America’s Got Talent: Tim Poe Tells His Side of the Story (Sort of)

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America’s Got Talent lying liar, Tim Poe, defends himself via email to the New York Post:

“It may not have happened exactly like I said it did,” he told The Post.  “I really do not remember a lot of things since the accident.  “I remember a blast going off by my head and being in Afghanistan and telling one of the sergeants,” he said. “It is like a dream . . . I can’t remember things exactly how it happened.”

On why he said on AGT that  he had never sung before he was injured in Afghanistan, Poe said:

“I do not know how to explain why I answered about never singing before,” he says. “I was in a band. But it was before the accident and at the time of AGT.

When the judges asked, before I could even think about answering my words had already came out.”

Poe supplied The New York Post with documents that indicate he was injured in the line of duty in Afghanistan but do not say how or when.Via Poe’s official retirement orders, he suffers from an “injury or disease received in the line of duty as a direct result of armed conflict or caused by an instrumentality of war and incurred in the line of duty during a period of war.”

So much dissembling, so little time…

In other news, Poe’s fiance, Carrie Morris,  insists that photo he submitted to AGT producers that turned out to be of another soldier, Staff Sgt. Norman Bone, was all a misunderstanding. “But I know that it was a mistake on his part. It was an accident. It was a complete accident,” she said. I wonder how long the fiance will continue to stand by her man?

And, TMZ is of course, totally embracing the Poe story. Apparently his family members are getting threats: “Poe’s family tells us … several family members have been getting death threats. We’re told Poe’s sister-in-law went to the store Thursday with her kids and someone came up to them and said, ‘We’re going to kill you and the whole family.’” So far, no one has contacted the police about the threats.

As far as Poe is concerned,  “a family member says she fears he’s suicidal. He hasn’t left the house since the scandal broke, and he’s been crying incessantly. One family member says Poe is suffering from Post Tramautic Stress Syndrome.”

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  • Anonymous

    The guy is scum, but seriously, death threats? How does that make a situation better?
     
    I actually would agree with letting him continue on in the competition if he so chooses. Instead of sweeping it under the rug, let him continue with the scarlet letter he’ll now have for the rest of the competition.
     
    Besides, this needs to be a warning to future boneheads who think you can make up sob stories to win a show and not think someone will be doing fact checking once it’s broadcast to millions of people.
     
     

  • fuzzywuzzy

    Yes, Tim. I totally believe you (not). Now, please disappear so that I never have to see or hear about you ever again.

  • Incipit

    “…before I could even think about answering my words had already came out.”…One family member says Poe is suffering from Post Tramautic Stress Syndrome.”
    “

    WTAF? Just put him in the Guiness Book under “Most Loathsome Liar” – there’s his fame. Although I suppose if he aspires to infamy instead – he’ll need even bigger  lies to achieve that. WIP?

  • Anonymous

    Are you not entertained!!!

  • guinness 416

    I think it’s now time for the media to let this guy disappear.  I know Scandal! is fun but he seems …. not quite right in the head, and some of his detractors are acting in a pretty ugly manner too. 

  • too-cool-for-school

    This is an instance of dramatic scandals not being even remotely funny or entertaining, at least IMO. It’s just sad and dumb. An actual trainwreck of a story, I’d say.

    His story/lie itself, his refusal to really own up to anything, the volatile and totally unnecessary reaction some are having to it (ie: the death threats), AGT using it for publicity, etc. etc. It goes on and on. And there is seemingly no real way for it to end well at this point, so I opt for the media to move on and just let it go.

    We got his ‘explanation’, now let’s not get involved with random family members, acquaintances, or various ‘sources’ or keep dragging it out. But I know it will be a cold day in hell when the TMZs of the world take that approach.

  • Anonymous

    Another reason why these shows need to be more careful about who they put on their show.  (Although, who am I kidding? Sadly they have to be loving this.)

  • http://twitter.com/Miztig Miz

    He wasn’t good enough to be put through in the first place. In my opinion, the only reason he was sent to Vegas was because he was supposedly a disabled vet and war hero.

    That med report appears to be for a refill of meds at an emergency dept. I notice it says his speech was marked normal and no learning impairments including speech.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JT6RK4NQME54FA3FVYTTHLTRTQ Southnsoul

    This man has a real problem with the truth and he definitely should not be allowed to continue in the competition. 

