Thursday, November 24, 2005

Plague oreo Locusts

Oreo incident never verified, but news orgs report it as fact - Baltimore City Paper

Many news outlets have reported that Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (left) was pelted by or mocked with Oreo cookies in a 2002 debate. Former Sun reporter Sarah Koenig says she didn’t see any cookies that night. “The air was not thick with anything except political bullshit," she tells Gadi Dechter. Washington Times reporter S.A. Miller defends reporting the Oreo anecdote as fact on the grounds that he has “no reason to doubt that it happened."
> Steele tells WTOP radio that he was never hit with Oreos (WTOP)