Charles Johnson and LGF is the guy who fired up MS Word, retyped the document on the default settings, and overlayed it with the fake docs in an animated gif that flashed between the two documents, showing they matched up amazingly well.
It was a stroke of genius and completely sealed it for most people. Charles Johnson is da man.
I remember the incident well. I was traveling in Europe at the time. I saw the first Bush/Kerry "debate" on CNN Europe while in Germany and then followed the coverage thereof via FR. August had gone so well for us but the tide definitely seemed to be turning. I was sure the MSM had something they were going to pull and when I heard about the TANG story on 60 Minutes II I thought that probably was it. I was in Romania and I didn't get to watch 60 Min. II so I read about it on the FR thread. I remember giddily telling some Romanian friends that one of the biggest American newscasters was in the process of being taken down by my favorite website for trying to throw the election to the Democrats. They thought I was crazy but in the end that's pretty much what happened.
So thanks again for your contribution to this great event. And the next time you're with Karl Rove in his super-secret underground command fortress (you know, with the weather machine and the ventriloquism machine, etc.) please tell him that rogue yam still thinks he's a "magnificent bastard"!
Is Salon going to give you equal time and publish an article from you?