Didn't they have 'cone of silence' in Get Smart?

Trusting the staff of McCain that he didn't get any answers. Yeah, right.

That would be interesting if Obama hadn't been given foreknowledge of certain questions as well. On top of both candidates being given the themes of the questions to be covered in advance, they were both given the first 2 questions in their entirety. There was short period where McCain was on route to the forum while Obama was being asked the opening questions. When McCain arrived, Obama still had another 30 minutes remaining. McCain did spend that time in a room separate from the main church building with no TVs or audio going over the initial questions and the themes they had been given. During his own session, Obama also referenced foreknowledge of certain questions by joking that he had cheated by doing some research first.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Didn't they have 'cone of silence' in Get Smart?


Yes, and if I recall, it didn't work too well for him either!

>> ^Lurch:
That would be interesting if Obama hadn't been given foreknowledge of certain questions as well. On top of both candidates being given the themes of the questions to be covered in advance, they were both given the first 2 questions in their entirety. There was short period where McCain was on route to the forum while Obama was being asked the opening questions. When McCain arrived, Obama still had another 30 minutes remaining. McCain did spend that time in a room separate from the main church building with no TVs or audio going over the initial questions and the themes they had been given. During his own session, Obama also referenced foreknowledge of certain questions by joking that he had cheated by doing some research first.


I agree, I don't think it provided much, if any, advantage to McCain. Mostly he would've gotten to hear some of Obama's answers in advance, but he wasn't going to answer like Obama was in the first place.

I think this more reflects poorly on Rick Warren for leading people to believe he'd taken extra precautions to ensure they were answering questions on the most level playing field they could, when he apparently had taken no precautions at all.

I'm just glad Obama won the coin toss, or every political show on radio and TV would be howling in anger about how Obama violated our public trust by cheating, ad nauseum.

I think the way McCain's launched into attack mode on NBC for breaking this "story" is pretty slimy, but that's a conversation for another video.

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This just in. Photographic proof McCain was in the cone of silence:
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/campaign-manager-releases-photo-to-prove-mccain-was-in-a-cone-of-silence/

>> ^dag:
This just in. Photographic proof McCain was in the cone of silence:
http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/campaign-manager-releases-photo-to-prove-mccain-was-in-a-cone-of-silence/


For an old guy, he sure has some smooth girly hands.