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"FACT-CHECKING THE WASHINGTON POST, AND IT’S NOT PRETTY: 
Fact Check: Obama Is Not Good at Kite Surfing, Any Sport. 
The Obama video is especially not pretty. And they don’t even include his infamous weight-training video.

Plus, kudos to the Free Beacon’s Elizabeth Harrington for a perfect send-up of the WaPo Fact-checkers’ self-satisfied style:

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.

Spot-on."