LEMON DROP | Why The Talarico Instagram "Scandal" Is Pure Nonsense!
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
James, James, James. Naughty, naughty, naughty.
What is the James Talarico Instagram story that sparked this episode?
Okay, can we talk about James Tallarico? Because over the weekend, I got an alert about... You've heard of James Tallarico. He is... this he is a member of the texas house of representatives and now he's running for senate anyways he's this good-looking young 36 year old politician um who everyone loves from barack obama has talked about him and that he's the future of the democratic party so is joe rogan so you know he's he's hot and he's running um for uh senate in texas against you know incumbent john cornyn and then the
Who is James Talarico and why does his faith matter in this controversy?
really off the wall, crazy far right. Um, Ken Paxton, who's the attorney general of Texas. So he's running against it and he's up against, he's running in that race and he's up against, um, Democrat, um, Colin Allred as well. So he had this alert over the weekend saying faith forward, Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts on Instagram. Now at first I was like, Ooh, well this is scandalous, right? Because he is, um, A person of faith. He talks about his identity, his Christian identity. He is, as a matter of fact, attending seminary school to get a master's in divinity. And so, you know, he's that kind of guy. He said that his faith is forefront of his campaign and the reason for him being a Democratic politician is because of his faith.
And so Axios wrote this saying they broke the news about Texas state Democrat running for us Senate, who has put his faith in at the forefront of this campaign follows several adult film performers, escorts, and only fans models on Instagram. That's according to the Axios review. Okay. So I was like, wow. Uh, and then I've interviewed, uh, James Tallarico before several times.
What exactly did Axios report about Talarico's Instagram follows and likes?
And I thought about it and I was like, you know what? Okay. I mean, okay. So on his social media, he follows that. Now there's a story behind the social media, like many people who are running, especially if you're running a campaign. you have people who run your social media sites and you hand them the keys to your passwords to post all of that okay and that's part of this story but also sometimes you when it when you and i know this because you know i'm in a i'm in the same boat i have someone who helps to run my social media they have all of my passwords sometimes they post things and i say Why did you post that? You should have asked me about that. Or we shouldn't be doing that. Or take that down.
Or I don't understand the context here. Whatever. Whatever it is. So not every single thing that I post that's posted on my accounts are posted by me specifically. As a matter of fact, the more followers I get, the fewer things that are posted by me.
Could campaign staff or social media managers be responsible for these follows?
So James Tallarico is basically saying he's in the same position. But here's the deal. This guy has become a sensation in democratic politics for his, how his Christianity is the basis for his democratic politics. Okay. It is saying that he is, let's see who he follows. He follows 10 Instagram accounts of women who are popular porn actors, OnlyFans models, and have accounts on escort sites, according to publicly available accounts viewed by Axios in recent weeks. Earlier this year, he liked separate photos of an Austin-based Instagram account holder who also has an OnlyFans account. and a page on escortbook.com. Escortbook.com is a site that claims to be the number one content manager system in the escort industry.
And then, you know, it goes on to talk about who it follows and all of those things. The photos that, you know, are on there don't include nudes, largely banned on Instagram and on, I think, on meta platforms and on most social media sites, except for X or whatever, Twitter. So When I thought about it, I'll talk about, you know, the specifics of, you know, all of the other things in a second. When I thought about it, I was like, it made me like him more. because he's a human being. I don't know who's following it, if he's doing it, or people on the social media site. I would think that it's probably the people who's on his social media site.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:14–0:18
2
What is the James Talarico Instagram story that sparked this episode?
0:18–0:57
3
Who is James Talarico and why does his faith matter in this controversy?
0:57–2:19
4
What exactly did Axios report about Talarico's Instagram follows and likes?
2:19–3:25
5
Could campaign staff or social media managers be responsible for these follows?
3:25–6:30
6
Why does Don Lemon argue this follows-list isn't a real scandal?
6:30–8:32
7
How does the episode address shaming sex workers and the campaign response?
8:32–16:25