Steele’s Made Up Oreo Incident

6:11 pm EST November 14th, 2005 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

How many other things is Michael Steele just making up

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.”

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.”

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.

Maryland doesn’t need a serial liar who’s just a rubber stamp for the far right. Michael Steele is out of touch with mainstream Maryland values.

Also – “Thick in the air like locusts”? That’s what I think about the Republicans and their attacks on Marylanders.