Actually, he expresses his rationale very well. Maybe he picked a lousy example to make his point. That sort of mistake happens all the time.
But EveningStar made a good point - if the posting is unreliable gossip, then it's better to not provide a link to it. A more direct route to remove the post would be to contact Admin Mods here; and failing that, to pretend FR doesn't exist.
Cherthoff on NOW!
What Hewitt doesn't get is having it come from MFH MAKES it plausible for those of us with some FR-milage.