Deadspin: Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend story was a hoax

I would imagine there are plenty of nice girls at Notre Dame.

I would not be shocked if TSP is right.

 

She's from Canada. You wouldn't know her.

 

Hard-hitting piece by Notre Dame's PR department the Associated Press, which leaves absolutely no questions unanswered.

 

Very difficult to believe his story when he claims to have met her at both Stanford and in Hawaii, but distributed photos of another girl to the media (or you allowed Notre Dame to). If he met a "hoaxter" girl at any point, he'd have known the photos were of a different girl.

 

Te'o and the Real Girl

 

In Wojciechowski's defense ... how many people pass every day and don't get an obit/death notice published? But, yeah, it might have raised alarms.

 

The guy who wrote that piece certainly has some questions to answer today.

 

It's the one question that demands to be answered!

If poor Manti was a victim, why the "We met at Stanford" and "She came and visited at Hawaii" stories?

 

Uh-oh.

 

On the South Bend web site:

Seriously - no fact-finding mission necessary. Who told your reporter that they met at the Stanford game?

Did Manti or your reporter fabricate that detail?

 

Jim, It is easy to believe his story if you believe that he didn't actually meet her but only told people he did. People lie about their relationships all the time. All. The. Time. About who you slept with, who likes you, who you like, how you met, what the person's like, whether you're happy, how often you have sex with your significant other. Everything. People lie about these things even to family members. Maybe I've missed it but has his family ever actually said they met her? The only things I've seen about Hawaii is them saying that's where he would meet her. Again, him being duped -- while also lying about aspects of it, ie., the fact he met her -- seems more plausible than him being involved from start to finish in some campaign to have a fake girlfriend.

I'm with Yankee Fan here. Nothing is a surprise when it comes to relationships and deceptions, the ones we tell ourselves and the ones we tell each other. So nothing would surprise me. Maybe he was in on it the whole time. But I'm more inclined to believe it was someone (and people close to you can fuck with you too) fucking with him and circumstances -- him bursting onto the national spotlight -- bit him in the ass, along with embarrassment over an online relationship. People are still embarrassed about those even when they are legitimate. When they turn out not even to be legitimate? The embarrassment multiplies.

But again, who the hell knows.