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To: combjelly who wrote (261522)	11/21/2005 6:11:09 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572025

bad spin, to many people witness it

To: combjelly who wrote (261522)	11/22/2005 1:03:48 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572025

The first reference to the Oreo incident came five days later in an article in The Sun in which Schurick, then a spokesman for the Ehrlich campaign, said Townsend supporters distributed the cookies in the audience. He also said the crowd booed Ehrlich's family - a detail that was reported on debate night - and scratched the paint on Ehrlich supporters' cars with their keys. Clint Coleman, a spokesman for Morgan State who was at the event, said he saw lots of unseemly behavior but no Oreos. "There were a lot of things, disturbances, by this group of outsiders who were bent on disrupting the debate," Coleman said. "But I never actually saw Oreo cookies being thrown at him." As for "raining Oreos," Coleman said, "I can tell you that did not happen." Neil Duke, who moderated the event for the NAACP, said last week that he didn't see any cookies. baltimoresun.com. So the wingers made it all up. Again. Reality just ain't your guys strong point. Creativity, OTOH, is... Nice catch. Below are more assertions it did not happen. Strangely enough, not one news outlet picked up the story.....rather, just right winger blogs. Why am I not surprised????? WTF.........why do these people think they can get away with this crap?!! "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. ...Speaking on Stateline with the Governor on WBAL-AM yesterday, Ehrlich said he would not tolerate questions about the veracity of the incident. ...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." 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. ...Wayne Frazier, president of the Maryland-Washington Minority Contractors Association said he watched Steele walk into the auditorium that night but saw no Oreos. "I was there the whole time and did not see any of the so-called Oreo cookie incident," Frazier said." pandagon.net