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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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July 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Good news. Btw, I saw her latest video on a perfect single website
*****m u l t i r a c i a l l o v e.c o m**** . She looks cute. And there more hot pics and blogs about her is shown there.
January 27th, 2008 at 5:23 am
734 val Says:
“(what makes you think it”s a “HE”?)”
“By the way he/she said I was a person of “great imagination and intelligence, well done”
for thinking up the name “Toothfairy” for the Cooper description, but the Whiskey must have
been well consumed then!!!!!!”
There you have the answer
January 27th, 2008 at 5:15 am
733 Ferdinand
I dont post every day or spend houre on the thread when I do, so afraid I can”t help with
Grande Finale”s posts. I must admit that a couple of nights ago he/she (what makes you think it”s a “HE”?) there was very up to date info provided on the post about 1am showing
that morning”s Front Page news on Madeleine which made me think he/she was a Reporter
or worked for a Daily paper.
Probably fallen asleep with all the whiskey, we”ll have to try tomorrow.
By the way he/she said I was a person of “great imagination and intelligence, well done”
for thinking up the name “Toothfairy” for the Cooper description, but the Whiskey must have
been well consumed then!!!!!! On that note I will bid you cheerio.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:52 am
731 val
“I expect you mean “Madeleine found ALIVE (being the missing word.”
Indeed. Otherwise I wouldn’t call it good news.
In the meantime you may like to try to decrypt Grande Finale’s messages he made during the last two days.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:50 am
730 Ferdinand
I expect you mean “Madeleine found ALIVE (being the missing word.
Seems as though Grand Finale has left so we are left in suspense……..what a blow!!!!!
January 27th, 2008 at 4:37 am
729 Grand Finale
I”m not a slave to Anorak (some posters are here all day!!!!) just a poor sleeper and very
surprised to see this thread still going.
What”s the good news we can expect next week…..do tell.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:26 am
729 Grande Finale Says:
“Probably the whisky Ferdinand………… but all will become clear early next week.”
So I take it that you wouldn’t call it good news if it were in fact bad news…
January 27th, 2008 at 4:18 am
728
Ferdinand Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 4:07 am
“THE Madeleine Found*****”
Probably the whisky Ferdinand………… but all will become clear early next week.
January 27th, 2008 at 4:07 am
727 Grande Finale Says:
“Oh the good news : question : next weeks headlines “MADELEINE FOUND” ”
There’s a word missing to make it good news.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:22 am
I’m feeling extremely bouyant now, what with the good news, and the whisky and coke I’m enjoying.
Oh the good news : question : next weeks headlines “MADELEINE FOUND”
or rather “THE Madeleine Found*****”
Wondered why it had been a quiet Saturday guess the traffic was heavy on the M11.
January 27th, 2008 at 2:29 am
723
Pilimary Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 1:48 am
I really don’t care about. I have permanent entertainment and fun. And it’s free. However, the poor clowns have to keep on acting, moving, playing, performing and working restless, every single minute. Day and night. Working days and holidays. Winter, spring, summer and fall. Rain or shine. They have to hold their sad and pathetic puppet theatre forever and ever.
Think: they don’t pull the strings. We do. We, public opinion, are their bosses. And we feel no compasion. They are our slaves, and they jump because we, public opinion, forum posters, tabloids readers and TV watchers, order them to jump. The show must go on McClowns! Gives us a new surprise or you’re dead..
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REPLY: Wow, I never thought of looking on it your way…”….are their bosses”…’feed no compassion..” …”they are our slaves………’order them to jump….”
Should we wear black leather when sitting at our computer wrting on here?
January 27th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Thank you Denzylle!
January 27th, 2008 at 1:49 am
723
Pilimary
Re the other thread:
‘The Harder They Fall’.
January 27th, 2008 at 1:48 am
The man of Chile has been ruled out. The pigfarmer has been ruled out. The British paedo (last of 52) was ruled out. Mikaela was ruled out. Madeleine’s sithings in Morocco are history. Madeleine sighitings in Malta, Brussels, Yogoslavia, Alicante, Valencia, etc. are bulshit.
I really don’t care about. I have permanent entertainment and fun. And it’s free. However, the poor clowns have to keep on acting, moving, playing, performing and working restless, every single minute. Day and night. Working days and holidays. Winter, spring, summer and fall. Rain or shine. They have to hold their sad and pathetic puppet theatre forever and ever.
