Cone of Silence

NBC's Andrea Mitchell reported on Sunday's Meet the Press

The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because that — what they're putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama.... He seemed so well-prepared.

This morning NYT times strongly backed up the story by Andrea. There has been a cold war going between Sen. McCain and NYT times

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... The matter is of interest because Mr. McCain, who followed Mr. Obama's hourlong appearance in the forum, was asked virtually the same questions as Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain's performance was well received, raising speculation among some viewers, especially supporters of Mr. Obama, that he was not as isolated during the Obama interview as Mr. Warren implied.

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... Interviewed Sunday on CNN, Mr. Warren seemed surprised to learn that Mr. McCain was not in the building during the Obama interview.

But what surprised me was Pastor Wareen interviewed to CNN on Sunday. Warren seemed surprised to learn that Mr. McCain was not in the building during the Obama interview.

And here Sen. McCain's camp Rick Davis had to say:

"The fact is that during Senator Obama's segment at Saddleback last night, Senator McCain was in a motorcade to the event and then held in a green room with no broadcast feed."

Now the question is who do we trust. Pastor Warren assured everybody that he is in the cone of silence, but during that hour Sen McCain was not in the building, so what exactly "CONE OF SILENCE" means? Do we trust McCain camp when they said he was in motorcade but did not have access to the feed? How about ppl around him, and their cell phone and txt messages?

So, Did Pastor Warren tell us a lie or was he also kept in dark as we were? Guess we will have to wait and see how this develops.