I misquoted nothing. Please show exactly where you believe I misquoted anything.

"Fact is, John McCain’s ad did not call Franklin Raines a “close adviser” of Barack Obama."

I know that! McCain's ad does not use the 2 words "close advisor" together, and no one is arguiung that it did. It did, however, clearly imply that that they were close, which they are obviously not.

Compare and contrast the 2 following sentences to get at the heart of your (probably willful) misunderstanding:

1) FC says that McM's ad calls R a "close advisor" to O.

2) FC says that McM's ad calls R a close advisor to O.

See, one "close advisor" is in quotes and the other is not. You are defending only against #1, but not against #2.

Fact is, John McCain's ad did not call Franklin Raines a "close adviser" of Barack Obama. Fact is that any error in the McCain ad can be laid entirely at the feet of the Washington Post at this point.

You're wrong. Again. Don't you ever get tired?

You're damn it doesn't. By which I mean that Fact Checker does not, in fact, ever claim that the McCain ad CALLS Raines, with these exact words, [QUOTE] "a close advisor" [UNQUOTE]. Here is what FC says, right in your link:

"The McCain campaign is clearly exaggerating wildly in attempting to depict Franklin Raines as a close adviser to Obama…"

The ad did say that Raines spoke to Obama himself, person to person, which would imply a certain degree of closeness, when in fact it was only one or 2 people involved in O's campaign– not O himself– who called Raines, and he/she/they only called "a couple times" in total. Clearly not **as close** as the ad would have us believe, not by a country mile.

Oh, and that poor older white lady, mugged by the 2 black guys!

"She also conflated “a couple calls” to “seeking his [Obama's] advice”."

Do you mean "inflated"? Cuz that's the wrong usage of "conflate". Who was seeking Obama's advice?! Are you drunk? Don't drink and post!

"You can hardly blame him for trusting the reporting of a professional journalist"

Of course I can. You and all of Rush's Children are always talking about the evils of the MSM. When you bow down to its infallibility like you're doing now, you creep me out. Who are you? Well, maybe just the drink talking, eh?

"how far the Washington Post has sunk as a reliable news source"

That's more like it! Just make up your mind!