George & Cindy on 'Good Morning, America' - Tuesday, 6/15/10

George, Cindy talk to ‘Good Morning America’ on Tuesday

posted by halboedeker on June, 14 2010 3:32 PM

“Good Morning America” will offer an interview Tuesday with George and Cindy Anthony, the parents of Casey Anthony.

The Anthonys were flown to New York for the interview, which was taped Friday and conducted by Ashleigh Banfield of ABC News. Banfield was free to ask anything she wanted, an ABC News spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman said the network did not license any new photos or videos for the “GMA” interview, and that information will be disclosed on Tuesday’s show.

In 2008, ABC News paid Casey Anthony and her family $200,000 for photos and video of toddler Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony was later charged with first-degree murder in the death of her child. Any photos or video used in Tuesday’s segment was licensed under the deal two years ago, ABC News said.

“GMA” starts at 7 a.m. weekdays on WFTV-Channel 9.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/06/casey-anthony-george-cindy-talk-to-good-morning-america-on-tuesday.html

Well I knew it was too good to be true...The silence of the Anthony's, George and Cindy that is...Word is out that they will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow morning. I don't know what they think they can add that will convince the general population that their beloved daughter is innocent. I guess they decided to steal some of Joran's thunder since nothing noteworthy about KC's case has occurred in the media lately. Stay tuned, maybe they will even offer their condolences to the parents of Stephany Flores.

What? All the other cases in the news lately, are they are feeling left out, and need to get their mugs back on the tv? Yuck!

What are they possibly going to say? "Hi. Remember us?"

Exactly Estee, they're feeling neglected lately. No C&G news.

The funds in their fake foundation are probably running low......

The Anthonys were flown to New York for the interview, which was taped Friday and conducted by Ashleigh Banfield of ABC News. Banfield was free to ask anything she wanted, an ABC News spokeswoman said.

I hope Banfield didn't hold anything back and asked the questions we all want answered. I'm sure it probably didn't go down that way though. If it did, the interview probably ended with George and Cindy storming out.

I doubt that George and Cindy agreed to TRUTHFULLY answer any and all questions. Bet their attorney was sitting in and would pipe up with a Baez "Zip it" if he didn't like the question. The whole bunch of these bloodsuckers make me sick!!!

Oh...That's right..The unofficial anniversary of Caylee's last sighting/really the last time C&G saw her...I don't think either saw her on the 16th...It's all hogwash!!!

Maybe they are going to announce that Roy Kronk is AKA Roy Kalpoe...............and Joran was spotted in Puerto Rico en route to Aruba at the time Caylee went missing.

Caylee Anthony's Grandparents on Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot
Caylee Anthony's Grandmother Said She Can Identify With Natalee Holloway's Mom, Not Van der Sloot's

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010

On the second anniversary of Caylee Anthony's disappearance , the toddler's grandparents said they can identify with Natalee Holloway's mother, but not with the mother of suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot -- despite the murder charges against their daughter, Casey Anthony.

A judge in Peru officially has charged the young man with murder.

More Photos "I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-cindy-anthony-caylee-anthonys-grandmother-natalee-holloway/story?id=10913252

O brother! kh

Double barf.........my goodness. She is pathetic. Unreal.

Sooooo, she can't relate because Joran confessed...What about relating because of the lies he/she told...Guess that doesn't count...Annnnd, she says she hasn't seen the angry side of KC...She must have Altzheimers and can't remember the jail visits where KC was ugly angry...I taped the show but havent seen it yet, wanted to see what happened here first!!!!

Alot of these quotes were not on T.v....just on the interview page...

"[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee... I'm still her grandfather... I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will," he said.unquote...

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-george-cindy-anthony-speak-anniversary-caylees-disappearance/story?id=10911174

I have to say that just coming home from visiting my one-and-only granddaughter, age 2-1/2, I find this case so deplorable. kh

photos of Baez allowing KC to view his cellphone and laptop
and showing her something under the table (a piece of jewelry from Cindy)

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Baez showing KC a piece of jewelry from Cindy, under the table


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note passed from female attorney to female guard

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Baez letting KC look at his laptop

http://s439.photobucket.com/albums/qq120/cayleecross/?start=760
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Baez showing KC his cell phone

George and Cindy Anthony Speak on 2nd Anniversary of Caylee's Disappearance
Grandparents Call Time 'Unbearable,' Say Casey Anthony Is Innocent But 'Anything Can Happen' in Trial

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010



Two years ago today Florida 2-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished , sparking what would become one of the nation's highest profile murder cases and beginning a time of intense and painful scrutiny that has seared the entire Anthony family, Caylee's grandparents said today.

