If this were true, then these fakes should have showed up a long time ago. The timing was way too convenient to simply be the product of people 'messing with Birthers.' Heck the guy that made the one with the red background was the guy who magically knew where it came from. No, this was a deliberate attempt to discredit anything real that might come along.
Unless a certain inspector was also playing a “IRL Hacking Event of a Lifetime” game. This is someone who had a history of fraud including spending some time in jail.
It seems far more likely he was just continuing his old patterns instead of suddenly becoming a patriotic hero. (a ‘patriotic hero’ who on his YouTube account and other profiles lists notible heros like Fidel Castro)