ABC producer paid for George, Cindy Anthony to stay at the Ritz

[Shaymus at The Rock]

I'd like to know if there was a cover up, too. But I don't think where they stayed at and what they ate is evidence. I think other information may be evidence, though.

I don't think they had anything to do with Caylee's death, and I do think they loved her very much.

Casey, on the other hand, is guilty in my opinion. But that's only based on what I've seen so far, which isn't everything. I'm sure more will come out as the trial comes up.

What other information do you think is evidence ? I'm really interested in this part of the case.

And ITA agree that no member of the family assisted Casey in the murder.

 

[RR0004]

I'd like to know if there was a cover up, too. But I don't think where they stayed at and what they ate is evidence. I think other information may be evidence, though.

I don't think they had anything to do with Caylee's death, and I do think they loved her very much.

Casey, on the other hand, is guilty in my opinion. But that's only based on what I've seen so far, which isn't everything. I'm sure more will come out as the trial comes up.

LE clearly wants to know who spoke to who at the dinner. DC's interview is very telling.

 

[cajun]

I assume because they wanted an interview, because they knew a LOT of people would watch/read it.

I would say that realizing that your daughter may go to jail for the rest of her life for killing your grandchild can be thought of as a loss.

Maybe so. I just don't consider someone that is alive and well and sitting in the local jail someone a loss. Oh well, off to listen to the Haleigh presser. Probably more of not saying much of nothing.

 

[Gma Kat]

um The Ritz Carlton is just a hotel and dinner does not cost $100 per person. I am an event planner for a large bank and I stay at the Ritz all the time.

I think many if you have large illusions of what a Ritz Carlton hotel is. It is a warm and normal hotel with medium priced food and nothing screams lets party.

I don't know that this thread is important at all. IMO

Bold is mine: O/T but in reply to bold: Any thread that illicites friendly debate and exchanges perspectives and information is worthy of being a thread, otherwise I would not have clicked onto it to see what was being discussed relevant to this issue.

Back OT: I don't care what hotel the A family stayed in or how much dinner cost, or who ate or didn't eat, but I do care if ABC is the A family support system. It's really messed up that they don't have friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, parishioners, to help them out instead of the media having to be their caretakers. ABC or whatever media connection that is footing the bill IS NOT doing it out of the kindness of their hearts. They have a bottom line and the A family can help them get to it. I wish someone besides the media would step up and help these people so that there would be some genuiness to the gesture and some aura of dignity about this case.

 

[RR0004]

Any normal family would have said, "We can't meet with you, we have just learned our beloved Grand baby is dead, we can't even think straight, we are heart broken". "This meeting will have to wait!"
It's all about priorities with these people.

That this dinner even occurred makes me want to spit nails.

 

[debs]

This is a perfect example of the bias that's often found in WFTV's articles. Dinner's "could" cost $100 a person - that has nothing to do with the A's. What did they eat? What did their meals cost? What difference does it really make? Why does WFTV even feel this is newsworthy? Why don't people read what's actually being said or rather, what's not being said, instead of allowing the media to think for them?

Okay. The Anthony's met with a lawyer, some family members, a couple of nefarious characters who latched onto this case for their own glorification and a producer from an ABC show the day they were informed that the body of a small child was found 1600 feet from their backyard. They had dinner with these people and stayed 2 nights at the Ritz Carlton Orlando.

"A small child's remains have been found in the woods near your house." is followed up by going to dinner with a producer for a national network.

I guess it could all be innocent and just largesse on the part of the network. Yeah. I can see that. It was all totally innocent and circumstantial. The where and the what-they-ate are not important. But as in so many other things, the Anthony family's timing draws the speculation to them. Again it goes down to what others would do in a similar situation, and since few of us can claim to be members of that "club" we again are left to assume that there is something odd with them meeting with a producer after being informed that a small child's remains had been found so close to their home, and that a search warrant was currently being executed in that home.

I'm sure there's an innocent explanation somewhere.

 

[LinasK]

Sharon Rocha was allowed to go home to her own house after the bodies were found. Her home was not surrounded by news vans and reporters anxious to get her every facial expression on camera. If the A's had gone to Lee's, the media would have been all over them. Besides this is not a competition between the A's and everyone else who has lost a family member. I don't understand the point of all the comparisons, every situation is different.

I wasn't the poster who made the comparison to Sharon Rocha, I agree, there is no comparison with her.

 

[MissDiva]

Any normal family would have said, "We can't meet with you, we have just learned our beloved Grand baby is dead, we can't even think straight, we are heart broken". "This meeting will have to wait!"
It's all about priorities with these people.

My mom is definitely not normal. :crazy: However, she loved her little sister and unborn niece more than I can tell you. She still does. I still catch her crying about it sometimes, 30 years later. Not all families react the same way, and it doesn't make one better or worse.

My mom's comments to the press the day my aunt's body was found was basically something like, "Amy wanted to work right up until the baby was born. She wasn't scared of anyone."

 

[elementary]

I'd like to know if there was a cover up, too. But I don't think where they stayed at and what they ate is evidence. I think other information may be evidence, though.

I don't think they had anything to do with Caylee's death, and I do think they loved her very much.

Casey, on the other hand, is guilty in my opinion. But that's only based on what I've seen so far, which isn't everything. I'm sure more will come out as the trial comes up.

No it isn't evidence of anything other than their poor judgment and I think it derails the topic at hand. If you check the topic of this thread, it's about ABC. How about your opinions on ABC and the As together?

And though we may not really know the As' motives, we can guess. And we certainly have evidence of patterns of behaviour. Those are real, a fact, not speculation. We have opinions about those patterns of behaviour. Those opinions fit with the topic.

