"They wanted the excuse to run the fabricated quote."

"They wanted the opportunity to do it.  These people are scum. They are literal professional scum and they are responsible in many ways for the deteriorating standards and quality of journalism.  They are leading the pack. They are found on both the news side and the sports side, and they are doing everything they can to promote disunity and discord throughout our culture and society while holding themselves up in their own minds as great unifiers and people who care only about social justice.  When they're basically just incompetent, irresponsible, impersonators of journalism."