TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross
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The President said he appreciated that shooting can be a healthy family activity and then said that he himself does skeet shooting all the time at Camp David. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Just when you thought you'd heard the last Obama conspiracy theory

BY Dave Ross  on January 30, 2013 @ 5:57 am (Updated: 8:17 am - 1/30/13 )

The New Republic this week printed an interview with the President discussing a number of important subjects, but the answer that bubbled up was about his personal attitude toward guns. He said he appreciated that shooting can be a healthy family activity and then said that he himself does skeet shooting all the time at Camp David.

Which would undermine the gun-grabber image that his critics have been trying to paint. And that might be why Rep. Marsa Blackburn of Tennessee, apparently an accomplished skeet shooter, was skeptical.

"If he is a skeet shooter, why have we not heard of this, why have we not seen photos why has he not referenced it?" asked Blackburn.

The White House briefing the next day only deepened the mystery, when a reporter asked if there was a photograph of him skeet shooting.

"There may be, but I haven't seen it," responded White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

The New Republic yesterday tweeted a picture of Obama holding a shotgun, but had to immediately apologize after Internet sleuths discovered it had been Photoshopped. He'd actually been holding a golf club.

I have to say something doesn't add up. If this were Vladimir Putin, by now we'd have a studio portrait showing him standing atop a 20-foot pile of pulverized clay, bare chested, with a shotgun in his teeth and a wild tiger draped around his neck.

First he was from Kenya; there were doubts about his birth Then he was a Muslim, for what that might be worth. And the White House will not say with reasonable precision whether he has now or ever pulverized clay pigeons?

We're in a world of truthers, and of birthers, and of tweeters and now to those we'll have to add another group - the Skeeters.

The entire mainstream media remains completely stumped but I'm guessing this is dead - until we hear from Donald Trump.

Dave Ross, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dave Ross is co-host of The Ross & Burbank Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays 9-Noon) and never too far from the spotlight.
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  • ohyea53 wrote...
    There is no conspiracy
    January 30, 2013 5:36 am
    He just got caught telling a "story" like ...oh lets see........ like the time some person saw the Griffees hitting homeruns in the Kingdome when it really happened in another ballpark. BUSTED!!!!!
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @ohyea53....
    January 30, 2013 8:45 am
    So do you have any proof that he 'told a story'? Or are you relying on the very same methods that your garden variety conspiracy theory nut job and moron does? You know what I mean - the current absence of absolute incontrovertable proof that he really did do it (aka we ALL weren't there to personally witness it) is absolute proof that it's a lie... How pathetic.
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  • Paul T. wrote...
    Here's proof he's telling another "story"....
    January 30, 2013 10:59 am
    ....his lips are moving!
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  • AKAF wrote...
    That's funny...considering...
    January 30, 2013 10:17 pm
    Obama and Biden haven't been caught telling a tall tail before.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    And it will really "bug" those who believe he is both a Muslim and a skeet shooter.
    January 30, 2013 5:37 am
    After all, wouldn't that make him a mosque-skeeter?
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  • daveismenotyou wrote...
    Good one Chuck!
    January 30, 2013 5:41 am
    Dave, I don't see it as a conspiracy. The president often lies. This is just another. It doesn't matter whether he skeet shoots or not. But par for the course, another day, another lie. That was funny though Chuck!
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Chuck
    January 30, 2013 8:12 am
    Ok - that made me laugh!
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  • Seattle Dad wrote...
    Nice
    January 30, 2013 8:30 am
    Nice!
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Of course he is a champion skeet shooter
    January 30, 2013 5:48 am
    He is also the best golfer the world has ever seen shooting an amazing 12 holes-in-one to achieve an unprecedented 37-under-par game on a regulation 18-hole golf course - beating Kim Jong-il's previous record.

    His birth was heralded by a swallow and caused winter to change to spring, a star to illuminate the sky and rainbows to spontaneously appear. That is all the documentation that is needed.

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    And he lives in the heads of certain folks
    January 30, 2013 6:06 am
    How sad.

    I guess some people don't realize that hatred is like poison. Spreading it around can have some very terrible effects on your own health.