Think: they don’t pull the strings. We do. We, public opinion, are their bosses. And we feel no compasion. They are our slaves, and they jump because we, public opinion, forum posters, tabloids readers and TV watchers, order them to jump. The show must go on McClowns! Gives us a new surprise or you’re dead..
January 27th, 2008 at 1:26 am
But when eyewitness Gail Coop, who helped create the sketches, saw the scruffy man’s photo she gasped: “Oh my God, that’s so like him.
“He’s the spitting image of the man I saw three times at the resort where Madeleine vanished.
“It’s deeply shocking to see my drawing come to life. His cold, emotionless eyes sent a chill right through me.”
The 50-year-old granny added: “I thought there’d be no doubt in my mind if I saw him again.”
January 27th, 2008 at 1:00 am
It’s a strange report Lileth.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:57 am
713
Lilith
“Murat [...] still has a lot of questions to answer.” (from the newspaper article).
And so do the McCs. Forty each, wasn’t it?
Plus The 100 Questions.
And many others as The 100 Questions does not even begin to address the evening(s) before, and the day of, 3 May.
“A friend of the McCanns said last night: “Privately Kate and Gerry have always believed that Murat was not the man who took Madeleine. ” (also from the press item).
Didn’t we only hear about four to six weeks back that K had always been suspicious that Murat was involved in their daughter’s disappearance, whereas G felt differently?
I realise the latest standpoint is that Murat remains involved as a spotter, but there has still been a slight shift of position. Is this a sign of a compromise between the parents’ opposing views?
January 27th, 2008 at 12:57 am
717
Denzylle Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
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That was what i understood and accepted you to mean.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:52 am
716
dcb
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/32873/McCanns-Murat-not-kidnapper
Here ya go.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
When I used the word ‘abandoned’, I wasn’t referring specifically to the evening of 3 May. It was a general reference to any evening(s) that the McCs left their children alone.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:45 am
713
lilith Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:39 am
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Do you have a link please?
January 27th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Right.. really bed time… Sorry.. interesting discussion. Thanks.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:39 am
710
Peter O
I’d agree with that.
That statement certainly sounds defensive to me, but then, even on the basis of knowing that the children had been left alone, the family would feel the need to defend the parents without necessarily knowing there was more (if there were).
I’m certainly in agreement that few people knew in the immediate aftermath of the ‘disappearance’ what had transpired. And that a few more now know a wee bit more. Who knows what, and how much each knows, and how the information has been transmitted between individuals, is something I’ve written about before and which is interesting in terms of the group dynamics of the whole Tapas 9 / 10 and the families.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Maccers bite the dust: nothing on Robert Murat and the public does not eat it anymore.
But: when the Pig Farmer who turned out not to be George Harrison is not shedded by the media before the PJ arrives the Lucky Parents go whining to Orca!
MCCANNS: MURAT NOT KIDNAPPER
McCanns don’t think Murat took Madeleine
Sunday January 27,2008
By Matt Drake
Have your say(6)
Kate and Gerry McCann are certain original suspect Robert Murat is not the man who snatched their daughter Madeleine.
But private detectives searching for the missing four-year-old still believe he may have acted as a “spotter” for a kidnap gang targeting the McCann family.
The couple have now revealed how they never thought the expatriate was responsible. Despite doubts over his alibi, they have ruled out the 34-year-old after a major probe in Praia da Luz.
A 10-strong squad of investigators mounted an undercover operation finding “strong” proof he was in the vicinity after Madeleine’s disappearance.
Several witnesses gave statements to Spanish detectives from the Metodo 3 agency, claiming they had chatted with Murat after the alarm was raised by Kate at 10pm.
The couple’s lawyers sent petitions to senior Portuguese police to re-interview him.
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One theory is that Murat – going through an expensive divorce – may have been paid by a paedophile gang to select a child.
A friend of the McCanns said last night: “Privately Kate and Gerry have always believed that Murat was not the man who took Madeleine.
“However, they do not think he should be cleared because there is enough evidence to suggest he could have been a spotter for a gang.”
“Murat has told the police that he was not at the apartment on the night she went missing but lots of people saw him and he went round introducing himself saying, ‘Hi, I’m Robert’. He still has a lot of questions to answer.”
His lawyer Francisco Pagarette said: “Robert is very happy to hear what they think now but the fact is that it is ridiculous to suggest he helped anyone else take the child.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:38 am
709 dcb Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
701 Peter O Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am
697 dcb Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
691 Denzylle Says: January 26th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
…….Presumably because they knew the children had been abandoned whilst the parents went out to dinner (best case scenario).
