It's easy to understand why the mainstream media ran with the heart wrenching story about Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o's "dead girlfriend" as well as the other conflicting stories about the couple's "relationship" without engaging in actual journalism.  The story happened to fit within the approved media template and didn't require any further manufacturing.  But with President Obama, the MSM must work overtime to positively spin everything he says or does before it is passed on to the public as objective "news."

It finally took a member of the new media -- Deadspin -- to do some actual investigative reporting on the Te'o story. 

The bottom line according to Deadspin:

There was no Lennay Kekua. Lennay Kekua did not meet Manti Te'o after the Stanford game in 2009. Lennay Kekua did not attend Stanford. Lennay Kekua never visited Manti Te'o in Hawaii. Lennay Kekua was not in a car accident. Lennay Kekua did not talk to Manti Te'o every night on the telephone. She was not diagnosed with cancer, did not spend time in the hospital, did not engage in a lengthy battle with leukemia. She never had a bone marrow transplant. She was not released from the hospital on Sept. 10, nor did Brian Te'o congratulate her for this over the telephone. She did not insist that Manti Te'o play in the Michigan State or Michigan games, and did not request he send white flowers to her funeral. Her favorite color was not white. Her brother, Koa, did not inform Manti Te'o that she was dead. Koa did not exist. Her funeral did not take place in Carson, Calif., and her casket was not closed at 9 a.m. exactly. She was not laid to rest.

Lennay Kekua's last words to Manti Te'o were not "I love you."

Te'o claims that he was a victim of this hoax as well:

This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her. To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

When will the American people wake up to the incredible hoax that is currently being perpetrated upon them?  Much like Te'o, Americans are involved in an emotional relationship with an individual despite most having never met him face to face.  That individual is President Obama.  But unlike Te'o's relatively harmless "girlfriend" hoax, President Obama's hoax, thanks to the help of the MSM, is a threat to every American and threatens the survival of the republic as we know it.

Fortunately, the new media is willing to step up and do the job the ideologically driven MSM refuses to do. 

So just to be clear on a few of the crazy things we've been told: 

Ambassador Stevens was not murdered because of a dim-witted amateur video. Food stamps are not economic stimulus.  This current economic mess is not George Bush's fault.  Obama's mother was not denied health insurance coverage as claimed.  America is not safer under Obama.  Raising tax rates does not create jobs.  Disagreeing with President Obama does not make one a racist.  The cost of health care will not be lowered under ObamaCare.  President Obama is not suddenly a Second Amendment advocate. 

The science of man-caused global warming is not settled.  The economy is not getting better.  The Tea Party is not an extremist hate group.  Paying off crony donors with green energy loans does not lower energy prices.  Reducing the rate of spending growth is not a spending cut.  Beyoncé did not actually sing at Obama's inauguration.  Kids do not like Mrs. Obama's new school lunch program.  Trillion dollar deficits and skyrocketing debt does not create prosperity and is not sustainable. 

QE 1-3 did not work.  QE 4 will not work.  The President does not have the power to bypass the Constitution.  Rising unemployment is not positive economic news.  Gun control does not control criminals.  Freedom is not "preserved" by violating the First Amendment rights of religious institutions.  Demonizing the rich does not put the poor and middle class back to work.  The economy did not tank in the fourth quarter due to a lack of federal spending.  So-called "assault weapons" are not more deadly than semi-auto hunting rifles.  Just calling something a stimulus does not mean it will stimulate.  The mainstream media is not interested in truthfully reporting any of this.    

President Obama is definitely not to be compared with Ronald Reagan.      . 

How painful and humiliating does this hoax have to get before a majority of the American people finally take notice and do something?

Scott blogs at www.politiseeds.com