Posted on 01/15/2023 5:17:47 PM PST by bitt
President Joe Biden has told lie after lie, getting caught each time. You’d think he’d learned his lesson by now.
In yet another fabrication of his, Biden claimed that he attended a black church in Delaware every morning after he attended Catholic mass in high school, despite members of the church not being able to recall the president ever being there.
During a visit to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden shared his so-called “experience” with black churches.
“I may be a practicing Catholic, we used to go 7:30 am mass every morning in high school and college before I went to the black church,” Biden said, adding "not a joke.”
However, his tall tale doesn’t quite fit the reality.
Congregants and longtime Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who died in 1996, told the Washington Beacon that they don’t remember Biden ever attending the church.
In October 2020, Biden made a similar claim while visiting the Bethlehem Baptist Church in South Carolina.
“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,” the president claimed.
On a separate occasion, Biden once again exaggerated his past during a 2020 NAACP event in Iowa.
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Biden’s White family members were slaves in the South. /s
Just helping Joe build his rep.
He’s just a script reader.
“And amazingly, nor did anyone in college. I found it interesting that not one girl...not one...said she went out with the guy.”
What about the guys? Did he go out with any of them?
Did he sit with Cornpop?
IIRC, there were two gay choir boys at that church who “knew” Obama and then died under suspicious circumstances.
October 12, 2020
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has talked frequently about his early years in the civil rights movement. As a teenager, he says, he regularly attended a black church in Wilmington, Del., where he was involved in organizing anti-segregation protests in the early 1960s.
“I got raised in the black church,” Biden said in a speech to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH coalition last year. “We would go sit in Rev. Herring’s church, sit there before we’d go out, and try to change things when I was a kid in college and in high school.”
The church Biden referenced, Union Baptist Church, was a prominent African-American church in Wilmington run by Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who passed away in 1996. But Biden has made comments that seem to contradict the account. When reporters questioned Biden’s claim in 1987 that he marched in the civil rights movement, he acknowledged that he “wasn’t an activist” and that his most significant experience with civil rights as a youth was when he worked at a majority-black swimming pool as a college sophomore in 1962.
Now, interviews with long-time church members are raising questions about his story. Biden befriended Herring as an adult, they say, but they do not recall him attending the church as a teenager.
Phyllis Drummond, Herring’s longtime assistant who attended Union Baptist for 39 years, said she was not involved with the church in the early 1960s but does not think Biden attended at that time. “No. Not at our building. I think he was probably in Claymont, [Del.,] [or] in Pennsylvania then,” Drummond told the Washington Free Beacon.
The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Juanita Matthew, who joined Union Baptist in the 1970s and has run its affiliated day-care center for decades, said she wasn’t aware of Biden’s attendance as a teenager. Herring, she said, befriended Biden after the newly elected senator’s wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in 1972, and Biden became “a great friend of the church and the pastor.”
Biden’s biographical claims have raised eyebrows since his first presidential run over three decades ago, when he was forced to drop out of the race after falsely claiming that he was the first in his family to attend college and that he was the descendant of coal miners. In February, Biden repeatedly told a story about getting arrested while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa in the late 1970s. But the campaign later acknowledged this was not true following a New York Times report that challenged the claim. Andrew Young, a United Nations ambassador who traveled with Biden to South Africa, told the Times, “I was never arrested and I don’t think [Biden] was, either.”
The former vice president has also made dubious claims in the past few years about having his helicopter “forced down” down outside Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan and getting shot at in Iraq.
Biden also claimed to have participated in anti-segregation sit-ins along Route 40 when he was just 18 years old, which could not be corroborated by participants and historians.
Now, his claims about Herring and his involvement with the church are coming under scrutiny. Biden said over the summer that he had been “involved with the civil rights movement, the African-American community since I was a junior in high school, desegregating movie theaters.”
But Biden said previously he “didn’t know any black people” until he started working at the majority-black pool in Wilmington in 1962. “It was an incredible awakening to me,” he told the Morning News in 1986. “I had just assumed everybody treated everyone fairly.”
Biden’s claims about Union Baptist have prompted skepticism from progressives. Shaun King, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, reported in January that he spoke to unnamed “former members” of Union Baptist and people close to the Herring family and was told Biden’s stories about attending the church as a youth were untrue.
“Four different people in Wilmington expressed to me that these claims of Biden are so outrageous and dishonest that it caused them to truly worry for his mental health,” he wrote. King, who has tempered his criticism of the candidate since Biden became the Democratic nominee, did not respond to a request for comment.
In an Intercept article in February, reporter Robert Mackey also challenged Biden’s account, noting that the former vice president’s 2007 memoir Promises to Keep made no mention of these stories.
“Given that the memoir describes his time in high school and college in detail, it seems odd that Biden failed to make any mention at all of what he now describes as formative experiences: the picketing of the segregated Rialto movie theater and attending civil rights organizing sessions at Rev. Otis Herring’s Union Baptist Church,” wrote Mackey. “Asked about the discrepancy … Biden’s spokesperson argued that the book was written as something of a manifesto for his 2007 campaign and was not intended to be an exhaustive autobiography.”
Herring—a devoted religious and community leader, blind since young adulthood, and admired as a “visionary” by his parishioners—was first installed as the pastor at Union Baptist in September 1962, according to news reports from the time. At the time, Biden was a college sophomore at the University of Delaware.
Biden gave a tribute to Herring on the Senate floor after his death in 1996, praising his “legacy that endures because he lived his faith.” The tribute did not mention Biden attending his church as a teenager or helping organize civil rights protests.
https://freebeacon.com/elections/members-dont-recall-bidens-attendance-at-black-church-as-teen/
Biden is even plagiarizing his lies now. I have read a very similar lie told by Huey Long, concerning hitching up the mare and driving his Catholic grand parents to Mass, then taking his Baptist grand parents to church.
When confronted by an aide about this lie he told the aid to not be a damn fool, that we didn’t even have a horse.
Talking about Biden’s fake hair. I’d give a year’spay to have a barber take his razor and do a good “fade” on the back of his plugs.
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*** we used to go 7:30 am mass every morning in high school and college before I went to the black church***
My guess is he was skipping classes in order for this to be true?
Biden is a sick sad old man, a laughingstock
He carries a bottle of hot sauce in his purse!
“Biden Caught In Yet Another Lie”
Wow. Has it been 5 minutes already?
Biden has learned his lesson. He has learned he can tell any self-aggrandizing lie to garner cachet from any given audience and never be held accountable in any meaningful way.
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