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Killian Memos Crumpled and Smoothed Out
little green footballs ^ | 9/14/04 | lawhawk

Posted on 09/14/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by finnman69

Several LGF readers emailed to say that if you open one of the CBS News Killian memos in Photoshop and adjust the levels, crumple marks show up on the paper. So I tried it, and here’s the result:

This was probably done by the incredibly inept forger to increase the apparent “age” of the document, and to make the text appear more ragged.

I’ll bet that if the real printed originals of these documents ever turn up (say, in a dumpster behind MoveOn.org headquarters), they’ll find the idiot’s fingerprints on them.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; killian; rathergate
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To: finnman69

It looks wrinkled :)


21 posted on 09/14/2004 8:16:16 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: finnman69

Ok. Now were talking 'Shroud of Turin'.

Quick - someone look at the negative image of this.


22 posted on 09/14/2004 8:16:55 PM PDT by kidd
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To: finnman69

Please check the document for Sandy Berger DNA. Secretary says Army speak used in docs.


23 posted on 09/14/2004 8:17:01 PM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: finnman69

"But, but, but its the content. Its the content I tell you." </sarcasm> </Blathermouth>


24 posted on 09/14/2004 8:17:04 PM PDT by oiler
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To: Chummy

I wonder if anyone has tried Photoshop filters with default settings to see if one can match the crumpled look. If that can be done . . .


25 posted on 09/14/2004 8:20:49 PM PDT by Quicksilver (I finally have a reason to really like Microsoft Word ... and I'm a proud citizen of Jammie Nation.)
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To: finnman69; Registered
Can someone check the contrast on the other docs and see if they same pattern exists, or even better, if it does exist, it is a match?

Maybe Registered knows someone who could.

26 posted on 09/14/2004 8:20:49 PM PDT by eyespysomething ("...you're not fit to be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, much less commander in chief.")
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To: finnman69
There's another interesting point here that I haven't seen anyone comment on. Try this one at home, kids!

Sign your name, print, or type something, whatever, on a sheet of paper. Take a black magic marker and line through it. Then make a photocopy of that document, or, to be more true to form, go through fifteen generations of copying. Hold the two up to the light. On the original, it's VERY easy to see the original information you marked out. On the final copy, though, it's impossible, because the photocopier only picks up the black mark, not the underlying writing.

This to me is incredibly damning evidence against CBS. They can't produce original documents because there aren't any.

They did up a MS Word document, photocopied it fifteen or twenty times, crumpled it up, and THEN blacked out the pertinent information. Otherwise, the info would NOT be visible through the blackout. It's physically impossible.

27 posted on 09/14/2004 8:21:46 PM PDT by Terabitten (Live as a bastion of freedom and democracy in the midst of the heart of darkness.)
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To: kidd
Well here's a negative of the rather forgery, kinda spooky huh?!


28 posted on 09/14/2004 8:24:40 PM PDT by vger (asta la vista earthlinks!)
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To: finnman69

Yep...and if you look in the right hand corner, it appears that someone wiped their posterior with it. That's about all it's worth.


29 posted on 09/14/2004 8:29:06 PM PDT by edpc
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To: finnman69

Wouldn't that be a blast! Great idea, Finn . . .


30 posted on 09/14/2004 8:33:07 PM PDT by LikeLight (__________________________)
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To: Tragically Single
The USA Today versions don't have the blackening. That's something that CBS put on prior to air time. It wasn't intended to be part of the forgery, just a half-assed legal artifact from the CBS lawyers. It's so nobody can complain, "Hey, I live at #5000 Longmont, and ever since you aired those documents, I've been receiving George W. Bush's junk mail! I demand redress!"
31 posted on 09/14/2004 8:33:42 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: kidd
Quick - someone look at the negative image of this.

If you read it backwards, is there a hidden satanic message?

32 posted on 09/14/2004 8:35:56 PM PDT by eggman (CBS Lied -- the Kerry Campaign Died)
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To: finnman69
Hmmm ... interesting.
It looks more to me like the paper had been sat on. Maybe one or more put into an 8 by 11 manilla envelope and put on the driver's seat while he or she drove to work.
Right under the signature ... that's fart deflection if I ever saw it !
33 posted on 09/14/2004 8:37:07 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: finnman69
I?ll bet that if the real printed originals of these documents ever turn up (say, in a dumpster behind MoveOn.org headquarters), they?ll find the idiot?s fingerprints on them.

I'm sure the original was shredded.

34 posted on 09/14/2004 8:37:31 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (What's the frequency Kenneth?)
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To: mattdono

youhavenotchancetosurvivemakeyourtime!


35 posted on 09/14/2004 8:38:56 PM PDT by petro45acp ("I detest socialism.......and I VOTE!")
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To: NYC GOP Chick; Buckhead

ping


36 posted on 09/14/2004 8:41:17 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

If it was in storage for 30 years in Texas I would expect some mould, dry rot and termite activity.


37 posted on 09/14/2004 8:44:23 PM PDT by spokeshave (Traitor Kerry did for free what the POWs received torture to make them say)
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To: Chummy

"If done with a "plug-in" filter for a Photoshop-type app (PS, PSP, for example), one can make any image appear as if it was printed on a crumpled piece of paper."

I've done that more than a few times, but these results are not the kind you would get from graphics editor IMHO. I think it really was crumpled and smoothed out.

the uneveness of the paper would alter how well the photocopy laser would focus on different parts of the page, the tools I use to get a crumple effect doesn't do that.


38 posted on 09/14/2004 8:53:19 PM PDT by Grig
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To: hoosiermama

Do these crumple marks point towards Burkett as the source of the memos? He's the one that claimed he saw GW's recs go in the trash and there has already been some speculation about his possible involvement in this...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077804/posts

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7099


39 posted on 09/14/2004 8:53:58 PM PDT by METT-T
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To: finnman69

Shouldn't there be at least ONE vertical or horizontal crease? It seems unusual that there isn't.


40 posted on 09/14/2004 8:57:12 PM PDT by ikka
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