Posted on 11/23/2005 5:20:31 PM PST by Angry Republican
Media reports of Oreo cookies employed as a racist taunt during a 2002 Maryland gubernatorial campaign debate have recently come under dispute. Now, the media that reported the story—in many instances without independent confirmation or transparent sourcing—is struggling to explain how a racially charged (and apparently controversial) claim by Republican politicians became an accepted fact in major newspapers across the country.
At issue is the question of whether Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, was pelted by, mocked with, or otherwise in the presence of Oreo cookies, which are white on the inside, at a raucous Baltimore debate between then-gubernatorial candidates Robert Ehrlich and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Steele is now running for the U.S. Senate. The Oreo story acquired fresh political currency last month when an Internet blogger posted a doctored photograph of Steele as a minstrel caricature, prompting Republicans to promote as a campaign talking-point various incidents in which the black conservative has been the victim of perceived racial slights.
After UMBC political science professor and liberal commentator Thomas Schaller expressed doubts earlier this month about the veracity of the Oreo-slinging incident, Ehrlich decried what he described as “dangerous” attempts at historical “revisionism.” During a Nov. 12 appearance on WBAL (1090 AM) radio, the governor insisted that Oreos were indeed thrown and urged listeners: “Just go ask people who were there.”
Sun reporter Andy Green was already doing just that. In a story published the next day, Green quoted several nonpartisan sources who were at the event and who disputed the governor’s account and that of his spokesman, Paul Schurick, who is quoted in the story as saying, “It was raining Oreos. They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there.”
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Heh.. just because a few oreos were found at his feet there's no proof they were thrown. Just like we know George Bush's teeth showed up for guard duty but have no proof he did.
Ping for a story on the Michael Steele Oreo incident.
They probably fell out of his trouser cuffs. Or maybe Karl Rove levitated them there with his machine, just to make trouble.
****A LexisNexis search shows that only people directly connected to the Republican Party have ever been quoted attesting to the accuracy of any version of the Oreo story.**
A personal search of this article shows that only Liberal partisan media hacks are quoted as saying it didnt happen.
Leftists are often very racist themselves.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a Republican who freed the slaves?
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a Republican who freed the slaves?"
Yep, but they have an excuse for everything they get wrong. They just say today's Republican party is nothing like the old righteous Republican party of old. And magically, they get around answering that question.
How can they claim to be for blacks with any of the things they do?
How can they claim to be for Jews with any of the things they do?
How can they claim to be for the poor with any of the things they do?
How can they claim to be for working people with any of the things they do?
How can they claim to be for America?
I don't know. It's mind boggling. And this articles attempt at covering up for the dem party's racism is just pathetic. Don't they realize the public can see right through them?
If I'm remembering my history correctly, the Republican party was founded specifically as an abolitionist (or at least anti-slavery) party. But, please, give the dimocRATS credit for their accomplishments -- founding the KKK and passing Jim Crow laws. :=)
Don't forget the "Red Shirts" The demoRatic party founded that group to murder black and white Republicans after the Civil War. Got that little piece of info from a PBS special no doubt.
The Rats get away with their racism all the time. media doesn't report it. If a bunch of Rupublicans did that, it would be in the news every day for 6 months.
Democrats, whether black or white, are the real racists in this country, unfortunately the media is on their side.
Remember all the racist cracks from media about Condi?
Not one angry letter to the editors was published, and there had to be mailbags full of them.
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