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Most media organizations played the dueling speeches on national security by President Obama and Vice President Cheney yesterday as political theater โ€” he said/he said โ€” without bothering to, you know, actually analyze the content of what was said. One organization, however, performed journalism: McClatchy Newspaper writers Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Stobel, deconstructed Cheney’s speech line by line and โ€” surprise โ€” it was a steaming sack of recycled lies.

Read it for yourself.