And there's a level of stupid things can be at where no, you don't have to ask to squash it. You can leave it alone and it will squash itself in the minds of the handful of people in the whole world who were weird enough to think it in the first place.

People have to stop pretending that this was some big rumor going around. This topic didn't warrant a 2nd thought from anyone, let alone reporters having to bring it up as if everyone was so curious.