BHO Birth Certificate-a "Rather" Bad Forgery-Game OVER!

The Market Ticker ^ | 5-2-2011 | HMV

[grey_whiskers]

Wag The Camel.

[Wayne07]

Did you watch the video? It isn’t the scanning that does it, it is the PDF generation. Blame Adobe...

[EternalVigilance]

So, to cut to the chase, does the document Obama released exhibit kerning?

If the answer is yes, was that possible on a typewriter in 1961?

[Smokin' Joe]

True, on a typewriter, but the alleged TNG memos had a 'th' which was reduced in size and superscripted like MS Word does. Unless someone went to the trouble of rolling the platen and changing the ball, that was not happening.

[muawiyah]

It has proportional lettering. Here's the problem ~ it's typed on two different typewriters ~ possibly 3 ~ at different times for different purposes. The tab stops seem to be the same on both typewriters. There are also rubber stamps, mechanical numbering machine marks, handwriting by different people, and maybe even overwriting on some things ~ thicker lines in spots suggest that as a possibility.

Proportional spacing was COMMON in this period.

Absolutely uniformity in a document like this that was passed around to different people during its creation would suggest fraud. Finding differences of all sorts tends to suggest it's authentic.

[catnipman]

Bad science. Proportional-font typewriters have been around a long time. The most famous of these are the IBM Selectrics: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_milestone.html

[rolling_stone]

....Absolutely uniformity in a document like this that was passed around to different people during its creation would suggest fraud. Finding differences of all sorts tends to suggest it’s authentic......

so how many different people handled the document and what did they do each time the handled it? what is the procedure from start to finish?

[EternalVigilance]

Hmmm...I don’t think I asked any of those questions.

What I asked is whether there is kerning exhibited in some of the typewriting.

It sure looks to me like there are letters that intrude into adjoining letters. Aren’t there? Isn’t that what kerning is?

[ChildOfThe60s]

I’ll watch it. Illustrator/Adobe is not my area of expertise, I do most of my work in Corel. However, regardless of what bitmap software you use, the inherent characteristics of bitmap graphics are the same. And this thing has been really monkeyed with.

But, there’s a bunch more here than just separated objects that smells pretty bad.

There’s another simple but significant flaw. Why would anyone do such a low resolution scan of a *real* document that was going to get such scrutiny? To save a meg or two of disk space while ending up with a scan that looks like crap? Not a chance. If this was real & they really wanted us to know that, this would have been scanned at a much higher resolution and not had lossy compression. You can embed bitmaps in PDF documents using lossless compression. This is a low resolution scan with significant compression causing noticeable jpg loss of clarity.

I am 10 years order and I can do a 300 dpi scan of my BC into Corel photopaint, do a quick little tonal adjustment to crisp it up, then publish a PDF that looks many times better than this garbage. And I don’t need Adobe to optimize it. Especially if “optimization” turns a good scan into junk like this.

I stand by my original assertion. This is deliberately done bad to make certain we will call it a fake. I don’t know why, but the how is pretty damn easy.

[MestaMachine]

Please, if you can, is there a reasonable explanation for this?

what would change an H to an X

[EternalVigilance]

Obvious kerning in the Obama BC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yVkL94_BU

Can you explain to me why this is or isn’t a problem?

I just want the truth of the matter, as closely as it can be discerned.

[Spunky]

ping for later viewing

[Electric Graffiti]

Like I mentioned in another thread, that stamp is a plea for help from Onaka. LOL

It’s a SOS distress mark indicating he and his family have been threatened.

[MestaMachine]

I would really like an explanation of this anomaly that makes sense. It is not a machine stamp. It is a hand stamp. You can see that something has been whited out and the X is deliberate. But by whom...and why? To me, this is truly evidence of a forgery.
It is not an artifact of scanning, compressing, or anything else. Adobe didn’t do it. OCR didn’t do it. The stamp would not have been applied until AFTER the document had been rendered. If it was scanned afterward, it would still have been an H. No matter HOW you view it, it remains an X, even when other letters are skewed...as shown in the last image I posted. All the other Hs are in tact.
I still have not seen a real explanation of what would cause this...unless it was deliberate. THEN the question is WHY?

[MestaMachine]

IS THERE A REASON FOR THIS?

[CodeToad]

bttt

[Paladin2]

"I am 10 years order"

Me too. I agree that higher resolution and no compression for objects of value are your friend.

Good point!

[Paladin2]

"Proportional spacing was COMMON in this period."

I say: Was not.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headlines today:

Karl: Kenyan's Kareless Kerning Katastrophic!

[Paladin2]

"I know this because my dog told me."

At least one of my dogs is smarter than your dog. ;-)