"The last two years have been just unbearable," an emotional George Anthony told "Good Morning America" in an exclusive interview today as he sat alongside his wife, Cindy Anthony . "To think about the last time we saw Caylee and Casey together, hear her voice, to see her little eyes and get a hug and kiss from her. It's not easy."

Caylee disappeared on June 15, 2008, but was not reported missing by her mother, Casey Anthony, until a month later.

In October of that year Casey was charged with her daughter's murder and in December the toddler's body was found less than a mile from the Anthony home. The intervening months have been full of court hearings and controversies, public protests and personal struggles.

"We've been dealing with this almost as long as Caylee was alive, because Caylee wasn't quite 3 when this started," Caylee's grandmother Cindy Anthony said. "So it seems like this nightmare has lasted longer than the moments than we had with her. That makes it very, very difficult.

"And I miss the last three years that I could have had with her, or the last two years. And then thinking about her starting school..," Cindy said before breaking into tears.

Though she maintains her daughter Casey is innocent and has "faith in the system," Cindy Anthony said that she did initially consider that Casey could have played a part in Caylee's disappearance. Acknowledging that a jury might feel the same way, Cindy Anthony said, "Anything can happen" when Casey goes to trial in the spring.

"I mean the thought did cross our mind in the very beginning. There may have been an accident," Cindy said. But Cindy said she dismissed the thought, even though Casey refused to tell her where Caylee was.

"I'm not angry about it so much as I am frustrated because I might be able to better understand why she's where she's at now. Because, I still truly believe that she is innocent," the grandmother said. "There's got to be a motive there that's much greater than this whole picture."

Cindy acknowledged that her daughter lied to investigators early on, but said nothing proves she did anything more than that.

"A liar doesn't make you a murderer," she said.

Many people felt differently and for months, protesters were a common sight outside the Anthony home.

The trial has made the family famous and turned their home into something of a Florida landmark.

"People drive from New Jersey or Wisconsin or whatever to come out and we're kind of like on the Disney route," Cindy said. "They come in and they want to see, you know, take a picture of our house or come in and say they've met us or whatever."



Cindy Anthony: 'Dead Body' Smell Was to Get Police Attention, Family Denies Sexual Abuse

Cindy Anthony also backed off statements she made in a panicked 911 call in 2008 at the outset of the case in which she said the car Casey drove smelled like "there's been a dead body in there," saying that she was only trying to get police to respond quickly.

"You can't take back anything that you say or feel at the time and I don't take [it] back," Cindy said. "All I know is I was desperate to get someone out to my house, desperate... When you're desperately needing something, especially when it comes to your children, you pretty much do or say whatever it takes to get help."

A Florida judge has yet to rule on whether the 911 tapes will be heard during the murder trial, but Brad Conway, an attorney for George and Cindy Anthony said today he doesn't doubt "for a second" the tapes will be entered into evidence.

Also likely to play a role in the trial are hundreds of pages of jailhouse letters Casey Anthony exchanged with another inmate, whom the Anthonys believe was part of an elaborate set-up by investigators. In the letters, Casey complains about her family's "betrayal," alleges that her brother sexually abused her as a child and that George may have as well. She said in the letters she didn't remember if some of the memories were dreams or not.

The Anthony family firmly denied those claims.

"I don't know where Casey was pulling stuff from, the stuff she's talking about. I have no clue," Cindy said. "It was very hurtful to George because I think for her to say that she had a dream, for her to even say that I think it was very hurtful for him."

Anthonys on Pain of Being Away From Not One, But Two Loved Ones

While Caylee Anthony may be gone forever, the Anthonys described how difficult it has been for them to be away from Casey while she spends a reported 23 hours of every day in her cell.

"I miss her. I miss her too much. And I think about where she's at. She shouldn't be there," Cindy said.

The Anthonys said they rarely see their daughter for fear of the media onslaught that's sure to follow any meeting.

