Mercedes,Jodi Powers husband respond to Today Tonight story - Page 7

uluru · 03-11-2007, 05:49 PM

Lawyers cost money....and plenty of it.
Good lawyers cost a fortune.
Got no money to pay lawyers?
Ya better get some fast, especially in a foreign country.

The Corbys are still paying lawyers...lawyers have to pay the rent and eat too.

Jonestown?

...is one person's writings....and a little careless with the truth he was proven to be in one section of it....not correct at all...so I didn't bother buying it.
You know...if one part is inaccurate...how many other parts are.

I was going to buy it , but I'd say I could guess most of what's in it already, having lived in the big city for many decades....and seen and heard many things....[a lot of which I wasn't supposed to].
Much of what is reported to be contained in the book has been in the public domain already...even if a while ago in time.
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Live and let live.

"Sgt Schultz" wasn't the first person to adopt the "I see nothing, nothing" idea.
Wise youth in the big city learnt that policy to survive.
Having been virtually booted out of home after he left high school for protesting the Vietnam War, teen uluru lived in a flat he shared with 3 other men in the inner city ....yikes!...they were horrid...they looked normal, had good jobs, but never washed anything ...linen for example.
He gravitated to Kings Cross in his spare time, [he had a 9-5 job]...the bright lights of the city...sleazeville....although it wasn't as sleazy in those days...more cosmopolitan/half sleazy.
He often sat on the floor in the dim upstairs "club"/large room, and sang folk songs along with the "Peter Paul and Mary" type bands...the songs of protest...and chanted the peace mantra with the straight-haired hippy girls.

Many things he saw at 2 am...people who were not supposed to be in sleazeville....but were.
Drug deals, prostitution, loitering around the fountain [no one mentioned in a book, but a senior executive at uluru's corporation...yikes...uluru said nothing, of course, but received much favorable treatment in the workplace as a result].
And not only in sleazeville...but in respectibilityville....a famous footie player and another player's wife "relaxing" on the bonnet of a car in a darkened carpark, for example.
"Live and let live" ...his mom taught him well.

Unfortunately, some, innocent to the ways of the big bad world, learnt the hard way:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...478728965.html

No 1 rule in the big city.

"I see nothing, nothing/live and let live".

That was then...today is now...5 minutes ago is history....and AJ supports Schapelle....and other causes to which the public seeks a favorable outcome....enough water to drink and bathe in , for example.....and favorable PTA's/freedom ....which is all that concerns me.

Murray · 03-14-2007, 06:01 PM

Corby worth every cent for Today Tonight

Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2007By Glenn Dyer

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Last night's Today Tonight interview with Jodi Power, a friend of Schapelle and Mercedes Corby, may go close to being the yarn of the year.

If her claims are in any way correct (and the pics of Mercedes Corby apparently smoking marijuana through a pipe and holding a "joint" were staggering) they will force a wholesale revision of the Corby saga, undermining the almost unanimous national assumption of Schapelle Corby's innocence.

Just over two million people tuned in to Today Tonight last night to watch the heavily promoted story, giving Seven a clear win on the first full night of ratings competition between TT and Nine's A Current Affair.

TT promoted its story over the weekend but we didn't hear the full extent of the allegations, nor see those photographs of Mercedes Corby. Here’s a report on the program from this morning's The Australian, which has been an occasional sceptic on the Corby story.

And we didn't get to hear about the battle to get Jodi Power's interview. TT mentioned several times it was a paid interview, but what we weren't told was that the Nine's 60 Minutes had attempted to buy off Power late last week offering around $200,000 for an exclusive interview to run on its season opener on Sunday night (see clarification below).

[Nine deny this, see below]

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Sixty Minutes has form on buying facets of the Corby story, having paid the Corbys for exclusive access and an interview with Liz Hayes before her Bali trial.

So when the Nine Network now attempts to undermine Today Tonight by talking to Mercedes Corby, remember it had also been prepared to put Power's allegations to air and was prepared to pay a very large amount of money (much more than what TT paid) to get Jodi Power on camera exclusively.
TT has promised more revelations tonight...

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Nine Network news chief Gary Linnell writes: Re. Your report that Nine's 60 Minutes had offered former Corby family familiar Jodi Power $200,000 to take her story to Nine rather than Seven -- Absolutely untrue, I wish I had that sort of money.

Former 60 Minutes Managing Editor Mark Llewellyn writes: A small correction but at my insistence the first interview Liz Hayes did with Corby in her Bali jail was not paid for.

http://www.crikey.com.au/Media/20070...y-Tonight.html

uluru · 03-14-2007, 07:26 PM

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html

ELIMINATED Dancing with the Stars contestant Naomi Robson has come to the defence of her embattled Today Tonight replacement Anna Coren.

While side-stepping questions regarding the Mercedes Corby scandal currently dogging the Channel Seven current affairs program, Robson was quick to shield Coren from the controversy.

"Anna is an incredibly competent journalist and I'm sure she's acquitting herself very well," Robson said.

"To be honest I haven't had a chance to watch the program since I began Dancing with the Stars but obviously I read the papers, and I'm aware of what is going on.

