“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 reveals Obama does not “knock down open shots.” ABC Newsreported 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.
Video evidence and more at the Washington Free Beacon
Will the liberal media rival N. Korea’s media in reporting on Obama’s fetes of athletics?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8965150/Kim-Jong-ils-greatest-achievements.html
http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/308/kim-jong-un-a-boss-at-sports-too
The Washington Compost still gushing about Obama yeah typical liberal journalists their just like most all liberals with their walnut sized brains and as bright as 10 watt lightbulb
Who can forget his baseball pitch toss?
It was awful!
And that little kid playing bucketball w/ him had to show him how to make a layup!
He went 2 for 20!
He said he was great at basketball, even picked his cabinet based on full-court ability.
But he ended up w/ stitches on his lip, a bad knee and quit.
His golf swing never improved because he used his golf bag more to smuggle cocaine and pot into the WH than to play the game.
But even I did better at wind surfing on my 1st go than he did.
I got air for over a minute.
He never did.