Sunday, May 8, 2011

the birth certificate

If you haven't taken a look at it, you can do so here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

Direct from the White House's official page, so you know I'm not feeding you the wrong one.

As soon as you look at this thing, you know something's up with it. Its obviously crafted in photoshop. You can see the edge of what would be the "real" paper form on all four sides, but most obviously on the left. There it is bowed upwards as though bound into a book and placed on a photocopier. But if that is the case, how does it mesh seamlessly with the official birth certificate background pattern?

I investigated. I opened up the .pdf file with photoshop and.... care to guess at what I found?

Layers.

Lots of layers.

For those unfamiliar with photoshop, a large part of the "magic" of the program in being able to make almost anything possible is the ability to "layer" a piece of image material over another. Often images that you see on the internet were meshed together with several layers before being saved into the image file format that you end up seeing.

Proof? Someone posted a video of them playing with the layers in photoshop. This is a hand-crafted fake birth certificate. Take a look.


Don't get me wrong. I think he's as American as you and me- he walks, talks, acts like an American. Why the hell does he need to have a fake birth certificate created when he can just get a copy of a real one? Something doesn't add up.

9 comments:

Moobeat said...

this business was silly

Ben Sheetz said...

I'm not a big fan of conspiracies, but this is really interesting. I might have to look more into this...

jon said...

youre not serious, are you? please tell me youre just goonin

SynthRockEngine said...

I'm certain he's an American as well, and like my musings, I'm not a big fan of conspiracies, but this is pretty interesting/weird.

TV-Reports said...

Hmm. Do you think he is a muslim?

Something Wycked said...

@ TV-Reports: Hell no. I know he's Christian. But I don't like most Christians much either :P Especially not the anti-white, anti-America stuff Jeremiah Wright preaches.

@ jon: Dead serious. Do you have a logical explanation of why the PotUS' birth certificate looks like an 18 year old messed around with one on photoshop?

Mike said...

This is really pointless, I don't see why he'd need to do this.

Anonymous said...

First I've looked at it, something is up

liquidelle said...

I'm just confused as to why it took 4 years to produce a birth certificate. If you were born here, this shouldn't have been such a big flippin' issue.