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Fake "Cone of silence" controvery grows - McCain refusing to directly answer the questaion. More from ABC
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Jake Tapper at ABC, along with Ben Smith at Politico, has been some of the few journalists willing to ask obvious questions that the corporate media so often don't ask. Tapper is on the trail of the phony "cone of silence" from yesterday's religious forum, and the McCain campaign is looking increasingly shifty. Here's what Jake has to report: ...

Don't Look Now But Your Insanity Is Showing
Ace of Spades HQ — ... is about an issue of even moderate importance. Who really cares what McCain's captors did? No one at all. In other words, it doesn't matter what McCain's story might have been. The Left would have found some way to call him a liar. Second, the cone of silence SCANDAL. That is all caps because judging by the amount of attention this story has been given in the legacy media (in addition to Lefty blogs), this is a Really. Big. DEAL. ABC's Jake Tapper, for example, has stumbled onto a particularly unpersuasive line of attack . Y'see, even though the McCain campaign has said that ...

McCain cheated on 'cone of silence'
Newshoggers.com — ... The denials have been somewhat nuanced. McCain's team hasn't flatly denied that no one in contact with McCain accessed the program while he was in enroute, although another McCain spokesman said they have no to reason to lie. But as Jake Tapper points out, obviously they every reason to do so. And as I added in a ...

Some Thoughts on the “Holier than Thou” Forum at Saddleback & A Suggestion for Future Forums
The Moderate Voice — ... ” or whether it was all fair and balanced or only as fair and balanced as Fox News. I think the whole discussion—given that it was presented by a religious moderator ...

Cone-of-Silence-Gate
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] I’m somewhat surprised the “McCain cheated at Saddleback” story is gaining traction but it seems to be with the mainstream media. ABC News’ Political Punch blog is now calling it Cone-of-Silence-Gate, although that may be tongue-in-cheek, and has already run two stories on the topic (here and here). Ironically, it now turns out that both candidates were told the general topics of Warren’s questions in advance and were given the following 2 questions in advance: What is ...

The Saddleback Forum *Unofficial* Transcript
Patterico's Pontifications — ... According to ABC News, Rick Warren’s spokesman, the McCain campaign, and other sources indicate John McCain arrived at the Forum at 5:20-5:30 PM PST. Rick Warren would have been about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through his Q&A session with Barack Obama. Here’s a ...