Who is going to apologize to Joe Biden first? Here's Corn Pop's obituary

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Hortensis]

2. Cornpop was 73 in 2016, so he'd be @76 now. Biden's age.

I'm bad at math, but wouldn't that have made him also Biden's age at that pool?

It was gracious of Cornpop to accept Joe's apology for calling him Esther Williams and close that straight razor. That restraint gave them both a...nicely humorous anecdote for life because it didn't include blood, hospitalization, disfigurement, death, or prison.

[Mr.Bill]

17. And if he was a "tiny" guy

he could have been mistaken for younger. I'm a small person, around 5'5". The whole time I was growing up I was always the smallest guy in my class. I paid the under 12 rate at the movie theater well into high school. I passed for under 6 (free admission) at the local race track until I was 11 or 12.

It wasn't always fun being small, but it had it's advantages.

[Hortensis]

19. :) Whatever. He was holding a razor he was prepared to use

on another person. Imo, the little mob, that chortled over the tiny guy threatening Bden's knees or whatever yuck they thought was so hilarious, was more than a tiny bit carried away and far over the line.

[Mr.Bill]

44. Me and my dad had the whole act worked out.

He would buy a ticket then as we went through the gate I would hold his hand, like a little kid would. And I never spoke, because my voice sounded older than six. They just never asked me for a ticket.

[Hortensis]

37. :) My husband was tall for his age until his teens and then

he just stopped growing. It didn't work as well for them. He missed those free admissions to the track and later the being taller than his dates in high school. My MIL was the first female first-run independent theater manager in the nation, and he worked the theater, so movies were free. But he wore a fancy wine-and-gold usher's uniform all the years he was shooting up and was hidden in the projector room when his mom would have appreciated saving some money on uniforms.

[Hortensis]

39. Well, it became a funny story, for both no doubt.

[NYMinute]

3. I can nominate a few for the apology right here on DU nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. I could nominate more that a few

This has been one of the more absurd attacks on Joe and that's really saying something.

[Hortensis]

9. Yes, it was an overly enthusiastic little rumble, wasn't it?

Not anyone's finer moment.

[emulatorloo]

28. Propaganda at its worst and very transparent

[NYMinute]

15. They haven't learnt anything ....... sad nt

[Thekaspervote]

20. And we know who they are!! I wouldn't lay awake for an apology thou

[sheshe2]

27. Long time coming.

I suggest you get some sleep.

[madville]

4. Did anyone ever find T-Bone?

Now that the Corn Pop mystery is solved, has anyone seen T-Bone?

[Kurt V.]

7. t-bone was a collegiate baller at my alma mater. big (of course) white dude that that threatened to

twist me if i didn't come up with a 4 finger. true story.

[Kurt V.]

5. so no confirmation. 👍

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. I provided confirmation. I hope you aren't suggesting I'm a liar.

[Thekaspervote]

24. Nah!!

[Kurt V.]

25. you got me there :)

[still_one]

31. What doess the OPs choice fore pres have to do with anything. DSB has been at DU for a long time,

and has always been above board

[still_one]

36. In otherwords, you are questioning the OPs mindset? That is bullshit

[Kurt V.]

66. You're right. Deleted

[still_one]

68. Wow, you are a stand up person. My hats off to you

[Cha]

56. ..

Link to tweet

[Kurt V.]

71. thanks cha

[melman]

6. Is Corn Pop's existence really the only issue with this story?

I can think of others. For example, why the hell is he telling this story in the first place?

[Otto Lidenbrock]

10. He told it when the Pool was named in his honour...in 2017

The Joseph R Biden Jr Aquatic Center was dedicated in June 2017.

Locals came to be a part of the event and those who knew Biden shared their stories. This was one. A former NAACP head in Delaware actually brought it up first.

[emulatorloo]

32. Oh you and your pesky facts!

[Hortensis]

11. Oh, come on. Didn't even Cornpop set a standard

that one might at least try to match? He put his razor away.

[George II]

13. Some come in toward the end and then complain about it. Sheesh!

[Thekaspervote]

23. It's a real life story.. it makes him human. That's what people want to hear. It helps them relate

Geez!!

[sheshe2]

30. Read Otto's post.

[melman]

38. I did

Doesn't answer the question.

[emulatorloo]

41. Maybe the full video will help you, rather than the out of context snip posted earlier

Here's the FULL Biden "Corn Pop" video
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287281461

[melman]

47. It doesn't

[George II]

49. Please try again.

[LanternWaste]

69. Easy to hear, but tough to listen when we close our ears.

[melman]

70. Is it?

Is it really easy to hear with closed ears?

