crooksandliars.com - 8/19/2008
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Why did Rick Warren lie to his audience and say McCain was in a cone of silence when he knew he clearly wasn’t even at the event? I didn’t know he was a stand up comedian. Did anybody understand the Maxwell Smart reference? This was a very visible and highly important forum during this presidential campaign and for him to now say the cone reference was a joke just doesn’t ...
Pastor Warren Contradicts Self on 'Cone of Silence'
fivethirtyeight.com 8/18/2008 — In yesterday's Saddleback Forum , pastor Rick Warren on two occasions referred to John McCain's "cone of silence", implying strongly that he had not been able to hear the questions posed to Barack Obama ahead of time. This was Pastor Warren during ...
McCain’s ‘cone of silence’
thecarpetbaggerreport.com 8/18/2008 — Before the candidate forum at the Saddleback Church got underway on Saturday night, the Rev. Rick Warren explained that both candidates would get the exact same questions. Barack Obama would go first, and John McCain had been “safely placed ...
Cone of Silence
thismodernworld.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 ...
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 ...
"Despite Assurances, McCain Wasn’t in a 'Cone of Silence.'"
althouse.blogspot.com 8/18/2008 — Says the NYT. McCain wasn't enclosed in a soundproof room when Rick Warren began asking Obama the questions he would later ask McCain. He was on his way to the forum. So what does this mean? If McCain was not held in an isolation chamber at ...
McCain, Obama, and the "Cone of Silence"
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 ...
McCain Violated the Rules: That's Cheating
anonymousliberal.com 8/18/2008 — The McCain camp (along with every conservative blogger/commentator) is absolutely indignant at the suggestion that McCain may have cheated at the Saddleback forum on Saturday. As the New York Times reports, McCain was not in the "cone of silence" that ...
Saddleback
time-blog.com 8/18/2008 — Lots of discussion today about whether or not John McCain cheated on Saturday night. Did he have access to the questions he'd be asked by Pastor Rick? It turns out that McCain wasn't quite in the "cone of silence" but riding in a car, while Barack ...
McCain: I Don't Cheat!
blogs.tnr.com 8/18/2008 — The McCain camp is outraged at the suggestion that they may have cheated by not sequestering the candidate in Rick Warren's "cone of silence" during Obama's Saddleback appearance on Saturday night. Their over-the-top reaction is a little ...
Eric Schmeltzer: Senator John Complain
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 ...
Pressed by CNN, Warren Says Obama Had a Competitive Edge
newsbusters.org 8/18/2008 — On Sunday night’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, pressed megachurch leader Rick Warren about Obama campaign charges that John McCain was cheating by not being in a "cone of silence" during Obama’s interview. " Last night, I ...
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 ...
Bill Kristol Quietly Revises Column On 'Cone Of Silence'
huffingtonpost.com 8/19/2008 — 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 ...
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