quoting people and typos

When people are interviewed, some of them punctuate their speech with words and phrases such as "um" and the oh-so-common "you know." And whenever there are written words on the printed page, misspellings are most often be attributed to the writer, the editor, the proofreader, etc.

But I was wondering what happens when those words are set between quotation marks? If there are typos and lots of the ubiquitous "you know"s peppered in the text, who looks foolish then?

Firstly, I think that journalists more often than not remove the "you knows" and such from the quotes of whom they're interviewing, and if typos are left in, I think the natural tendency would be for the reader to think the speaker is somehow misspelling their words, and not anything that the writer has done. Does that make sense? For example, if John Q. Doe was quoted as saying "Beleeve me, those idiuts at sity hall don't no wut the heck there doing over they're, their so dum!" - isn't John Q. Doe the one looking language-challenged instead of whomever typed it?

Oh well, thought for the day.