To the seasoned veterans ridiculing the hapless journo imbeciles:
Do you think maybe the "pusher" mentioned in "the story" was actually the "(stick-)shaker", which a 737 is fitted with. Maybe someone simply got the terminology mixed up.
The stick-shaker went off and the pilots pushed the nose down, to prevent a fully-developed stall, and lost a certain amount of altitude.
"7000ft" ? Maybe... I don't know, I wasn't there. Maybe they got carried away. If they're up at 350 or 370, etc, in that rarefied air, maybe it isn't a lot to lose in a stall recovery. If indeed it happened at all. But some guys are so quick to jump in and ridicule some incorrect points they lose the whole gist of the "rumour".