Written by Patrick:

Not to too strongly dispute my cohort's post, but this story was debunked the very day it came out. Bill Kristol posted on this in the Times, Monday, but had to redact it because he blatantly hoarked the information out of the NewsMax website, which is well-known to post less-than-worthy fabrications of the truth about Obama and others. NewsMax is not a "source", in as much as Michelle Malkin or Rush Limbaugh are not "sources".

Further, Olbermann's The Worst Person in the World addresses this.

...and yes, Scott used a CONSERVATIVE BLOG as his ht on this. Something akin to placing an anti-environment lobby-monger like Dirk Kempthorne to head the Dept of Interior.