| Many people who also saw this image (see Appendix A) had said that it was a "fake," and that the document pictured in the image could not possibly be genuine. The image anomalies that they pointed out as proof of a forgery included those that I had found and reported, working independently. Here is an annotated list of them: 1. The image contains digital signatures of Photoshop 2. Only one side of alleged COLB shown (COLB is two-sided) 3. Missing second-fold line while first fold-line is shown 4. Missing the embossed Seal of Hawaii 5. Missing the State Registrar's signature 6. Unusual and unnatural pixilation between the letters of text data 7. Original text was removed by pasting a layer of background over them 8. Different text was typed onto a text layer and merged with background layer 9. Pixel blocks of text data are different from the data headers 10. Heavy and unnecessary sharpening of the whole image, except for the border 11. Border was created as a separate layer and merged with other layers 12. Border pattern is more blurred than the background 13. Border pattern more transparent than those on genuine scans 14. Top and bottom black border bars have less pixilation than text 15. Border bars are more black in color than any of the text 16. Absence of green, background pixels inside the border bar text 17. White lines between border bars and pattern (both sides) 18. Image colors are very different from scan images of real COLBs 19. Lack of pixilation in black rectangle covering certificate number 20. Different blocking artifacts from JPG compression found across the image |
| It's Invalid |
| In Dr. Ron Polarik's final report, "Obama's Born Conspiracy," these anomalies are explained in greater detail. The consensus among all of us was that this Certification of Live Birth document image (COLB) had been heavily doctored. What we didn't know were the lengths to which the Obama Campaign and his enablers in the media went to rebuff any claims of forgery by personally attacking anyone for even suggesting it. They called us "tin-foil hat wearing, right-wing conspiracy nuts," or "birthers" for short, but these titles are tame in comparison to the vicious and virulent slurs hurled our way. Rather than respond with some confirmatory evidence to support the claim that the scan image was genuine, they offered all kinds of logical excuses as to why it wouldn't be fake, coupled with comments from individuals and fact-checking groups claiming to be non-partisan but clearly shilling for Obama. The common denominator here is that all of them failed to provide a single shred of valid evidence that Obama's actual COLB document was even printed in June 2007 by Hawaii's DOH, let alone scanned a year later. One thing that no one could deny was that a black, graphic rectangle was added to the image to redact the COLB's certificate number, and then resaved, permanently altering the COLB shown in the image, and in effect, changing the image itself. The following caveat appears on the COLB document: ANY ALTERATIONS INVALIDATE THIS CERTIFICATE In other words, "Which part of this caveat did the "birther" critics NOT understand? |
Dr. Ron Polarik hasn’t been seen much in these parts since the outing.