pboddie, your attack is baseless

It isn't an attack, and you don't deserve any credit for trying to portray it in that way. All I asked is that you link to the stuff you read so that we can read it as well. "PJ's comments in a news pick on Lodsys" could mean a lot of things: stuff on her own site, stuff on someone else's site where she gets to make a statement (you're surely familiar with that), stuff on Reddit, and so on.

I don't read Groklaw - nice to see that you've started to use the actual name of the site again - so I'm not familiar with any unusual behaviour in that site's content management, and thus requesting the URL would hardly be unreasonable, even if I had deduced that you were specifically talking about content on that site.

Even quoting directly would have been acceptable by the licence of the site's content. We could then have used our own judgement if anyone reading might have had some doubt about whether the quote was genuine.