huffingtonpost.com - 8/19/2008
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The New York Times ' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell , who reported on Sunday the contention that John McCain may not have been in the "cone of silence" before Saturday's Saddleback Chuch forum. But even as Seelye advances the story for the Times news pages, over in the opinion section, backtracking has begun.
We speak, naturally, of Bill Kristol, who has "tweaked' the ...
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Kristol Revises his “Saddleback Showdown”
The Moderate Voice —
... said that there seemed to be no basis for charges that John McCain was not in a “cone of silence” during Barack Obama’s interview with the Rev. Rick Warren, and could therefore have heard questions posed first to Senator Obama. Senator McCain was in a motorcade for part of Senator Obama’s interview. A statement from his campaign said that he “never heard or saw any of Senator Obama’s appearance.”
Why all these changes? Linkins sums it up best in his “Bill Kristol Quietly Revises Column On ‘Cone Of Silence“:
“In other words, ...
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Cone of Silence
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More on the Cone of Not-So-Silence
blogs.abcnews.com 8/18/2008 — Regarding the revelation that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was not in a "cone of silence" after all while Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, answered questions from Pastor Rick Warren, a couple points…. 1) The McCain campaign's vitriol against NBC's Andrea ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 8/18/2008 — I've been looking into all this buzz that McCain somehow cheated -- that he wasn't in a 'cone of silence' -- during Barack Obama's half of the Saddleback summit Saturday night. The talk got started on 'Meet the Press' yesterday, when Andrea Mitchell ...
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firedoglake.com 8/18/2008 —
John McCain hath decided he would rather spend the media cycle talking about the Cone of Silence , and thus Andrea Mitchell getteth hauled before the brass by Rick Davis today.
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huffingtonpost.com 8/18/2008 — Wow.
So, Senator McCain goes on national television and lies to a pastor , pretending that he was in a "cone of silence" holding room during the Saddleback Forum where he couldn't hear the questions that he would be asked that were also being ...
Did Mitchell Get 'McCain Cheated' at Saddleback from Daily Kos?
newsbusters.org 8/18/2008 — As my colleague D.S. Hube reported , Andrea Mitchell on Sunday's "Meet the Press" suggested the Obama campaign felt John McCain " may not have been in the cone of silence " during Saturday's Saddleback Civil Forum, "and may ...
Tom Tomorrow: The Revisionist
huffingtonpost.com 8/18/2008 — Bill Kristol, in the print edition of this morning's New York Times :
NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on "Meet the Press" that "the Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context. ... What ...
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