Hard Hat (file) The media’s so-called “fact-checkers” have been little more than left-wing opinion writers who support the Democrats’ some conserv
The media’s so-called “fact-checkers” have been little more than left-wing opinion writers who support the Democrats’ some conservatives say.
That was illustrated again last week, except this time, pressure from conservative social media users who refused to accept a blatant lie forced the judges to reverse a ruling.
The controversy began on Thursday when Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar posted a photo on X showing her and President Joe Biden having a beer with some union construction workers in Wisconsin.
The picture clearly showed Biden wearing a construction hard hat backward. Accordingly, conservatives ridiculed him for it.
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Yet Snopes.com declared conservatives could not believe their lying eyes. The website rated claims about how he had the hat on as “false,” despite actually including the photo of Biden in its article.
“Do construction workers sometimes wear their hard hats backwards? Yes,” Snopes wrote in an article explaining why Biden was actually not wearing the hard hat wrongly.
“But to do so, the internal suspension has to be reversed to fit correctly, which explains why, when Biden donned the hat with the brim forward, the nape strap ended up on his forehead.”
According to Newsmax on Sunday, Snopes was slammed for promoting the article on X after a user with the handle Vapid Surplus pointed out the big lie.
“Holy s–t, @snopes,” the user wrote, quoting Snopes’ rationale. “So the nape strap determines if on correctly?? Thx. Dorks.”
An avalanche of criticism followed, which Snopes acknowledged forced it to reverse what was obvious to all.
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“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,” the editors wrote with the article.
“On the basis of that assumption, we originally rated the claim that Biden was wearing a hard hat backwards as false.”
“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.”
“We find these arguments sound,” the noted added. “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.”
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