What happened: Drake, the Canadian hip-hop artist and alleged pedophile, was recently filmed throwing his shoe at a drone in what was likely a staged promotional video for an online casino. The sidearm toss was poorly executed and fundamentally unsound, and it missed badly. Drake throws like an American girl (or Canadian boy), but he's still significantly better at throwing than disgraced former president Barack Obama, according to an exclusive Washington Free Beacon analysis.
Why it matters: Obama has long claimed to be a good athlete who excels at basketball and other competitive sports. All available evidence suggests this claim is just another one of the failed president's egregious lies. Over the course of his career, for example, Obama has pretended to oppose gay marriage and believe in God, promised Americans they could keep their doctors under Obamacare, and insisted he was born in the United States.
By the numbers: The former president, an alleged basketball aficionado who regularly appeared on ESPN to unveil his NCAA tournament bracket and served as an unofficial adviser to the Washington Wizards (who are 9-45 this season), once went 2-22 during a shootaround on the White House basketball court he had installed. The atrocious performance came as a disappointing surprise to the children who had gathered to watch. They will presumably struggle to develop a coherent sense of right and wrong as they grow up after seeing their country's president exposed as a malicious liar.
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Go deeper: Obama is obviously terrible at shooting a basketball, but he's even worse when it comes to throwing. Millions of children have been irrevocably scarred after watching their president attempt to throw a baseball in public. An exclusive Free Beacon analysis in 2014 revealed the alarming extent of Obama's athletic ineptitude.
Obama has on several occasions "thrown" out the first "pitch" before a Major League Baseball game. Each time he has struggled to put the ball within a reasonable vicinity of the strike zone. Each time the crowd has applauded out of pity, as though it's not a tremendous national embarrassment to have a president who can't throw a baseball like a normal human being. George W. Bush, by contrast, helped to heal his grieving nation by firing a heater down the middle of the plate before Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, less than a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Bush is hardly the only person to outclass Obama on the pitcher's mound. A Washington Post analysis in 2016 determined that Obama was one of the worst celebrity throwers of all time. The list of celebs who exceeded Obama's pitiful throwing ability includes Mariah Carey, Sonia Sotomayor, Santa Claus, Cookie Monster, and Tara the Hero Cat, along with the following three individuals:
Big picture: Drake, the alleged pedophile from Canada, also managed to exceed that low bar, according to the Free Beacon's exclusive analysis, which projected the trajectory of Drake's throw and employed artificial intelligence to calculate its proximity to a simulated strike zone. The results speak for themselves.
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