> No, of course not. Some guy at Forbes just decided to wake up one morning and extol the virtues of WordPress.

In spite of your sarcasm you pretty much nailed it, except the guy doesn't work for Forbes. He's part of the contributor network, which is essentially a few thousand bloggers that get paid based on how much traffic they generate for the site.

Do your homework next time.

That seems...totally plausible? Occam's Razor and all.