Obama The Star Athelete?
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Fact Check: Obama Is Not Good at Kite Surfing, Any Sport WaPo falsely claims Obama is 'not just a one-sport athlete'
"Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing"
– The Washington Post, Early Lead, February 7, 6:32 PM
A glowing report in the Washington Post claiming former President Barack Obama is "pretty much a natural on a kiteboard" is filled with factual errors, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check.
"Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing," the headline for a piece by Kelyn Soong reads. Soong "works in the sports department" at the Washington Post and writes about tennis and running.
Soong wrote that Obama "seems to be living it up these days" after being spotted walking on the beach and being choked by his "billionaire vacation buddy" Richard Branson in the British Virgin Islands.
"Turns out that was just the beginning of Obama’s post-presidency adventures," Soong wrote, explaining that Branson challenged Obama to see who could stay on a kiteboard or foilboard the longest.
"It’s well documented that Obama is pretty good at basketball, but the video proved that the 55-year-old former leader of the free world is pretty much a natural on a kiteboard, as well," Soong wrote.
The Facts
These claims are false. As the video reveals Obama fell multiple times off the kiteboard despite "perfect conditions" and practicing for "two days solid" before the challenge.
Neither is Obama a star basketball player. Soong's evidence comes from Obama's former body man Reggie Love, who played basketball at Duke, and vouched for Obama's basketball skills.
"He’ll knock down open shots; he’s got a good midrange," Love told the Washington Post's D.C. Sports Blog last year.
However, Love also admitted Obama is "not the most explosive guy, not the fastest guy," and he "lacks in physical capabilities."
Video evidence
Obama does not "knock down open shots." ABC News reported in 2013 that, when playing against children, Obama was "ice cold" after going just 2 for 22 from the floor. The former president had to be shown how to make a layup by a 10 year old."He couldn't make one. I had to help him out," the child said.
Soong argues Obama is a two-sport athlete adding his poor kiteboarding to his lacking basketball skills.
The article claimed Obama was an avid surfer in Hawaii before he became president, and it was one of the "many things he loved," which he had to give up for eight years while serving as president.
"Without the physical restrictions that come with being president, Obama looked like he went—in Branson’s words—'back to being a child again,'" Soong wrote. "And in the process, Obama showed he’s not just a one-sport athlete."
Evidence suggests that not only is Obama not "just a one-sport athlete," but he might not be much of an athlete at all.
Obama is so bad at bowling that he once compared himself to "the Special Olympics."
His abysmal score after bowling zero strikes while on the campaign trail in Allentown, Pa., in 2008 prompted the New York Times to ask, "Is it even possible for a grown man to bowl a 37?"
Obama is also a "sh—y golfer," according to Michael Jordan, despite having played more than 300 rounds of golf as president.
Many have noted Obama's poor technique when teeing off. The Telegraph reported that Obama's swing was "no match for George W. Bush." Obama's swing was "nervy," and he "finishes with limp shoulders."
"Bush by contrast has a sturdy, almost fluid swing that would not sit uncomfortably with most club professionals," the Telegraph wrote.
The 43rd president also is
than Obama, as is this .Obama has long struggled to throw a baseball like a normal person as previous Free Beacon analyses have shown. Obama did not impress Little Leaguers in 2014 due to his poor throwing form.
Obama's knowledge of the sport is also lacking, even though he claims to be an avid baseball fan. Obama
and called Comiskey Park "." He also thinks teams "advance the ball" in baseball. Despite claiming to be a diehard Sox fan, he said he was rooting for the Cubs to win the World Series, leading to doubts that he ever cared about baseball at all.The Pinocchio Test
The Washington Post claims Obama is "pretty good at basketball" and "makes [the] rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing." But there is little evidence either claim is true.
A substantial amount of video footage exists disproving their claim that Obama is "not just a one-sport athlete." Moreover, the record shows Obama is not even a one-sport athlete as he has proven to be terrible at basketball, baseball, bowling, and now kitesurfing.
It's one thing to write about Obama's life after the White House, but the Washington Post goes too far in declaring Obama to be athletic. Not only does the Post make this outrageous claim, they also seek to demean their own readers by saying the American people "look bad" because of Obama's athletic ability. We award Four Pinocchios.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/fact-check-obama-not-good-kite-surfing-sport/
Fact Check: Obama Is Not Good at Kite Surfing, Any Sport WaPo falsely claims Obama is 'not just a one-sport athlete'
"Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing"
– The Washington Post, Early Lead, February 7, 6:32 PM
A glowing report in the Washington Post claiming former President Barack Obama is "pretty much a natural on a kiteboard" is filled with factual errors, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check.
"Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing," the headline for a piece by Kelyn Soong reads. Soong "works in the sports department" at the Washington Post and writes about tennis and running.
Soong wrote that Obama "seems to be living it up these days" after being spotted walking on the beach and being choked by his "billionaire vacation buddy" Richard Branson in the British Virgin Islands.
"Turns out that was just the beginning of Obama’s post-presidency adventures," Soong wrote, explaining that Branson challenged Obama to see who could stay on a kiteboard or foilboard the longest.
"It’s well documented that Obama is pretty good at basketball, but the video proved that the 55-year-old former leader of the free world is pretty much a natural on a kiteboard, as well," Soong wrote.
The Facts
These claims are false. As the video reveals Obama fell multiple times off the kiteboard despite "perfect conditions" and practicing for "two days solid" before the challenge.
Neither is Obama a star basketball player. Soong's evidence comes from Obama's former body man Reggie Love, who played basketball at Duke, and vouched for Obama's basketball skills.
"He’ll knock down open shots; he’s got a good midrange," Love told the Washington Post's D.C. Sports Blog last year.
However, Love also admitted Obama is "not the most explosive guy, not the fastest guy," and he "lacks in physical capabilities."
Video evidence
Obama does not "knock down open shots." ABC News reported in 2013 that, when playing against children, Obama was "ice cold" after going just 2 for 22 from the floor. The former president had to be shown how to make a layup by a 10 year old."He couldn't make one. I had to help him out," the child said.
Soong argues Obama is a two-sport athlete adding his poor kiteboarding to his lacking basketball skills.
The article claimed Obama was an avid surfer in Hawaii before he became president, and it was one of the "many things he loved," which he had to give up for eight years while serving as president.
"Without the physical restrictions that come with being president, Obama looked like he went—in Branson’s words—'back to being a child again,'" Soong wrote. "And in the process, Obama showed he’s not just a one-sport athlete."
Evidence suggests that not only is Obama not "just a one-sport athlete," but he might not be much of an athlete at all.
Obama is so bad at bowling that he once compared himself to "the Special Olympics."
His abysmal score after bowling zero strikes while on the campaign trail in Allentown, Pa., in 2008 prompted the New York Times to ask, "Is it even possible for a grown man to bowl a 37?"
Obama is also a "sh—y golfer," according to Michael Jordan, despite having played more than 300 rounds of golf as president.
Many have noted Obama's poor technique when teeing off. The Telegraph reported that Obama's swing was "no match for George W. Bush." Obama's swing was "nervy," and he "finishes with limp shoulders."
"Bush by contrast has a sturdy, almost fluid swing that would not sit uncomfortably with most club professionals," the Telegraph wrote.
The 43rd president also is
than Obama, as is this .Obama has long struggled to throw a baseball like a normal person as previous Free Beacon analyses have shown. Obama did not impress Little Leaguers in 2014 due to his poor throwing form.
Obama's knowledge of the sport is also lacking, even though he claims to be an avid baseball fan. Obama
and called Comiskey Park "." He also thinks teams "advance the ball" in baseball. Despite claiming to be a diehard Sox fan, he said he was rooting for the Cubs to win the World Series, leading to doubts that he ever cared about baseball at all.The Pinocchio Test
The Washington Post claims Obama is "pretty good at basketball" and "makes [the] rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing." But there is little evidence either claim is true.
A substantial amount of video footage exists disproving their claim that Obama is "not just a one-sport athlete." Moreover, the record shows Obama is not even a one-sport athlete as he has proven to be terrible at basketball, baseball, bowling, and now kitesurfing.
It's one thing to write about Obama's life after the White House, but the Washington Post goes too far in declaring Obama to be athletic. Not only does the Post make this outrageous claim, they also seek to demean their own readers by saying the American people "look bad" because of Obama's athletic ability. We award Four Pinocchios.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/fact-check-obama-not-good-kite-surfing-sport/
He's half white, that is why.
