The story is real; the source is BS.
One of the Newsmax writers (who is also a FReeper and shall remain unnamed) was exposed publishing outright lies and made-up stories on that web site by several FReepers here. He made the mistake of posting nonsense from that site on this forum.
In fact, there is a vanity thread titled "Can we trust WorldNut Daily and Newsmax as sources?" If I remember correctly, the FReeper consensus was quite negative.
Agreed the story is true. I saw Dick Morris on O'Reilly yesterday discussing it.