
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.

