re: "Guess?"
Lapham:
"The speeches in Madison Square Garden affirmed the great truths now routinely preached from the pulpits of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal -- government the problem, not the solution; the social contract a dead letter; the free market the answer to every maiden's prayer -- and while listening to the hollow rattle of the rhetorical brass and tin, I remembered the question that [Richard] Hofstadter didn't stay to answer. How did a set of ideas both archaic and bizarre make its way into the center ring of the American political circus?"
Notice the tenses, the actions described. From a reporter, this isn't a "guess." It's a lie. Lapham got nailed for something that no one would have noticed if the pre-written article had actually come out after the convention.
On the other hand, since you operate in a similar fashion, describing events and facts that primarily originate between your own ears (to use a more generous anatomical analogy than might otherwise be indicated), maybe you don't notice it.