EXCLUSIVE! OBAMA'S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE: How the forgery was made.

The Greater Evil ^ | 07/23/08 | Polarik

[Polarik]

There are three facts about Internet blog stories that you need to know:

1. Plagiarism is rampant on the Internet.
   
2. You cannot always believe what you see and read.
3. When you see the word, "EXCLUSIVE," in the title, it does not mean that the story was the first one or even the only one.

You can imagine my chagrin when I read the following headline in the Atlasshruggs blog:

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

What this headline, and the story it trumpets, confirm is that all three of the "facts" listed above are validated by this story.

Actually, my first reaction to it was, "Yawn." Here is an article proclaiming to have the exclusive findings that Obama's Birth Certificate image is a forgery -- or, using the acronym that I alone coined, Obama's "COLB ("Certificate of Live Birth") is a forgery.

The only problems with that statement are as follows:

• More than a month before this "EXCLUSIVE," was posted, I posted my own exclusive findings that the Obama COLB images were "poor forgeries" made from a genuine COLB.
• This so-called, "FINAL REPORT" is far from being final, and
  
• This so-called, "EXCLUSIVE" report is far from being the first to claim a forgery occurred.
  
• More than a few original findings and ideas of mine were "borrowed" without attribution.

In light of the above, my second reaction to it was, "What chutzpah!" (Which is the Yiddish word for "WTF.")

How can an article, posted on July 20, or a full month after my original proclamation that Obama's COLB image was graphically altered, be labeled as exclusive? I will admit that the techniques used by the author, TechDude, were not the ones I used to discover the forgery, and that he was the only one, to my knowledge, to have used them.

For that, I'd like to offer a pat on the back to TechDude for the work that he did, but also a slap on the wrist, to both Techdude and Pam Geller for misleading the public by implying that they were the first ones to present evidence of a graphic forgery.

Now, that they've basked in the glory of their nonexclusive, "Exclusive," it's time to set the record straight.

On June 19, I wrote the following on my TownHall blog, The Greater Evil:

"The Daily Kos blog has posted a JPG that allegedly is Barack Obama's "Certificate of Birth." From a detailed analysis of the image and the text, it looks like it was created by a graphics program, and is not a true copy of an original, certified document."

So, which part of that statement did they miss? It also appeared on The Free Republic about the same time, and afterwards, on TexasDarlin's blog.

So, which part of these blog stories did they miss?

In my first post, I did make some wrong assumptions, for which I replied, Mea Culpa, and made the necessary changes.

For example, I also made mention of the odd-looking border back then, but that finding turned out to be irrelevant to my research.

However, my essential thesis was then, and has always been, that the Kos image, and all of its relatives, including the FactCheck image, were graphic forgeries, even though I focused on different aspects of it than TechDude did. For him, the border was a crucial part of the puzzle.

For me, that border could have been red hearts and purple flowers for all that it mattered.

I focused on the anomalies of the text, which were many and not explained away by the reasons cited by my critics.

Now, this is not to take away any of the work that TechDude has done, which is notable in its own right, and if you read my blog, you will see proper attributions made to him and his work.

HOWEVER, I do take exception to the lack of any attribution to my work, and is a very egregious oversight, at best.

At worst, it smacks of plagiarism, and there are more than one instance of that, such as the upper left-hand border comparison which was originally mine and emailed to him.

Also egregious is the fact that TechDude, myself, and TexasDarlin had agreed to publish a joint document, and, as you have now seen, one of us renegged on that agreement and stole the spotlight.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here, but I would like to point out that there never was an "uncropped Kos image" posted online. A scan of the entire COLB was never posted to the Kos or the Smears. It was always a cropped image, and I was the one who confirmed the true "birth order" of the images -- especially those of OpenDNA (who was initially "charged" with making the Kos image forgery.

Now, the FactCheck image was, indeed, posted as an uncropped version of the Kos image, although one cannot escape the likelihood that the extra border was added, post-hoc.

What I did confirm is that all of the online images came from one source file.


I also confirmed that my critics and detractors, coincidentally, are also the same to TechDude and his research. It is safe to say that there will always be people who are antagonistic to others who reveal unpleasant truths.

