Sunday, October 12, 2008

Palin's SAT scores -- not really

The same website that published emails stolen from Sarah Palin's hacked account has now published what is alleged to be a transcript of Palin's SAT scores.
The transcript is a fake, photoshopped.

According to Dawn Patrol:
A sleuth on the Straight Dope message board identified my scoresheet as the source of the forgery.

The forger lowered the grades and scores on the printout to make Palin, an honor-society member, look like a mediocre student—but wasn't smart enough to hide the obviousness of the Photoshop job. Still, Gawker publisher Nick Denton—who earlier published e-mails stolen from Palin's personal account— asserted the fake was credible: "The grades are mediocre—appropriately the small-town girl scores a D in foreign language—but not so dreadful as to immediately stretch credulity. And the first five digits of the social security number do match Sarah Palin's."

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