Enough people have called and e-mailed at me at this point regarding my reporting of a scuffle at Adam Smith's Aug. 25 town hall meeting that I'm convinced I got it wrong.

I had reported that a man holding a sign depicting President Obama with a Hitler mustache was taken to the ground by bystanders, who crumpled up the sign and threw it away.

That's what I thought I saw and a few witnesses said they saw, but at this point more than a handful of people have disputed that account. They all concur that the man with the sign wasn't touched, and that he actually pushed another man to the ground when the second man tried to take his sign. More people told me the same thing after I wrote a blog post Monday asking for additional information.

We'll be running a correction in tomorrow's paper.

Here's what happened: From several rows up, I saw someone pushed to the ground amid a swarm of people. I was sure the man who fell on the ground was the same man who was holding the sign, but I asked around to double-check. A few people who I questioned nearby said they saw the same think I did.

I didn't have a great view of the incident, as it turns out.

I wasn't the only one -- neither representatives from Adam Smith's office nor the Lakewood Police Department could confirm who pushed who in the midst of the crowd.

Our partners at KIRO-TV didn't have any video footage that could confirm it one way or another.

That's why it's taken so long for this correction to get in the paper. Barring a police statement or video footage, it was difficult for me to confirm what actually happened one way or the other. I didn't want to write an incorrect correction that I might later have to amend a second time.

At this point, so many people have given me an account of what happened that varies from my own that I believe a correction is needed. Look for it in Thursday's News Tribune.