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:

Rut-roh:

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.” — RB (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013

"…so I changed my personal history. For votes." RT @CoryBooker “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” — RB (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013

https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/373113479252561921

Making up imaginary friends however… MT @CoryBooker: Change is never easy or immediate… — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

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." — RB (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013

It’s a perfect plan!

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.

Lotta made up friends out there. Lot of made up caps being busted in made up asses. — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) August 29, 2013

“Hi I’m @CoryBooker. Let me tell you about my good friends James Westfall and Doctor Kenneth Noisewater.” — Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) August 29, 2013

Why do we never hear any more about @CoryBooker's wife, Morgan Fairchild whom he's slept with? #BookerFables (No offense to @morgfair) — I, Eraser (@lheal) August 29, 2013

Curious..Was Cory Booker's imaginary friend also an investor in his failed tech start up? — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

Good question. Here’s another one:

Hi @davidgregory Hey did you know you every time you had Cory Booker on your show he had someone sitting right next to him? Crazy huh?!? — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

Being a @meetthepress favorite, One would assume @davidgregory is going to report on Cory Booker's imaginary friend. — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

What are Gregory and the media gonna do now?

Wonder when Cory Booker man crusher @TheFix is going to report on Cory Booker's imaginary friend. — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

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"? — RB (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013

College Football player gets punked by imaginary girlfriend = HUGE national news. Dem Senate candidate MAKES UP a friend = Crickets. What?? — RB (@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? — RB (@RBPundit) August 29, 2013

Guess it’s just a “local story”.

Hi @BuzzFeedBen Hey I think there's something wrong with your site..I searched "Cory Booker Imaginary Friend" and nothing came up. Help? — Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 29, 2013

2nd USAT tweet this hour about his sexuality, nothing on "T-Bone" – MT @USATODAY: @CoryBooker's sexuality has become an issue in Senate race — Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 29, 2013

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. — EEE (@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:

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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Twitchy coverage of Cory Booker