Posted by
Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, July 10, 2009 7:45:09 AM
Obama's birth letter: Is this thing for real?
See what hospital posted on website for 6 months,
then pulled down an hour after this story broke
He says he can't understand why the public is demanding such a level of proof of natural-born citizenship, and when asked why he thought Obama just doesn't end the controversy by releasing his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate displaying the name of the hospital and doctor, Helfert said he couldn't speak for the president, but "if that were me, I'd tell people to stick it in their ear. It's none of their business. The documents online have been certified to show he was born in the U.S."
"If you had a picture of him in the hospital [delivery room] with a hospital sign behind him, there would be a lot of people who wouldn't believe it, [thinking] that it was trick photography or something nefarious," he added. "If the hand of God appeared in the sky to write the birth certificate, they wouldn't believe it."
In a local news report covering the Centennial Dinner, KHNL-TV anchor Diane Ako stated, "Even President Barack Obama was helped by the hospital. He was born there." But she did not expound on that point with any evidence.
Regarding what is portrayed to be the letter itself, what is displayed online is not a photo or scanned image of an actual letter sent by regular mail.
It is a pieced-together likeness of a letter using HTML code that routinely builds websites.
Viewers can check this by several methods, including going to the original webpage, highlighting the "letter" there with a cursor, and noting the White House letterhead as well as Barack Obama's signature are both individual images.
Dragging a cursor over the White House letterhead reveals the .jpg image
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Dragging a cursor over Barack Obama's purported signature reveals the .jpg image |
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