An imaginary friend, that is.
Booker’s gone and gotten himself busted on a longtime lie, thanks to some intrepid reporting by NRO’s Eliana Johnson:
GREAT reporting by @elianayjohnson on @corybooker 's composite, make-believe drug thug ==> https://t.co/QqspNF2nBk
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 29, 2013
Booker’s tales of his trials and travails on the streets of Newark, the city that twice elected him mayor, are familiar, and they have helped to breed an almost mythological aura around the Stanford, Oxford, and Yale graduate. He did, after all, rescue a woman from a burning building last year, sustaining burns in the process. But sources tell National Review Online that the central character in one of Booker’s oft-repeated stories — T-Bone, the drug pusher who the mayor has said threatened his life at one turn and sobbed on his shoulder the next — is a figment of his imagination, even though Booker has talked about him in highly emotional terms and in great detail.
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 29, 2013
So in order to make stuff change, you have to make stuff up.
"…and that's why I had to lie to the people of New Jersey." RT @CoryBooker “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
"…so I changed my personal history. For votes." RT @CoryBooker “By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/373113479252561921
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373112957406019584
Well done, Cory Booker! (See what we did there?)
Shorter @CoryBooker: "I need a name for my imaginary thug friend… OH YEAH! T-Bone! Nice."
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
It’s a perfect plan!
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373104172599894016
Manti Booker
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 29, 2013
Hot stuff.
https://twitter.com/CodyLee_IL/status/373114491950481408
Teehee!
Cory Booker made a composite person to use as a political tool? Wonder where he got that idea. #Julia
— eric (@eriContrarian) August 29, 2013
I hope we find out that T-Bone stole Obama's composite girlfriend from him.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) August 29, 2013
Uh, yes please.
https://twitter.com/Will_Antonin/status/373114614172876800
So, do we start calling Cory Booker "Koko" now? #Seinfeldjokes
— Lisa De Pasquale (@LisaDeP) August 29, 2013
Snort.
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/373117362674757632
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/373114689343209472
Why do we never hear any more about @CoryBooker's wife, Morgan Fairchild whom he's slept with? #BookerFables (No offense to @morgfair)
— Area Man (@lheal) August 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373109629200642048
Good question. Here’s another one:
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373110435668828160
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373110889425420288
What are Gregory and the media gonna do now?
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373116668605919232
How is Cory Booker's lie about T-Bone not bigger news? Is it ok for politicians to create imaginary people to prove they're "one of us"?
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
College Football player gets punked by imaginary girlfriend = HUGE national news. Dem Senate candidate MAKES UP a friend = Crickets. What??
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
So, basically, Cory Booker has been catfishing New Jersey for years. In essence, he's the hoaxer. But that's not national news?
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013
Guess it’s just a “local story”.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/373118820963328000
https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/373118414543278080
Funny, that.
Hey @CoryBooker don't worry about this imaginary friend thing. The MSM has ways of shutting this whole thing down.
— Hair (@SHannitysHair) August 29, 2013
Thing is, the media won't make a big deal out of Booker's "friend" because that will bring back Obama doing the same thing. Fucking frauds.
— HouseRepEEE (@EEElverhoy) August 29, 2013
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Update:
Does @corybooker 's imaginary drug thug pal T-bone have a Twitter account yet? http://t.co/bJMKMIi7Sk
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) August 29, 2013
Oh. Yeah. And it’s — as T-Bone himself might say — the shizz:
.@CoryBooker Sup, Playa?
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
.@CoryBooker Yo, CB… you take campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies, right? #YouKnowDatIsPlaya
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Ya'll 'memba dat time I was finna to bust a cap in @CoryBooker's ass, right? Good times.
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Im'ma keep it a hunnid right now: Me & @CoryBooker gots no love 'fo dem hos… #BookerForSenate
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Yo @BuzzFeedBen, Can a playa get some love up in this bitch?
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Rollin' down the street smokin' endo, sippin' on gin & juice… wit ma mind on my money and my money going to http://t.co/kCSBqakBFV
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Cruisin' down the street in my six-fo, greeting some voters, meetin' some Joes… #bookerforsenate
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
So them Bamas over at @NRO said I was fake, huh? @CoryBooker is my man 50 grand. #BelieveDat
— T-Bone (@TBoneBooker) August 29, 2013
Check out the rest of T-Bone’s tweets, playas.
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