Joel Mawbary apparently started the ball rolling with a Weekly Standard article that ran in the December, 2003 Weekly Standard that is archived at Townhall  General Zinni, what a Ninny

David Brooks followed suit with an editorial in the New York Times on January 6, 2004: The Era of Distortion. This is a standard think tank tactic of accusing your opponents of doing exactly what you are doing.

This editorial, by Ms. Gorin, a contributing editor of JewishWorldReview.com, performs with RightStuffComedy.com ran in the September 23rd, 2004 WSJ: Blame it on Neo

There was a diary at dkos about this:  What's up with Little Green Footballs?

Apparently there are large segments of the Democratic party that aren't up to date about this tactic.