Did Obama Check Out That Woman?

Ado About Nothing

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 2:36PM EDT / Published Jul. 11, 2009 3:32AM EDT

You’ve probably seen it by now: The photo of President Obama “checking out” a woman in a pink dress at the G-8 conference in Italy. It’s been touted by Matt Drudge and Fox News, but here’s the thing: It’s fake. Even Fox’s Greta Van Susteren says so, and provides video evidence, calling it the “lying picture that’s going around the web.” It becomes quite clear from the video that Obama is looking at the ground, and not the woman’s backside. Fox News is, of course, continuing to run the misleading photo anyway.

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Did Obama Check Out That Woman?