A photo op of President Joe Biden hanging out with beer-drinking blue-collar workers who were hoisting a few beers during his visit to Superior, WI drew much ridicule from social media users over his backwards wearing of a construction helmet.
Not only was the picture of the geriatric Democrat a telling sign that all of the boastfulness about “Union Joe” and “Lunchbucket Joe” as a champion of the working class is just a bunch of malarkey but it also reinforces the perception that the 81-year-old Democrat’s mental faculties are in steep decline.
Somewhere a staffer is updating their resume… https://t.co/X1GU9m9cql
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) January 26, 2024
But not to worry, the trusty Snopes stepped up to debunk the critics that Biden is unable to tell the front from the back of the hard hat in yet another of the self-inflicted wounds that have plagued the so-called “fact-checkers” that became the unofficial national truth police after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election.
Snopes fact-check: “Biden wore a hard hat backwards” is misinformation
Who are you going to believe:
Snopes or your lying eyes? pic.twitter.com/p30Qu0uWlY— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 27, 2024
The left-wing website was savaged for its flagrant twisting of the truth to run cover for Biden by the real fact-checkers on the X platform, previously known as Twitter.
Snopes just fact checked this picture and claimed it’s false that the hard hat was backwards. Your eyes and brain were incorrect according to them.
They also assure us the border is fine and the economy is fantastic pic.twitter.com/PnckPbGwIV
— The Dank Knight (@capeandcowell) January 27, 2024
I wore a hard hat to work for 20 years – yes it’s on backwards – and yes Joe Biden is a moron. https://t.co/Ag4RbNJQD4
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 27, 2024
Snopes: Literally posts photo of Biden wearing hat backwards
Also Snopes: False
Absolute fucking clown hacks. https://t.co/iWAm9T12qw
— Sunny (@sunnyright) January 27, 2024
“The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia.”
— Equality 7-2521 (@Equality7d2521) January 27, 2024
And the criticism worked, shaming Snopes into reversing its claim with a Saturday update of it’s fact-check to now rule it as TRUE.
UPDATE: We bullied Snopes into changing their fact-check. They now admit that Joe Biden wore his hard hat backwards. https://t.co/K29Kfm4QWk pic.twitter.com/xvMgQ0e9LC
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 27, 2024
“Editor’s Note: We received a ton of comments in a very short time challenging our assumption that wearing a hard hat ‘backwards’ means wearing it with the brim facing to the rear, and ‘forwards’ means wearing it brim to the front. On the basis of that assumption, we originally rated the claim that Biden was wearing a hard hat backwards as false,” wrote Snopes, correcting their false fact check.
“The prevailing counter-argument is that if the suspension of the hat has been purposely configured by its owner such that the bill and tightening knob are worn to the back (as was the case of the hat Biden wore), to wear that hat with the bill facing forward is, practically speaking, to wear it backwards. Therefore, it’s argued, it’s actually true that, in the photo op discussed below, Biden was wearing it backwards. The strap and tightening knob, which should have been behind Biden’s head, were on his forehead,” the website added.
“We find these arguments sound. Therefore, the claim ‘President Joe Biden wore a hard hat backwards during a photo op with union construction workers in Superior, Wisconsin’ is true, and this fact check has been re-rated as such. Thanks to all who argued on behalf of this correction,” Snopes fessed up.
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