No. I posted the two parts of his message that I chose to respond to, with brackets to indicate where I had left out or summarized/paraphrased extraneous information. To my knowledge this is in conformance with standard journalist usage and style (see, eg, Strunk and White) when one is only referencing part of a statement.

There is no disputing that MEM said "Not sure how Novak was smeared." There is similarly no dispute he went on, after criticizing Novak, to conclude "He deserves smearing." Unless MEM himself misstated his initial point, no one here has misapplied what he wrote.

Similarly, no one has made MEM look contradictory. There is nothing at all contradictory about expressing doubt that something occurred, but opining that it would be deserved if it had happened. In fact, its the very opposite of contradictory ("[A] hasn't happened, but I wish it had").

This is not the first time you have failed to understand something as simple as this. This leads me to ask, with all seriousness, is perhaps English NOT your first language? I'm not being disrespectful here, but simply asking because it seems as if you have a tendency to not comprehend certain rules of style or usage that are pretty common in the written word.