I hate to become the grammar police, but this is the second misuse of a word in the past 20 minutes. Both from the original article (not typos by the FR poster.) The other was a lose/loose misuse, but not in the usual sense ('loose' instead of 'lose') ... it was 'lose' instead of 'loose' ....."
Preach it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3499562/posts?page=4#4