Anyone see this before Decanter pulled it off their server?

[Thomas]

As I said, the truth lies somewhere else, not in that article.

RP has stated flatly that he never said those things to that writer. And that is why Decanter pulled it, pending their investigation.

I contacted Decanter about it, and that is what I was told by one of the editors.

Many years ago there was such a thing as "fact checkers" to circumvent these problems. But that tradition has been abandoned.

A guy like RP would have to be crazy to use such strong language in an interview; therefore, I believe him when he says he did not say those words. Sentiment is one thing, quotation marks are quite another thing.