At one point during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debates, Cheney referred viewers to FactCheck.com as a rebuttal to one of John Edwards’ statements. For those of you who missed my first post about this site or aren’t familiar with FactCheck, it is:
a nonpartisan, nonprofit, “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics… [by monitoring] the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
I highly recommend visiting the site to see how both campaigns distort and manipulate the facts to their own advantage.
However, the actual URL of FactCheck is FactCheck.org. Viewers that went to FactCheck.com as Cheney instructed were instead forwarded to George Soros’ site, which was definitely not what Cheney intended. George Soros is one of W’s most vocal opponents and has vowed to use his vast resources to ensure that he is not elected. Oops. 🙂
