And the hits keep coming, but what difference, at this point, does it make?
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“So I told John, ‘here’s what you say: ask not what your country can do for you …’ ”
The former veep, 77, has repeatedly spoken about participating in the civil rights movement as a teenager in the 1960s and of attending organizing sessions at the Union Baptist Church in Wilmington — then run by the Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who died in 1996.
But congregants and a longtime assistant to Herring at the prominent black church told the Washington Free Beacon this week that they never remembered Biden attending as he claimed, and said he met Herring as an adult.
When asked if Biden attended Union Baptist, Phyllis Drummond, Herring’s longtime assistant who attended the church for four decades, said: “No. Not at our building.”
Juanita Matthew, another longtime member, told the Free Beacon that she also wasn’t aware of Biden’s attendance as a high school student.
“When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement,” Biden told a crowd of parishioners at the Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina on Jan. 20.
“I’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Reverend Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do,” he went on.
“I got my education, for real, in the black church, and that’s not hyperbole, it’s a fact,” he said.
At an NAACP event in Iowa several days prior, Biden said his “political identity” was shaped by his experiences at the church.
“I was raised in the black church politically — not a joke,” he told the audience, according to the New York Times.
Between his tale of friendship with the mythical Corn Pop, and his false claim to have attended an “HBUC” (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), Delaware State, one can be forgiven for suspecting that Ol’ Joe may be making all this shit up.
Neil Kinnock could not be reached for comment.
