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Rev. Rick Warren strongly denied rumors GOP presidential candidate John McCain had “cheated” at a political forum he hosted at his church Saturday evening. “That's absolutely a lie, absolutely a lie,” Warren said in an interview with BeliefNet. “That room was totally free, with no monitors--a flat out lie.” itchell said on Meet the Press Sunday, “The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context, because that -- what they're putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in the cone of silence and may have...

"WAAAAAH! YOU CHEATED!!!" If I heard that line once, I heard it several dozen times when I was a kid. It happened whenever my childhood friend, Monkey Moses aka The Monk who was in constant need of Anger Management therapy, would be losing a Monopoly game. Rather than accept defeat gracefully he would angrily accuse whoever was winning of cheating and then overturn the entire Monopoly board. That angry childishness is also on full display at DUmmieland as you can see in this THREAD titled, "C-Span caller finds evidence McCain listened to Obama's responses." Of course, Rick Warren himself...

So just how bad was Barack Obama's performance at the Saddleback Church faith-based forum last night? To read the cautious mainstream media reports, such as CNN, on the event you would think that Obama was merely "thoughtful" as reported by Michael M. Bates here on NewsBusters today. However, in a few media outlets a much blunter appraisal of Obama's performance can be found such as in the U.K. Telegraph. The very title of their article, "Barack Obama fails to shine alongside John McCain," gives a good idea of writer Alex Spillius opinion of the event (emphasis mine):