Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o was catfished by a 22-year-old man who masquaraded online as a cancer-stricken California woman of around the same age by the name of Lennay Kakua.
While the concept of the catfish -- someone who creates a Facebook or Twitter so they can sucker a man or woman into falling for them -- is relatively new, how the U.S. was catfished by the Tea Party isn't.
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