Not to come across as uninformed, but did not one of our own Freepers prove Rather’s Burkett docs were forgeries based on online images alone? That is my understanding, anyway. Am I missing the point, and/or comparing apples to oranges?
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I am not familiar with the Dan Rather forgeries. I am familiar with digital photography and my conclusions are based on my own review after being pointed to the issues by entries here and at P&E.
With the explosion of high resolution photography and with HD screens for computers and powerful tools like photoshop it now possible to construct almost any document or image to be placed on a document in a computer. The work in the computer can be extremely precise and look amazingly authentic on the screen. And if it looks good on the screen it will look amazingly good in print. Why? Because print is still relatively ‘low resolution’. This is why it is so easy for forge things nowadays and why the dollar bills had to be changed.
Given what I just indicated above. It is almost amazing the sloppiness of what is shown with the Daily KOS image and the Factcheck photos.
Lets start with the Daily KOS very high resolution image. It has unique and distinct smugs or dots in that image. While Polland says that this image is not a scan, somewhere a scan, likely of an authetic COLB was done. The smugs, and dots are likely just ‘scanner dust’ captured during that process. That original scan was heavily manipulated to create the Daily KOS image. I believe Polland is 100% correct in saying that is not a native scan image. In fact the image was verified as being last processed by Adobe Photoshope Mac C3.
Factcheck photos 2, 5 and 6 show signs of coming directly from that ‘image’. The same small elements are present. Even their exact source is no consequence. They map precisely to the same anomalies in the DK image. It is like birth marks. Those printed documents come from the DK image - NOT, I REPEAT WITH A DOUBT, NOT from a actual COLB. These are confirmed photos of fraudulent documents.
Add in that FC#3 has no seal and that FC#9 could not have made the bleed through in other photos or the DK image and you have further verifiable proof of fraud.
Thanks for spelling it out so clearly. It sounds open and shut to me, and as you said, surprising more for its sloppiness than for its probative value.
If anybody had doubts, though, Abercrombie helpfully laid them to rest. He said he would resolve the issue once and for all, went looking for Obama’s BC, and emerged clearly shaken. He could have said, ‘I saw it. It’s in perfect order, and I’m willing to repeat that under oath to put this matter to rest once and for all. I can’t release it due to legal issues, but take my word for it: it’s there’.
Instead he blathered inanely about something being ‘written down’ and then retreated into silence. Anybody who watched his performance and didn’t come away with the sense that Obama’s BC is BIG trouble for 2012 is either stupid or a leftist partisan hack.
I also wanted to add to my comments re: Rathergate. I originally made it sound as if a Freeper had proved, in a matter of hours, the TX Air National Guards docs were forgeries, and the MSM capitulated, threw Rather under the bus, and moved on.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The MSM circled the wagons, defended Rather, attacked bloggers, derided them as nonprofessionals who sit in front of their keyboard wearing “pajamas”, and groused, grumbled and haughtily pontificated about the Net’s lack of “fact-checkers”. The more the evidence accumulated against Rather’s forgeries, the more rabidly the MSM attacked the messengers and defended the docs. It culminated in the desperate, ludicrous, grave-yard-spiral idiocy of “fake but accurate”. Only after months of defending the indefensible did the MSM gracelessly abandon the field, and grudgingly allow the charge of ‘forgery’ to stand.
Anyone who thinks they won’t fight ten or a hundred times harder for Obama and his forged documents is either stupid or a liberal hack. Their investment in Obama dwarfs even their BDS. They’ll have to be hauled off in straight jackets before they willingly question anything to do with their Post-American, Postmodern, anti-colonial America-hating hero.