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Thread: Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Story a Hoax

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    if you listen closely, you can hear those scripts about the Manti Te'o Story tearing.

    Disney now has a few extra million for some other movie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by No One View Post
    if you listen closely, you can hear those scripts about the Manti Te'o Story tearing.
    Naah. They'll just tack on a different ending and give it to another division.

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    Quote Originally Posted by USCKingsFan31 View Post
    Incredible expose by Deadspin:

    Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax

    A black eye for Te'o, but an even darker one for journalism, IMO.
    Umm I think the last 5 years for journalism has been a black eye. The lack of intellectual curiosity regarding our current Regime has been alarming.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay View Post
    Well my first assumption was here was a guy who was part of a macho culture (football) and a deeply pious culture (mormonism).

    He would no doubt be feeling tons of pressure from both communities to be "sowing his wild oats" or "settling down and meeting a nice girl" etc etc...

    having a girlfriend who was in a coma/sick/dead is a pretty great cover story.

    But the more I read about it the more it just sounded like bonkers nonsense and it keeps getting weirder. So who knows.....
    I think your first assumptions sounds spot on and actually makes me feel sorry for him, unlike if the truth happens to be he's a publicity whore or an idiot.

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    <---- it says so right there.

    Quote Originally Posted by santiclaws View Post
    Hey, I just sat next to a guy who claimed he was FishMonger. How do I know you're him?? Hmmm???

    It seems someone is trying to deflect attention from themself by accusing others of things. Why has noobdy here ever met your wife, except for Former Arizona Cardinals fullback Reagan Mauia??? Explain THAT!

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    Maniacal Laugh, Maniacal Laugh, Maniacal Laugh

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    Lance definitely owes Teo a blowjob

    Minor league baseball team plans to host a

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    Even Dustin Brown is getting in on this

    Finally, I have to ask this given current events: Is there anyone in the Kings’ locker room you think is likely to have a fake Internet girlfriend?
    I don’t think so. [Penner] has the personality, but I don’t think he’d go that far.
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    Quote Originally Posted by x-wingcamewest View Post
    I think what bothers me most about this story is that is actually a news item, ............. anywhere.
    Not sure how you mean.

    If you mean that this is insignificant in the grand scheme of things, most definitely. But then, by that logic, so is virtually everything revolving around sports.

    But in the world of sports, when a player from a storied university like Notre Dame elevates his game to become one of the best players in the country to lead his team to an undefeated regular season and his defense to be the best scoring defense in the nation (allowing just 10.3 points per game) facing what many believed this preseason to be one of the toughest schedules in the country, that's news. When he does all of that in a season where his grandmother and girlfriend both died within six hours of each other of cancer, it's a pretty remarkable story, even to some degree outside of the world of sports.

    When it turns out that that story was a hoax, one that either fooled this incredible character or one that he took part in crafting to build this character image, that's definitely news. When this hoax was perpetuated and spread by virtually every major news network and publication in the country, it brings to the forefront so much of what is wrong with news today and can open up a very legitimate national conversation (that many of us have already been having for years) about what direction the "twitter age" is leading media towards.

    So yeah, some guy having a fake girlfriend online in a vacuum may not be much of a news story. But this most certainly is.
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