Debate Referee

The WaPo has an exellent fact-check peice on Friday's debate here: Debate Referee

Essentially, it is the transcript of the debate into which they have interposed glyphs of a referee calling foul whenever the candidates strayed from the facts in their statements.

By my count, the Prevaricator-in-chief won hands-down again with a lop-sided score of 14-3. That puts the home team (aka the Serial Prevaricators) ahead for the week with a combined total of 24-10 which just happens to be the same score by which the Patriots trounced the hapless Miami Dolphins this weekend to break the NFL record for most consecutive wins.

The good news is that the press is not giving the Preznit a pass on his excessive mendacity, and this is playing into the Kerry campaign theme that the President is "not being straight" with, or is "hiding the truth" from, the American public.

Given that the BC04 campaign has basically decared that they are going to ratchet up the level of their Kerry bashing using the Wilkes Barre, PA stump speech as a base, they are only making the Kerry case stronger.

Karl Rove can thank Dick Vader for raising the public awareness of factcheck.org which while not quite as good as the WaPo fact-check coverage (IMO) still makes it quite clear that the President (whether it be the figurehead, G.W. Bush, or the man behind te curtain, Dick Cheney) is a big fat liar.

Whether or not people think that Dubya might be stronger on terrorism, they really don't like being lied to on a regular basis. Nov 2nd will telljust how much.