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Not a scenario - one of the few known agreed facts.
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Not necessarily so, and even if true, possibly not what happened on the evening of May 3rd and, even if that was what happened on the evening of May 3rd, it still doesn’t confirm beyond doubt that an alive and well Madeleine was one of the children left alone….
Remember, their alleged admitted “child neglect”, for which they have been assured they have done nothing “legally” wrong, may well be a significant part of any deception that might have occurred, in my opinion.
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I disagree. Madeleine had been abandoned by her parents on 3 May - whether it happened earlier or on the 3 May, by the time they were in Tapas, Madeleine had been abandoned by her parents.
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We’re in danger of disagreeing over “semantics”.
It is very key to what happened whether or not Madeleine was alive and well post about 8.30 PM on May 3rd.
It is quite interesting, to me at least, that we do not have any independent verifiable evidence, other than from the McCann’s themselves, that proves the extent of any neglect and it’s frequency by the McCann’s. Now, I’m sure/hope the PJ do. However, it is absolutely critical to the McCann’s version of events that we/the PJ absolutely buy into their admission of non-legally culpable neglect in order for their alleged abduction scenario to be even remotely possible.
All I’m saying is that we need to keep an open mind about just who was being “neglected” and/or what their state of health may have been post 8.30 PM on May 3rd.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Denzylle
A very good resource for early family statements:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=madeleine+mccann&scope=all&uri=%2F
January 27th, 2008 at 12:26 am
707 Denzylle Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
703 noseycow Says:
Denzylle - you are very brave replying to our cheryl - her posts remind me of someone….
yes thats it she reminds me of aunty phil
Heh! Perhaps I’m replying to the person who made the statement originally.
I just recall it as one of the very first things I heard. Can anyone remember which member of the two families made that statement - ‘They are doctors! They care for other people’ - thereby immediately rendering them in stone as caring parents and beyond reproach?
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I don’t remember the actual quote per se, but if a member of family did say it in the immediate aftermath of Madeleine’s alleged disappearance, it isn’t really an unusual thing to say?
I’m not one of those that believes every single person within the McCann orbit is somehow involved in some giant conspiracy/cover up. I think that if this case ever proceeds to charges, vaguely along the lines that many of us have speculated in here and elsewhere, that there will be an awful of family, friends and associates who will be guilty of nothing more than “blind faith”. i.e. They really don’t/didn’t know, didn’t want to believe anything else because it was too painful etc.
That said, it’s still my opinion that the McCann’s and/or their friends and possibly by now some of their family, know somewhat more about the events leading up to and following Madeleine’s disappearance.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
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701
Peter O Says:
January 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am
697 dcb Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:02 am
691 Denzylle Says: January 26th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
…….Presumably because they knew the children had been abandoned whilst the parents went out to dinner (best case scenario).
++++++++++++++++
Not a scenario - one of the few known agreed facts.
+++++++++++
Not necessarily so, and even if true, possibly not what happened on the evening of May 3rd and, even if that was what happened on the evening of May 3rd, it still doesn’t confirm beyond doubt that an alive and well Madeleine was one of the children left alone….
Remember, their alleged admitted “child neglect”, for which they have been assured they have done nothing “legally” wrong, may well be a significant part of any deception that might have occurred, in my opinion.
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I disagree. Madeleine had been abandoned by her parents on 3 May - whether it happened earlier or on the 3 May, by the time they were in Tapas, Madeleine had been abandoned by her parents.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:18 am
706 noseycow Says: January 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Peter O - we have noted (here on anorak) your freudian links between chocolate and bed
am going to mine now (without chocolate) need my beauty sleep and all that
Happy sleuthing all
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Nothing Freudian at all! We all have our “weaknesses”.
Off to bed too, sans chocolate! Good night, sweet dreams one and all. You too John Boy if you are lurking!
January 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
703
noseycow Says:
Denzylle - you are very brave replying to our cheryl - her posts remind me of someone….
yes thats it she reminds me of aunty phil
Heh! Perhaps I’m replying to the person who made the statement originally.
I just recall it as one of the very first things I heard. Can anyone remember which member of the two families made that statement - ‘They are doctors! They care for other people’ - thereby immediately rendering them in stone as caring parents and beyond reproach?
January 27th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Peter O - we have noted (here on anorak) your freudian links between chocolate and bed
am going to mine now (without chocolate) need my beauty sleep and all that
Happy sleuthing all