But, now is the time to separate the men from the boys, so to speak. The critics and detractors who claim that the Kos image is NOT a forgery, demand to see someone actually create one from scratch.

I couldn't agree more. it is one thing to postulate that a forgery has been created, but it is entirely a different matter to actually create one that is a clone of the Kos image.

What may surprise these critics and detractors to learn is that beginning about two to three weeks ago, a clone of the Kos I created was posted to my latest blog post.

You see, the image that I referenced as the original Kos imageis actually the clone I created more from Michele's 2008 COLB image.

Here's the Daily Kos image from their website:



Here's my clone of the Kos image:



Keep in mind that this is not a point-for-point clone of the Kos image, since I did not proceed from an original, scanned image (a bitmap that has never been seen by the public), but it's darn close, and nobody was the wiser.

How do you tell my clone from Kos?

The "Time of Birth" on my clone is 7:25 AM; on the Kos it's 7:24 PM.

I replaced everything, EXCEPT the funky border. Like I said, the "security" border is not very secure when it can be reproduced by a scanner.

Making an exact "forgery" in terms of the Kos image dimensions, file size, JPG compression and resolution was not an easy job, although I spent less about an hour to make it. I'm still feeling the effects of a flu bug.

In the next few days, when I feel a little better, I will post a real "exclusive" --  a step by step guide showing exactly how I produced this clone, as well as posting a sampling of all of the dead ends I reached using the explanations professed by the nonbelievers.

I have about 320 images in all, but I'll post a sufficient number of them to satisfy anyone's doubts.

Like I've said in previous posts and in comments made on other blogs, if someone can make a Kos clone just by scanning, reducing the size, changing the compression, or any combination of these ways, they are more than encouraged to try.

Until then, I stand by my conclusion that I made over a month ago: that the Kos image looks the way it does because the original text on a previous image was graphically altered or replaced.

"Why" it was done is still open for debate, but the discovery that I made over a month ago still holds true. The image is not a "horrible" forgery, IMHO, because it fooled a lot of people...and that's the sole purpose for making a forgery.

Hopefully, the critics and detractors will come up with their own clones made in the ways that they claimed. In the meantime, the evidence provided in my posts and in TechDude's posts far outweigh any evidence that the images are are genuine, accurate reproductions of a paper COLB document.


It may look like a duck, but it walks, talks, and flies like a Dodo bird.


PREVIEW:

When I received a true copy of a recent COLB from a person named, Michele, I promised my readers that I would manufacture a clone of the Kos image to demonstrate how it was created. In doing so, I would validate my theory that someone's actual COLB, or a scanned copy of it, was used as the basis or template for creating a forgery.

I had theorized that the pixel patterns between the letters on the Kos image I was viewing were not JPG artifacts, or scanner artifacts, as the critics claimed they were.

These pixel patterns were characteristic of text added to an existing image while the image was an 8-bit, 256-color bitmapped image, and not while it was a 24-bit, 16.7 million color JPG.

Before I reached that conclusion, I had tried every other way possible to duplicate the Kos image.

People may say that OpenDNA, aka Jay McKinnon, already tried to do that -- that he produced two images that were also graphically altered.

However, both of these images were 800 x 781 pixels  @ 96 DPI, which is a far cry from the larger, 2427 x 2369 pixels @ 300 DPI Kos image. Basically, OpenDNA's "forgeries" were easy to do given how small was the area that needed to be modified.

"Cloning" the Kos took a little, more work than that.


I ask that all of you to be patient as I recover, and that you will soon be rewarded with the recipe for forgery.

[bvw]

You pimped and delivered, both. Most blog pimps do not.

[bvw]

Yesterday before all Germany, Obama claimed to be both citizen of the US and citizen of the world. That’s a a big clue, too. He knows as well as anyone where he was born.

[Calpernia]

Since we haven’t seen the birth certificate, I challenge you to prove to me he was born.

/tease

[bvw]

Just to be clear, which of those assertions is backed by a document you can either refer to or share with, and which is just a reasonable deduction or good guess?

