On Drudge today:
(And, no, I am not saying that it is a "forgery" nor have I EVER said that, so don't go putting words in my mouth again.)
Exactly as I predicted, as soon as the “Birthers” saw that the PDF image was a layered, composite, computer generated (i.e. “manipulated”) image, all trust in the document went flying out the window.
From your previous posts, it seems that you are not very well informed on the mechanics of “layering” and the creative possibilities it offers. So, it might benefit you to learn a little bit about the layering process.
Lesson 1: Introduction to Photoshop Layer Masks
In medicine, when you are being given a lecture by the attorneys of your malpractice insurance company in regards to handling paper medical records, one point that is drilled into your head, again and again and again, is that you leave absolutely NO DOUBT about what the original document contained.
1.) If you make a mistake, you cross out that mistake with a single, thin line leaving the original writing perfectly legible and you initial the cross-out.
2.) You NEVER erase ANYTHING on the original document.
3.) You NEVER cross out ANYTHING on the original document completely so that it is illegible.
4.) You NEVER tear out a piece of the paper of the original document.
5.) You MUST ensure that the jury is 100% certain that absolutely NO changes have been made to the original document.
“But, I like my medical records to have a crisp, professional appearance and a single-line cross-out of one or several words looks sloppy. I like to erase to keep that that crisp appearance.”
“If the jury suspects that ANYTHING was changed, the jury will crucify, Doctor.”
“I will simply vouch for the correction and tell them that I made the correction at the time of writing.”
“The jury will crucify you, Doctor.”
“Excuse me! I am an extremely well respected member of this community. My integrity is beyond reproach!”
“What part of ‘the jury will crucify you’ do you still fail to understand, Doctor?”
The PDF image that was released is a layered, composite image. There is no doubt about that (unless you have no clue what “layering” means or how it functions and believe that “layering” is a conspiracy theory).
Layered documents can be manipulated every which way but loose and there is absolutely no doubt about that.
As I stated before, when a certain group of people is skeptical, THEY NEED TO SEE THE ORIGINAL, UNALTERED AND UNMANIPULATED DOCUMENT.
That applies to 12 people on a jury at a medical malpractice trial and it also applies to 25% of all voters that you insist on helping Obama to ridicule.
Just so you don’t call me a “Birther”, yet again, I am NOT saying that this document is a “forgery”. The term “forgery” would imply that the content of the document was altered.
What I am saying is that, once an original document is scanned and then manipulated through imaging software, there is absolutely no way that either you or I can vouch for whether the original content has or has not been changed with the click of a mouse.
Neither you nor I nor can be “certain” that the text captured by the Optical Character Recognition algorithm for the text layer of the layered, composite image was altered or not after it’s capture by the click of a mouse. We just have to take it on faith.
So, that leaves the Faith & Trust argument:
”I, Alvin Onaka, a life-long Democrat in the very liberal State of Hawaii, vouch for the authenticity of this document ……. which I refuse to allow anybody else to see or to photograph. Trust me.”
”I, Dan Rather, a life-long Democrat and anchorman at the very liberal CBS News Division, vouch for the authenticity of this document. Trust me.”
"Trust but verify." ..... Ronald Reagan
Now, in order to cram that Faith & Trust argument down the throat of 25% of all America voters, ...... (OUR base whether you and I agree with them or not) ...... you are willing to join Obama in ridiculing them.
I am not willing to do that. (Whether I agree with you that the text captured by Optical Character Recognition software was left unaltered or not.)
I will turn the tables against Obama by holding him to the same standards that a Doctor Obama would be held to in a medical malpractice trial:
SHOW THE JURY THE UNALTERED, ORIGINAL DOCUMENT.
All it takes is news media photographers with digital cameras and the original document on a table.
