It's so bizarre that I simply can't believe that an NBC producer did this. But it's also so bizarre that it's not actually all that much more plausible that Americans for Limited Government made the thing up. It's not like they're playing to the common stereotype that the television world is hostile to Jews.
ALG says they checked where the email comes from, in language that suggests they tracked it at the server level, not from the email headers.
The most likely explanation is that someone punk'd them. But who? And how?
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/09/annals-of-allegations/27317/
