The Cheney-Edwards meeting story has gotten some pretty good play today. The AP picked it up complete with a new screen grab of the prayer breakfast with Edwards, Bush and Cheney yucking it up. The Vice President thought he had a memorable line he could win the debate on, and it's now blowing up in his face.

The AP summarizes what we know so far:

On Feb. 1, 2001, the vice president thanked Edwards by name at a Senate prayer breakfast and sat beside him during the event.

On April 8, 2001, Cheney and Edwards shook hands when they met off-camera during a taping of NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator Tim Russert said Wednesday on "Today."

On Jan. 8, 2003, the two met when the first-term North Carolina senator accompanied Elizabeth Dole to her swearing-in by Cheney as a North Carolina senator, Edwards aides also said.

The exposure of Cheney's lie, as Newsweek reporter Rebecca Sinderbrand points out, is another story that gained traction thanks to the efforts of bloggers who investigated it and quickly found it to be bogus.