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24 hours after the debate and it's time to react. To borrow a phrase from the man of the hour....

"Well, it's hard to know where to start; there are so many inaccuracies there."

Since last night, I've started and stopped posting 5 separate times. I want to post, but well.. Cheney told so many blad faced lies it's hard to know just where to begin.

Thankfully however, I've now waited long enough that I don't have to. Seems Kevin Drumover at Political Animal has put together an excellent fact checking summary on Cheney's night. And for those of you who don't already know, it's NOT pretty. I understand the lies about Iraq, terror and al Qaeda. With Cheney, that was to be expected. But lying about this being the first time he's met Edwards? Lying about what John's hometown newspaper has to say about him? Does he have a pathological need to lie? And with the old+new media's new focus on fact checking, did he really think he'd get away with it?

Ah... But if those lies aren't enough for you, of course there are more.

One Kevin doesn't mention is his claims that "most Tuesdays" he could be found down at the Senate acting as "Presiding Officer". If once or twice a year qualifies as most weeks it's a new one on me.

Seriously. I think the man needs professional help. And what the hell did we do before blogs?

Silver lining? Not only did Cheney lie about what factcheck.org has to say about his Halliburton record, he misquoted the site URL and sent literally hundreds of thousands of people to factcheck.com. And if you haven't heard this story, it's priceless. This one comes from Kevin Drum via the WSJ. For all my SF geeks back West...

FactCheck.com is owned by Name Administration Inc., a Cayman Islands company that engages in so-called "domain parking" -- it acquires discarded Web sites and monetizes the traffic with text advertising. The site had been showing education-related ads, mostly for online-degree programs, when Mr. Cheney mentioned the site during the debate. Suddenly, Name Administration saw a surge in traffic -- about 50,000 unique visitors in the first hour -- which costs the company money for Internet bandwidth, according to John Berryhill, Name Administration's attorney. ....So employees redirected traffic to the Soros site, not because of any request nor payment from Mr. Soros's organization or supporters, but based on their own political viewpoints, Mr. Berryhill said. "Individuals within the company are favorably disposed to George Soros's political point of view," said Mr. Berryhill. Name Administration said in a statement, "The staff at Name Administration have been through some difficult times lately, due to the impact of hurricane Ivan on Grand Cayman, and they were delighted to have been given this opportunity by Vice President Cheney." Mr. Berryhill said no one was available at the company to comment.

I wonder if THAT swung any voters... :)

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