I reported the other day about Joe Biden's visit to Superior, Wisconsin.
He visited a brewery and had some seriously incoherent moments. It was quite troubling, even on the Biden scale of incoherence.
Biden's team keeps searching for how to make him more popular, but they're sort of caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. The more they bring him out and run him around, the more chance he has to make gaffes.
And Biden had a big gaffe on the Wisconsin trip, in addition to the scary incoherence. As I reported -- he wore a hard hat backwards.
That was pretty hilarious because they're trying to make him look like a relatable regular guy, "Scranton Joe," and he doesn't even know how to wear a hard hat. It also looked like the workers may have been laughing at him rather than with him.
Biden Gets Confused, Dems Ignore Him, Then He Dons a Hard Hat Backwards
But Snopes then seemed to claim we all hadn't seen what we saw. They ruled the claim that he wore it backwards false. They concluded he was wearing it with the bill of the hard hat forward, comparing it with a picture of a worker who also had the bill facing forward, and it had the same stickers on it as Joe's. So they claimed he was wearing it correctly.
But as Oilfield Rando explains, the suspension strap part axiomatically goes on the back of the head, not on the forehead, as Biden had it.
Snopes got a huge backlash from people who explained that Biden had it on wrong.
And what do you know? The backlash worked, big time.
Here's what the "fact check" said before when they judged the claim "false."
The photo is genuine. And it does look, at first glance, like Biden was wearing that hard hat backwards. But after comparing it to other photos and videos of the same event, we were forced to reach the opposite conclusion: The hat on Biden's head was facing forward, bill to the front, not backward.
We identified it as the same hard hat worn by one of the construction workers Biden met that day. Here's a photo. Compare the arrangement of the stickers.
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Anyone want to razz that man for how he chooses to wear his hard hat?
Here's what they've now changed it to:
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.
A corollary to that argument is "Biden looks damn silly in any case."
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.
So flooding them with the truth worked in this case. They should have ruled this way to begin with. But that's the thing -- so much of liberal media is based on what they assume to be true, it isn't necessary based on reality or the facts. Given the facts, they changed it here. But in all too many cases, liberal media continues on in ignorance.
