AS I'VE POINTED OUT before, there really needs to be a word for lying by pretending someone said something they didn't say because it's one of the most common tactics of liars.  I mean other than lying about what someone said.  Maybe something like disimlesating. 

I never realized how common it was till I went online.  I think the dissimelsators believe they're being clever.   Of course, it could just be reading deficiency among the TV formed and so deformed minds of my generation and later.  They really hate it when you diss movie stars, which is why I seldom lose an opportunity to do it.