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This was mentioned in one of the Obama birth certificate threads a week ago.

Hugh Hewitt said there is some wacky stuff on the internet and we don’t need to go there. He used this fake column as an illustration, but I think he was also alluding to the birth certificate issue without saying so.

When is Obama’s fake birth certificate going to break on talk radio?

When is Obama’s fake birth certificate going to break on talk radio?

Good question. I think the GOP has an "arsenal" of damaging campaign fodder that will turn the Obama Express into a train wreck.
Don't be surprised if the "Larry Sinclair" story breaks, with PROOF, sometime in October. Comments; anyone?

A gag photo of Kerry and Fonda onstage together appeared ever so briefly on FR on a thread with a legitimate photo of Kerry and Fonda together in the audience at a Vietnam war rally.

It was immediately used to discredit the legitimate photo and all discussion of the photo in the media (including Snopes) ignored the satirical quality of the hoax image, that it was appearing in a thread of a legitimate photo.

So advance 4 years to the 2008 election. A mysterious birth certificate for Obama appears on Daily KOS. The Obama campaign and the State of Hawaii refuse all requests for such documents. But KOS has one. And then someone on KOS posts a blank template for generating such documents. No mention in the media or snopes about there being a blank template on the same site where the “actual” birth certificate appeared.

And now Pelosi and bunch are in Austin meeting with the Daily KOS’ YEARLY KOS festival. So the DNC is in collusion with KOS. But the media plays dumb about there being any ties or approval for all things on the KOS site.

Can this election be over already???

I think Hewitt's point was that the birth certificate could be a similar bait and switch tactic by the Obama campaign. Let everyone get all hot and bothered at what looks like a bogus cert (which may have been intentionally altered, then sent to Kos, for that purpose), and then produce a bona fide cert that says the same thing as the bogus one, declaring everyone who doubted the first cert a "right-wing" conspiracist. Case closed, media agrees. No more questions allowed.

The biggest problem with these tactics is that they may be pre-emptive cover-ups. As the author of this article says,

"Should a legitimate Republican entity make such allegations about Obama’s campaign finance misconduct, the Obama people can readily dismiss the attacks as the GOP following the rants of a conservative blogger. In most instances, the "mainstream" media will be disinclined to follow such a story because Obama has already stigmatized it as the product of a right-wing fringe conspiracy....If this is what Obama means by "hope" and "change" then I’m terrified about the future of this campaign."

And, of course, McCain won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.