Someone who I believe to be the same person / part of the same group as MD4Bush alluded to that same article, using very similar language, on the Baltimore Sun's web forum.
The email alert attributed to O'Doherty is quite damning, since it shows prior knowledge to who-what the story would be about in the Post, and obviously we must wonder how O'Doherty knew what the story would say. Notice how the author says "credits.. staff for creating and spreading". "Credits with", rather than proves, shows, discloses, etc.
"There will be a big story in the Post either tomorrow or Thursday that credits Governor Ehrlich's staff for creating and spreading the nasty and untrue rumor about our Mayor and his family. Steve asked me to contact you to see if you could show your disgust by calling into WBAL Radio after the story hits. The guys on WBAL obviously could try to protect Ehrlich, so we need as many folks as possible to call 410-467-WBAL. I will e-mail the story to you as soon as it hits and read it carefully and then call in and raise hell. Don't call in until after the story is published in the Washington Post - It is top secret!"
The Washington Post is reporting now that their reporter did come in possesion of printed copies of the message exchanges last fall. To check to see if they were authentic, the reporter obtained the info required to view the private chat room by an intermediary acting on behalf of MD4Bush last January.
The Washington Post says their reporter used that information to verify that the messages from the chat room were authentic
http://wbal.com/stories/templates/news.asp?articleid=36636