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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 12:34 PM Feb 2013

Plouffe: Attn skeet birthers. Make our day - let the photoshop conspiracies begin!



President Barack Obama shoots clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012....


tweeted by, David Plouffe ‏@davidplouffe

Attn skeet birthers. Make our day - let the photoshop conspiracies begin! http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/8436110735/in/photostream
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Plouffe: Attn skeet birthers. Make our day - let the photoshop conspiracies begin! (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2013 OP
omg! baby bump! Enrique Feb 2013 #1
Now that is funny! A Little Weird Feb 2013 #11
K & R. PA Democrat Feb 2013 #2
I can't wait for this photo ending up changed in other ways. nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #3
The White House also warns all mischievous internet types to not mess around with the picture: bigtree Feb 2013 #12
I'm sure that is standard language included with every photo nobodyspecial Feb 2013 #20
I am betting satire doesn't fall under that caveat. MADem Feb 2013 #26
I volunteer Dick Cheney to be the old man to be shot in the face Gothmog Feb 2013 #28
"...but, but, but I have 5 Republican chickenhawk deferments." - Dickie '5 Deferments' Cheney (R) Berlum Feb 2013 #41
So naturally,it'll be photo-shopped into something ugly Flashmann Feb 2013 #27
I hope they enforce that rule. "Satire" or not. nt EastKYLiberal Feb 2013 #33
Pump it daddy. Kurovski Feb 2013 #4
I know bigtree Feb 2013 #5
And how long can the assassin kitty pics satisfy? Kurovski Feb 2013 #7
Hahaha! babylonsister Feb 2013 #6
Even in mom jeans. Kurovski Feb 2013 #8
Mom jeans? Uhm, no. xtraxritical Feb 2013 #19
OUT of mom jeans? Kurovski Feb 2013 #22
Cue the right wingers on his taking our guns away treestar Feb 2013 #9
"Just like Hitler did!" Kurovski Feb 2013 #25
Conspiracy theories starting in 10,9,8... AnnieK401 Feb 2013 #10
If he's shooting skeet, he's using the wrong gun FarCenter Feb 2013 #13
pigeon shooting, clay targets bigtree Feb 2013 #15
There is no choke in the lower barrel, but skeet involves shooting doubles. FarCenter Feb 2013 #29
Great, now the Repubs are going to have to hold hearings to expose the WH lies!11!!elevens!!1 n/t TroglodyteScholar Feb 2013 #21
HA! Thank you, bigtree! sheshe2 Feb 2013 #14
They've already begun. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #16
OMG!!! He's shooting a GUN for FUN!!!! bvar22 Feb 2013 #17
ya'd think bigtree Feb 2013 #18
Only one weapon is powerful enough to compensate for a lack of manhood Bucky Feb 2013 #34
+1000 Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #36
He certaily looks comfortable and competant while practicing to kill our children. bvar22 Feb 2013 #38
sometimes I think the whitehouse and democratic party are having fun with the repubs greymattermom Feb 2013 #23
The aim is not low! SCVDem Feb 2013 #24
I call bullshit on this so-called "photograph" Bucky Feb 2013 #30
My God... the truth is worst than the meanest dittohead's nightmare Bucky Feb 2013 #32
That really did get an LOL out of me. Whovian Feb 2013 #39
Tall jlover70 Feb 2013 #31
There have always been photoshop trolls ThoughtCriminal Feb 2013 #35
Bring it Skeeters. Cha Feb 2013 #37
/ bigtree Feb 2013 #40
He's holding it wrong - the stock should not be that high on his shoulder jpak Feb 2013 #42

nobodyspecial

(2,286 posts)
3. I can't wait for this photo ending up changed in other ways.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 12:46 PM
Feb 2013

Black man with a gun. Scary.

I love their sense of humor about the inevitable.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
12. The White House also warns all mischievous internet types to not mess around with the picture:
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:15 PM
Feb 2013

from Wonkette: http://wonkette.com/499381/yes-it-has-come-to-this-white-house-releases-long-form-photo-of-obama-firing-a-gun

“This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.”

MADem

(135,425 posts)
26. I am betting satire doesn't fall under that caveat.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:34 PM
Feb 2013

I see Willy Nelson with a bong next to that plume of smoke!

Wonkette offered another photoshop possibility:

Of course, Republicans won’t truly accept Obama as a real leader, like Dick Cheney, until he shoots an old man in the face.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/499381/yes-it-has-come-to-this-white-house-releases-long-form-photo-of-obama-firing-a-gun#zAVSP0QepVKrzldL.99


Haters gonna hate...they've got nothing else.

Gothmog

(145,265 posts)
28. I volunteer Dick Cheney to be the old man to be shot in the face
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:45 PM
Feb 2013

Instead of having President Obama shoot one of his friends, I propose that we have President Obama shoot Dick Cheney in the fact

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
41. "...but, but, but I have 5 Republican chickenhawk deferments." - Dickie '5 Deferments' Cheney (R)
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 06:15 PM
Feb 2013

"That means I am a bona fide Republican chicken hawk, and therefore specially beloved by RepubliFreeper Baggers. So don't taze me or blast me, bro." - Dickie

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
27. So naturally,it'll be photo-shopped into something ugly
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:38 PM
Feb 2013

The warning is too long and contains too many "big words"for those of the mindset to alter it,to grasp....

I'll be amazed if we don't see it by days end....That's assumes,of course,some cretin hasn't already photo-shopped it.....

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
22. OUT of mom jeans?
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:00 PM
Feb 2013

Is there no dignity left for the office of POTUS?

Ah, what Clinton started, Bush II certainly finished off.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
13. If he's shooting skeet, he's using the wrong gun
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:22 PM
Feb 2013

Elsewhere it has been pointed out that the angle is too low for skeet. But not for trap, and he's using a trap gun.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/products/catalog/detail.asp?family=020c&mid=513057

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
15. pigeon shooting, clay targets
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:26 PM
Feb 2013

. . . not so far off.

Besides, the real issue raised by loonies was whether he had ever fired a gun. Over.

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
29. There is no choke in the lower barrel, but skeet involves shooting doubles.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:57 PM
Feb 2013

Also, the ported barrel is ported on the right. Shouldn't a left-hand gun be ported on the left?

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
17. OMG!!! He's shooting a GUN for FUN!!!!
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:30 PM
Feb 2013

Doesn't he KNOW he is responsible for the killing of our CHILDREN!!!
GUNS are EVIL,
and anyone who owns and shoots one is EVIL too!
Their ONLY purpose is to KILL!!!

I guess this means that President Obama is compensating for a small PENIS!!!







Mojorabbit

(16,020 posts)
36. +1000
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 04:30 PM
Feb 2013

After all the vitriol thrown at gun owners on this board I am waiting to see the reaction. Ha!
He looks good whatever he does.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
38. He certaily looks comfortable and competant while practicing to kill our children.
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 04:46 PM
Feb 2013

Does Michele know?

greymattermom

(5,754 posts)
23. sometimes I think the whitehouse and democratic party are having fun with the repubs
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 02:01 PM
Feb 2013

They do this on purpose to make the repubs look even more stupid every day. Don't you think? Kind of like what happened during the McCain Hagel testimony.

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
30. I call bullshit on this so-called "photograph"
Sat Feb 2, 2013, 03:35 PM
Feb 2013

Any real skeet hunter knows the best weapon for hunting these dangerous carnivores is a Bushmaster.

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