White Guilt Created Te’o Tale

By Audrey Russo / 22 January 2013 / 10 comments

510px-Mantiteo2010 By now, most people have heard of the fairytale cyber-romance of the Notre Dame Star and his Stanford sweetheart. And thanks to Deadspin.com, we know it was a ruse.
Putting aside whether Manti Te’o was part of this scam or was duped … or, as the “nobody ever sins, they’re just sick” crowd is putting it, he probably has delusional disease … one must wonder: How, in an age of the greatest access to information, did major media outlets end up with egg on their faces?

Were these journalists so mesmerized by this athlete that they forgot how to type or do a simple search? Or was it a case of pre-senile dementia?

Or, perhaps, it was something more pervasive and crippling that kept these fearless reporters from fighting for “truth, justice and the American way”?

I believe it was the latter … a paralysis created by individuals riddled with guilt. A type of guilt felt by some white people for the racist treatment of people of color by some whites historically. Today we refer to this as “White Guilt”.

White Guilt is the only rational explanation why professional and well-respected news organizations such as ESPN and Sports Illustrated would report repeatedly on a story … following it for months/years … and never bother to discover whether ANY of the story or characters were real.

Would this have happened if Tim Tebow had done this? Um … no freakin’ way!! They would be digging so deep, we’d know his BMs since he was 5 years old. Why? Because Tebow is white. Why wasn’t an investigation done on Te’o? Because Te’o is NOT white.
Ahhh … welcome to the NEW America, where they cure and recompense historical racism WITH racism. Nice…

Of course, all these Sports Networks are scrambling now … looking for a skirt to hide under. Someone will pay for duping these geniuses. They may not even realize why they did what they did with Te’o, having been conditioned by progressives in the media all their lives … but a lesson must be learned here:

Nothing fruitful ever comes from acting out of guilt … no matter your hue.

Image: Photo of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o; source: http://www.flickr.com/ photos/42757699@N04/5215096404/; author:Shotgun Spratling/Neon Tommy; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license

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Audrey Russo is the Host of the weekly REELTalk Radio Show and the co-host of WOMANTalk Radio Show. She handles Middle East Issues/National Security/Terrorism for their eZine and writes on foreign affairs for The Examiner.com. She guests on several radio shows including The Rick Amato Show, The Simon Conway Show, The Pat Campbell Show and The Mike Wiley Show. Audrey is the Managing Editor for the online opinion journal Ediblog.com. Her articles can also be read at The Center for Changing Worldviews and the Gold Coast Chronicle as well as other online journals. She is also an active member of the NYC performing arts community as a singer and actor.

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Erica

Te’o v. Tebow? I’ll take Tebow!
DocJimmy

It looks pretty bad for Notre Dame Football and besides; he don’t look Irish, does he? Oh well, he has people in his corner that will try to smooth things over for him. Kind of a shame that a good football player turns out to be a wiener…
- http://www.facebook.com/daniel.murphy.509 Daniel Murphy
  
  The story has nothing to do with football. It is all off-field actions.
  - luvmy357
    
    It has everything to do with the Notre Dame Football program. They promoted this story, they propagated this story and used it on their own web site while promoting his Heisman Trophy run. Were they duped along with everyone else? Maybe, but someone along the line could have tried to look up an obit for this woman at the very least.
Terry C

Seems like a waste of space with this article or else the media doesn’t have anything else to talk about, like the lack of a budget, the debt problem, the president’s spending problems, the excessive number of presidential executive orders or minor stuff like that. Instead, we fixate on a football player’s problems with a faked girlfriend and her faked death.
- vincent
  
  This website covered Fast And Furious, the Solyndra and the MF Global scams, the illegal immigrant gang problems, the gun confiscation plans, the idiocy of Costas’ rants, the 700 million JHP bullets purchased by our overlords, the deficit, Islamic propaganda in our schools, and the deranged “representatives” in DC (Schumer, Nadler, Feinstein, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, McCarthy, SJ Lee, ad nauseum).
  
  And this article highlights the problems with the castrated media. They support Obama’s imperial decrees and outright lies to avoid charges of racism. Why should anyone expect SI, CBS, NBC, ABC/ESPN/Disney, FOX or any other propaganda outlet to know what truth is, after years of deceitfulness and cowardice.
- James Crawford
  
  If you’ll just honestly take a clear look at most of the items you just mentioned you’ll see that some of the same base motives are involved there, too. White guilt has crippled just about everything associated with the underlying strength that defines America. Fixate more on reason rather than the specific incidents and you’ll find the main commonalities and the real urgency to reform.
Reb Biker

Am I the first to ask, who cares??? I certainly don’t!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/George-Vieto/100000372915035 George Vieto
  
  Same here. I could care less for football.
http://www.facebook.com/people/George-Vieto/100000372915035 George Vieto

That is why I call ESPN the Everybody’s Stupid Pinhead Network. They will never kiss Gabrielle “Gabby” Douglas hand call her Wonder Girl because she is a God fearing (gasp) gymnast. Football players who get the hype treatment turn out to be phonier than a 3 dollar bill most of the time.

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