Posted on 01/17/2013 8:57:05 AM PST by doug from upland
GOOGLE SEARCH: "Te'o Hoax" results in 120,000,000 references. GOOGLE SEARCH: "Obama fake birth certificate" results in 1,750,000 references
Notre Dame star linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend story is trending around the world. It is a firestorm.
We do not know exactly where this is going, but one of my first observations is marveling at the reporter feeding frenzy - both sports and regular news journalists.
From what I understand, this is a good kid, from a good family, who is an Eagle Scout. He may have been really immature in relationships with the opposite sex, let a story get out of hand, and did not know how to stop it.
Here is what really stands out. This is basically a personal scandal and worldwide humiliation for a naive kid who got caught up in something. There are no dead bodies, no cocaine shipments to Mena, no Swiss bank accounts, no crazy stalker intern getting top secret clearance at the Pentagon, no weapons secretly sent to Mexico and covered up, no perjury, no suborning perjury, no jogger threatening the children of a witness who was about to testify in a civil sexual harassment lawsuit, and no accusations of rape or assault in the Oval Office.
An "internet" girlfriend apparently "died". She supposedly played volleyball at Stanford. But no one checked on an obituary or if she actually went to Stanford?
Look at these journalists going for every detail about a "scandal" that does not affect the economy or national security. Where were journalists regarding something that really did matter ----- the President of the United States, who has hidden everything about his past, presented to the American people a birth certificate that computer experts judged to be a fraud? Where indeed? Maybe we should have put the sports writers on the Obama story. We will soon know much more about a young college athlete than about the President of the United States.
A death certificate of a fake "internet" girlfriend vs. the birth certificate of the leader of the Free World. Which is more important?
They didn’t last long but there could be three or four a day.
So I am told.
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Te'o Hoax: About 131,000,000 results
Obama hoax: About 130,000,000 results
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Obama birth certificate: About 9,140,000 results
Obama Birth: About 239,000,000 results
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Apples: About 87,600,000 results
Oranges: About 54,600,000 results
Hey—Speak for yourself, pal!
But did they sweet-talk back to you on your computer screen?
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