Desk Note🎙️ | James Talarico - False Prophet, Real Money

Victimhood, Fake Scripture, and Why James Talarico's Lies Keep Working

Sometimes the most revealing part of a story isn’t what actually happened, it’s what someone decided to say happened, and how much money they made saying it.

Transcript below for subscribers who prefer to read.

So here’s what I was digging into right before I went to bed. There’s a Huffington Post article — liberal outlet — quoting Texas congressional candidate James Talarico at a rally in Austin, the day after he taped an interview with Stephen Colbert. And at this rally, he’s telling the crowd that the Trump administration coordinated with CBS executives to censor him. To literally block his interview from airing. He frames it as an attack on free speech. He invokes cancel culture. He says this is proof that the people who claim to be pro-free-speech are anything but.

And the crowd eats it up. Because that’s a great story. That’s a story worth fighting over.

Except it isn’t true.