"it served to expose a very important truth"
Good point. Hannity whacked, I believe it was Harkin the other day. He read several lines, implying they were Bush's words about going to war with Iraq. Harkin bit the bait and started blasting Bush whereupon Hannity said......ah, Kerry said that, not Bush.
It was really a phenomenom to see Harkin's head morph into a horses a$$.
Too funny!
But honestly, I don't think this was a Republican hoax. Why? Because it has all the hallmarks of the incompetent Kerry campaign. If a Republican operative had done this, it would have been done a lot better -- would have done a harder to detect forgery, so that it WOULDN'T be discovered almost immediately, so that the media and Kerry campaign would have some time to dig themselves in deeper over it, before the fraud was exposed.