I will never forget Buckhead’s posting in 2004 that may have literally changed the course of the 2004 election. That posting started a chain of events that took down CBS News’ Dan Rather, his assistant Mary Mapes, much of the Travis County, Texas Democrats, and contributed heavily to the increasing decline of the mainstream media.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1213430/posts
A few years back, TankerKC’s contribution was wiped from Wikipedia. It seems to have been wiped from FR lore too.