Summary: Was McCain listening in to Obama’s comments during the Saddleback Forum. McCain managers say he was in a “Cone of Silence” while Obama was talking. The NY Times and BNC disagree and say he was not. Perhaps the Cone was the same used by Maxwell Smart in “Get Smart”. The Cone of Silence didn’t work that well either. Eliot Cobb

Story: Last night, John McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis sent a strongly-worded letter to NBC News president Steve Capus, complaining about “unsubstantiated, partisan claims” on the network made “in order to undercut John McCain.”

The claim in question was made by Andrea Mitchell on yesterday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press,” while discussing McCain and Obama’s respective performances during the Saddlebeck Forum on Faith led by Pastor Rick Warren.