Remember the great Republican outrage over Democrats who threw Oreo cookies at a black Republican candidate in Maryland? Conservatives shouted it from the rooftops as a sign of liberal hypocricy. RNC chair Ken Melman used it as an example of liberal racism here, the Washington Times editorialized against it here, and bloggers everywhere picked the story up and ran with it.
Which is great except for one thing: It doesn't seem to have actually happened. No Democrat, liberal or otherwise, threw Oreo cookies at Michael Steele. This from Media Matters:
...eyewitnesses at the debate -- held at Morgan State University's Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center in Baltimore -- dispute the allegations of cookie-throwing, and accounts of the purported incident offered at different times by Ehrlich, Steele, and Paul S. Schurick, Ehrlich's communications director, contradict each other. Moreover, the Sun noted that initial news accounts of the debate made no mention of Oreo cookies at all. The first mention of cookies surfaced five days later, when the Sun reported Schurick's charge that Oreos were passed out -- not thrown -- by Democrats at the debate.
I bet conservatives will keep milking the story though, the same way they keep saying that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. Why tell the truth when lies generate so much more outrage?
You mean the same way liberals kept peddaling the myth that Bush said the threat was imminent, or that he lied, and so on? Na Na Na Na Na Na
Posted by: Pursuit | 11/22/2005 at 10:56 PM