{"id":4678,"date":"2008-08-17T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/17\/bearing-false-witness\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:44:45","slug":"bearing-false-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4678","title":{"rendered":"Bearing False Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>So, funny story: John McCain goes into Saddleback Church and tells a story about a guard drawing a cross in the sand, back when Jaundiced McNasty was a POW (not that he’s mentioning he’s a POW; we all know how he hates to talk about it<\/a>). Said story turns out to be lifted from Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn<\/a> — hey, if you’re gonna steal, steal from the best. McCain has therefore bourne false witness about Jesus. I’m not a Christian, but I think that’s a sin.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more! McCain also lied about being in the “cone of silence” in Rick Warren’s gigachurch; he was actually on the way to the Church, and could have listened in on the questions asked, but of course, he’d never do that, because he was a POW<\/a>. Which he really hates to talk about.<\/p>\n

Incidentally when Warren asked about how the “cone of silence” was, McCain did not say, “Well, actually I was stuck in traffic.” Instead, he talked about trying to listen through the walls. That would be at least two lies McCain told, in a house of worship.<\/p>\n

Now, if Barack Obama had been caught making up stories about Jesus and lying about being in the green room, I think it would be wall-to-wall coverage about how we can’t trust the nefarious, dusky Obama. I’m sure we will see similar hand-wringing about McCain’s prevarications, if by “will” you mean “won’t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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