[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Te’o’s just lucky his girlfriend wasn’t a vice squad cop.

[SeminoleCounty]

Way too much coverage of this Manti Te’o fake girfriend whatever. Like media people and sportswriters never had an imaginary significant other? I mean, most of them are whack jobs anyway...

[Incorrigible]

When will the media take as much interest to learn more about our imposter President?

[stilloftyhenight]

“The hoaxes perpetrated against him eventually evolved to the point of fake woman needing money to get out of some horrible situation that this guy was the only one who “understood.” My friend denies ever sending money, but I suspect otherwise.”

This happened to a female friend of mine.

[Teacher317]

I'm surprised that so many sports journalists are going after T'eo for citing his "girlfriend" as a source of his inspiration even after he learned that she was a fake. Just because she turned out to be a fake does not mean that the pain he felt, when he learned of her "death", was any less intense or meaningful to him. At the time, he thought she was real, and clearly had strong feelings for her. Then he was told of her death (within hours of his grandmother's actual death). He had no way of knowing that one of those deaths wasn't real, and he used those deaths as his motivation to play even harder. Just because the hoax was later found to be a fake doesn't change the fact that her "death" was part of what pushed him to excel this season. His feelings were real then, and throughout the season. Once he learned that he "got played", I'm sure that his feelings were changed and even stronger, not diminished. To me, his most telling remark is that when the perpetrators called him to tell him that she was actually not dead, he replied "My girlfriend died that day in September", and he was done talking to them. Again, his pain was real, and he used that pain in a constructive way for all of 2012. That's something that we generally congratulate.

(BTW: I'm an avid Notre Dame football detractor, by the way... but this kid deserves a break, in my opinion. Further, if he is handling it correctly, this has been exceptional training for him to play on a large-market team with rabid sport reporting, like the Jets or Eagles.)

[Southern Magnolia]

While the story itself here is interesting about people you only meet on the internet, it really has nothing to do with Te’o and his boyfriend, youth choir director Ronaiah(Lennay) Tuiasoscopo.

Te’o and “Lennay” had not only had met face to face, they went out together on dates, according to Te’o’s family. Heck, Ronaiah was even in “Lennay’s” car accident. The imaginary “girlfriend” was just a cover story to hide the fact that these two guys were dating. With increasing media attention, they had to do away with the “Lennay” identity. Simple.

[bgill]

As long as the msm can stretch out headlines on fake people, the less time they have to devote to real live earth shattering headines like gun grabbing, the sad state of the economy and how D.C. is causing it, and the welcoming in of the new Amerika.

As for all this FB hoo haw, that’s it... hoo haw. No one needs to know my emotional state this morning or if I’m having coffee, tea or oj. I certainly don’t give a rat’s behind that they liked a pair of yellow polka dot shoes online or that their parakeet chirped when he got fed. And I certainly do not care to pour out my deepest most personal thoughts to some online stranger, real or fake, for the entire world to criticize. Oh, ok, since y’all are all on the edge of your seats I’ll give you one - hussein is a buffoon.

[dalereed]

I don’t know who this freak is but he should be locked up!!

[BenLurkin]

Imaginary People Are More Real Than You Know

Yes. There is one in the Oval Office.