I was wondering if anyone would get the reference but then again it has been made somewhat re-popular by American Idol (bleh)
The author is wrong mentality reminds me of how Sigmund Fraud (yes, I know it's mispelled, I did it on purpose... twice ) was so assured that his views of his patient of extreme abuse of the physical kind that he actually wrote "Anytime the patient says no, it's really just a subconscious yes"
Also it reminds me of the fat comic book guy from the Simpsons, "V and O-chu living? Worst plot line ever"