I don't know about that, but I did hear it on the CBS radio network news (research ;)) at 7 pm Pacific. The lead story on cbsnews.com now (Iowa caucus) doesn't have that detail.
I did search FR when I got back but didn't find anything--I was sure of finding a well-commented thread already if there'd been a hard source for that allegation. And I wasn't interested in starting a thread based on speculation or worse.
And I did do a search now--I'm not going to link to it, but there's a Politico page that alleges such a dropout.
Someone did post a screen shot of that short lived thread. It referenced hearing the news on a CBS radio spot. I think I saw it on one of the longer Fred threads. Perhaps it was one about Fred’s poll surge.
I thought it was interesting that one person posted a prediction this morning that Fred would drop out and endorse McCain within 48 hours. Since the rumor did not break at Politico until this evening, I’m wondering if this might have been obtained from someplace else.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947169/posts?page=19#19
Sorry. I linked to the reply and not the post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947169/posts?page=12#12
I heard a few posters saying that while on Rush’s thread yesterday...need to follow the trail.