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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
It was all a part of the Golden Dome's Hypes Man Trophy campaign. 05-stirthepot
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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
Thankfully, I never heard this story during the season ("Story about ND?" *change channel*), but Deadspin is awesome for pointing out all the "legitimate" news sources that ran with this story without ever investigating it at all. Just wish this had come out the week of the BCS Champ game so it would've been bigger news.
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(01-16-2013 07:13 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  Thankfully, I never heard this story during the season ("Story about ND?" *change channel*), but Deadspin is awesome for pointing out all the "legitimate" news sources that ran with this story without ever investigating it at all. Just wish this had come out the week of the BCS Champ game so it would've been bigger news.

I caught about 5 seconds of it on ESPN and thought to myself, "man, that really sounds like B.S."

I don't claim to be psychic or a genius though. I think most TV news is B.S.
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(01-16-2013 07:22 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 07:13 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  Thankfully, I never heard this story during the season ("Story about ND?" *change channel*), but Deadspin is awesome for pointing out all the "legitimate" news sources that ran with this story without ever investigating it at all. Just wish this had come out the week of the BCS Champ game so it would've been bigger news.

I caught about 5 seconds of it on ESPN and thought to myself, "man, that really sounds like B.S."

I don't claim to be psychic or a genius though. I think most TV news is B.S.

Purest irony...the media cannot figure out the strains of media...all about sensationalism and first reports...right or wrong is irrelevant.

The deadspin article was one of the better in investigative journalism in quite some time...good to see there are still those out there to hold someone accountable....hell, this board is a better resource of news than any of the bigs IMO
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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
(01-16-2013 07:51 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 07:22 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 07:13 PM)Luckyshot Wrote:  Thankfully, I never heard this story during the season ("Story about ND?" *change channel*), but Deadspin is awesome for pointing out all the "legitimate" news sources that ran with this story without ever investigating it at all. Just wish this had come out the week of the BCS Champ game so it would've been bigger news.

I caught about 5 seconds of it on ESPN and thought to myself, "man, that really sounds like B.S."

I don't claim to be psychic or a genius though. I think most TV news is B.S.

Purest irony...the media cannot figure out the strains of media...all about sensationalism and first reports...right or wrong is irrelevant.

The deadspin article was one of the better in investigative journalism in quite some time...good to see there are still those out there to hold someone accountable....hell, this board is a better resource of news than any of the bigs IMO

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Hahaha. All of that made up BS for a Heisman he couldn't even win.
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(01-16-2013 06:52 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  And then she was in a CAR WRECK... and then she got LEUKEMIA... and then an evil pots-and-pans ROBOT showed up... and what's that? Oh no! A tyrannosaurus! Grrr!

Seriously... did he come up with the death part after he figured out it was a hoax, as a way to clean everything up? That's the impression I'm getting, and I know three-year-olds who could do better than that.

If he was trying to clean it up, don't you think he would have just told people they broke up? It didn't become a national story until after he lied about her dying, so there wasn't really anything to clean up anyways. If he'd found out it was a prank, it would have been embarrassing for him, but not on a national level. I think he was in on it the whole time, and is just lying more now to try to keep it from torpedoing his NFL draft stock.

And if he didn't know it was a prank until after her "death", then how would he have talked to her on the phone every night, like he claimed? The Tuiasosopo guy would have had to find a girl to stay on the phone with him every night - sometimes all night, as he said - for months. He's just going to end up digging the hole deeper for himself. Bye bye first round.
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The best part is he is trying to play the victim of the hoax and not the perpetrator of it. Like an episode of Catfish!
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Manti said in a newspaper interview that he held her hand. ND ad had no answer to that.
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(01-16-2013 05:39 PM)Blueraidersig Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 05:25 PM)AndreWhere Wrote:  What a dork. I'm not a hotshot and don't claim to be... but I've never had a made-up Internet girlfriend.

And even if you did why kill her?

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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
So instead of Tebowing we can all Te'Oing by sitting an putting our arms around our invisible girlfriend.
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I have always said my epitaph will only consist of, "If you act like a dipshite, you deserve to be treated like a dipshite."

Welcome to world of dipshitedness...love ya Manti, your internet biatch!

I still contend the guy should have a cat scan on his brain before he goes Seau.

At any level and to whatever degree, it is just inexplicable to do something like this...no way he wasn't a part of it...defies any law of common sense
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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
It's like that movie "the life of Pi" where you really don't know the real story. If Teo said that he held her hand then that proves that he did know it was a hoax. How can you hold the hand of an invisible woman? And. If he really did not know it was a hoax then my sympathies to him to have this happen so soon after his grandmother death. I wonder if anyone broke the law?
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(01-16-2013 08:24 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  The best part is he is trying to play the victim of the hoax and not the perpetrator of it. Like an episode of Catfish!

It is not out of the realm of possibility that he was the victim and he was lying because he was embarrassed about having an internet girlfriend as a 22 year old Heisman candidate. Christ, I'd lie about it too.

Also, I guess I find a hard time understanding how he could knowingly lie about it the day that his grandmother actually died.

He was probably in on it, yes. But I'm going to suspend my judgment.

If this was a scam on Teo's part, I almost admire the dedication. This whole thing was intricately planned and went on for years.
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(01-16-2013 11:13 PM)eaglenjxn Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 08:24 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  The best part is he is trying to play the victim of the hoax and not the perpetrator of it. Like an episode of Catfish!

It is not out of the realm of possibility that he was the victim and he was lying because he was embarrassed about having an internet girlfriend as a 22 year old Heisman candidate. Christ, I'd lie about it too.

That said, do I think that is the case? No. I'm just going to suspend judgment until a little more info comes out.

If this was a scam, I almost admire the dedication. This whole thing went on for years.

Why?

So now we get to see bicycle Armstrong and Manti cry in the same week....(guessing on the latter)

Sorry, but you either do it or you don't...if you do the wrong thing, then own up to it...running only compounds the problem...he either fkd up or he didn't

Once you lie about it, you will never regain the respect of public opinion...because they do the same damn thing
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(01-16-2013 11:19 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 11:13 PM)eaglenjxn Wrote:  
(01-16-2013 08:24 PM)MU ATO Wrote:  The best part is he is trying to play the victim of the hoax and not the perpetrator of it. Like an episode of Catfish!

It is not out of the realm of possibility that he was the victim and he was lying because he was embarrassed about having an internet girlfriend as a 22 year old Heisman candidate. Christ, I'd lie about it too.

That said, do I think that is the case? No. I'm just going to suspend judgment until a little more info comes out.

If this was a scam, I almost admire the dedication. This whole thing went on for years.

Why?

So now we get to see bicycle Armstrong and Manti cry in the same week....(guessing on the latter)

Sorry, but you either do it or you don't...if you do the wrong thing, then own up to it...running only compounds the problem...he either fkd up or he didn't

Once you lie about it, you will never regain the respect of public opinion...because they do the same damn thing

Because I'd be the laughing stock of the entire nation for being a football player with an online girlfriend that I've never met.

Maybe if I was 10, I'd fess up to it.
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RE: Manti Te'o's tragic girlfriend story a hoax?
Maybe he was lying about her name and decided to act like it was a hoax. S possibly he is lying about lying. Possibly he is a gay man that was dating a Shemale but confused himself. He woke I in an alley next to Tim Tebow tebowing and when he said what are you doing here Tim said quiet my child.
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