The New Republic

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. http://whitehouse.gov1.info/camp-david/index.html … (from http://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:

We see it! We see it! Not the White House!

— The New Republic (@tnr) January 29, 2013

And then the magazine blamed Twitter for its mistake:

OK, everyone. Apologies. Twitter sometimes leads to quick accidents.

— The New Republic (@tnr) January 29, 2013

UPDATE: This appears to be the original picture on which the fake is based:

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