My heart is torn this Saturday night before Super Bowl Sunday. I am contemplating the shoot out between the Harbaugh brothers in New Orleans tomorrow, but then Andy Borowitz shows up with news that gun sales are taking off because the President was "manning up" by releasing photos of his skeet shooting.
Maybe that was another Obama diversion tactic. He didn't want to commit to the Ray Lewis Ravens over the Gay flapping 49ers or something.
Conservatives failed to remember the likes of shooter Teddy Roosevelt. Now, they see an armed Obama and go nuts. I hope that the President is a lot better at shooting a gun than he is at rolling a ball down an alley.
After reading the Borowitz report, Mitch McConnell is probably lying awake at night contemplating the President slinging a birdie at him. John Boehner asked Presidential spokesman, John Carny, "What's a frisbee?"
"GUN SALES SOAR ON PHOTO OF ARMED OBAMA
Posted by Andy BorowitzWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The White House’s attempt to portray President Obama as a gun user may have had unintended consequences today, as a newly released photo of Mr. Obama firing a rifle at Camp David set off a panic of gun buying across the US.
Right-wing opponents of Mr. Obama were behind the frenzied gun sales, saying that they were terrified by the image of an armed and shooting President.
“I don’t want to sound paranoid or anything, but now everything Obama has been doing makes sense,” said Harland Dorrinson, who was waiting on a blocks-long line outside a West Virginia Wal-Mart. “He wants to take away all our guns and then he’s going to come shoot us.”
Learning that Mr. Obama only uses his rifle for skeet-shooting did little to calm Mr. Dorrinson: “Somebody owning a gun just for sporting purposes? Yeah, right.”
In an effort to stem the panic, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters today that skeet-shooting took up relatively little of the President’s time at Camp David, and that his favorite leisure activities were “actually badminton and frisbee.”
The White House later released a photo of Mr. Obama putting away his gun and never using it again.
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