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Yet Another Andrew Breitbart Smear Falls Apart

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Nyet5/30/2011 3:02:18 pm PDT

I hate Breitfart as much as anyone, but DailyKos “proof” that Breitbart faked anything seems to be a load of horseshit.

I went to yfrog, took a screenshot of the normal page and ran it through the error level analyzer.

Result:

errorlevelanalysis.com

The same difference between text portions. Why? Easy: they’re different sizes so they blur differently.

So Burpbait is most probably not to blame here, he (or rather his minions) simply took the real screenshot of a real page. Either Weiner or the hacker are to blame, depending on whether you believe Weiner’s explanation.

PS: another DKos analysis based on ephemeral “evidence” like dates in file names and whatnot is not very convincing IMHO, especially as it uncritically repeats the “doctored screenshot” claim.