Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald will be live at 9:00 eastern time this evening to begin fact checking the vice presidential debate. Come back then to get the truth behind the distortions, exaggerations and outright lies we’ll no doubt hear tonight. Research help from our intern Zachary Bell.

10: 15 — Taxpayer funding for abortion: Ryan says Democrats support taxpayer funding for abortion, pointing to Obamacare. That’s completely false. The bill never contained taxpayer funding for abortion, but it was nonetheless held up for months to appease por-life Democrat Bart Stupak and the bloc that he lead.

10: 10 — Troops in Libya: Ryan said “nobody is considering sending troops to Syria.” In August, Governor Romney told CBS News, that he would send US troops to Syria if necessary to prevent the spread of chemical weapons. In his interview with CBS, Romney said, “I think we have to also be ready to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that we do not have any kind of weapon of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists and whether that requires troops, or whether that requires other actions by our friends and allies.”

10:00 — Small Navy? Paul Ryan says Obama would reduce the Navy to its smallest size since World War I. Politifact gave that claim a Pants on Fire and called it ridiculous.

9:55 — Sequester two-step: Ryan attacks Biden for automatic defense cuts that will go through if Congress does not act. Those cuts come from the “sequester,” the automatic trigger mechanism created by the congressional deal to raise the debt ceiling. You know who voted for that plan? Paul Ryan.