Putting out an image on the net of a dubious document hasn't done so well for people who can think for themselves.
I have yet to see a single reporter claim he was denied access to the hard copy after Factcheck was allowed to see it.
Oh, Really?
Where is the evidence of that? Where is that reporter who went to "Factcheck".org HQ to see Obama's COLB? Does "Factcheck" still have Obama's COLB in their possession?
Has any reporter ever reported to have seen the Obama COLB in person before or after “factcheck”.org and the DailyKOS posted it online? Any?
FactCheck was never in possession of the COLB. They went to Obama's Chicago campaign HQ to photograph it, and posted the photos of it on August 21 -- the same day, I believe, that Berg filed his original lawsuit in Philadephia.
A question I find more interesting is why Berg never challenged Obama to let him send a credentialed expert to examine the COLB that FactCheck photographed. Berg claimed from the beginning that the image posted at KOS was a forgery, so when FactCheck posted photographs, and reported that the document was in Chicago, why didn't Berg ask to check it out?
That's precisely the point: there is no evidence that any reporter since August has asked to see a hard copy and was denied. Do you really think a reporter who asked and was denied would fail to mention that?
Where is that reporter who went to "Factcheck".org HQ to see Obama's COLB? Does "Factcheck" still have Obama's COLB in their possession?
Factcheck did not take it into its possession. Factcheck personnel (who are based in Philadelphia) traveled to Chicago to personally inspect the physical copy. They did not take it back with them.
As far as I know, no one else bothered to make the trip to Chicago, or even asked the campaign if they would mind showing it to them.