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Topic: Manti Te´o tells Katie Couric:
´What I went through was real´ |
Manti Te´o tells Katie Couric:
´What I went through was real´
Los Angeles Times, by Kate Mather & Matt Stevens
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 1/24/2013 2:48:33 PM
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| The girl turned out to be fake, but the emotions Manti Te´o felt at the time of her supposed death were real, the Notre Dame linebacker said. Te´o spoke to ABC´s Katie Couric for his first on-camera interview since news broke last week that his supposed girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, did not exist. Segments of the conversation have been released in advance of the full interview, which will air Thursday on Couric´s daytime talk show. Te´o had spoken to reporters repeatedly about his supposed girlfriend and her battle with cancer, a story that captivated college football fans
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Comments:
Waiting to hear from wise old sage, Shirley MacLaine. Then will form opinion...[Ha, ha].
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kendet1946, 1/24/2013 2:59:18 PM (No. 9136981)
Real emotions (feelings) can be created out of nothing but the imagination.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Phosphene, 1/24/2013 3:02:04 PM (No. 9136990)
the non-story that won´t go away. here´s the long and the short of it, a lot of people got emotionally invested in a stranger´s (Te´o) life and feel cheated that it was all made up. It´s like getting mad at Pixar because Toy Story made you cry.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/24/2013 3:03:44 PM (No. 9136993)
Hmmm. Let´s see...
She was in a car accident, and in a coma for a month, and it didn´t occur to him to go visit her in the hospital.
She came out of the coma a month later, and it didn´t occur to him to go visit her.
She then had leukemia, and it didn´t occur to him to go visit her.
And when she died from the leukemia, it didn´t occur to him to go to the funeral.
O.K. I believe him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/24/2013 3:09:37 PM (No. 9137011)
What #3 said.
In a big deep hole, yet he keeps on digging.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Theeo, 1/24/2013 3:32:19 PM (No. 9137061)
Why would anyone face the breath of Katie the Crotch-Kisser Couric as she blows her questions your way?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
steveracer, 1/24/2013 3:35:33 PM (No. 9137064)
Let´s introduce Manti to Lance Armstrong and be done with this farce.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 1/24/2013 3:56:53 PM (No. 9137107)
The more he talks the less credible he seems. I can hardly believe he has such a stellar academic record. He comes across as one weird duck.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/24/2013 4:05:14 PM (No. 9137125)
Another fake but accurate story teller.
Shut up. Move on. You are a laughing stock.
The sooner you get off the stage the better off you will be.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
alynnmcw, 1/24/2013 4:05:16 PM (No. 9137126)
he needs to stop talking.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
realrep, 1/24/2013 4:05:17 PM (No. 9137127)
When I was in college, the new speech instructor went out of state in Nov, and got married. In Dec, word came that said wife died in a car accident but he didn´t want anyone to send flowers. The college tried to send flowers but could not locate the funeral home that was handling the services. It was all a hoax.
The guy was there one semester. He did not have a masters and was not qualified to teach at the college level.
BUT he had written a play about the above situation.
Some people get fantasies and reality confused.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 1/24/2013 4:13:53 PM (No. 9137146)
Oh, c´mon, Manti.
Just pull a Jim McGreevey and say, "I´m proud to be a gay American!"
It´s 2013 - - no one really cares if you´re a homo.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/24/2013 5:09:07 PM (No. 9137272)
Manti Te´o was the heart and soul of the ND team. His accomplishments are real and, not to excuse the BCS performance, he and the ND team were demoralized because of this fiasco. I am still inclined to believe him as this all began before he knew he had a chance at the Heisman. But it is bizarre.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/24/2013 5:37:20 PM (No. 9137334)
Hmmm, seems to me he´s a legend in his own mind...just like the Libs that have latched onto this story.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Italiano, 1/24/2013 5:40:46 PM (No. 9137343)
Manti´s ahead of the game. Unfortunately for me, my first wife was not imaginary.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pickle1, 1/24/2013 7:02:30 PM (No. 9137475)
She´s the wrong person to be telling. She doesn´t speak truth.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lancer12, 1/24/2013 9:09:37 PM (No. 9137675)
The origin of the issue is the number of athletes who go to the games because a just-died relative "would have wanted it" never mind the organization wants the star on the boards letting the newly-deceased add a bit of color. This boy was a two-fer.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/24/2013 9:13:32 PM (No. 9137684)
Manhood in the 21st Century on display.
Let the chicks take our guns too.
And them send THEM to the combat zone to protect us.
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