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re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:28 am to memphstigers23
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:28 am to memphstigers23
quote:
So much fricking popcorn
Went on to say he met with a producer who told him about it... Said they were 80-90% on it, but it had some holes they needed to fill before they ran with it... Said he was humiliated for Manti.. That was about it, did not dive in any further...
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Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:28 am to Winkface
quote:He was getting a lot of Heisman & AA hype, the media was starting to swarm around him, sooner or later they were gonna find out she wasn't real...
ETA: But why have her die????
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:28 am to Y.A. Tittle
quote:
But, had she already been in a "car accident" and diagnosed with "leukemia"? It'd be hard not have him portrayed as a complete dick if you run with the "broke up" narrative at that point.
yea good point.
perhaps he shouldn't have made her get in a car accident or get leukemia.
i don't understand the thought process, but i've been around enough liars in my life to understand that they don't make the best decisions when spinning their webs
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 9:30 am
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:29 am to Patrick_Bateman
quote:
Stephen A.: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it ain't no damn mongoose!"
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:29 am to TheCaterpillar
if ESPN can, they never attribute shite to Deadspin
but they had to here i guess
but they had to here i guess
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:29 am to StraightCashHomey21
Is there a set time for the expected press conference?
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:29 am to jimithing11
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Cowherd just told the story how an ESPN executive told him about Te'o on Monday, but said the network didn't have all the facts to run the story.
Another cover. Just like the MSM said about Drudge when they held the Monica story.
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:29 am to WikiTiger
I hope they do a Newsroom episode on Manti Teo's fake girlfriend 
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:30 am to LSUJuice
quote:
Why should they have to confirm the existence of a person?
Um, I don't know. . . Maybe because it's their job?. . .
You're responsible for what you print. The standard to which professional journalists are held is that the information they publish be factual. Instead, in this case, they saw a tear-jerking sob story that they assumed to be true, and they ran with it. If they had done more, maybe they could've avoided the embarrassment they now deserve.
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 9:32 am
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:30 am to WikiTiger
quote:yeah
yea good point.
quote:I could see using this as the excuse why she was never able to travel or whatever.
perhaps he shouldn't have made her get in a car accident or get cancer.
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:30 am to Rickety Cricket
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Every once in a while, she would travel to Hawaii, and that happened to be the time Manti was home, so he would meet with her there
Sounds like he was lying to his dad because his "online GF" kept flaking. I would imagine the scheduled meetings(and ensuing flakes) are common with catfish scams.
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 9:31 am
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:31 am to jimithing11
quote:
Cowherd just told the story how an ESPN executive told him about Te'o on Monday, but said the network didn't have all the facts to run the story.
That has literally never stopped them before.
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:32 am to lsuhunt555
quote:
That has literally never stopped them before.
-- said Bernie Fine.
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:33 am to graychef
Cowherd is the man 
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:33 am to VerlanderBEAST
quote:
I would imagine the scheduled meetings(and ensuing flakes) are common with catfish scams.
in my time online i've seen probably at least 100 fakers get people wrapped up in them, and i admit i've been fooled (once publicly on this very site, RIP Marie)
there comes a time when you start to truly doubt if they're real or not, and it doesn't take 3 years to do it
you can be the most naive and stupid motherfricker on the planet, and those doubts creep in. that is NOTHING like the portrait that manti displayed. his family, who are notorious fame hogs, joined in on the scheme. this is not like any faker situation i've seen, and i've seen a LOT
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:34 am to lsuhunt555
From this site:
Pepper On Sports
Pepper On Sports
quote:
The Notre Dame football player, who asked for anonymity, told Pepper On Sports, “No we all knew he had only seen her once. But when the media was saying how he went through both deaths we knew,” said the source, referring to the back-to-back deaths of Te’o’s grandmother and girlfriend Lennay Kekua, who allegedly died of Leukemia.
In defense of the Heisman Trophy candidate, the source said he believes the lie may have indeed started with somebody duping Te’o using a phony twitter account, and eventually, faking their own death.
Early in my conversation with the source, the Notre Dame player said, “He lied, but the media blew it up.” In response to my follow-up question asking if the source thought that Te’o kept the story going because of the media attention, the player replied, “Yeah. Right after the Michigan [State] game. He should have never brought her in the media. His grandma passing was enough.”
Notre Dame’s victory over Michigan State and subsequent media explosion appears to have been the turning point for the source and many of his teammates.
The source said while the players discussed their suspicions amongst themselves, they never confronted Te’o.
“We would never bring it up. But we would look at him when he would get all emotional during media about his girl,” the player said.
When asked if he thought Te’o was a good actor, the player replied, “Very good.”
This post was edited on 1/17/13 at 9:37 am
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:34 am to jimithing11
quote:
Cowherd just told the story how an ESPN executive told him about Te'o on Monday, but said the network didn't have all the facts to run the story.
Kind of like not having all the facts to run...a story on Manti Te'o's girlfriend?
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:35 am to SlowFlowPro
He has said they met and physically hung out. He needs to answer that
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:35 am to Diseasefreeforall
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When asked if he thought Te’o was a good actor, the player replied, “Very good.”
Posted on 1/17/13 at 9:36 am to SlowFlowPro
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(once publicly on this very site, RIP Marie)
wait....that marie antionette chick was a fake?
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