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  • mnpat wrote...
    Chuck, personally I hate no one
    January 30, 2013 6:24 am
    It would require an active energy component that I have no time for.....but I also do not associate with people that like to bend the truct, have no energy for that either.
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  • mnpat wrote...
    Meant to spell TRUTH not truct
    January 30, 2013 6:44 am
    sorry
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  • don over taxed wrote...
    My Health
    January 30, 2013 10:05 am
    At least I feel better calling this loser what he is...a loser
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @Paul...
    January 30, 2013 8:48 am
    But Paul, what you write IS absolute proof that the President is a marxist communistic socialist ultra liberal extreme muslim who's bent on destroying America by not allowing the extreme right to have thier way with our fair country. Didn't you know that?
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Its a well known psychological disorder known as 'Putin Envy'.
    January 30, 2013 6:15 am
    Not to be mistaken with the common pre-teen boy belief that 'if I did it in my video game, I really did it'. ....... But right in line with taking personal credit for killing bin Lanen. While the president kills real people every day with his drones - usually pulling the trigger himself - it's just not the same as taking on tigers.

    So......... what happened here was that that joker Joe Biden told him a 'skeet' was an exotic bird - bigger than an eagle with bigger talons. And that shooters often shot these things as proof of their manhood. .. Naturally, then, Mt. Obama evolved to claim he also shot skeets - every chance he got. And MORE that Vladie could even think of - so there.

    And, what with everyone in the administration now picking up the talking points, it IS now true. .... As true as anything else in the Land of Oz.

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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Obama does not live in my head.
    January 30, 2013 6:27 am
    He lives in my pocketbook!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    haha
    January 30, 2013 6:32 am
    Mind explaining how the POTUS lives in your pocketbook? By the way haha REAL men no longer carry "pocketbooks" Do you use a change purse also?
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  • Snout wrote...
    All they needed to add was
    January 30, 2013 6:38 am
    That he enjoys skeet shooting and is sure to donate the skeet to food banks.
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  • Regularjoe44 wrote...
    I don't care...
    January 30, 2013 6:44 am
    ..if he shoots triple bogie, skeet, or Jose Cuervo. I do care that as usual, he is clueless to the point. The 2nd ammendment has zero to do with hunting. His attempts to show himself as a shooting sport enthusiast is irrelivent to the issue.
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  • WAmovesRight wrote...
    Well said...
    January 30, 2013 7:00 am
    ... and reveals he absolutely does not relate to typical gun owners.

    Now, if he were packing heat instead of the dozens of SS guys around him all the time... that would be another matter.

    Then again, If I had a dozen bodyguards around me every moment of the day I probably would not need to carry a weapon either.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Jose Cuervo ???
    January 30, 2013 8:45 am
    probably was triple shots.

    This is the kind of stuff your in any bar with people claiming they do this and that. About the only thing Obama shoots on a regular basis is the shinola

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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Of course he's a skeet shooter. Did you know Monica Lewinsky....
    January 30, 2013 7:17 am
    was a fly fisher?
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Chuck
    January 30, 2013 8:14 am
    You are on a roll today! LOL
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  • Seattle Dad wrote...
    Badump bump
    January 30, 2013 8:31 am
    He's here all week!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    messiah101
    January 30, 2013 7:19 am
    Mind explaining to me why you would think that I hate Obama and allow him into my brain? This outta be good!

    "Wearing a Purse?" ONE of us wears a purse and it certainly is not me M-101!

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    haha
    January 30, 2013 9:28 am
    In my earlier post I never said you "hate Obama" and I never said that you "allow him in your brain". What I said was in response to your statement that "He lives in my pocketbook" to which I responded "Mind explaining how the POTUS lives in your pocketbook"?Also I never used the words "wearing a purse" I asked "do you use a change purse also"? Gee Whiz haha no wonder your such a DOLT,you don't understand ENGLISH.
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  • HLC wrote...
    It's clear it's a lie.
    January 30, 2013 7:24 am
    If he indeed had a gun in his hand at any time he would have shot either someone else or himself. He did come from chicago though. Where the strongest gun laws don't seem to be working.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    HLC
    January 30, 2013 9:32 am
    And why do you believe the gun laws in Chicago are not working?Could it be because the areas around Chicago do NOT have adequate gun laws?Even though the other areas have weak gun laws it does not mean you should not have stronger laws where you live after all you need to start somewhere.
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