The nature of the question stays the same. Has any reporter seen the Obama COLB in person before or after "FactCheck".org posted it online no matter where the dubious COLB is located? And no, DailyKommie.com (DailyKOS) doesn't count.
Answer: no reporter has seen it in person.
Obama should have left his COLB with "factcheck". The thing is only worth 10 dollars. Obama can order reams of COLBs if he wants at that cheap price and have them out like candy.
have = hand them...
You would have a point if large numbers of reporters were asking to see hard copies. As far as I know, however, since factcheck photographed it, no reporter has asked to see it and been denied.
In December, Keyes included a statement from a document expert that "any image offered on the internet cannot be relied upon as being a copy of the authentic document." So, since both Keyes and Berg maintain that the "image" of the document is counterfeit/manipulated/edited why didn't they settle at least that aspect of the case by asking Obama to allow a document expert to examine the document itself, in person?
If Obama had refused, that certainly would have created negative headlines for him, wouldn't it?
All along, it seems to me, there's been two issues here: the authenticity of the COLB image posted, and a request to produce the original Birth Certificate. Why not settle the first possibility, since, if the image was counterfeit, so would be the document that FactCheck photographed.