[bvw]

I believe you are referring to comments on the Long Thread. And I don’t think you remember the discussion carefully. As I recollect the discussion considered that there were direct Honolulu to Seattle flights, but no London/Europe/African direct flights to Seattle — or anywhere on the west coast at the time. In 1961 flight legs where considerably shorter than we know them today, and the jet age was in its immediate infancy years. We were considering the possible story that his mom tried to rush back from Kenya to the states to birth Obama, but because airlines at the time had policies against boarding women very close to their delivery date, she was stopped at the gate and Obama was born in Kenya. She and he then rushed back — Kenya > London > Eastern Canada > Vancouver (that is all on British Air, because that’s what serviced Kenya). From Vancouver she drove to Mercer Island as a respite from the nearly two days in-flight with a newborn.

[Calpernia]

>>>I was very grateful you did that

I didn’t post it. It was added to a thread I started. I’m emphasizing that to add to the point of Polarik’s perception inferred from his post of the claims by Pam’s site, ‘Exclusive’ and ‘More than a few original findings and ideas of mine were “borrowed” without attribution.’

[Calpernia]

>>>I had a lot of trouble with the original site, it wouldn’t load properly and kept freezing and crashing on me

BTW, I did too. THAT was the thread I started. My initial accusative email I received from Pam inferred that I made up the tech trouble to post her material without permission.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Racist : )

[bvw]

Hold you opinions more strongly and they won't drop when bashed. Tough, biting arguments are an American strength, but like any strength -- comes natural to very few, and all need to build it up.

Wilbur and Orville Wright were masters of such arguments. See "The Wright Way" by Mark Eppler.

[bvw]

Was he born?

Hmmm ... what does former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission -- say about Obama?

[Calpernia]

>>>what does former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell

Unidentified Farcical Obamafication?

[bvw]

Pam Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog at atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com really does need a makeover, performance-wise, if she wants it to grow. It’s so long a landing page that it takes way too to load. Yesterday most times that I refreshed it loaded only partially. The Robinson’s here, and Johnson at LGF, really struggled with the bit-twiddling dynamics of a blog’s coding to make their mega-sites fast.

[Calpernia]

Thankfully, I’ve not had any issues with Polarik’s site loading.

I brought the tech issue of remote access to the table of Pam’s. Pam bites.

Polarik, thankfully does not bite. Therefore, I’ll just stay at his table :)

[bvw]

Polarik can learn a lot from Tech Dude. As Tech Dude said some days ago -- image forensics is an interesting field and there's aplenty of work in it. Tech Dude has his stuff down pretty well -- extraordinarily well. (Compare his work to that of the professor whose paper he referenced, for one thing.)

Still -- presentation skills are all important when making great tech work viable in the big world. Tech Dude and polarik both need some work in that regard. THAT is a very hard skill to master.

Don't burn bridges with valuable allies.

[Calpernia]

>>>Don’t burn bridges with valuable allies.

?

[null and void]

The Supreme Court has been earning the contempt of the people through its rulings for a long time. This would probably be the final straw. But then that's just my opinion. However, I doubt if I am alone in it.

You aren't.

But then again reforms that extensive might be more of a revolution. Maybe it is time.

No. It is well past the time when the shooting should have started.

In my alternate universe, the Bush administration would have been a little slower to respond on 9/11. It would have taken longer for the passengers on FLT 93 to figure out what happened, and they wouldn't have had the time needed to take the plane back, and several other flights wouldn't have been grounded only to have small groups of swarthy men simply walk away, abandoning their luggage, to vanish into the woodwork.

Some of those planes would have wiped out congress and the supreme court.

Ultimately, we'd be a better country for it, and the survivors would be taking the WOT seriously, not as just another political football.

And the koran would only be being read where it was written, in Hell.

[null and void]

Since we haven’t seen the birth certificate, I challenge you to prove to me he was born.

/tease

Belly button...

...born

[Calpernia]

Are you sure??

He is deceiving you know.

[null and void]

Hmmmmm. Now if instead of MicHELLe he'd married this gal:

I'd be worried...

[Calpernia]

::laughs::