FactCheck.org: Cheney & Edwards Mangle Facts

Surely glowing from last night's endorsement from Dick Cheney in last night's debate, FactCheck. org fact-checks the candidates' statements in that debate.

BTW, the amusing thing, to me, is that FactCheck has fact-checked the Bushies A LOT. New visitors to the web site will see corrections of a BUNCH of misleading statements and mischaracterizations from Bush-Cheney ads and speeches. So Cheney hipping millions of viewers to their web site is awesome. And an awesome miscalculation for Cheney.

From FactCheck.org:

"Cheney wrongly implied that FactCheck had defended his tenure as CEO of Halliburton Co., and the vice president even got our name wrong. He overstated matters when he said Edwards voted "for the war" and "to commit the troops, to send them to war." He exaggerated the number of times Kerry has voted to raise taxes, and puffed up the number of small business owners who would see a tax increase under Kerry's proposals.

Edwards falsely claimed the administration "lobbied the Congress" to cut the combat pay of troops in Iraq, something the White House never supported, and he used misleading numbers about jobs."

Read the full FactCheck.org report