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Katy Tur Went on Bill Maher and Lied About What Talarico Said About God

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Katy Tur has spent years on MSNBC telling you she knows more about politics than you do.

She just walked onto Real Time with Bill Maher and proved the opposite.

What she claimed James Talarico said – and what he actually said – are not even close to the same thing.

What Katy Tur Told Maher vs What Talarico Actually Said

Here is what happened on the May 29 episode of Real Time.

Maher brought up Talarico's "God is nonbinary" comment while discussing the Texas Senate race.

Tur jumped in: "He's taken that back. He said it was a silly thing for him to say."

That is false – and the tape proves it.

Talarico's actual response, on camera and on the record at CBS News, was that the comment was "deliberately provocative" and that "you can't use human categories to define God."

Then he changed the subject to Ken Paxton.

He never used the word "silly."

He never said he was wrong.

He defended the theology, softened the framing, and pivoted.

Katy Tur invented a retraction that does not exist and delivered it to a national television audience.

How MSNBC Is Running Cover for Talarico in the Texas Senate Race

This was not an accident.

Talarico is the Texas Democrat running against Ken Paxton for Senate – the candidate his own party is treating as Beto 2.0, their best shot at breaking a 32-year losing streak in Texas Senate races.

The problem is the receipts.

In 2021, Talarico stood on the Texas House floor and announced that "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between – God is nonbinary."

Republicans have been running that clip in paid advertising since March.

And the Democratic response – at least the one Tur was testing on live television – was to tell viewers the most damaging clip in the race had already been walked back.

It hadn't.

The Media Strategy Democrats Are Already Using to Save Talarico

The legacy media is already framing Republican use of Talarico's own words as "attacks."

Not quotes.

Not clips.

Attacks.

That framing only works if voters never find out what Talarico actually said – and that his idea of a retraction was calling the comment "deliberately provocative" and insisting God transcends human categories.

Western Lensman, who flagged the Tur clip, put it plainly: "cringey comments = stuff I still believe but can't say out loud anymore."

Talarico knows his record disqualifies him in Texas.

His campaign knows it.

And the MSNBC anchors assigned to cover his race know it – which is why one of them went on national television and told viewers the opposite of what actually happened.

Katy Tur just told Bill Maher's audience a lie to try to change that – and she did it on camera, in front of a record of exactly what Talarico actually said.

Sources:

  • Warren Squire, "Twist and Tur: MS NOW 'Journo' Claims Dem James Talarico Took Back 'God Is Non-Binary' – He Didn't," Twitchy, May 31, 2026.
  • Alex Christy, "Maher Describes Texas Senate Race As 'Attila The Hun' Versus 'Nice Guy'," Newsbusters, May 30, 2026.
  • Curtis Houck, "Talarico Skates by CBS News When Asked on Trans Lunacy, God Being 'Non-Binary'," Newsbusters, May 28, 2026.
  • Peter Pinedo and Paul Steinhauser, "'God is non-binary': Texas Dem Nominee Talarico's Past Remarks on Abortion, Race and Gender Draw Scrutiny," Fox News, March 5, 2026.

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