Steele pelted with oreos story a fraud?

[KingFlorez]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.oreos13nov13,1,233719.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics
Account of Steele pelted by cookies in '02 under scrutiny
By Andrew A. Green
Sun reporter
Originally published November 13, 2005
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.

Versions of the story have been repeated over the years by Ehrlich, Steele and their supporters in describing what they call a pattern of racial slights against the black Republican, and accounts of the event have spread widely.


"This revisionism is real dangerous. And to the extent anyone is out there now saying, 'Well, no, those Oreo cookies really weren't thrown at Mike Steele, that's now an urban legend, whatever, made up by the Republicans,' I mean these people have got to get real," Ehrlich said.

[AX10]

1. Elrich and the GOP made this up.

We heard nothing about this during the 2002 campaign. If this actually occured (which it did not), this would have been a BIG story at the time.

[rocktivity]

2. As I understand it, a single individual waved a box of Oreo cookies

and was escorted from the venue.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Olney Blue]

3. Yes, I was surprised to hear this story on MTP this morning.

I live in Maryland, and I had not heard about this.

[MADem]

4. OH FOR CHRIST's SWEET SAKE!!!!!

Racial slights????

Morgan State is an historically black university. Aside from that, the rest of the article indicates that while the audience was raucous, there was not a rain of Oreos directed at the candidate. There may have been some in the audience, and some kids tossing them back and forth, but he wants it to sound like he was ATTACKED with cookies!! By a bunch of shadowy RACISTS!!!!!!!!!

With FOUR camera crews there from the three major networks and public television, you'd think at least ONE of the Jimmy Olson's covering the event might have thought to comment on it....

Man, it is stupid to exaggerate when there are so many witnesses. But that's what some folk do when they are on the ropes. Out of ideas? Bullshit 'em!!!

"It didn't happen here," said Vander Harris, operations manager of the Murphy Fine Arts Building at Morgan State. "I was in on the cleanup, and we found no cookies or anything else abnormal. There were no Oreo cookies thrown."

The incident is said to have occurred when Steele walked to his seat before the debate started, not during the event on stage when it would have been captured on video. Newspaper articles and television news reports from that night didn't mention it, and representatives of the news departments at television stations WBAL, WJZ and WMAR and Maryland Public Television said they have no video of the incident.

...After the election, Steele told a writer for the Capital News Service that an Oreo rolled to his feet during the debate.

[KingFlorez]

5. They're getting so desperate, it's funny

Deeper and Deeper they're digging themselves and more lies won't help. They call us race baiters? This sure sounds like them doing the baiting now.

[nickshepDEM]

6. Yes, even Steele admits there was a 'single' oreo cookie

rolling down the aisle. No one pelted this man with oreos. He's hiding behind these so called 'attacks' because he knows he cant win on the issues.