http://bookerfail.com/cory-bookers-imaginary-friend/**** @CORYBOOKER’S IMAGINARY FRIEND (WITH VIDEO!)****
While observers of Cory Booker have long suspected the infamous “T-Bone” character in his speeches was fictional – despite his assertions to the contrary – it has never been definitively proven. Until now. Eliana Johnson has a fabulous story worth reading in full over at National Review<http://nationalreview.com/article/357064/cory-bookers-imaginary-friend-eliana-johnson>. Here’s the definitive debunking of “T-Bone”:**** *The T-Bone tale never sat right with Rutgers University history professor Clement Price, a Booker supporter who tells National Review Online he found the mayor’s story offensive because it “pandered to a stereotype of inner-city black men.” T-Bone, Price says, “is a southern-inflected name. You would expect to run into something or somebody named T-Bone in Memphis, not Newark.”* *Price considers himself a mentor and friend to Booker and says Booker conceded to him in 2008 that T-Bone was a “composite” of several people he’d met while living in Newark. The professor describes a “tough conversation” in which he told Booker “that I disapproved of his inventing such a person.” “If you’re going to create a composite of a man along High Street,” he says he asked Booker, “why don’t you make it W. E. B. DuBois?” >From Booker, he says, “There was no pushback. He agreed that was a mistake.” * The Newark Star-Ledger confirmed Booker’s confession<http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/the_tale_of_t-bone_cory_bookers_past_statements_haunt_him_on_campaign_trail_with.html> :**** *In an interview with The Star-Ledger, Price reiterated the confession.* *“Cory realized that he had erred,” Price said of his 2008 conversation with the mayor. “He told me that my criticism of his invention of T-Bone made perfect sense to him and he had made a mistake.”* And then the Star-Ledger dropped this absolutely astonishing revelation; as of *today* the Booker campaign is still insisting – *even though Booker confessed* – that T-Bone is real:**** *The Booker campaign declined to comment but spokesman Kevin Griffis pointed to previous comments Booker has made where he insisted that T-Bone was a real person.* The man is shameless. Which makes you wonder; what else is he lying about?** ** Watch the infamous T-Bone fable yourself:**** ** ** __._,_.___ __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
