WaPo Washington Times went too far on Steele story

Damian Penny revisits how the Washington Post Washington Times covered the Michael Steele story:

The outrage that wasn't
WTOP, a Maryland radio station, says the alleged incident in which Black Republican Michael Steele had Oreo cookies thrown at him was exaggerated [. . .]

Even "one or two" Oreos thrown is a grotesque, insulting smear, and this still doesn't excuse some of the rhetoric directed at Steele on "liberal" websites. But it looks like the Washington Times — always controversial, because of its pro-Republican stance and Moonie ownership — blew this one way out of proportion.

I briefly mentioned the story here.

Update, 17 November: You'd think, given that the correct newspaper name was given in the quoted block, that I'd have figured out that it was the Times and not the Post, right? A day later, it's fixed in the title. Apologies to anyone who was misled by the incorrect attribution.