Steele Race Baiting Update

Yesterday, Joe Trippi posted a comment on my humble little blog seeking to set the record straight regarding his comments about Michael Steele while serving as Kweisi Mfume's spokesman.

Yesterday, I wrote about this issue:

Of course, the problem with Mfume's denouncement is that his campaign spokesman, one Joe Trippi, said earlier:

Even the spokesman for Mr. Mfume's campaign said pelting Mr. Steele with Oreo cookies and calling him an "Uncle Tom" are simply "pointing out the obvious."

"There is a difference between pointing out the obvious and calling someone names," Mfume spokesman Joseph R. Trippi said Tuesday.

By the way, that is the same Joe Trippi who managed the Howard Dean presidential campaign--to such great success. Mfume is several points behind Steele in the polls and even further behind Senate candidate Ben Cardin.

Mr. Trippi pointed to a correction in the Washington Times, which reads:

Due to an editing error, The Washington Times yesterday incorrectly reported the comments by a spokesman for Maryland senatorial candidate Kweisi Mfume regarding racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. Mfume spokesman Joseph R. Trippi said it was wrong to pelt Mr. Steele with Oreo cookies or to call him an "Uncle Tom."

From the comments to my post from Mr. Trippi:

That's a pretty big editing error

I agree that this is a pretty big error. My apologies to Mr. Trippi for any offense in relation to this matter.