Cheney's "Senator gone" comment.

[gcomeau]

Apparent source of the claim can be found here at the National Republican Senatorial Committee:

http://www.nrsc.org/nrscweb/newsdesk/articles/382.shtml

They say it's from "(Editorial, “Edwards Should Do His Day Job,” Southern Pines Pilot, June 25, 2003)"

Guess what the Southern Pines Pilot had to say about it today?

http://www.thepilot.com/opinion/100604PilotEditorial2.html

"It’s not every day that a non-daily paper in a small town gets mentioned in a nationally televised debate in prime time. But it happened to The Pilot Tuesday night.

“His hometown newspaper has taken to calling him ‘Senator Gone,’” Vice President Richard Cheney said of his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Edwards.

Well, not exactly.

The Pilot hasn’t “taken to calling him” anything. In fact, the vice president’s obscure reference sent us scrambling to our library. And sure enough, we did publish an editorial 15 months ago, on June 25, 2003, headlined, “Edwards Should Do His Day Job.” In it, we noted that Sen. Jesse Helms used to be called “Senator No.” And we added: “Four and a half years into his first term, John Edwards is becoming known as Senator Gone.”

The reference was to Edwards’ frequent absences from the Senate floor as he traveled here and there (mostly there) pursuing his presidential ambitions.

But we also wrote: “Members of the senator’s staff point out that Edwards’ attendance record this year has been better than the three other Democratic senators who are campaigning for president — Joe Lieberman, Richard Gephardt and Bob Graham. And the aides also say none of the votes Edwards missed was close, so his presence on the floor would not have changed the outcome.”

Thanks for the plug, Mr. Vice President. We’re proud to count you among our many readers.

-Grant

[Ranec]

1. We need to keep checking everything he says.

The only way Chinny stays in the debate is that he lies, lies, lies.

Soon, the nightly news will be discussing the B/C "reality" problem.

(I can dream)

[underpants]

2. Good lord did he tell the truth about anything?

Man the Repubs must have a full time staff just to find tiny little factoids and statements and turn them into major themes....I was wondering what the OSP had been doing.

[2Design]

4. cheney, bush and rw are the ugly side of humanity - the dark side

[CrowNotAngelGRL]

5. I want to share

this with people but the link wouldn't work for me. :\

[underpants]

7. Try this link (main page)

http://www.thepilot.com/

[gcomeau]

9. It should work now.

I posted it first in another post... and for some reason the board software truncates links so if you try to copy and paste them after that they don't work.

-Grant

[andino]

3. Dead link

[gcomeau]

6. Crap... fixed now

Thanks.

[Lex]

8. Here's the link.

http://www.thepilot.com/opinion/100604PilotEditorial2.html

[girl gone mad]

10. oops, he did it again.. n/t

[Supersedeas]

11. Well, not exactly--about sums up a factcheck of Cheney allegations

[spooky3]

12. The funniest part is that last line. You just know some poor schmoe

was up at 1 AM some night searching for "facts" to smear Edwards with and was happily patted on the head when he gave this to his/her master. But Cheney was too stupid to realize that tossing in something like this only works when it looks as though YOU YOURSELF have run across it in your reading--and everyone knows that he doesn't read Edwards' "hometown" paper--and when it's true.

[gcomeau]

13. kick...

spread it around. One more lie to add to the ever growing list.