"We'd love to, but we've been advised by her attorneys because they will play our videos over and over again and someone will sit there and critique," Cindy said. "If she cracks a smile, if she doesn't crack a smile. If she has a tear, if she doesn't have a tear."

Even in court the Anthonys said their daughter can't look at them while under the watchful eye of television cameras and reporters.

"I just want her to stay strong, know how much I love her," she said. "I've had dreams that Casey's home. I have faith that Casey will be home."

In a rare spontaneous meeting during a court recess in March, Cindy said she was able to give Casey a Mother's Day card.

Though Caylee will not be coming home, George Anthony said he found away to carry the toddler with him -- in a tattoo of the girl printed above his heart.

"Caylee's always in my mind. She's always in my heart. When I put her on my skin, she's really inside of me," George said.

He said it was desperation to see his late granddaughter that caused him to attempt suicide on Jan. 23, 2009.

"People thought when I tried to take my own life that that was some kind of publicity stunt or something like that. No, it wasn't," he said.

"[It was] because I wanted to be with Caylee... I'm still her grandfather... I'm going to experience that grandparenting again one day. I will. I will," he said.

Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty to Caylee Anthony's murder and is expected to go to trial in May 2011.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-george-cindy-anthony-speak-anniversary-caylees-disappearance/story?id=10911174

Caylee Anthony's Grandparents on Natalee Holloway, Joran Van der Sloot
Caylee Anthony's Grandmother Said She Can Identify With Natalee Holloway's Mom, Not Van der Sloot's

By ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, KAITLYN FOLMER and LEE FERRAN
June 15, 2010

On the second anniversary of Caylee Anthony's disappearance , the toddler's grandparents said they can identify with Natalee Holloway's mother, but not with the mother of suspected murderer Joran van der Sloot -- despite the murder charges against their daughter, Casey Anthony.

A judge in Peru officially has charged the young man with murder.

"I don't know if I can identify with Mrs. Van Der Sloot because her son has confessed to something," Caylee's grandmother, Cindy Anthony, said in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America." "You know, there have been issues where she saw his angry side. I don't know that of Casey. I don't know Casey as being anybody that could hurt anybody."

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TheLaw/exclusive-cindy-anthony-caylee-anthonys-grandmother-natalee-holloway/story?id=10913252

I'm glad I didn't watch this crap today!

Cindy and George really need to get over themselves. They are not as important as they want to be. I wish the media would stop humoring them.

Cindy dreams of Casey coming home

posted by halboedeker on June, 15 2010 8:24 AM

George and Cindy Anthony were the opening act for Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz on “Good Morning America” this morning.

Cruise and Diaz promoted their new movie, “Knight and Day,” and a stunt they will perform on Wednesday’s “GMA.”

The Anthonys were on “GMA” to promote themselves and their views. But they didn’t say anything new in their interview with Ashleigh Banfield. They discussed their pain about granddaughter Caylee’s death and their belief in daughter Casey’s innocence.

Cindy said she dreams Casey will come home — evidently, Cindy thinks Casey will be acquitted. Casey is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Caylee.

“The last two years have been unbearable,” George said. “It’s not easy. It’s not easy.”

The grandparents talked about tattoos and bracelets they wear in Caylee’s honor. Cindy said she talked about a body in a 911 call to get the attention of police — evidently an attempt to play down that dramatic call. Cindy said she thought investigators were frustrated with Casey because they couldn’t break her in 24 to 48 hours.

“They didn’t break her, and they haven’t broken her, because there’s nothing to break,” Cindy said.

Cindy said she could understand investigators’ suspicions because of Casey’s lies. ”A liar doesn’t make you a murderer,” Cindy said.

George and Cindy have read Casey’s letters to a jail pen pal, and Cindy said they were “very hurtful” for George. He said he still has “unconditional love” for Casey.

George Stephanopoulos had billed it as an emotional interview with the Anthonys two years after their granddaughter’s disappearance. Cindy broke into tears when talking about the thought of Caylee going to school.

Bottom line: George and Cindy just never help themselves with their TV appearances. I have a feeling that Cruise and Diaz will be more successful with their stunt Wednesday morning.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2010/06/casey-anthony-cindy-dreams-of-casey-coming-home.html