FactCheck.com (oops!)

For those of you who didn't catch on to the subtle mistake that Darth Cheney made last night when he referred Americans to visit factcheck.com (which the domain name owner quickly redirected to George Soros's (of MoveOn.org fame) blog to add insult to injury;-), rather than use precious debate time to counter Sen. Edwards's stinging points regarding Cheney and Halliburton. Here's what FactCheck.org has to say in response:

Cheney Plugs FactCheck

Cheney got our domain name wrong -- calling us "FactCheck.com" -- and wrongly implied that we had rebutted allegations Edwards was making about what Cheney had done as chief executive officer of Halliburton.

In fact, we did post an article pointing out that Cheney hasn't profited personally while in office from Halliburton's Iraq contracts, as falsely implied by a Kerry TV ad. But Edwards was talking about Cheney's responsibility for earlier Halliburton troubles. And in fact, Edwards was mostly right.

(emphasis mine)

Doh! I'll bet the BC04 campaign staff is feeling pretty down in the dumps this morning after they were all a-twitter last night claiming that their guy trounced Edwards (NOT!). In fact, I think that this faux pas could be counted as a twofer for KE04 given that some people probably did, or will, visit factcheck.com.

This post-season series is not over yet, but the BC04 campaign is most definitely 0-2 going into the third debate on Friday night. The Dems are energized, the undecideds are breaking for Kerry, and the right-wingnuts and Swifties are left wondering WTF happened to our 11 point lead!