{"id":1372,"date":"2004-10-07T10:09:54","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T17:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/little-lies-so-many-lies\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T17:09:54","slug":"little-lies-so-many-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/little-lies-so-many-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Lies, so many lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

NewMexiKen: Oops oops!<\/a><\/p>\n

[F]rom Marshall —<\/p>\n

In a rather churlish moment, Cheney told Edwards that the two of them had never met before tonight’s debate, despite the fact the Edwards is a serving senator and Cheney’s the body’s presiding officer.<\/p>\n

But as Atrios and no doubt many others have now pointed out, one can easily find a citation on the web of a prayer breakfast the two men attended together in February 2001. And the Dems are already circulating a picture from the event showing the two standing right next to each other.<\/p>\n

Update: According to Dan Froomkin, AP has identified three meetings:<\/p>\n

• “On Feb. 1, 2001, the vice president thanked Edwards by name at a Senate prayer breakfast and sat beside him during the event. …<\/p>\n

NewMexiKen: Does he think people won’t check?<\/a><\/p>\n

“Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session.” — Vice President Cheney during debate last night.<\/p>\n

Actual fact: In nearly four years Cheney has presided on just two Tuesdays (out of 127).<\/b><\/p>\n

Furthermore, Edwards has presided twice during that time also.<\/p>\n

Info via Kos.<\/p>\n

[links are to NewMexiKen<\/a>, who pulls several cites together (thanks!)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NewMexiKen: Oops oops! [F]rom Marshall — In a rather churlish moment, Cheney told Edwards that the two of them had never met before tonight’s debate, despite the fact the Edwards is a serving senator and Cheney’s the body’s presiding officer. But as Atrios and no doubt many others have now pointed out, one can easily … Continue reading Little Lies, so many lies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}