*UPDATE:* Another funny note, if you go to the URL provided by Cheney in the debate last night, "factcheck.com":http://factcheck.com, it forwards to "George Soros' anti-Bush site":http://www.georgesoros.com/. The Soros site claims not to be behind the re-direct, so some domain-squatter has a sense of humor. As usual, "kos":http://dailykos.com, "atrios":http://atrios.blogspot.com/ and the other Liberal webloggers are fact-checking where the major media outlets will not. Here are some of Cheney's assertions in the debate, and why they're lies: * CHENEY: _"Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you Senator Gone."_ -- "LIE":http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/10/cheney-liiiiiaaaaarrrr.html * CHENEY: _"You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate... I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session... The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight."_ -- "LIE":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/6/02029/3041 and "LIE":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/6/104324/489 * CHENEY: _"Well, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smokescreen. They know the charges are false. They know that if you go, for example, to factcheck[.org], an independent Web site sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details with respect to Halliburton."_ -- "LIE":http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=272 Also, the DNC posted a 1-minute video, "Cheney vs. Reality":http://mfile.akamai.com/8082/rm/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/video/cheney_lies/cheney_lies.ram. Good to see the good guys punching back. Kos also has a good round-up of "reactions":http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/6/112947/050 from the Liberal newspapers, and Salon "calls out":http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/06/veepmedia/ the "Hardball":http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ crew on MSNBC. Lazy, lazy media... they complain that "webloggers aren't always prudently journalistic":http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-07-26-convention-bloggers_x.htm, but it's clear that they are better than reporters at digging up the facts.