Blitzer, Hannity praised Steele's "spectacular" and "principled" campaign, ignoring misleading campaign tactics
November 17, 2006 1:11 pm ET
SUMMARY: Wolf Blitzer failed to challenge
the assertion of Michael Steele, a losing Republican candidate for a Senate
seat in Maryland, that he "did not see ... until a couple of days after
the fact" a flier that misleadingly referred to "Ehrlich-Steele Democrats"
and falsely suggested that certain prominent African-American Maryland
Democrats endorsed Steele and Republican Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Both Blitzer and Sean Hannity praised Steele's campaign in their
interviews with him without noting Steele's 10-point margin of defeat.






