Did McCain Cheat At Saddleback?

On Meet the Press yesterday, NBC's Andrea Mitchell stated, "The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because what they are 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."

McCain, who was supposed to be in a "cone of silence," while Obama was being questioned by Rev. Rick Warren, was not where Warren thought he was and "wasn't in a cone of silence," according to the NY" target="_blank">click here Times, which reported,

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.”

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

This was even confirmed by the McCain campaign, which sent a letter complaining about Mitchell's accusation to NBC, stating, "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."

The word is, limos have radios.