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re: Deadspin: Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Story a Hoax (now with drug dealers!)
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:38 am to KosmoCramer
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:38 am to KosmoCramer
Remember that Notre Dame basketball player who turned over that capped bottle of water in disgust when manti didnt win the heisman? I bet he wishes he hadnt turned over that capped bottle of water now.
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Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:39 am to Vegas Bengal
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when one Twitter message was sent to The New ND Nation, with 7,000 followers, saying it needed “to know the truth” about Te’o’s girlfriend. LINK
Hadn't seen that tweet and link til you just posted it. I had seen the other preemptive tweets, but not that particular one. Very interesting and it does match up with the time line.
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It started out a gay thing
Still not gonna jump on board w/ this theory yet, but it would be great. Personally, I think his ONLY escape once everybody wises up to him not being the victim is to pull the ghey card. Probably his best chance at holding onto any small amount of decency he once had. This works if he can get Ronaiah to go along accordingly...for hush $, of course.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:41 am to Vegas Bengal
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It started out a gay thing and turned into a scam by Ronaiah, cut short on Dec. 5, when one Twitter message was sent to The New ND Nation, with 7,000 followers, saying it needed “to know the truth” about Te’o’s girlfriend. LINK
That's when Ronaiah and Te'o started to realize it was over. There were no more sitings of Ronaiah after that.
Think about it, it was the Thanksgiving weekend Ronaiah was pushing his charities. Then nothing after the tweets started.
It was also when the tweets started that Te'o claims he received the telephone call. There was no call. He saw his beard was aboutbo be exposed via twitter.
The most logical thing I've read or heard since the story broke.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:41 am to MenloDawg
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Remember that Notre Dame basketball player who turned over that capped bottle of water in disgust when manti didnt win the heisman? I bet he wishes he hadnt turned over that capped bottle of water now.
Even that looked fake.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:41 am to Tiger Ryno
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The resident gay expert ColonelToddy believes that the "flair" of the car accident and death lines right up with a gay man's imagination.
dont forget this flair:
--hit by drunk driver
--in coma
--flat lined twice
--was supposed to have plug pulled while Teo was in the air on a plan
--when he lands, miraculaously she is alive!
--she wrote him letters before every game
--lulz
What about the nurse saying she improved every time he called when she was coming out her coma. Yet he never visited her. He just stayed on the phone all night with her. What hospital lets a patient stay on the phone 8 hours every night?
The resident gay expert ColonelToddy believes that the "flair" of the car accident and death lines right up with a gay man's imagination.
dont forget this flair:
--hit by drunk driver
--in coma
--flat lined twice
--was supposed to have plug pulled while Teo was in the air on a plan
--when he lands, miraculaously she is alive!
--she wrote him letters before every game
--lulz
What about the nurse saying she improved every time he called when she was coming out her coma. Yet he never visited her. He just stayed on the phone all night with her. What hospital lets a patient stay on the phone 8 hours every night?
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:42 am to greenwave
yeah it made for good unintentional comedy.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:44 am to Rickety Cricket
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You are all in for Manti
no, he's all in for his troll
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:45 am to Vegas Bengal
Now I am here: he's either the stupidest mark ever or in an elite class of stupid liars. And everybody bought it.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:45 am to Tiger Ryno
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no, he's all in for his troll
Agreed. Either that or he's 12 and a diehard Te'o fan
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:47 am to Vegas Bengal
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What about the nurse saying she improved every time he called when she was coming out her coma. Yet he never visited her. He just stayed on the phone all night with her. What hospital lets a patient stay on the phone 8 hours every night?
No, no, no. You see they slept with the phones so they could hear one another breathe, it was the sound of Manti's breathing that gave her the strength to fight the cancer. Not anything else.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:52 am to Rickety Cricket
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The more the other ND players start to come to the surface adn give interviews the more it is becoming apparent that this guy was not really a leader on the team and many many players felt he was an outsider and possbily a big liar, media whore type
My thoughts as well. Re watching the interviews he just seems like a goon
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:53 am to Rickety Cricket
That's true it was the breathing that did hte majic...the nurses were absolutely astonished...
I think this Teo might be a direct descendant of Joseph Smith with these tall tales
I think this Teo might be a direct descendant of Joseph Smith with these tall tales
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:53 am to MenloDawg
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To me, regardless, the guy is a complete joke. Period.
A. He was entirely complicit = POS liar, sociopath
B. Initially duped, embellished story = still a POS liar, still a loser for twitter relationship when he's MLB for an ND team in a MNC run, and still a sociopath for embellishing for attention (why else would the story of the meeting come out the way it did?)
