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Fox News expert denies he claimed birth certificate legit

Angry at network for refusing to retract its story on Obama document

Posted: June 21, 2011
8:32 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WND

Barack Obama

NEW YORK – The computer graphics expert Fox News relied upon to claim the birth certificate the White House released April 27 was legitimate insists that the network must retract the story, claiming it deliberately misquoted him and continues to ignore his repeated requests.

Jean Claude Tremblay told WND that that none of his comments would permit the conclusion that the Obama birth certificate is an authentic document.

"I no longer trust Fox News," he said, expressing anger verging on disdain for the way he feels the network treated him. "Despite my protests, Fox News will not allow me to correct their story."

The controversy traces to aWeb story by Fox News reporter Jana Wintertwo days after the White House released the birth certificate, titled "Expert: No Doubt Obama's Birth Certificate is Legit."

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Noting that Obama doubters were claiming the birth certificate was a fake, Winter wrote, "But a leading software expert says there's no doubt about its authenticity, and he dismisses claims of fraud as flat-out wrong."

"I never said that," Tremblay insists. "Winter called me and talked to me for about five minutes on the telephone, and she never said she was going to quote me. Then she misrepresented what I said."

In along post on his professional website ProficioGrafic.comin Montreal, Canada, Tremblay said "Ms. Winter has attributed a conclusion to me in the title that I did not mention in the interview."

He asserted that the way Winter interpreted his comments about the use of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software in the PDF (Portable Document Format) file of the Obama birth certificate released by the White House "were also not 100 percent accurate."

In his written comments, Tremblay expressed his consternation.

"First, I never thought that what I saw in the Birth Certificate PDF was a proof of its authenticity," he wrote. "For me, what I have seen does not prove that it is legit, nor that it is a fake, nor that there has been any tampering whatsoever," he wrote. "The title of the blog does not represent my conclusion. It would be unprofessional and simplistic within my area of competence to come to a conclusion one way or the other."

Despite making repeated requests to Fox News to post a correction, including several comments to Winter on Twitter, Fox News has continued to leave its original story posted without any corrections or qualifications.

Winter did not respond to a WND call asking for comment.

"As far as I am concerned, Fox News is not trustworthy," Tremblay said. "I would not watch Fox News or read the Fox News [website] because they have never replied to me or allowed me to post my corrections to their report of my comments and views."

In the technical note Tremblay wrote on his website, he explained, "In my humble opinion, what I see about how the PDF is built does not prove any falsification. If there was tampering, we must look elsewhere and not how the PDF was created."

Tremblay refused to comment onWND reports by scanner expert Doug Vogtor bytypography expert Paul Ireythat the Obama birth certificate is a forgery.

"I have no idea why the White House would provide a scan of a document that had been run through OCR software," he said, "and I'm not an expert on the image modification or typography arguments other experts have made."

Specifically regarding Vogt and Irey, Tremblay said, "I have no explanation why some of the text in the document may have been changed and why other parts of the text may not have been changed."

Tremblay also objected to a WND story that a comment he made on Amazon.com suggested he was an Obama supporter.

On May 1,WND reportedthat Tremblay posted on Amazon.com a review of a book by Rahaf Harfoush entitled "Yes We Did: An Inside Look at How Social Media Built the Obama Brand."

Tremblay told WND that he had never worked for the Obama administration and he was only commenting on Harfoush's book because he was impressed with the use of social media in politics.

"I'm not a detective specializing in the forgery of electronic documents," he wrote on his professional website. "I am an instructor in graphic design software working to help people work faster, better and smarter."

He insisted he was a Canadian who had no interest one way or the other in whether the Obama birth certificate is a forgery or an authentic document.

In the interview with WND, Tremblay repeatedly expressed irritation with having become involved in the Obama birth certificate story.

Before agreeing to speak with WND on the telephone, Tremblay had twittered WND that he would not return WND's phone call.

"I had enough of this Obama story," the twittered WND, recommending instead that WND rely upon the written comments he had posted on his website.

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Comment by Your Uncle Sam on June 23, 2011 at 10:31am: Thanks, Gordon. Unfortunately for America, James David Manning is absolutely correct on all counts. Show me one Presidential candidate (even include Palin and West if you wish) who has had the intestinal fortitude to challenge Obama's latest forged birth certificate! Worse than that, it is my distinct impression that present US foreign policy has brought us to the brink of a third world war- call it Armageddon or whatever floats your boat. Meanwhile our timid (spineless?) Congress lies dead in the water like a battleship with no steam, no rudder and no real leadership. Finally, while Real Conservatives has been sympathetic to the Taxed-Enough-Already movement, we shall remain independent in our conservative outreach for the very reasons Dr. Manning cites- Jim's emotionally charged delivery notwithstanding.

Comment by Gordon Ray Kissinger on June 22, 2011 at 9:32am

Comment by Jim Delaney on June 22, 2011 at 8:15am: My growing lack of respect for O'Reilly--and FOX-- is all the more acute. What are these guys afraid of? "Looking out for you?" Forget about it.

Comment by Your Uncle Sam on June 22, 2011 at 8:08am: Sooner or later this scandal will bring down the Obama presidency. Let's hope sooner! Let's pray sooner! The truth exposing Obama's fraud has a slow fuse, but in the end the massive explosion will rock the free world- except in Kenya, where there will be dancing in the streets when Barack's true birthplace is finally "sanctified" by the lamestream media. Kenyan joy will soon turn to dust, however, when Obummer leaves the White House in disgrace. In the end, even Kenya will turn against him. Barack Hussein Obama will truly be "a man without a country" as he so deserves. I do feel sorry for his children, who are innocent- but who will be plagued with parental disgrace until they find relative refuge in the names of their future husbands. And Michelle? Her name will be more vilified than Barack's when her treason is shouted from the housetops! Sic semper tyrannis!