[George II]

50. Yes it does.

[Skittles]

45. who the fuck knows

it's just, you know, "his thing"

[Cha]

55. Yeah, "who the fuck knows"

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

60. +10000

[treestar]

65. They were having a ceremony to name the pool after him

Sheesh.

Nobody talked about it until someone thought they'd dig it up to passively aggressively hint that Biden is racially insensitive. Again. There are probably a lot of events Biden attended. Why is this one picked out. And why did the people want to name the pool after him? They didn't dislike him or they would not have done that.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. For what? Laughing at a weird story?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. For suggesting Joe Biden lied about his existence.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Whew, all I did was laugh.

[Cha]

40. That's nice.

[Kind of Blue]

73. It is pretty nice to get a hearty laugh from this of many of his exaggerations instead

of one insult after another.

[Kurt V.]

29. +1

[Thekaspervote]

22. Thx for posting .. funny how the truth always finds a way of bubbling to the surface

[NYMinute]

26. Kick - for visibility

[oasis]

42. Corn Pop delivered. Thanks DSB.

[Gothmog]

43. Thank you for posting this

I doubt that the facts will make a difference

[highplainsdem]

46. Thanks, DSB! Good for Daniel Dale! He uses one of the same sources I used in my

replies to Biden's critics earlier today, a 2010 story from The Root

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=281044

but instead of a newspaper article like the one Dale used to confirm there was a gang called the Romans in Wilmington then, I searched Google and found a 1968 book about Senate hearings where a Wilmington police captain mentioned that gang and several others:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=281024

[Cha]

62. Here's Tommy Christopher whom I really like..

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[democrank]

51. Don't stop "Corn Pop"

I hope we can have postings on this important subject for at least another couple weeks . Sure hope the search for survivors in the Bahamas or children in cages in Texas or Trump’s “locked and loaded” threat against Iran won’t divert our attention away from Corn Pop.

[quickesst]

52. there are a lot of people hear at DU....

.... who refuse to admit when they are wrong. The usual MO is to just go silent. Looking at my post history, I could name several myself.

[Cha]

61. I'm late to the party but this seems worthwhile..

Link to tweet

quickesst!

[quickesst]

63. thank you for this Cha...

This latest attack on Joe Biden only affirm's the desperation some are feeling.

[Cha]

64. Yeah.. karma

gonna get 'em!

[Gothmog]

53. For this thread

Link to tweet

?

[Cha]

54. Thanks, Goth.. so it IS

Confirmed!

Damn Facts just get in the way of gas lighters.

[Cha]

57. Retweeted!

[melman]

58. relevant tweet

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[Cha]

59. Whatever you think of Joe Biden or the #CornPop story, Corn Pop and the Romans were real, this did..

Link to tweet

[DemocratSinceBirth]

67. This is the greatest primary season ever.

Joe has taught us how to laugh again.

[Kind of Blue]

72. For many of us, Corn Pop's existence is not at issue. It's JB's exaggeration and characterization

of a black boy in '62, who can't defend himself, as a switch blade-wielding thug that is not confirmed.

His story to a group of young AA kids that JB in his pool-naming video assume they know how to rust up a blade, is not only appalling but is so fluid that it's a gift to his opponents and proponents. Members of the Romans, who JB played b-ball, by '72 had joined the black power movement. What a gang!

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His Delaware pals remained lifelong AA coaches of Biden. But unfortunately AA, ad nauseam, are not a monolithic constituency from Delaware that speak for us nationwide.

For goodness sake, even the WaPo reporter who hung out with JB's pals for his balanced story says his mother, who grew up in the neighborhood, never heard of Pop Corn brandishing a blade. Nor did a blade ever come up during the reporter's interviews of JB's pals.

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Sheesh, JB's story so exacerbates stereotypes that one can't tell the difference between Stymie of "Our Gang" and the notorious Frank Lucas So please don't expect an apology from JB's opponents. This storytelling is cemented and a component in our overall view of the man.

[Scurrilous]

74. ...

[Gothmog]

75. I agree with Nate Silver-no Biden supporter is going to change due to this attack

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[delisen]

76. Male Bonding-call man a woman is insult

Sad that calling a man a woman-even if that woman was a major sports star such as Esther Williams, was considered an insult needing an apology.

Our institutions-especially the military and sports world encouraged this denigration of women in order to achieve male bonding.

This still happens today.

Of course, there is that infamous picture of Donald Trump kissing Rudy Giuliani who was in drag......

[Sugarcoated]

77. Boy some here have no room to talk

about Republicans being disingenuous and using smear tactics. This blows back on us...when will we learn? Smh