Posted on 11/13/2005 1:30:12 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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.
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.
Paul Schurick, Ehrlich's communications director, said last week that he saw people passing out packages of the cookies outside Morgan State University's fine arts center before the debate and that when Steele entered the auditorium about 15 minutes before the start, people let fly with the cookies.
"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."
As for those who question the story, Ehrlich said yesterday: "They're not going to be able now to reinvent something that a lot of people saw. Just go ask people who were there."
........"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I heard Lt. Gov. Steele discuss this incident with Laura Ingram.
He asked her, "What do you do with that (have cookies thrown at you)?"
He told her, he asked them, "Got milk?"
bttt
Very Orwellian.
Anyone here much knows that Dems don't have a problem with denying reality.
What do contemporaneous news reports about this debate have to say? Surely any such outlandish behavior would have been reported in the various media.
Some of it is in the article. I had to edit, to post.
There are reports of it.
And, this written in the Baltimore Sun, not exactly your unbiased news source.
Oops! I should have clicked in the link before commenting. My apologies.
Democrats are such shameless liars. Let me give you their response even if we find a headline story. "It was reported, but it didn't happen."
The guy's got a knack for imagery.
Guys like Mike Steele and Ken Blackwell scare the evil donkey deep down to his rickety bones. They will throw Oreos at Steele and Blackwell in the future. Bank on it.
Mr Kerrey,of course,lost a leg in Vietnam.
So I have no problem believing the "Oreos" story,even without the benefit of videotapes!
LOL.
LOL, if it wasnt for revionsism, the left would have no history!
At one of Hillary's functions some of those in attendance spit on the boy scouts. Whats so hard top believe about throwing Oreo cookies.As for the mop guy who calims he didnt sweep up any Oreos. Those that threw them probably picked them back up and ate them. Most of them live in a dumpster anyway.
One of Hillary's functions? They spit on Boy Scouts who were presenting the colors at the Democratic National Convention in 2000!
Looks like they could get it pretty cheap. Nice catch, Doc.
Wasnt that a Hillary Function? LOL. I knew the sorry bastards had spit on the boy scouts somewhere.
Nothing any lower than that.
http://www.murphyfineartscenter.org/contact.htm
Names and phone numbers of those who may have some insight into the event.
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