David Axelrod on Monday said the White House should have released the photo of President Barack Obama shooting clay targets earlier in order to blunt skeptics who questioned Obama’s claim that he goes skeet shooting “all the time.”
“I tell you what, though, I don’t understand, they should have put the picture out earlier,” the longtime Obama adviser said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “I don’t know why they waited five days to put that out because it just rekindled the whole story.”
But Axelrod said it was ultimately the right make the photo public because conspiracy theories had begun to mount.
The White House released the photo on Saturday as a response to so-called “skeeters,” individuals like Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) who publicly doubted Obama’s claim. Axelrod told the Washington Post over the weekend that Obama isn’t one to “embellish” and that if he said he’s gone shooting at Camp David, Md., people should take the President at his word. After the release of the Obama, members of the White House inner circle took to Twitter to poke fun at the skeptics.
