Over at National Review's Media blog they've identified three flat out lies from Monday night's "Hardball" broadcast.

Here are the facts David Shuster got wrong, either wholly or in large part:

1) While the "vigorously trying to procure uranium" is not a key judgment, a similar key judgment says: "Although we assess that Saddam does not yet have nuclear weapons or sufficient material to make any, he remains intent on acquiring them."

2) The "vigorously trying to procure uranium" phrase is in the NIE (page 24): "Iraq also began vigorously trying to procure uranium ore and yellowcake; acquiring either would shorten the time Baghdad needs to produce nuclear weapons." Shuster said that the phrase was "not in the document at all."

3) Bush did not ignore several agencies. He listened to several agencies and only discounted the views of one.

This is not a question of interpretation. These are facts that Shuster got wrong. MSNBC viewers deserve the truth — and a correction.

I'm not going to hold my breath on the correction. Now, the facts may get corrected on MSNBC, but I doubt it will be presented as such. Instead it will be a new report that is accurate without acknowledging that the previous report was inaccurate.

Media. Wound. Self-inflicted.