I am a little amazed at the response on the Post article. Those of us who have been interviewed by the heavy weights from the Post and the Rocky Mountain News know full well that out of a half hour interview, or longer, the one or two quotes that get used can be time bombs. Once burned by this, the interview process becomes like a game, each answer to a question crafted to be "correct."
Years ago, I was quoted in the local Silverton paper with something I never actually said. When I questioned the editor who wrote the story, his response was "well, that's what you should have said." To take a newspaper story as the gospel truth is dangerous and naieve.