1 Million + Protesters In DC

christiefan915 said:
Even that bastion of liberal propaganda, the Washington Times, puts it at less that one-tenth of a million.

"Rally leaders estimated the crowd at about 75,000, but others said it was larger than that. Organizers had expected between 25,000 and 50,000."

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/13/capitol-tea-party-rally-assails-big-government/

Carrying signs depicting President Obama as Adolf Hitler and the Joker, and chanting slogans such as "'No big government" and "Obamacare makes me sick," approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, according to the Washington DC Fire Department.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120
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Sounds like these guys were right and that they are going to have to wait for their millions another day!
 
White spiritualism must look like racist hate channeled by rightwing lobbying companies.
 
In July 2004, researchers Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy (of the University of Illinois and Penn State University, respectively) published a paper on the Million Man March controversy in Caliber, an academic journal published by the University of California Press. The piece was entitled “Who Counts and How.”

“The Million Man March of 1995 was neither a march nor did it attract a million men,” opens the piece.

McPhail and McCarthy then spend a few thousand words and oodles of statistics tearing apart any estimate approaching the size of El-Baz’s. The researchers concluded that the Mall, which takes up 2,620,515 square feet, could fit only 1,048,206 people, and that’s if they took up every inch of ground space and each person is allotted just 2.5 square feet, or about the size of the front page of USA Today.

That little space would mean that every attendee would have had to stand “more or less perfectly still.”

The Park Service never retracted its 400,000 figure. Street stands by his work.

“It’s sad that this became such a big issue,” Street says, “but this was going to happen once they called it the Million Man March. If it had another title, it wouldn’t have obscured the success of the event, which was one of the biggest gatherings in D.C. history. I mean, 400,000 is a whole lot of people. But it just got nasty.”

El-Baz’s re-estimation, and Farrakhan’s continued harping, had its impact on Street’s job.

“After the [Million Man March],” NPS spokesperson Dave Barna says, “the House appropriations committee said that ‘the committee has provided no funding’ for crowd estimations in gatherings in Washington, D.C. Basically we aren’t allowed to spend taxpayer dollars, that means even our salary, on crowd counts, so we’re out of it in D.C.”
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http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36682

Here's a photo of the Point Four Million Man March:

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And here's one of the TEA March:

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so...you ADMIT that the 1-2 million figure is bullshit?

thank you, southernman, for that moment of objective clarity!
 
LOL, like I can count all those people from those photos.

This is pretty silly. Webb and apparently others lied. And that is it.
maybe 70k or so protestors and not 1 million plus.
 
maineman said:
so...you ADMIT that the 1-2 million figure is bullshit?

thank you, southernman, for that moment of objective clarity!
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I've not claimed a number for the TEA event. I'm objectively comparing photos of the Point Four Million Man March with the TEA March, and for what I see the TEA March looks much larger and denser. It's clearly much bigger that the "tens of thousands" that some of the media have claimed.
 
Southern Man said:
I've not claimed a number for the TEA event. I'm objectively comparing photos of the Point Four Million Man March with the TEA March, and for what I see the TEA March looks much larger and denser. It's clearly much bigger that the "tens of thousands" that some of the media have claimed.
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subjective opinion.

thanks for sharing.
 
Southern Man said:
Another TEA photo. Compare to the Point Four Million Man March.
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What's your link for the photo, and please tell me its not a rightwing link.


Also, why is the flag at half mast? I can understand it being at half mast on Sept 11, but they should have raised it to full mast on Saturday.

It's possible someone "forgot" to raise it to full staff, but I just checked the traffic web cam and its at full mast now.


I think this photo is bullshit.

And since the "two million" number is known to be a lie, I wouldn't be surprised if this photo was a fake.
 
I see Cypress has been over at DuUnderground and dailykos..they are also ranting about the flag because they have nothing else..

personally I don't care what a leftie says about how many were there, we know it around 75,000 and up to 1 million or more and there will probably be more and more protest in the future....

Lets Roll..:clink:
 
Meme, you held yourself out as an Alaska expert, and claimed one could see russia from mount mckinely, so you should just dismiss yourself from any discussion involving honesty.


If you're fascinated by my web browsing habits, I went to mediamatters because this photo seems like it could be fake.
 
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