Hugh Hewitt and Mansoor Ijaz went at it on Hugh’s radio show yesterday.

HH: Good for you. Okay, I just wanted to get that out. And I also read the National Review piece. No one from the party you attended has yet stepped forward and publicly given their name and confirmed your account. Am I wrong about that? MI: You are. On…at 2:41PM on 11/28 today, Jim Geraghty reports a second Nevada Republican confirms Ijaz’ account. I just spoke to another Nevada Republican who attended the Mitt Romney fundraiser that Mansoor Ijaz describes, and he verified Ijaz’ account of the question and Romney’s answer. He said that the Christian Science Monitor op-ed piece was accurate, and he verified the details of Ijaz’ account. On something called the… HH: I read that, but he’s not named. I’m saying that no one’s publicly come forward and said hey, I’m Joe Smith, and I agree with Mansoor what he said.

They continue, and Hugh says that while he understands the guy’s reluctance to have his name used, it remains that no one has “on the record” confirmed Ijaz’s account.

Look, the guy I spoke to verified Ijaz’s account, and had no problem telling me what he saw and heard at the fundraiser. He just doesn’t want his name “in the paper” and any grief and aggrivation that might come from it. If Hugh wants his number, I’ll pass it on to him, and he can talk to this Nevada Republican himself. This guy’s a businessman, and he’s a Romney donor. I suppose I could have tried to browbeat this guy into letting me use his name, but that’s not the way I operate — I relate too much to the instinct to keep one’s name from popping up in the middle of a political controversy.

If a listener of Hugh’s, or a reader of mine thinks that I made up the guy, or that the guy is lying, well… I don’t know that there’s much more I can do to persuade them.