Searching for Facts in the Vice-Presidential Debate

NPR | By Steve Inskeep

Published October 6, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

At Tuesday's vice presidential debate, both Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards stretched, muddled, and sometimes mangled the truth. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

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