http://www.slate.com/articles/video/...l_clinton.html


thought the above would apply for this thread.

and notredame fan, who knows? certainly gave him a lot of extra publicity, an si cover, etc. why would someone 'date' a person he never met for three years?

And you know this how?

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...iend-hoax?lite

9 questions....so far.

the last one, the motive? can think of one named heisman, if teo were involved. if he wasn't, then this is one long-lived 'hoax'-and what would be the motive in that case??


imo, these last two are the ones that really raise questions:

8. Carrying out the hoax would have been a full-time job involving more than one person. Te'o claims he would spend all night on the phone with Kekua while she was in the hospital. There were purported communications from family members. Who would have had the time to orchestrate it? By the same token, how would Te'o have been able to create and maintain a social-media profile for Kekua on his own?

9. Where's the motive? A central figure in the hoax is reported to be musician Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Deadspin reported that he had contact with the woman, a former high-school classmate, whose photos were used to create Kekua's profile -- even obtaining one of the pictures from her directly. But the site also describes Tuiasosopo as a friend of Te'o, raising the question of why he would humiliate his buddy.

I think Notre Dame studied damage control at Penn State.

The AD said last night he told them12/26.

yet on 1-3 he was still talking about her....

http://gawker.com/5976782/how-to-tel...tag=manti-te.o

How To Tell If Your Friend's Internet Girlfriend Is Not Real

:tro:

If your friend's girlfriend "just loves giving blowjobs; if anything, her love of giving blowjobs has *increased* since we've been together"...
...That girlfriend is: not real.

cause he likes men and didnt want his Mormon family and college teammates to find out.

that is the ONLY thing that makes sense.

Especially since Te'o is friends with the person who made up the fake girlfriend.

I'm also suspicious of any guy who claims his girlfriend's favorite flowers are roses. Because I don't know of any woman whose FAVORITE flower is the rose. And white roses? Srsly? Could that be more of a cliché?

(Okay now I'm sure all the male DTers will tell me that no, really, their wives/girlfriends/mistresses/etc. favorite flowers really are white roses. Really.)

I myself like snapdragons, which are impossible to give as cut flowers because they wilt almost immediately. So my better half is off the hook about those things. ;)

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo and Manti Te'o are lovers. Ronaiah's father is a pastor and they are big in religion. Te'o's a mormon and a football stud. So they make this story up to throw everyone off on the gay thing. Ronaiah and Te'o break up.. so they create this death thing as the death of their relationship. Come december Ronaiah wants to get back at Te'o and threatens to expose the fake gf thing. That's when Te'o makes up the "i was duped" story and goes to Notre Dame with it.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

it's a better story than what's been put out in the last few days.


and risk, i'm with you...except no flower is my favorite. hubby knows not to buy me any, i view fresh flowers as a waste of money. dead within days. i can buy books with that money, thank you very much!

the snoopdogged version:

http://gizoogle.net/index.php?search...le+Dis+Shiznit

Wow this is dumb

This guy knew she was fake for a long time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_2492653.html

so did this guy:

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d28...16e7042f517906

and isn't it funny timing that he realized it was 'all a hoax' right after the heisman voting concluded?

Saturday Night Live comedian Seth Meyers @sethmeyers21: "These Te'o jokes are all very funny but let's all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead."

Former Ohio State player turned sports blogger Mark Titus ‏@clubtrillion:"Protip: Get your Te'o jersey now. By the time Halloween rolls around, you'll forget about this and blow the chance to be Te'o & his fake GF."

Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel: "I have to say, inventing a dead girlfriend is the boldest Heisman stunt ever. Makes a Times Square billboard seem quaint"

ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale: "Don't know what to believe in MANTI soap opera-heard from insiders that they could identify those involved in hoax !NEED TRUTH FROM TE'O NOW"

Houston Chronicle columnist Jerome Solomon @JeromeSolomon: "Don't believe a person can be as gullible as Te'o apparently claims he was? Why do you think Nigerian prince's send so much email?"

ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas: "The Manti Te'o story is the most confusing boyfriend-girlfriend situation since Jan Brady and George Glass. Bizarre."

NBC Universal's Michelle Beadle @MichelleDBeadle: Crying?!?! There's no CRYING in fake girlfriend death hoax bs extravaganza!!! #Manti"

Jenn Sterger @jennifersterger: "Show me a dude that openly admits to having an online relationship with a girl. That's NOT in a kitchen with Chris Hansen."

Johnny Manziel @JManziel2: "#MindBlown"

Cleveland Browns player Scott Fujita @scottfujita99: "Is it weird that I had no idea who this Te'o guy was until about 5 minutes ago? But not nearly as weird as this story! WTF?!!"

Andy Behrens ‏@andybehrens
In lieu of flowers, the Kekua family asks that you provide banking details so that we may transfer the sum of USD $14 million. URGENT

Please take 2 minutes and watch this from the makers of the movie catfish.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_2498345.html

They're probably pretty unbiased. It's not like they have anything to gain by convincing people this thing happens to people...oh wait.