{"id":2646208,"date":"2026-08-17T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-james-talarico-fabricate-a-fantasy-about-being-mistaken-for-an-intern-you-be-the-judge\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T19:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:10:30","slug":"did-james-talarico-fabricate-a-fantasy-about-being-mistaken-for-an-intern-you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-james-talarico-fabricate-a-fantasy-about-being-mistaken-for-an-intern-you-be-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Did James Talarico Fabricate a Fantasy About Being Mistaken for an Intern? You Be the Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdid-james-talarico-fabricate-a-fantasy-about-being-mistaken-for-an-intern-you-be-the-judge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2646208&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-what-happened-the-last-time-israel-invaded-lebanon-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"This is what ... the last time Israel invaded Lebanon - Washington Examiner\">provided content discusses<\/a> the tendency of politicians, including Democrats, to sometimes exaggerate or tell tall tales for public appeal. It highlights Joe Biden\u2019s past embellished stories, such as ones about a character named Corn Pop. The article focuses on Democratic Texas House candidate James Talarico, suggesting that he may have lied about an incident where he was mistaken for an intern in a parking garage shortly after being elected in 2018.Talarico publicly expressed concern about being confused for an intern and later claimed that garage attendants commented on his youth, which the author questions as possibly fabricated. The piece argues that such stories might potentially be fabricated or exaggerated, possibly to craft relatable or memorable anecdotes for political gain.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Politicians have long struggled with authenticity and honesty.<\/p>\n<p>They kiss babies. They covet the perfect soundbite. They take the carefully staged photo. They want us to hear their relatable, life-altering, and truly unbelievable anecdotes that grow more vivid with every retelling.<\/p>\n<p>A penchant for tall tales is not isolated to Democrats, either, but the biggest, most unnecessary lies always seem to come from the left.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his entire public life, Joe Biden often recalled his younger self as an aggressive, imposing force \u2014 one that evil men feared. No one was around to dispute his obviously embellished stories, so people either bought them at face value or they rolled their eyes when he told us about events and characters from the old days \u2014 people such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/biden-in-resurfaced-2017-clip-recounts-bizarre-razor-and-chain-showdown-with-bad-dude-gang-leader-corn-pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corn Pop Jackson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico appears to have long ago joined the Malarkey Club when you look back at some of his old interviews.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he appears to have either predicted that he looked so young in late 2018 that he was going to be mistaken for a government intern, or he lied about it when it supposedly happened.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the man who has a fixation with trying to weaponize Scripture against God-fearing Christians told the world his first major fib as an elected official before he ever set foot on the Texas House floor.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t prove it, but let\u2019s take a look at what Talarico was saying after he first secured himself an office in the Texas Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks after his November 2018 election, the then-29-year-old Democrat floated the same anxious thought more than once.<\/p>\n<p>On a Nov. 20, 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/news\/politics\/texas-this-week\/texas-this-week-state-rep-james-talarico\/269-616662502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance<\/a> on KVUE-TV\u2019s \u201cTexas This Week,\u201d he expressed a hope that he would not be \u201cstuffed into a locker\u201d and predicted that he would probably get confused for an intern once he took his oath of office.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, in an Austin American-Statesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/local\/round-rock\/2018\/12\/03\/education-is-focus-of-new-round-rock-state-rep-james-talarico\/7955374007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>, he elevated the \u201cintern\u201d concern when he said, \u201cMy No. 1 goal is to not be confused for an intern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I think happened: This trans-obsessed heretic was either fixated on being mistaken for someone much younger than he was, or he had already decided that it was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s really the only way to explain what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 8, 2019 \u2014 the first day of his first legislative session \u2014 Talarico said he was confused for an intern by two men in a garage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/01\/08\/james-talarico-youngest-texas-rep-86th-session\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> to a Texas Tribune profile published that very day, Talarico claimed he showed up to work, parked his truck, encountered two garage attendants, confirmed he was indeed the youngest member of the House, and then was promptly told by one of them that he looked too young.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of them told me I look like an intern,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A month later, on the \u201cTrey Blocker Show,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-742203969\/state-rep-james-talarico?utm_source=clipboard&#038;utm_medium=text&#038;utm_campaign=social_sharing&#038;si=779403c78db44aef802a84a80776c06c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added some details<\/a> to this alleged garage encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys in the parking garage gave me a little bit of grief on my first day, saying I looked more like an intern than a legislator,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I think that\u2019s a compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How long do you think it took him to practice that, and why?<\/p>\n<p>I have never met a garage attendant who was jolly enough to offer me a compliment, have you? Talarico says it happened to him, but I don\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Was Talarico seeking a canned anecdote to break the ice when meeting new people?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s that benign.<\/p>\n<p>Or one might charitably entertain the possibility that Talarico \u201cmanifested\u201d this encounter through the sort of new-age thought exercise in which liberals claim they can will preferred outcomes into existence by repeating them enough times into a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible this happened.<\/p>\n<p>But a far more probable explanation is that the parking garage incident never occurred, at least not as Mr. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/apostasy-talarico-pastors-perverted-christianity-calling-god-violent-st-paul-creep-marys-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God Is Nonbinary<\/a>\u201d said it did.<\/p>\n<p>Interns tend to be young. They rarely look like suspiciously never-married, Subaru-driving women in their late thirties.<\/p>\n<p>James Talarico looks like he\u2019s been driving the fully-loaded Forester for years.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that Mr. Talarico told his first of many lies a long time ago to the people of Texas about something completely unnecessary, and that many more lies are to come if voters don\u2019t get out and block this lunatic from getting a promotion in November.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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