 

[MissDiva]

LE clearly wants to know who spoke to who at the dinner. DC's interview is very telling.

Oh, I totally agree that what was said is important. Just not where they stayed or what they ate.

 

[LinasK]

Any normal family would have said, "We can't meet with you, we have just learned our beloved Grand baby is dead, we can't even think straight, we are heart broken". "This meeting will have to wait!"
It's all about priorities with these people.

I agree!

 

[RR0004]

Here's the thing I don't understand.

People are upset when the A's are in front of the cameras
People are upset when the A's go in hiding
People are upset when the A's accept interviews
People are upset when the A's don't give interviews
People are upset that the A's are staying in the same house where it is believed Caylee was killed
People are upset that the A's stay at a hotel
People are upset that George stayed at a different hotel when contemplating suicide
People are upset that they do anything.

Yes, I get that people are upset because of the ENTIRE case....I am too. But rather than scrutinizing every little tiny thing this family does or does not do....shouldn't we be caring for our own families?

There is something wrong with all this...way more. Like who's paying for Casey's defense.

 

[MissDiva]

No it isn't evidence of anything other than their poor judgment and I think it derails the topic at hand. If you check the topic of this thread, it's about ABC. How about your opinions on ABC?

And though we may not really know the As' motives, we can guess. And we certainly have evidence of patterns of behaviour. Those are real, a fact, not speculation. We have opinions about those patterns of behaviour. Those opinions fit with the topic.

But others, also posting here, have differing opinions. My opinion is that I don't know what they were thinking about, how they were feeling, etc. It'd be impossible for me to know that based on where they stayed and what they ate.

 

[kageykaren]

Here's the thing I don't understand.

People are upset when the A's are in front of the cameras
People are upset when the A's go in hiding
People are upset when the A's accept interviews
People are upset when the A's don't give interviews
People are upset that the A's are staying in the same house where it is believed Caylee was killed
People are upset that the A's stay at a hotel
People are upset that George stayed at a different hotel when contemplating suicide
People are upset that they do anything.

Yes, I get that people are upset because of the ENTIRE case....I am too. But rather than scrutinizing every little tiny thing this family does or does not do....shouldn't we be caring for our own families?

Excuse me? I take very good care of my family and have entered a time where I can choose to do what I want. Right now, it's sluething with constructive critisim of everyone invovd in this case until we know exactly what happened to that poor little girl before her death and after. If comments are disturbing you can address them constructively or choose to ignore. After this post I choose the later and will put my sluething hat back on and will critically keep watch on all these players and report my own feelings! by the attacking of critical sluething.

 

[RR0004]

Okay. The Anthony's met with a lawyer, some family members, a couple of nefarious characters who latched onto this case for their own glorification and a producer from an ABC show the day they were informed that the body of a small child was found 1600 feet from their backyard. They had dinner with these people and stayed 2 nights at the Ritz Carlton Orlando.

"A small child's remains have been found in the woods near your house." is followed up by going to dinner with a producer for a national network.

I guess it could all be innocent and just largesse on the part of the network. Yeah. I can see that. It was all totally innocent and circumstantial. The where and the what-they-ate are not important. But as in so many other things, the Anthony family's timing draws the speculation to them. Again it goes down to what others would do in a similar situation, and since few of us can claim to be members of that "club" we again are left to assume that there is something odd with them meeting with a producer after being informed that a small child's remains had been found so close to their home, and that a search warrant was currently being executed in that home.

I'm sure there's an innocent explanation somewhere.

Yeah, you are probably right.

 

[RR0004]

But others, also posting here, have differing opinions. My opinion is that I don't know what they were thinking about, how they were feeling, etc. It'd be impossible for me to know that based on where they stayed and what they ate.

or why it was all being paid by a media outlet.

 

[LinasK]

No it isn't evidence of anything other than their poor judgment and I think it derails the topic at hand. If you check the topic of this thread, it's about ABC. How about your opinions on ABC and the As together?

And though we may not really know the As' motives, we can guess. And we certainly have evidence of patterns of behaviour. Those are real, a fact, not speculation. We have opinions about those patterns of behaviour. Those opinions fit with the topic.

Yes, thank-you!

 

[Pattymarie]

Here's the thing I don't understand.

People are upset when the A's are in front of the cameras
People are upset when the A's go in hiding
People are upset when the A's accept interviews
People are upset when the A's don't give interviews
People are upset that the A's are staying in the same house where it is believed Caylee was killed
People are upset that the A's stay at a hotel
People are upset that George stayed at a different hotel when contemplating suicide
People are upset that they do anything.

Yes, I get that people are upset because of the ENTIRE case....I am too. But rather than scrutinizing every little tiny thing this family does or does not do....shouldn't we be caring for our own families?

When has anyone ever been upset when the A's went quiet?!?!?!

 

[LinasK]

Oh, I totally agree that what was said is important. Just not where they stayed or what they ate.

It's not the hotel name or whether they chose steak or fish that's important. It's that they didn't refuse top of the line accomodations the day they got positive confirmation of their granddaughter's death, and that those accomodations were paid for by a major media outlet, possibly in hopes of arranging to profit off Caylee's death to fund the murderer's defense.

 

[whiteangora]

My mom is definitely not normal. :crazy: However, she loved her little sister and unborn niece more than I can tell you. She still does. I still catch her crying about it sometimes, 30 years later. Not all families react the same way, and it doesn't make one better or worse.

My mom's comments to the press the day my aunt's body was found was basically something like, "Amy wanted to work right up until the baby was born. She wasn't scared of anyone."

I doubt that your mom was busy negotiating future deals, she was making a simple press statement, no?
I think the situation with the Anthonys is entirely different.
May I add I am sorry about the horrible tragedy that struck your family.