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Mag Pushes Fake Picture of Obama Skeet Shooting
Then deletes it.
President Obama recently told the New Republic magazine, "Up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time." Today, after some suggested the president's claim might not be true, the New Republic tweeted a picture supposedly proving that Obama has gone skeet shooting:
@tnr: PHOTO: Obama shooting skeet at Camp David. whitehouse.gov1.info... … (from whitehouse.gov... )
And here's the picture the magazine pointed to:
The only problem: the picture is a fake, and not hosted on the White House's website.
Within minutes the magazine had deleted the tweet and admitted its mistake:
And then the magazine blamed Twitter for its mistake:
Originally posted by blamethegreys
reply to post by jibeho
Geez jibeho, what next? Gonna start a thread about a photoshopped Birth Certificate from the "White House" website?
Oh, wait...nevermind
Originally posted by ObjectZero
That's some really bad photoshop.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Okay OP... You know you have it coming .. Stand still now....
(Beats Jibeho with a steel plated carrot for 5 solid minutes) Take THAT you mere human that makes mistakes!
Now I gotta hop off in shame cause I didn't do my own checking either ... Kinda makes us both guilty huh?
(slinks off to hide in hole for awhile and consider the term 'Source Checking' a little more carefully)
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by stopbeingnaive
Wow... Was that really necessary?
The OP highlighted his own error the moment he realized it and took ownership of it in a way I rarely see done these days.
Likewise...with a little humor tossed in to lighten the gravity of the Fail for not source checking, I tried as gracefully as possible to admit my own errors in jumping the gun to assume it was accurate.
It's not as though Photoshop has never been used inappropriately (OUTSIDE b/c claims) ...or that things like fake singing and bands who weren't playing weren't actually JUST used in the Inauguration to give people reasonable basis to consider a thing like this possible.
It's like I tell my Son in trying to teach him honesty and integrity. When he lies on the small stuff? No one believes him on ANYTHING.