Oreo cookie incident a myth.

[nickshepDEM]

Speaking on Stateline with the Governor on WBAL-AM yesterday, Ehrlich said he would not tolerate questions about the veracity of the incident.

"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.

"It was raining Oreos," Schurick said. "They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there. It was very real. It wasn't subtle."

...Several debate attendees, however, could not corroborate Ehrlich and Schurick's version of events.

"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."

ahahahahahahahah.

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

[Debbi801]

1. And today the story changes again...

Steele weighs in on the Oreo incident
Cookies, possibly intended as racial insult, were thrown as he left 2002 debate, he says

Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele offered a revised account yesterday of his experience at a 2002 gubernatorial debate where Oreo cookies were reportedly distributed as a racial insult.

Steele told the Associated Press that cookies were thrown in his general direction as he left the debate at Morgan State University, where he was a member of the audience.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.oreo15nov15,1,4616553.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

[DaveinMD]

2. this is great

this will backfire on them big time.

[Mutley]

3. Were there no cameras there?

Why can't they even figure out if it happened? I don't care for Steele, but if people did throw Oreo cookies at him I think that's pretty f-ed, and wrong. I'm not okay with people doing that from either side.

[Steele]

4. It got some play in Ohio

Here at home, a columnist ran the story with a "Party trumps race" quote from Lisa Gladden.

Read it hear: http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/11/20/20051120-B1-00.html