"It's all just part of the cut and thrust of current affairs – it's a very vibrant battlefield and both programs are really battling it out for supremacy at the moment," she said.

While labelling the challenges of dancing on live television as "incredibly difficult", nobody knows the pressure of the Today Tonight hot seat like Robson, who successfully anchored the tabloid news program for more than a decade.

From the Beaconsfield make-up truck to Papuan boy Wa-Wa, Robson publicly endured an incident packed year to forget as the host of Today Tonight during 2006.

Robson took on Dancing with the Stars to shed her tough taboid TV image, and despite being voted off the program last night, Robson said the experience of being able to be herself on television had been a liberating one.

"Shows like TT can be very one dimensional and I wanted to take a step back from that," she said.

After lasting three weeks on the program, it was the journalist's paso doble performance which finally sent her packing.
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It's a bunch of nasty rubbish...that's what it all is...fake stories, admitted lies, ambushes, innuendo, unsubstantiated allegations, breaches of privacy.

Murray · 03-14-2007, 07:46 PM

Speaking of the media --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech

Leeches:

The leeches are presumed to have evolved from the Oligochaeta, most of which feed on detritus.

True leeches, of the subclass Euhirudinea, with both anterior and posterior suckers, are divided into two groups:

1. Rhynchobdellae: "jawless" leeches, armed with a muscular straw-like proboscis puncturing organ in a retractable sheath.

2. Arhychobdellids: Leeches which lack a proboscis and which may or may not have jaws armed with teeth.

Leeches are hermaphrodites, meaning they are organisms that have both female and male reproductive organs.

A Leech attaches itself when it bites, and it will stay attached until it has had its fill of blood.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech

So what's the difference?

arthur · 03-14-2007, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by uluru

If I did have evidence I would not give it to the cops.
I'd anonymously leak it to the media....keep the originals and send copies.

Just like in the movie "Curly Sue"...how cute is she!....where the smart female lawyer kept the photos of the city official...just in case she ever needed a favor and to do a deal.
Life is all about deals.

Commonsense:

If one is not wised-up, one can get "played"

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html

Ralph Fiennes: I was the victim

February 18, 2007 12:00

ACTOR Ralph Fiennes considers himself to have been the victim of a sexual aggressor in an alleged mile-high sex scandal.

Yesterday, the media-shy film star's personal publicist angrily broke a week-long silence from the Fiennes camp to tell the actor's side of an increasingly sordid story.

"She initiated the encounter,'' Ms Keene said, in the first confirmation from the Fiennes camp that an incident did occur.

"This woman seduced him on a plane. She was the sexual aggressor.

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No, uluru ain't buying that...he is the master of commonsense....he knows how the birds and the bees work.

He believes Lisa:

"So I suppose there's a chance that you could be pregnant with Ralph Fiennes's baby," 60 reporter Peter Overton asked the 38-year-old.

"Perhaps, yeah, I haven't really thought about that much," Robertson replied.

If she did fall pregnant Robertson believes that Fiennes "would probably have a nervous breakdown ... he's quite sensitive, you know."

Despite admitting that she "did the wrong thing", Robertson said the encounter wasn't as immoral as it might have seemed.

"We, I didn't kill anyone, I didn't hurt anyone, no other customers on the aircraft knew about this or were disturbed by this, I was on my break, it was [an] interaction that happened between two people."

The 175cm blonde stewardess, who quit the NSW police force after 14 years because of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, told the UK's Sunday Mail that she and Fiennes flirted on the plane and then the actor suggested he join her for a chat when she took her break.

It was then, in the curtained-off crew area, they began kissing and undressing.

Scared they would be caught, Robertson led Fiennes to the lavatory.

"I was a bit shocked that he didn't wear a condom," she said.

"Looking back, I think of it as dangerous and hypocritical given that he was going to India to talk about AIDS."

Ms Robertson, who went bankrupt after she sued police over an alleged lack of care regarding her mental health, said she didn't know what she would do next, but was confident she would "bounce back".

9 NEWSWATCH
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Sensitive, my eye.
THIS is the story uluru believes.
Lisa also said they stayed at a hotel in Mubai for the night...[.2 times at night and once in the morning.]
"Sexual aggressor", my eye.

uluru knows exactly what happened.
High in the sky, in first class, her mind wandered off into romance heaven when she encounted Mr Charm, rich, handsome, famous "US senate hopeful Chris Marshal" who was smitten with "Caroline" from the Park Suite in the movie Maid in Manhattan..."Caroline" being poor Hispanic "Marissa" [Jennifer Lopez], who was trying on the clothes of the rich blonde guest ...the real "Caroline".

Poor Marissa, from the projects in the Bronx, who lived in a 4 block radius her whole life, from the poor side of town, working in a boring job, hoping one day to be a manager, went for a walk in the park with Senatorman, dressed in the rich girl's clothes. He thought she was classy and rich.

