I don't think all those fakes were made to preempt Smith's. I posted a link a long time ago to both Something Awful and 4Chan (Anonymous) where they called the Birth Certificate issue the "IRL hacking opportunity of a lifetime" and started treated trolling and dumping fake stuff as a game just like Anonymous did with Scientology. The one with the red background and shilling seal ended up being tracked back to a Something Awful member. Both sites have threads on playing with the BC issue and Something Awful even has a dedicated messing with Free Republic thread. In other words, there were a lot of groups seeing it as a game to play. (I recently learned even Cracked Magazine's forum has a thread on messing with Birthers.)
That's why it is best our level of scepticism on things we 'hope' are real are just as high, if not higher, than we give to what the President releases.
If this were true, then these fakes should have showed up a long time ago. The timing was way too convenient to simply be the product of people 'messing with Birthers.' Heck the guy that made the one with the red background was the guy who magically knew where it came from. No, this was a deliberate attempt to discredit anything real that might come along.
If this were true, then these fakes should have showed up a long time ago. The timing was way too convenient to simply be the product of people 'messing with Birthers.' Heck the guy that made the one with the red background was the guy who magically knew where it came from. No, this was a deliberate attempt to discredit anything real that might come along.