Comments on: Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat, MPs And Gerry McCann’s Heated Debate

By: thatpoorpriest

thatpoorpriest — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:36:08 +0000

Well done Doris, someone has to have the guts to do it. I can just imagine the scene… tee hee! so glad it wasn’t well attended…. tee hee!

Agree with you June, completely. It just isn’t right to call the whole bizarre case a hoot, as it would be if it was a stage play for example.

By: June

June — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:21:21 +0000

I think the whole thing has lost its focus, and has become a complete parody on the main players. As a work of fiction its brilliant, shame about the tragedy its based on….

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:02:33 +0000

Dairy, I agree, its all about ‘getting’ the parents and also Clarence Mitchell.
The homophobia displayed on the other site is quite sickening… anything to do with Clarence Mitchell is now highlighted in pink! Tee Hee. What a scream. Not.

As it happens CM is a happy family man but even if he was gay I don’t understand what it has to with Madeleine McCann, her disappearance and his representing them. .

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:06:42 +0000

seems to me that many people are more interested in vilifying the parents than finding the child…. it’s sad..

By: doris

doris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:42:04 +0000

you see c and c you were not there I was and I heard it straight from the horses mouth , tomorrow when GM CM and lawyers go to answer their questions before the press complaints com , this will be the initial starting point

By: doris

doris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:14:27 +0000

In fact you should make the most of the opportunity , that goes for all as in Clarence’s own words re the net ” state intervention will come down the line quicker than they can imagine and will face more controls and intervention “

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:04:19 +0000

Sorry… its a private group for writers and journos. I would lurve to cut and paste but would be banished forever……

Moderator - Anorak is a journo;send him the link. I’ve unapproved this to keep you out of trouble

By: doris

doris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:23:13 +0000

No c and c you are totally wrong and you will see in the national press tomorrow , spin all you like

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:15:06 +0000

Hi everyone. Back from my hols to see that St Jade of Tweed is headlined everywhere….. my sympathy is directed all the other cancer victims who suffer and die quietly every day leaving behind distraught families.
Too much……….
………………………..

I understood the whole Oxford Union thing was misinterpreted by Chesty Cough and Co..
The lady teacher was correct though, Clarence was not a speaker and wasn’t meant to be and he wasn’t paid either.
The self-proclaimed Madeleine Foundation made itself a laughing stock according to an acquaintance who is with the local press in Oxford and who related the whole kerfuffle to a yahoo group with great humour…….. Clarence wasn’t fazed at all! Hey Ho. It’s all in the reporting.

By: doris

doris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:18:36 +0000

This was ther worst I have seen the man , I would describe him as more grey/white than pink apart from his outburst , well he had a few , afterwards a lady teacher at the union said to me that he was not a speaker and she would not pay him if she were his employer

By: yampster

yampster — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:16:00 +0000

Was his dark cape billowing behind him as he ‘fled rapidly into the night’ and did you ‘vow’ not to go away with your right fist clutched over your heart.

It’s important to get the wording and gestures right in these situations

By: doris

doris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:06:57 +0000

I attended the Oxford Union Clarence Mitchell talk , he was horrified to see me and I asked him to clarrify who is paying his salary , he jabbed and pointed his finger at me asking me how much my salary is , I said to him I asked who is paying his salary not how much , the man was clearly perplexed and flustered by my presence but I said I am not going to go away until the truth is told and there is justice for Madeleine , after the talk which was extemely poorly attended he declined to go to the bar area which would have been normal as the previous night in Cambridge with Murat , and fled rapidly into the night

By: Dr Eggman

Dr Eggman — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:42:10 +0000

I do too, I was convinced of his involvement, along with most other people I guess. All those comparisons with Huntley when he was “helping”…..Only Mr Murat seems to have really been trying to help.

By: June

June — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:58:05 +0000

I felt really sorry for Murat, a convenient whipping boy

By: Bat E Bird

Bat E Bird — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:09:07 +0000

They did have a little help from the Tapas crew though, didn’t they? A few ‘mistaken’ sightings of him that evening reported to PJ. That’s bound to get to the Press.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:58:04 +0000

True, June, re Murat and the papers did a ‘job’ on him and many people believed it, didn’t they, and took after him like the hounds chasing the fox.

By: Bat E Bird

Bat E Bird — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:19:09 +0000

Not exactly to no avail though June. It’s been quite lucrative for them. Sorry, I mean for ‘The Fund’

By: June

June — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:09:16 +0000

Murat didn’t use the Media, it was the certain reporter who kicked it all off.
The McCann should have taken some advice before courting the media, they should have known they would bite them on the bum. Using the Media for alerts about a child are one thing, then they should have stopped and allowed Police (either UK or Portuguese) or their legal representative speak for them. It all went ‘celeb’ to no avail.

By: Bat E Bird

Bat E Bird — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:42:54 +0000

This article is mainly about Robert Murat though. Who advised him to use the Press? None of it had anything to do with him until a certain reporter decided he looked a bit shifty. Unless anyone knows different of course.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:30:12 +0000

The McCanns were advised to use the Press in the first place when their daughter went missing. We do it over here all the time when a child is missing in putting an Alert out. Yes, they committed an utterly stupid and irresponsible action leaving their children alone and paid the ultimate price for that stupidity - they lost a child. However, that did not give the newspapers the right to print nasty unfounded rumours; less than truthful leaks spouted for all to listen to by an investigator over lunches; erronous DNA results. The newspapers fed the public what they wanted to hear and sold newspapers irregardless of whose lives they may be destroying..