You said “I remember it well. Well enough to recall it had nothing to do with any blog.”
Did you look at the first thread I linked...Power Line and Little Green Footballs are not blogs?
Excerpt:
Even while the CBS report was still on, someone posted on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com that the documents were “not in the style that we used when I came into the USAF.”
A few hours later, another Free Republic poster, Buckhead, noted “proportionally spaced fonts” that seemed out of place in an early ‘70s Guard document.
“I am saying these documents are forgeries. . . . This should be pursued aggressively.”
It was. Before going into work the next morning, Minneapolis lawyer Scott Johnson, one of three attorneys behind the conservative blog Power Line, posted a reader’s e-mail that questioned the documents. By the time he got to work, he had 50 e-mails, one of which cited Buckhead’s Free Republic post. Johnson linked to that.
Soon a flood of Power Line readers responded. Those familiar with typewriters said the documents probably couldn’t have been created with machines of that era. Veterans said the memos didn’t read right.
The links were growing exponentially. It was still Thursday morning.
Charles Johnson of the popular LittleGreenFootballs.com learned of the story via Power Line. Within minutes the L.A.-based conservative blogger, who has a long background in computer typography, retyped one of the memos using MS Word default settings, and posted the “exact match” on his site.
By this time, a few in the mainstream media had caught wind of the story. An ABC reporter called Power Line’s Johnson by noon.
Yes, blogs (albeit major ones) ran with the story after it
broke here, on Free Republic, which isn’t a blog.
While you “cling bitterly” to this one example, it has
little to do with the two-bit sleazy one-person blogs
that use FR as a platform for free advertising.
THOSE are the targets being shot down here.
Focus.
Both of whom initially claimed that they broke the story. Typical.