  • http://twitter.com/constance0128 Connie

    According to those retirement records, he received a medical retirement for a permanent physical disability sustained during war. If it’s not what he says it is, then what is his disability?  If there weren’t some truth to his claim, he would have had to wait 20 years to retire or he would have received no benefits. They don’t give you a medical retirement for nothing.   He’s clearly lied about some things but there is more to this story. Clearly he’s got a lot of problems and needs some serious help.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    This article reports Howie Mandel’s reaction.

    http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/06/americas-got-talent-tim-poe-deserves-to-be-publicly-humiliated-says-howie-mandel.html

    This part is interesting:

    “Last week he was publicly praised and honored,” Mandel says. “Now
    he is publicly humiliated and he deserves to be publicly humiliated.”

    His
    lies aside, Poe does have a beautiful voice and croons in a slow
    country drawl. That, says Mandel, is what he should be judged on.

    “We
    should not be judging at all on a back story,” he says. “Whatever the
    judges do will be based on the talent and whatever he does in Vegas.”

    Mandel received early warnings about Poe. 

    A consummate social media participant, Mandel always live tweets during broadcasts.”I
    like to watch how people are reacting to things,” Mandel says. “It is
    better than watching with your best friend on the couch so people are
    just flooding in tweets.”And as Poe was
    performing, the tweets started popping up, warning him: “Check this
    website. This person is lying!’ And you think it is the odd person.”But among those tweets were some from other veterans saying, “I was in his unit.”Mandel knew these had the ring of truth. ”In
    the immediacy of the social networking I was getting this little bit of
    chatter and it was so juxtaposed to the initial responses people were
    having,” Mandel says.

  • http://twitter.com/50watts Ronald Watts

    Now calm down everyone, settle down. He does have a talent, it’s called LYING, and who know’s, being WGWG he might win too.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ACMLXLYSSX73RNYQOUZWSO2I4U Enough already!

    This story not only has legs, but its on stilts.

  • Anonymous

    The liars on Wall Street and in our illustrious government destroyed the economies of the world, and they get a pass.  Poor Poe probably has PTSD and doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing half the time.  Who has he harmed in real terms?  Nobody.

  • steph6449

    In the more credible version of events from his unit mates, he was taken out of Afghanistan due to an “ear infection.” I suppose under some circumstances, that could have wound up leading to his medical discharge.

    My personal impression is that there was more going on and at some point the military just may have wanted him to go away. Maybe he flaked out when he got in theater and wasn’t able to handle it. If he had a medical condition — that if not caused by his deployment, at least arose there — maybe that was one way to document it to get him out of the Army.  It did strike me funny that if I remember the timeline in the Army statement, he was discharged two years or so after his one-month deployment? That seems an awfully long time to be recovering from what apparently happened in Afghanistan. Again, makes me think there is more to the story.

    I haven’t heard anything in the substantiated parts of his story that would seem to suggest a cause for PTSD. 

    If he were correct about his injuries and medical treatment, seems to me even if the soldiers in his unit didn’t know, plenty of Army medical professionals would and someone might have spoken up on his behalf. So far, doesn’t seem to be happening. Nor even a private physician, for that matter.

  • http://www.fatladysings.us/ TFLS

    So what is the truth here?  If he has military paperwork substantiating at least part of his claim….then what did he lie about?  The photo?  Yes.  Being injured in Afghanistan?  Possibly no….it all depends on what the military says (which right now is clear as mud).  Like everyone else I was ready to condemn him as a dyed-in-the-wool asshat.  I have very strong feeling about the men and women who serve.  My husband was in the military.  I worked for the DOD.  What bothers me now is it seems there is at least some truth in what he says.  Some.  Looks like whoever’s been rooting around his past got a portion of it wrong.  This just got complicated.  I want to know the whole truth before evincing an opinion.  His poor girlfriend.  After watching her reaction to his performance, I don’t think she was part of any deception (if there was an intended deception).  She must feel blindsided.   

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QFGJIN4BUY52PPNFQSVASPVV5M Mary

     I realize this is late, just found this story – but medical covers everything from a lingering headache to quadriplegic.  He broke his back – no one is disputing that, but the records show it was training in the US in 2005.  It was not bad enough to warrant discharge.  His DD214 states continued ear problems (his 1 day in Afghanistan) and “sensory issues – soldier substantiated”… in other words, the two problems he is claiming (none of which have ever said brain damage, TBI or PTSD) are soldier reported.  Yes, you can get medical payment (40% sounds high until you realize the scale of the payment and the “standard” pre-set payouts) on things they can’t verify.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QFGJIN4BUY52PPNFQSVASPVV5M Mary

     And if it helps, I can give you an anecdote – my husband’s first shirt’s wife used to be active duty.  She claimed a back injury and got 80% claiming it affected her ability to work.  She never had surgery, she never had anything but pills and money basically and got a boob job and cosmetic surgery.  Not a doctor, but the fact she got $1800 a month for life on such a “bad” back injury but was thrilled with the added stress on her back with gigantic boobs doesn’t really scream injured to me.