Then he couldn't find her again, as she'd then gone back to being the maid.
He asked the nice head butler if he knew her and if he would invite her to the ball....Cinderella stuff.
The nice butler told Marissa if she wanted to be a manager she would have to give up the senator as she'd be found out as only being poor and not rich.
Her friend the older maid asked Marissa if she was going to the ball for one last "fling"...Marissa said it was confusing...her friend said..."the only confusing thing for me with a man like that would be how fast I could undo my brastrap.
Marissa went to the ball, her friends pulling strings to get her the "Harry Winston Wreath" diamond choker, worth a squillion...for the night.
Marissa went to the ball...then stayed the night with "Chris" in his bed as romance captured their minds.
In the morning, she put her sweater on and hurried back home.....but rich Caroline and her obnoxious girlfriend spied the diamonds, Caroline having been at the ball and seen the diamonds, chasing after rich, famous Chris Marshal, to make him her own.
Her obnoxious girlfriend said "that's the maid, where did she get diamonds?"
They checked the security tapes...it all hit the fan.....Marissa was sacked...she was outed as being only a poor Hispanic maid in a boring job.
The rich girls gave it to her in front of the hotel manager etc.
"She steals things, she's a fraud".
Poor Marissa...sacked...there she is...in the park...sitting on the swing crying...poor Marissa, all alone...no job...her life ruined...and a ten yr old son to support.
She eventually got another job as a maid....Chris came to town...he becomes besotted again by the poor girl with the boring job...they fall deeply in love, kiss passionately and live happily ever after...the rich man and poor Marissa.

Commonsense uluru can see clearly what happened.....Lisa thought she was Marissa!

He's very smooth.
Lisa said at the end of the interview that she thought "he was a good actor".

In his latest movie he carries his dying blonde girlfriend up the mountain, she in a flowing dress, he the loving, charming hero.
Women in the movies are crying rivers of romantic tears.

Yes, it's all very clear to me what happened in first class.

:eek: Wow that was certainly a bolt from the blue

possum · 03-14-2007, 10:35 PM

What are you on about Arthur

Just another cheap stab at our friend and respected member uluru... if you have nothing to discuss then don't waste the forum's time.

Support Schapelle or go away...

arthur · 03-14-2007, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by possum

What are you on about Arthur

Just another cheap stab at our friend and respected member uluru... if you have nothing to discuss then don't waste the forum's time.

Support Schapelle or go away...

It wasnt a cheap stab it was true confusion. I was reading the thread from the start to catch up and then the Ralph Fienes thing? It was like a commercial-it was actually entertaining though not really related to the Corbys.

I do support Schapelle in the fact the she doesnt deserve 20 even if she is guilty. I have stated that before.

Respected member? Who decides on that and if so have you actually met the person in real life? How can true respect be formed so easily when chances are that you have never met the person before? Both you and administration will agree that Ulurus comments at times will irk your other valued supporters at times because of his Indonesian stance in some posts. So you respect a person who displays these qualities? Respect should only be given if that other person truly respects others regardless of race, religion, sex etc.

As for going away well I'm sure it would just easier to ban me? I realise this is a support Schapelle Corbys site and obvioulsy we come from different camps in terms of her guilt but you would be surprised that when the Corby news comes up with my mates (usually while drinking) even though they all think she's guilty I usually remind them that even if she is guilty that she doesnt deserve 20 yrs. Time served already is sufficient (I have that stated in another post). And then they will agree and some will even change there opinion and in there terms then some will say "she got rorted" in terms of the 20 yr sentence (perhaps not her guilt).

Im a athiest but my mind is not that closed that I want people "to go away" just because they believe in something I dont. Talking to true believers can be quite interesting and I often joke to my mates that I will burn in hell if I am wrong. My sister attends a Catholic school but Im prepared to listen and help her with her religious studies (when she was younger) even though its essentially a opposing view of mine.

And even if I did "go away" what would that achieve? As mentioned in other posts I think it was a recent poll that showed 93%? of aussies thought she was guilty? S#%@ how on earth is 93% of Australians supposed to go away? And where do we go anyway? Back to the mother country? Fair enough if your mission is too cocoon yourself in the Corby cause like a fanatic than your certainly on the right track.

I dont know about you but if I had to tell my friends to "go away" because they were Catholics, Muslims or something I didnt believe in then my life would be less interesting. :)

uluru · 03-15-2007, 05:19 AM

I must've had a "brainstorm" that day when Ralph and Marissa appeared.
Think I was trying to point out that if one is not wised up to the ways of the world one can find oneself in "hot water/srife/big trouble" and getting used and abused/played.
How did it relate to Schapelle?
Maybe as Schapelle has said many times since her arrest that she regrets enormously not locking her bag. [not fully wised up to the ways of the big bad world of crooks and players].
Must've been quite a shock for Arthur to encounter that post in this thread.

Think my posts are much more on topic in each thread as at today.

admin · 03-15-2007, 07:38 AM

yes uluru I can tell you have been making an effort so thank you for that

everyone else, have I said before, please lets try to get along.

Schapelle needs every supporter she can get. I can see how you can think schapelle is guilty and still think she needs a much lighter sentence but honestly that is not something we want to hear here. All it does is create arguments.

People who join this site believe Schapelle is innocent. I need to make that even clearer than it already is.l

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