An Oct. 28 NewsMax article quotes Michael Steele, Maryland’s lieutenant governor and a black Republican, as saying that “during a 2002 campaign debate, Democratic Party supporters pelted him with Oreo cookies – black on the outside, white on the inside.” NewsMax repeated the claim in a Nov. 7 article (and in a Nov. 4 Associated Press article it reprinted).
But it looks like this claim is false. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that it can’t find anyone who attended that debate who can corroborate the Oreo-pelting claim.
Come on, NewsMax — you know how to correct articles now. You even made a big deal about the difference between covert and classified. Care to give it a go?