As The Nose Grows

So John McCain wasn't in a cone of silence during the Saddleback Church forum. He showed up at the site in the middle of Barack Obama's session. And McCain referred to the cone of silence in the beginning of the question period.

And you'll love his campaign's response to this:

Nicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said on Sunday night that Mr. McCain had not heard the broadcast of the event while in his motorcade and heard none of the questions.

“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.

The great Dana Gould has a joke asking if you've ever gone up to someone casually and gotten WAY too much information in return. "Hey, do you know what time it is?" "I'm not GAY!"

That's what this reminded me of.

This did make the New York Times, so maybe we'll start to even up the ticky-tack nonsense here. And the "noun-verb-POW" track record is growing.