I have no information about whether it went down that way or not. All I know is that this article set of my "extremely biased source" warnings quite strongly.

Is there any coverage of this in the mainstream press? Any verification of any of the content of this article? Anything?

Or are we getting all riled up because one person wrote an article with the intent of riling people up?

As I said, I don't know. I would welcome other sources.