Yes, Manti Te’o was interviewed by Katie Couric, and when
asked about why he didn’t tell the truth about the hoax even after he found out
about it, he said: “Well, our government officials never tell the truth about
anything, and you guys never do anything about it, so I thought I would get
away with it too. After all, sports is way less important than scandals and
corruption and wars and stuff, right? In fact, how come you’re not asking about
Benghazi or the renewed Islamist militancy in Africa or the national debt?
Isn’t that stuff more important than this?”
Okay, he didn’t say that. But he should have. This hoax
thing is silly, but nobody was killed except for a fictitious girlfriend, and
she came back to life again later. But when our government officials majorly
screw things up or get caught in lies and political chicanery, they always get
away with it. Oh, and all the Wall Street bankers get to steal our tax money
after they kill so many jobs and swindle people out of their homes, and the
government does nothing about it. So why would our kids ever get the idea that
cheating and lying and fraud is wrong when all their role models get away with
it? Ask yourself that the next time you are making excuses for the politicians
you support.
I mean, even Lance Armstrong was protected by pretty much
everyone until his teammates were bullied enough to get mad enough to come
forward just to finally get even, and Te’o is a sports guy. How is he supposed
to learn that lying is wrong when someone makes hundreds of millions of dollars
doing it? Maybe the press should do its job, rather than just schmoozing with
who they are supposed to be investigating. Don’t you think so?
Here’s the scandalously spurious sports story:
