This Monday, NPR's Morning Edition ran an interview with Bush/Cheney campaign chairman Mark Racicot, in which Racicot claimed that Bush had volunteered to serve in Vietnam. That claim was contradicted by Bush's own enlistment form when he joined the Guard, and by statements Bush himself had made a week previously on Meet the Press.
As you might expect, this blatant lie was quickly pounced upon by many of us in the blogosphere, including me. Many of us (again, myself included) contacted NPR and asked how Juan Williams could possibly have let Racicot get away with such an outright lie without even a feeble "Excuse me...".
I didn't happen to hear it this morning while I was getting ready for work, but Josh Marshall notes that NPR ran "a follow-up fact-check" on Monday's interview in which they correctly pointed out that nothing in Bush's record indicated he had ever volunteered to serve in Vietnam.
Who says the 'sphere can't make a difference?
(This is a cross-post from my own blog, but I thought it was worth reinforcing that we can make a difference.)