subgenius wrote: [Barr's] AP statement literally says there was fraud found;
Immediately preceding your post I supplied the entire text of the AP article.
In that article, Barr nowhere states literally "there was fraud found". If I am wrong, please quote from the article to prove me wrong
He said there had been claims of fraud. That's not the same thing. Thus, I might claim that subgenius has a scant regard for truth and rational argument. But someone who correctly said "Chap has claimed that subgenius has a scant regard for truth and rational argument" would merely be reporting on what I had said. He would not 'literally' be saying that subgenius had a scant regard for truth and rational argument.