{"id":79039,"date":"2021-07-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79039"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T23:06:44","slug":"looks-like-we-got-us-a-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79039","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like We Got Us A Convoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let those truckers roll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he once drove an 18-wheeler truck, but his remark\u2014made during a visit to a Mack Truck factory in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania\u2014quickly garnered a skeptical reaction.<\/p>\n

In audio recorded by local news channel WFMZ-TV, Biden can be heard off camera telling workers at Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man [\u2026] I got to.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This claim is, like many of the Leader of the Free World’s observations, unmoored from reality. Apparently back in 1973, Biden took a long ride with a truck driver, but there’s no evidence he ever drove the rig:<\/p>\n

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Zach Parkinson, director of RNC Research, also questioned the president’s claim, sharing a 1973 opinion piece written by Biden, who was then a first-term senator.<\/p>\n

In that article, Biden talked about how he had ridden in a “47,000-pound cargo truck” on a 500-mile-plus trip from Delaware to Ohio.<\/p>\n

“There is zero evidence that Biden ‘used to drive an 18 wheeler,'” Parkinson tweeted.<\/p>\n

“The extent of Biden’s trucking experience is that he **rode in** a truck once, for one night in 1973 (he made sure to return home by plane though).”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Truck drivers and CB radios were a thing back in the 1970s and an advertising guy from Omaha named Bill Fries had a big hit single under the name C.W. McCall. The song “Convoy” made it to #1 on the country and the pop charts in the early part of 1976 and it led to a huge rise in sales for CB radios, which had been, up to that time, primarily a tool for truck drivers and other people in the transportation industry. The song was catchy and the trucker jargon lyrics<\/a> were entertaining to hear coming through on the AM radio of your ’75 Cutlass:<\/p>\n

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44<\/em>
Like a rocket sled on rails<\/em>
We tore up all of our swindle sheets<\/em>
And left ’em settin’ on the scales<\/em><\/p>\n

By the time we hit that Chi-town<\/em>
Them bears was a-gettin’ smart<\/em>
They’d brought up some reinforcements<\/em>
From the Illinois National Guard<\/em><\/p>\n

The amusing thing about Fries\/ C.W. McCall is he was never a truck driver, either:<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was never a truck driver, even though people think I must have been,\u201d Fries says. \u201cI wanted to sound authentic. I wanted to talk like people talk. If you want to talk to truckers, you have to sound like a trucker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Biden has been straining for authenticity for 50 years now. He’s truck driver, a tough guy from Scranton, friends with Corn Pop and God only knows what else. And he has access to the nuclear codes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Come on and join our convoy<\/em>
Ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way<\/em>
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy<\/em>
‘Cross the USA<\/em><\/p>\n

Sleep tight, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let those truckers roll: President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he once drove an 18-wheeler truck, but his remark\u2014made during a visit to a Mack Truck factory in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania\u2014quickly garnered a skeptical reaction. In audio recorded by local news channel WFMZ-TV, Biden can be heard off camera telling workers at Mack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,104,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-d","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79041,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79039\/revisions\/79041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}