No, it's absolutely wrong. I distinctly remember them saying that it'd work with the normal Wii controller, because, face it, it'd be absolutely retarded business sense to do it any other way, since you'd be forcing people to buy extra crap that shouldn't be necessary. I know this isn't something Nintendo's innocent of (Crystal Chronicles, anyone?), but when they're advertising non-gamer-friendliness, they wouldn't be doing something entirely contrary to it.
The ONLY thing about the normal controller that Sakurai has mentioned is that motion-sensing likely won't be a major factor. That's it.
Seriously, where the HELL are you people getting this bullcrap?