tapas
Now, has the PJ received the last DNA tests they had asked for? Just reading an article posted 02/12/07 (spanish).I cant find anything on the subject (dna) since then….
January 26th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
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dcb
When the P. J. ,dismiss him ,they’ll pick another
January 26th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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ya like scissors 
Cheryl
mmm
I see
January 26th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I recommend walks on the beach for Mr Joaquim Agostinho, get his slim shape back.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
oops sorry chenier - I meant cheryl of course
January 26th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Evening chenier - i think you’ll find that they told the world that maddie was IVF - we were discussing possible reasons - how is that attacking anyone.
If it is personal and private to them - why get it printed????
January 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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Denzylle Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
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Bountyhunter
I’d say the reason they came out so quickly with the ‘IVF baby’ point was to show how much MM was wanted - that they would go thru’ the trauma and financial expense of IVF (ie. it’s about them).
Another very early point - from a family member - was ‘they are doctors, they care for other people!’ meaning ‘why should this terrible thing happen to such caring people?’. Once again, it’s all about the parents, not the child.
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If I’m not mistaken and the MODS and ADMIN have pointed it out many times - this is suppose to be all about finding that young child who has disappeared.
Read all the articles, forums going on around us - the majority or themes is attacking the parents personally with speculations, innuendoes - how is that finding the child?
Who doesn’t know what is being said, speculated, inferred, condemned - even their appearances, disagnoses of their mental condition, lack of emotion as one thinks they should be showing, etc. the list is endless. They know what is being said the whole world knows - wouldn’t one reasonably expect anyone being so attacked, judged, etc. not defend themselves or family or friends to do so?
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Yes, supposed being the operative word
January 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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Matt. Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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No comment - I didn’t think pig farmer was like Mr Sketchy but was voted down.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
dcb 613
So his bottom teeth are from Shergar …
and his top from Bugs Bunny ….
January 26th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Prior sexual crime convictions yet to be revealed!!
January 26th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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can’t say no Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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Sorry - no picture with gun yet!!
January 26th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
613…dcb
So the photographic quality sketch got his jaw and forehead dimensions
the wrong way around.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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jo Says:
January 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
I am not sure to remember why justine McGuiness has been chucked out?(has she of her own or?)
Can you remind me?
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Well there were a number of possible explanations bandied about at the time; wild rumours of exorbitant bar bills seemed to predominate. I haven’t a clue why they parted company…