White House Releases Official Obama Skeet-Shooting Photo

In 2011, the White House released President Obama‘s long-form birth certificate as a response to “carnival barker” Birthers on the right who questioned the president’s true nationality. Today, by popular demand, they have released an official photo of the president skeet-shooting.

After Obama told The New Republic that he goes skeet-shooting “all the time” at Camp David, media voices began demanding to see photographic proof. Fox News’ The Five were incredulous and CNN’s Erin Burnett thought he might be “making it up.” Even Jon Stewart got into the fray, asking “Why won’t the black man half the country lives in fear of release a picture of himself holding a gun?”

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