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the left built this whole fake narrative about him. why, he'll zap America with
his magic twanger and bring us allllllltogether ! and he'll cut the budget in half
in only 4 yrs ! and he'll solve the terrorist problem because, darn it, HE knows
about Islam, he was raised as one, til he went to Hawaii and had communist
mentors ! oops....
and he is black, and gosh darnit, he looks so successful in his pretty suit, even though
he was a loser anti-American bastard...oops....
and he was sooooooooo lovable in sports. and he is going to give all America
free healthcare... uh-huh.
now, he's worse than the worst he was before we knew he faked that too.
but now, libs hate the message of reality ...again. Maybe we should start a new thread
about it every week....
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But yeah when it comes to former potus's, they do make him look a retiring heptathlete
But yeah when it comes to former potus's, they do make him look a retiring heptathlete
Rewriting of history here trying to portray Obama as a star athlete.
Perception though can be greater than reality. I think of Gerald Ford who was probably the most athletic of all previous presidents (played football in college) and got tagged as being the bumbling stumbling buffoon by Chevy Chase on SNL (and I believe that false portrayal stuck to him).
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Pretty much everything good said about the obamao's, and by them....
was FAKE NEWS
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Oh there u go with ur snl theory. They tore bush apart too he didnt care. Remember the clinton lewinsky skits? They were bad dude. They did a black clinton skit where he snapped his fingers and immediately a woman got on her knees under the desk
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Oh there u go with ur snl theory. They tore bush apart too he didnt care. Remember the clinton lewinsky skits? They were bad dude. They did a black clinton skit where he snapped his fingers and immediately a woman got on her knees under the desk
Oh there u go with ur snl theory. They tore bush apart too he didnt care. Remember the clinton lewinsky skits? They were bad dude. They did a black clinton skit where he snapped his fingers and immediately a woman got on her knees under the desk
Bush should have cared (not so much about SNL but in fighting back against the MSM). He took the attitude especially in his second term why even bother to fight back and that attitude was a big reason for his historically low job approval numbers when he left office (22 percent job approval) . When you don't fight back against charges made against you it is like admitting the charges were true.
It is not a theory about SNL when you have Chevy Chase stating he deliberately wanted to portray Ford in a bad light to try and help Jimmy Carter. Recently we have comedians saying the same thing they want to use comedy as a weapon to try and bring down Trump.
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The real story here is that certain outlets are obsessed with attacking Obama over the most petty bullshit. A symptom of what? You guessed it! Hyper-partisanship!
"I said, 'I need someone who's going to want to get on the roller coaster with me knowing that it's not always going to be fun,'" -Paul DePodesta -
Except if it's a dem, everything is "petty" because they are a dem. But they go to hellfire
when it's the same thing on the rep side. Like the debt. They think it's nothing
to worry about, til Bush or Trump gets elected, then all hell breaks loose...
Just...think about that.
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The real story here is that certain outlets are obsessed with attacking Obama over the most petty bullshit. A symptom of what? You guessed it! Hyper-partisanship!
The real story here is that certain outlets are obsessed with attacking Obama over the most petty bullshit. A symptom of what? You guessed it! Hyper-partisanship!
I don't see this as attacking Obama so much as attacking the Washington Post. Obama is not the one exaggerating his athletic ability it is the Washington Post. Wapo is supposed to be one of the fact checkers of the media but they get 4 Pinocchio's here with their exaggerations about Obama.
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All the complaining by these snowflakes about how trump is being unfairly maligned yet for 8 years you all snickered and passed around memes of obama looking like an african bushman with a bine through his nose. No empathy from me, take ur medicine now like good little boys
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One thing for sure is that Trump is in FABULOUS shape, I mean FABULOUS. Count on it, count on it.
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DieHard, you're making me laugh far too much these days, keep it up.
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marxist obamao roadrunners don't make good anything.
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Obama would run circles around trump.
Obama would run circles around trump.
Not buying it Cleve:
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Got any videos of Trump working out? Nope, didn't think so.
I have seen videos of Michelle Obama working out. That is who I would put my money on:
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I have seen videos of Michelle Obama working out. That is who I would put my money on:
I'm sure her athleticism is related to her Let's Move initiative. The dumbells she's lifting are bigger than his lol.
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Can we agree part of the reason that Trump is taking such a beating is because it was illegal for Democrats to not fawn over Obama?
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