How soon we forget. The morning after Dan's Big Revelatiion, while us freepers were busy discussing the uncanny resemblence of the "evidence" to standard MS Word docs, the MSM was printing and chattering about the "troubling" charges brought up by Saint Dan. Lefty congressmen (Harkin, I believe) were standing up in Washington demanding answers and the usual suspects were already booked on all the friendly talking-head shows. No, SeeBS wasn't the only one in on this; it was a concerted effort by the entire MSM-government machine, including, we found out later, the Kerry campaign.
"... and the usual suspects were already booked on all the friendly talking-head shows..."
Sort of like the media blitz and phone-bank blitz within HOURS after the news of Tom DeLay's indictment...
Oh, so OBVIOUSLY choreographed!