My first reaction is "don't shoot the messenger". Most likely, the story was already written and was going to go out, they just wanted to add in a bodybuilding personality that would admit bodybuilders use it to add some color to the article. No different than "Shawn" did. If Dave didn't do it, someone else would have.
I noticed that too. According to the article I should be wearing a bone visor right now. Whoever wrote the article clearly doesn't know what the fuck they are talking about.