[Natural Born 54]

Thank you for making that image available. I noticed the material in the background that has been referred to many times as "a spread" looks very much to me like upholstery material. It is thick and looks like it has some wool content.

(I hope I didn't miss something about this in this long thread. Admit I skipped one section of a couple 100 to try to catch up to the current ones.)

The punk'd images on the Washington Independence site show this item to be a large "throw" with fringed edging that is designed to cover a sofa. To me the material looks the same in 2 of those photos and different from your image in the other two. Don't know if these observations have any value. One of the photos there shows this "throw" to be enormous and sort of cheap looking. I had something like it in a different pattern which I used to dog-proof a couch. Had a nasty feel to it - looked soft but wasn't.

I did read one post (just remember the source of the post was someone who makes intelligent and reliable entries) that said the original Orly image did not have this striped red material in the background at all. Is that wrong?

If Orly's original does indeed have the throw as the background, I wonder how many man hours it took the minions to find a match to it. It would be really difficult to create it in an image program, I know. I used to create several humorous images or more a day for a conservative news site that required putting various elements from numerous photos into one and making them look natural. I could not have done the background of the number 2 photo in the punk'd article and I was pretty good at filling in backgrounds so that everything blended and looked natural.

If anybody ever needs a caricature of their favorite dem, let me know - large collection on one of my hard drives.

[BP2]

BEFORE the Digital Computer Age

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary.
Communist Forgeries: Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate: Testimony of Richard Helms, Assistant Director, Central Intelligence Agency, June 2, 1961. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1961.

This testimony by the future Director of the Central Intelligence Agency attempts to demonstrate that the Soviet government was actively involved in a massive program of documentary fraud in which it produced thousands of forged intelligence reports, news articles, and documents.

Hofmann's Confession.Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Ministry, [1987]. Three volumes. [Compiled by] and with an Introduction by Jerald and Sandra Tanner.

The Mark Hofmann forgery and murder case was one of the most sensational of the twentieth century. Hofmann's forgeries of the Oath of a Freeman, Mormon documents, and other manuscripts and printed documents were among the most sophisticated ever produced. Hofmann's Confession contains the complete transcripts of the Salt Lake Country prosecutors' interviews with Mark Hofmann.

Texfake: an Account of the Theft and Forgery of Early Texas Printed Documents, with an Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991.

During the course of research on early nineteenth century Texas imprints, the bookseller and fine press publisher W. Thomas Taylor discovered a number of forged documents. His research led to the discovery of a systematic effort by several individuals to forge important Texas historical documents. Eventually nearly sixty forgeries were discovered, including some of the most important documents in Texas history.

IN the Digital Computer Age

Draw your own conclusions.

The FACT remains that Obama still refuses to release his original birth certificate. The prima facie facts and dates surrounding the 1964 Obama divorce and the Kenyan birth certificate are still more plausible than what he's shown us thus far.