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Inconsistencies undermine FactCheck report on Obama "birth certificate"
israelinsider ^ | August 24, 2008 | Reuven Koret

Posted on 08/24/2008 6:38:02 PM PDT by CitizenM

The Annenberg Political Factcheck website has published photographs and an analysis of what it says is the "original birth certificate" of Barack Hussein Obama II. While the physical document depicted in the photos resemble the document image previously scanned and published by the Daily Kos website and Obama's own "Fight the Smears" site in June, FactCheck's case for authenticity and its claims to objectivity are undermined by a litany of process flaws, conflicts of interest and factual inconsistencies that raise doubts about its motives and methods of those of the Obama campaign.

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The Factcheck.org report, titled "Born in the USA," accompanied by an image of the Bruce Springsteen album cover, starts:

In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship.

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FactCheck itself, as a project primarily funded by the Annenberg Foundation, hardly fits the bill of being a disinterested party, especially given Obama's four year stint as founding chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, currently being investigated due to its massive withholding of papers which document the catestrophic failure of the project, including public funds wasted under Obama's leadership, and his relations in that project with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: birth; birthcertificate; certificate; certifigate; citizenship; factcheck; obama
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This is a long article, and I tried to give just a bit of an idea of where the author is going with it. It is a must read for anyone interested in the controversy about Obama's illusive birth certificate and citizenship. I hope I have posted it correctly so FR readers have an idea of what FactCheck has stated (in italics above) and what is being challenged in their statements by the author of this article.
1 posted on 08/24/2008 6:38:03 PM PDT by CitizenM
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To: CitizenM

LOL you gonna git it now.


2 posted on 08/24/2008 6:41:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: CitizenM

I was willing to give fact check a pass, but after reading this, fact check’s article is something like a science report by Nancy Pelosi, whilst this one is like an article by Dr Einstein. Big difference. Methinks something is rotten in Obamaland. (So what else is new?)


3 posted on 08/24/2008 6:42:47 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: CitizenM

Many are following this VERY closely. It is probably one of the most important issues of this election. For obvious reasons, including probable fraud by a U.S. presidential candidate and the upholding of Constitutional law. Nothing heard yet on any date for the hearing of the Berg law suit.


4 posted on 08/24/2008 6:44:28 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA; shibumi

"At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it."

5 posted on 08/25/2008 12:48:48 AM PDT by Salamander (Music is your only friend.....until The End....)
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To: CitizenM; LucyT; Calpernia; pissant; Polarik

I added the certifiGate keyword


6 posted on 08/25/2008 1:00:30 AM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Da Coyote

The claims of Obama being born outside the USA would get a good deal more traction if something vaguely resembling evidence was provided of where he was born.

If such is available, I haven’t seen it.

For instance, information should be available as to whether Mom even had a passport at the time.


7 posted on 08/25/2008 3:51:00 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (qui)
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To: CitizenM

Very good article!

(Though I haven’t finished parts 1-10)

Leftists claim it’s a good thing to (for example) allow the government to take samples of DNA, ballistic fingerprints (signatures) of firearms, and fingerprints of citizens, to “aid in solving of crimes”, because (in their words) “if you have nothing to hide, why not” (disregarding those pesky Fourth and Fifth Amendments).

I say to them ,of they have nothing to hide, why not show definitive proof of Barry Hussein Obamamamama’s birth?


8 posted on 08/25/2008 5:01:15 AM PDT by Weya (Barack Hussein Obama hates the United States of America. No question about it.)
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To: Salamander

nice use of nativist imagry, what have the Irish done for america? great how the same xenophobic arguments can last for centuries.


9 posted on 08/25/2008 5:22:05 AM PDT by chilldawg
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To: chilldawg

Being Irish myself, don’t even get me started on the Irish contribution.

Go read “How The Irish Saved Civilization”, instead.

I thought the movie reference ironic and amusing.


10 posted on 08/25/2008 5:45:33 AM PDT by Salamander (Music is your only friend.....until The End....)
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To: Salamander

“At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it.”
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Great!! And that was a great movie — probably watched it about five times! This comment of his should be over the door of the Repub Convention -— well placed.


11 posted on 08/25/2008 6:55:16 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: CitizenM

More of the same is all that can be said.

Even if the birth certificate were genuine, which it obviously is not, it still would fail to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii. Only the hospital live birth document could do that.


12 posted on 08/25/2008 8:14:30 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Sherman Logan
"For instance, information should be available as to whether Mom even had a passport at the time."

Irrelevant.

No passport needed to go to Canada, nor Mexico for that matter.

13 posted on 08/25/2008 8:17:21 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: CitizenM
I reported this last Friday.

All it takes is one feature that both the scan and the photo have in common but are represented differently

And that is, "The top fold on the FactCheck photo runs diagonal (left side of fold is 20 pixels further down than the right side of fold) while top fold on the FactCheck image runs perfectly horizontal with the top border."

Bye-bye, FactCheck

14 posted on 08/25/2008 9:18:17 AM PDT by Polarik ("The Greater Evil")
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To: editor-surveyor
It wouldn't be irrelevant if Customs has record of her leaving and arriving on that particular trip to Kenya.

HF

15 posted on 08/25/2008 3:27:39 PM PDT by holden
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To: cripplecreek

obumpa


16 posted on 08/25/2008 8:44:01 PM PDT by Dajjal (Visit Ann Coulter's getdrunkandvote4mccain.com)
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To: editor-surveyor

The only place I’ve heard mentioned for Obama to have been born, of course without any evidence whatsoever being adduced, is Kenya.


17 posted on 08/27/2008 3:51:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (qui)
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To: Sherman Logan

A birth certificate has turned up in British Columbia for Barack Hussein Mohammad Obama. It misses a few days of his stated DOB.


18 posted on 08/27/2008 4:02:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: editor-surveyor

Apparently there was one posted as a joke.

http://www.rense.com/general82/pbb.htm

Signed by Dudley Doright.


19 posted on 08/27/2008 4:53:20 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (qui)
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To: Sherman Logan

No, not that nonsense, it is for real. Just no proof that it is our Barack.


20 posted on 08/27/2008 6:42:08 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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