US Weekly is owned by Jan Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone and a big Obama backer / Bush basher. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he pushed that story on US so it would reach the people who don't normally read Rolling Stone.
US Magazine has removed all the comments about the article from their website.
All 5592 of them.
Of those, about 5590 were anti-article comments.
Typical of the left.