http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/us...a1&oref=slogin
ORLANDO, Fla. - Senator John McCain was not in a "cone of silence" on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at the Saddleback Church in California.
Members of the McCain campaign staff, who flew here Sunday from California, said Mr. McCain was in his motorcade on the way to the church as Mr. Obama was being interviewed by the Rev. Rick Warren, the author of the best-selling book "The Purpose Driven Life."
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Mr. Warren, the pastor of Saddleback, had assured the audience while he was interviewing Mr. Obama that "we have safely placed Senator McCain in a cone of silence" and that he could not hear the questions.
After Mr. Obama's interview, he was joined briefly by Mr. McCain, and the candidates shook hands and embraced.
Mr. Warren started by asking Mr. McCain, "Now, my first question: Was the cone of silence comfortable that you were in just now?"
Mr. McCain deadpanned, "I was trying to hear through the wall."
Interviewed Sunday on CNN, Mr. Warren seemed surprised to learn that Mr. McCain was not in the building during the Obama interview.
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So, McCain hasn't even got the guts to admit he was NOT in any cone of silence; and fibs to give the impression he was.
If he honestly didn't hear it, he could have simply said 'actually I was late, and come in the car. We turned off the radio to avoid hearing the broadcast. None of my team briefed me on it.
Instead, his spokesperson expresses outrage at the mere suggestion. Tell me Nicolle, did YOU hear the broadcast? Did you or anyone else say ANYTHING to McCain about it?
My view of McCain isn't high. But it has certainly gone down another step.
I give Warren alot of credit for the work he's done around social justice; but not knowing that McCain had not arrived prior to going on live television, and then pretending he was in the 'cone of silence', is pretty hard to swallow.
I guess lying to a group of Evangelical Christians is no big deal. 
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