A warning to anyone considering hiring Charles Krauthammer to give a speech — you can’t trust him with the facts.

For example, check out his misleading paraphrase of a comment by John Edwards during the last presidential election:

As John Edwards put it most starkly and egregiously in 2004: If John Kerry becomes president, Christopher Reeve will walk again.

But as Krauthammer himself noted at the time, Edwards actually said something else entirely:

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

Notice the difference. Edwards said “people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk”; he did not say “Reeve will walk again,” as Krauthammer suggests. Apparently he decided the quote needed improving the second time around. Will the Post set the record straight?

(PS After catching this, I found a Media Matters article making the same point.)