Texas Senate Candidate Says Bible is Just Propaganda

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Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting Bible-clinging, deplorable American.

**Todd Starnes** (0:28)
Well, James Talarico is back at it again. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Great to have you with us. Happy Friday to you, America. And wow, do we have a very busy show for you today. A lot going on. A lot of gun owners in Iowa. We're going to be checking in with our good buddy, Matt Velasquez, the owner of Patriot Talk 920 It is the most patriotic, it is the most pro-Second Amendment radio station in America. And Matt is at the Gun Owners of America Convention, which is being held in Iowa this weekend. We'll check in with him a little bit later on. Also, our good buddy, former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is getting ready for the big 250 rally at Mount Vernon. Boris Johnson, Ben Shapiro, among the speakers, that's hosted by the Young Americas Foundation. That's going to be a great conversation. Got a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines. Turns out they're accused of religious discrimination. Of all places, they were trying to force people to take gay pride boarding passes at John Wayne Airport. Now, my question as an airline passenger, what exactly was I going to be boarding? Or was somebody going to be boarding me?
We're going to get into that with Brad Dacus over at Pacific Justice Institute. My apologies for that visual. And Senator Marsha Blackburn is going to be here in just a little while. Man, there is an ugly, and I do mean ugly gubernatorial race underway, big primary in the state of Tennessee, and we'll get her to weigh in on that. But most importantly, ladies and gentlemen, guess what today? Parker, guess what today is?
What is today, Todd? Today is Friday. Today is Friday. Today is Open Line Friday. So folks, you get to call in, and most importantly, we want to hear from you today. And we haven't heard from a lot of you guys. I think it's been summertime, people taking the vacations, and you know, that's acceptable. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
Again, that number, 901-260-5926, will be taking your calls, sprinkling them in throughout the program today. All right, we've got to start with James Talarico. This is crazy. This guy's a certifiable nut job. So here's the deal. Talarico running for the US. Senate. He's got the Democrat nomination. He's running against Ken Paxton, the Republican. John Cornyn got whacked in the GOP primary.
And John Cornyn is taking out all of his frustrations, by the way, on Donald J. Trump, who, by the way, I almost forgot about this. For the first time in American history, President Trump has convened a cabinet meeting at Camp David. And that's a big deal. So we're going to be pulling some audio from that throughout the program. That gathering just started a little while ago. So we'll get to that as well. But anyway, Talarico has been really spewing a lot of far left nonsense. He's got a big problem with black voters there. The people are really frustrated with him. The blacks are not connecting with his far left ideology. This guy believes that God is non-binary. He believes that Jesus is pro-abortion.
And he also ran a meatless campaign, which went over so poorly. I think more people were upset over that than there were the comments about God being non-binary.
They were so upset, they had to like film this guy eating brisket for like, I don't know, two weeks in a row.
I think the guy got gout. I mean, that's how much meat, red meat he was eating. And then to bolster his bona fides, Talarico, I don't know if he was driving, did he drive a Prius? We don't know, a Tesla? You know he had one of those co-exist bumper stickers on the back. But anyway, he decided to rent a pickup truck and so now he's really trying to try to connect with the average Texan man and to prove that he too is a Texas man. Well, someone needs to alert Mr. Talarico that you need a certain set of body parts to be a Texas man. So anyway, now he's back at the news again. This guy, he can't help himself. Talarico, sitting down for an interview on a podcast, and he's really upset. You know, a couple of weeks ago, we were telling you about the effort, and we were a part of that effort, to infuse the Bible into school curriculum there in the great state of Texas. And now boys and girls from K through 12 are going to be learning various portions of the Bible, traditional Bible stories and things of that nature. James Talarico is enraged over this, and I want you to hear what he had to say. Cup 31