{"id":13906,"date":"2004-10-07T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/cheneys-factcheck-faux-pas\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T11:05:00","slug":"cheneys-factcheck-faux-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/cheneys-factcheck-faux-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney&#8217;s FactCheck Faux Pas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one point during Tuesday night&rsquo;s vice presidential debates, Cheney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article.aspx?docID=272\" target=\"_blank\">referred viewers to FactCheck.com as a rebuttal to one of John Edwards&rsquo; statements<\/a>.  For those of you who missed my first post about this site or aren&rsquo;t familiar with FactCheck, it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a nonpartisan, nonprofit, &ldquo;consumer advocate&rdquo; for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics&hellip; [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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I highly recommend visiting the site to see how both campaigns distort and manipulate the facts to their own advantage.<!-- http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/cheney-lied.html --><\/p>\n<p>However, the actual URL of FactCheck is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FactCheck.org<\/a>.  Viewers that went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FactCheck.com<\/a> as Cheney instructed were instead forwarded to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgesoros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Soros&rsquo; site<\/a>, which was definitely not what Cheney intended.  George Soros is one of W&rsquo;s most vocal opponents and has vowed to use his vast resources to ensure that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgesoros.com\/index.cfm?Fuseaction=SpeechHTML\" target=\"_blank\">not elected<\/a>.  Oops. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109714731857750898?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one point during Tuesday night&rsquo;s vice presidential debates, Cheney referred viewers to FactCheck.com as a rebuttal to one of John Edwards&rsquo; statements. For those of you who missed my first post about this site or aren&rsquo;t familiar with FactCheck, it is: a nonpartisan, nonprofit, &ldquo;consumer advocate&rdquo; for voters that aims to reduce the level &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/cheneys-factcheck-faux-pas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cheney&#8217;s FactCheck Faux Pas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}