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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2013, 02:21:44 am »
One of the things they said on Bill O'Reilly is he possibly was trying to garner sympathy so he could win the Heisman Trophy because it would up his starting salary in the NFL.
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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2013, 02:27:25 pm »
The only reason Te'o ended up in the second in the Heisman voting was because of his sob story.  Without that, he would not have even been invited to New York.

I would put the blame then on the Heisman voting commission, not Te’o.  If human interest angles are even a small part of their Heisman voting criteria, then there is a huge problem with how they select candidates.  It’s an embarrassing situation for Mati, for sure,  but that is all it should be. There should be no impact on where he falls into the NFL Draft, unless the media’s overreaction  makes it happen. Compare this with the dozens of players arrested for DUI,  domestic violence, drugs or assault, and Mati’s situation is small potatoes.

And my tall blond hair, blue eyed Swedish Victoria’s Secret super model on- line girl friend agrees with me, - so there.
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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #27 on: January 18, 2013, 02:49:50 pm »
Don't laugh. Glenn Beck was talking on his radio program this morning about what is coming in the very near future.... virtual everything, including creating your own virtual girlfriend who loves everything about you and includes virtual sex... they claim this is so real that no one would be able to have or maintain a human to human relationship once they  have had the "virtual" experience because no human is as perfect at the virtual person you would have created...   he warned this is another of those many slippery slopes that is destroying society.

Try as they might, they could never develop a better political discussion correspondent than you, Rap.  Please, please tell me you're real.

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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #28 on: January 18, 2013, 06:56:15 pm »
Try as they might, they could never develop a better political discussion correspondent than you, Rap.  Please, please tell me you're real.

~LOL~ massadjv... you're funny.
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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2013, 01:39:27 pm »

....that he doesn't kill himself over this.
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Why not?  There's a lot to be said for shame as a method of behavior modification.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2013, 02:21:15 pm »
I would put the blame then on the Heisman voting commission, not Te’o.  If human interest angles are even a small part of their Heisman voting criteria, then there is a huge problem with how they select candidates.  It’s an embarrassing situation for Mati, for sure,  but that is all it should be. There should be no impact on where he falls into the NFL Draft, unless the media’s overreaction  makes it happen. Compare this with the dozens of players arrested for DUI,  domestic violence, drugs or assault, and Mati’s situation is small potatoes.

And my tall blond hair, blue eyed Swedish Victoria’s Secret super model on- line girl friend agrees with me, - so there.

 goopo

OK, due to my lack of interest in a lot of news these days, I avoided this story until I got caught up here.  Great thread.

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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2013, 02:51:50 pm »
ND wasn't undefeated.

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« Reply #33 on: January 21, 2013, 12:35:05 pm »
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

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Re: The Manti Te'o dead girlfriend story is a hoax
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2013, 09:25:46 pm »
This boy strikes me as being dumb as a box of rocks.
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Te'o tells Couric he briefly lied about girlfriend
By DAVID K. LI
January 23, 2013


Humiliated football star Manti Te’o insisted he had no choice but to keep lying about his phony gal pal -- even after she called him from the virtual grave and revealed the huge hoax.

The Notre Dame great repeated his version of the wild tale, telling Katie Couric about a Dec. 6 phone call from the woman he knew as Lennay Kekua, the girlfriend who he had told the world had died of cancer on Sept. 12.

Kekua never existed and her phony death -- in addition to the real passing of Teo’s grandmother a day before -- became the emotional narrative of Notre Dame’s great football season.


Even after the call, Te’o said he had to keep talking up Lennay in interviews, leading up to Notre Dame’s national championship game on Jan. 7

"Now I get a phone call on Dec. 6, saying that she's alive and then I'm going be put on national TV two days later. And to ask me about the same question. You know, what would you do?" Te'o told Couric, in his first on-camera interview that’s set to air tomorrow.

Segments of Couric’s chat with the Heisman Trophy runner-up and his parents aired on “Good Morning America” today.

"Katie, put yourself in my situation. I, my whole world told me that she died on Sept. 12. Everybody knew that. This girl, who I committed myself to, died on Sept. 12," Te'o said.

Even though Lennay’s widely reported death was once a PR boon for the now-humiliated grid star, dad Brian Te’o said his son didn’t lie for publicity.

Manti Te’o has admitted he never met Lennay in person and “tailored” remarkable details about his fake girlfriend that he fed to fans. Te’o and his family, before Dec. 6, had spoken at length about the couple’s romantic vacations in Hawaii and dreamy, first meeting after the 2009 Notre Dame-Stanford football game.

"People can speculate about what they think he is. I've known him 21 years of his life. And he's not a liar. He's a kid," Brian Te'o said with tears in his eyes.

The hoax, first reported a week ago today by sports Web site Deadspin, has been traced to Te’o acquaintance Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a Christian musician from Southern California.

Tuiasosopo used the picture of a former high school classmate for the hoax, without telling her.

That pretty face of Lennay, Los Angeles marketing executive Diane O'Meara, saidl her head is still spinning from her unwitting role in the scam.

“Even today, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. I mean, I have my own boyfriend of five years, committed relationship, so to hear that you’re the face of a separate relationship, it’s hard to see,” O’Meara told NBC’s “Today” show.

O’Meara said she identifies with Te’o, as a hoax victim who feels “the same emotions: frustration, anger, confusion.”

O’Meara said she gave Tuiasosopo a picture of herself after he reached her via Facebook and spun a tale about his cousin’s poor health.

“We’re raised to have a kind heart,” she said. “He repeatedly reached out to me on Facebook. And I almost felt guilty not sending a photo with this sign for this photo slideshow.

“He went as far as sending me a photo of his cousin with head trauma, bandages in the hospital. Out of the kindness of my heart, I thought I was just comforting somebody that I knew of.”

Tuiasosopo has not yet commented publicly about his role in the Te’o hoax.

Although Tuiasosopo never played big-time college or pro football, he comes from a long line of grid greats. Dad Titus Tuiasosopo played at USC and is now is the pastor of Oasis Christian Church of the Antelope Valley in Lancaster, Calif.
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