Factcheck's non-profit status challenged over Obama birth certificate

Non-partisan group published images researcher contends are forgeries

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By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2011 WND

Researcher Ron Polland has launched Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service challenges against Factcheck.org, charging the media monitor has violated its tax-exempt legal status as a non-partisan organization by publishing and promoting a short-form birth certificate for Obama he contends was forged.

Polland began his investigation of Factcheck when it published a full-page scan copy of Obama's short-form Certification of Live Birth on June 16, 2008, four days after the Daily Kos posted the first copy on June 12, 2008 – a trimmed version of Factcheck's full-page scan.

Factcheck is the only entity besides the St Petersburg Times to publish a full-page copy of the short-form birth certificate. The Obama campaign posted a reduced copy of the trimmed version.

Then, on Aug. 21, 2008, Factcheck published photographs of a paper birth certificate, complete with visible folds and state seal, offered as proof the birth certificate shown in June was not simply a scanned document.

"When Factcheck published its 'Born in the USA' story on Aug. 21, 2008, with photos of Obama's birth certificate, many thought the controversy was over." Polland told WND. "No other story has been cited more often and by more people in defense of claims that Obama had already released his state-certificate and proved beyond any question that he was born in Hawaii."

Polland has long argued that the Obama short-form birth certificate originated from computer-created documents first shown as scans by the DailyKos and Factcheck.

His argument now is that the paper short-form birth certificate displayed by Factcheck was nothing more than a paper version of Factcheck's computer-created scan, not an authentic short-form birth certificate issued by the Hawaii Department of Health and delivered to Factcheck by the Obama campaign.

Polland told WND Factcheck was so sure its photos had won the "battle of the birth certificate that the editors sat back and waited for the dust to settle."

"Well, the dust did settle," he continued. "But not where Factcheck expected it would be."

Polland's complaint to the IRS reads in part:

In June 2008, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, D/B/A Annenberg Factcheck colluded with the Obama Campaign to create a false identity document for Barack Obama and to conduct a propaganda campaign to prevent Obama's true identity and citizenship from being known. The document was allegedly a scan image of a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth. In August 2008, after people questioned its authenticity, Factcheck created a physical document using a printout of the same scan image and took photos of it. Factcheck used the photos along with a fraudulent examination of them to authenticate the same false identity document they created.

Polland asked the IRS to rescind Factcheck's non-profit status, charging the principals at Factcheck are "leftwing political activists who campaigned for Obama and against McCain."

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