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Who is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the man
allegedly behind Lennay Kekua, Manti
Te´o´s non-existent dead girlfriend?
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Deseret News [Salt Lake City, UT], by Landon Hemsley
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Posted By:earlybird, 1/19/2013 8:50:39 AM
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| A Deadspin.com report earlier this week asserted that Lennay Kekua, the alleged dead girlfriend of Notre Dame football star Manti Te´o, was a figment of someone´s imagination, and the name that Deadspin proposed as the mastermind behind the Kekua persona is Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.(Snip)The authors of the original Deadspin report assert that Tuaisosopo and Te´o know each other, a fact confirmed by Manti Te´o´s uncle, Alema Te´o. Alema Te´o runs the All-Poly football camp, a high school football camp in Salt Lake City, and a similar camp run in American Samoa on behalf of Troy Polamalu,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/19/2013 9:01:40 AM (No. 9126057)
Can´t we just call her Lotta Baloni? It´s so much easier to pronounce.
Thanks to an Ldotter for that awesome pen name!!!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lydwho, 1/19/2013 9:08:23 AM (No. 9126072)
Who cares---Lots of B/S over nothing!!!!
Art
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 1/19/2013 9:11:22 AM (No. 9126084)
I have a better question for the press...who is Bill Ayers, the guy behind Obama´s fictitious girl friends?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
southernboy, 1/19/2013 9:27:59 AM (No. 9126137)
This morning FoxNews devoted a segment to this story!
My question is…….WHY?
Then Lance Armstrong lied to Oprah?
Pressing matters indeed!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jir, 1/19/2013 9:41:02 AM (No. 9126182)
I find this story fascinating. I just do not understand it at all and need to know more so that it can make sense to me. After that, perhaps I will be bored with it. I would love to see someone truly get to the bottom of this story. Then perhaps journalists will get around to uncovering our President and his girlfriend who was a compilation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
engrpat, 1/19/2013 9:52:45 AM (No. 9126206)
Please someone tell me why this is news? Talk about people being easily distracted!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
pensom2, 1/19/2013 9:57:22 AM (No. 9126215)
Non-story.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Leshno, 1/19/2013 10:10:24 AM (No. 9126246)
Oh I don´t know. It surely points out the gullibility in our society. Seems we can be sold just about anything. Even the least trusting among us were fooled. The implications are frightening. Case in point, re-electing Obama.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/19/2013 10:15:23 AM (No. 9126257)
I adore Samoan names. Maybe Manti will revive the Haka when he gets to the NFL.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smcchk, 1/19/2013 10:18:06 AM (No. 9126266)
I read the story and am more confused than ever. I still believe at the bottom of the story is Te´o´s naïveté.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lylacat, 1/19/2013 11:03:22 AM (No. 9126361)
This is rather like 0bama´s non-existant composite girl friends, huh?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/19/2013 11:21:57 AM (No. 9126411)
#8 is right. The sad part is that those who doubt a story are told to shut up. Once an exotic story is in the public domain, the LIVs don´t want the story to be a lie, so they attack those who insist on having facts. Those who insist on more facts are ridiculed into silence by giving them disparaging names,such as "birthers" Unfortunately, it works.
#1 that name, thanks to our fellow Ldotter who coined it, will become part of the Ldott lexicon - much like PIAPS.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/19/2013 11:46:29 AM (No. 9126463)
Low information voters, pay heed! This is the stuff that feeds your brain.
All other conscious Americans are demanding answers on things like Benghazi, Algeria, the $16 Trillion national debt, high unemployment, corruption in the Obama White House, etc. etc. etc.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TexaTucky, 1/19/2013 12:25:25 PM (No. 9126549)
It´s funny how many comments this and the Lance Armstrong story get by folks bemoaning the low info nature of our honey boo boo culture, claiming they don´t care about such non-stories.
Yet they sit here with the rest of us in front of a screen drinking coffee in their jammies, spending precious time typing on a Saturday morning blogging with people they don´t know about things they can´t control and claiming they don´t care when they could be out there solving the myriad mysteries of the universe instead.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bullhead, 1/19/2013 1:03:06 PM (No. 9126607)
Didn´t 0bama initially describe his "composite" girlfriends as "compressed"?
Today´s around-the-clock media coverage has too much time to fill. Therefore they grab on to non-stories like Te´o. Or they fill the hours with MSNBC-like dribble.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 1/19/2013 1:38:40 PM (No. 9126647)
I remember the good old days when names in the news were mostly like White, Smith, Jones, Johnson. American names. What happened?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 1/19/2013 2:54:24 PM (No. 9126772)
He should have been suspicious when she introduced herself as Kommanawanna La´ya...I wonder if she is any relation to U.K. Lelee...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 1/19/2013 6:31:55 PM (No. 9127044)
#19 thanks for a great laugh! Ldotters are the most clever and intelligent people I´ve ever been around.
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