C. Completely and utterly duped = WTF? WTF were you thinking? Oh, and he's still a POS liar.
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D. Ronaiah set up a girl to meet him in '09 at the game (ala the NFL player), proceeded w/ joke by getting a girl to talk to Te'o over the phone (the phone conversations), and decided Twitter would be better in '11 (the initial twitter interaction).
By that time, Te'o had fallen hook, line, and sinker. Then, unexpectedly to him, Ronaiah decided to kill "himself" either to revel in MT's tragedy, to remove himself from the potential spotlight in the future, or for $ purposes. Te'o embellishes story to parents. Dad embellishes to media, Mom along for the ride. Te'o embellishes b/c there's no turning back at this point and he's caught in a web of lies that he doesn't even know are impossibilities.
This is the only scenario, IMO, that saves him somewhat, but it really hinges on whether or not he met an actual person in '09 or if he was full of shite.
B/c if he's full of shite about that storybook meeting then it's hard for me to buy this "love of my life" horse shite when ND students/players are already calling BS/saying he hooked up with other girls on campus during this pseudo relationship.
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E. Ok, maybe if he was ALREADY being extorted that would save him but that opens a whole new can of worms:
How would extortion explain the embellishing? Was it done at the request of Ronaiah who has a particular interest in not being exposed? How ridiculous does that sound?
And, of course, where the hell was he getting his $ in the extortion scenario? Sounds like he sure as hell didn't have enough $ to fly out and meet the "bitch" at any point after meeting her (on the field in '09, errr, online in '11)
You nailed it....
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:55 am to Rickety Cricket
The guy lied, and he lied big time. No matter if he was fooled by the scam or not, once she "passed away", on his own Manti gave his sob story to every reporter with a microphone. Nobody made him tell those lies about the all night phone calls, the love of his life, etc. He made that stuff up on his own, and the media ate it up. The media was catfished, not Te'o.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 8:57 am to Choupique19
How many people still buy the "Manti is a victim" line?
Posted on 1/18/13 at 9:01 am to Vegas Bengal
Yeah, I checked out that guys twitter the night of. I have no doubt that Ronaiah saw those tweets or were made aware of them.
Did Te'o see them? I questioned it at first (of course, unless he was complicit), but then if you notice at the very bottom of the page, the very last tweet actually includes his twitter handle and was tweeted @ him on Dec. 3rd.
Then, I think, the question becomes, is this ACTUALLY how he found out she wasn't dead/she didn't exist? A tweet on the 3rd from Catfish rather than a call on the 6th? And he was waaaaay too embarrassed after embellishing up to this point that he just continued it?
Nah, I think he was somehow, in some way, involved for the majority of this.
Did Te'o see them? I questioned it at first (of course, unless he was complicit), but then if you notice at the very bottom of the page, the very last tweet actually includes his twitter handle and was tweeted @ him on Dec. 3rd.
Then, I think, the question becomes, is this ACTUALLY how he found out she wasn't dead/she didn't exist? A tweet on the 3rd from Catfish rather than a call on the 6th? And he was waaaaay too embarrassed after embellishing up to this point that he just continued it?
Nah, I think he was somehow, in some way, involved for the majority of this.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 9:01 am to Vegas Bengal
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This guy on twitter put together the early December tweets LINK
Somebody is lying!!!! And that somebody has the "full support" of the Notre Dame administration.
Posted on 1/18/13 at 9:06 am to ohiovol
This is the best trainwreck news story in a long time.
No way is Te'o the mastermind behind all this. His buddy made up the story to troll him. Te'o is an awkward kid who bought it hook, line, and sinker. I am not sure when Te'o found out, but he obviously embellished the story for the media and the attention.
BTW, all the "established" media that reported this need to be fired. How the f*ck did none of them check up on the details? No one checked for an obituary, a death certificate, student records, etc.?
No way is Te'o the mastermind behind all this. His buddy made up the story to troll him. Te'o is an awkward kid who bought it hook, line, and sinker. I am not sure when Te'o found out, but he obviously embellished the story for the media and the attention.
BTW, all the "established" media that reported this need to be fired. How the f*ck did none of them check up on the details? No one checked for an obituary, a death certificate, student records, etc.?
Posted on 1/18/13 at 9:06 am to Choupique19
Whats the deal with people saying they know his gf?'
She isn't real. Do they mean they know the girl who's pictures was used in the hoax? (Diane O'Meara,)so what.. it doesn't matter. it doesn't give any credibility or validate anything.. so what is the point..
She isn't real. Do they mean they know the girl who's pictures was used in the hoax? (Diane O'Meara,)so what.. it doesn't matter. it doesn't give any credibility or validate anything.. so what is the point..
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