I have a feeling come Wednesday morning, FTG, TPG and every single BoardingArea blogger will be touting this new card/offer so they can get their affiliate bonuses.
And if FTG's post kept me from signing up for a lesser offer today (say the 50k AA), then I will happily use his affiliate link. He posted the info where I prefer, and gave me info that nobody else had. So, that's a value to me and I think it's only fair to reward that by using his link. Once the offer is in the public domain....the blog itself would have to bring a value for me to use the link(s).
Now if all this hoopla is over a lousy $1k reduction in spend...a pox on both your houses FTG