What I’m wondering is why the presstitute who wrote this took the guy’s word for it.
I’m not so sure she took him at his word. There is a possibility that she knew this guy was lying, shading the truth a bit, but went ahead anyway with her column. I’ve encountered many a liberal who when shown that their anti-Bush/Republican info was dead wrong, they would shrug their shoulders and say something along the lines of “Oh well, whatever helps to destroy bush/The Republicans.”