In response to my "Saddleback Reconsidered" post, mkd writes:
To say nothing of one of the most hilarious mini-scandals in recent memory: whether John McCain was, or was not, in the “Cone of Silence.”It was like watching some Monty Python sketch come to life.I just kept picturing John Cleese in some sci-fi unisex jumpsuit addressing the Galactic Senate: “I have it on good authority the right honorable gentleman from Arizona was not in the Cone of Silence despite his claims that he was in fact in the Cone of Silence. Surly this disbars him from consideration for the post of Interstellar Exchequer!” And then I pictured Eric Idol jumping to his feet and shouting “Outrageous! We must expunge these vile smears from the record! Only a Golthar from Darvish-8 would doubt the Cone of Silence wearingness of a fellow colleague. What's next? Accusations that he did not sniff the Orb of Destiny? That he did not sleep three nights with the Horn of Truth? Really sir…you are far out of bounds.” Then Graham Chapman running through in drag singing Mary Had a Little Lamb at the top of his lungs as they segue to a sketch about a used car salesman.Who won Saddleback? Connoisseurs of absurdist humor, that's who.
