Posted on 09/13/2009 6:42:01 AM PDT by bvw
Thin air.
I saw one helicopter circling overhead yesterday. There were no news choppers, just two trucks, FNC and CNN.
These figures are pulled out of their a$$.
what also is not counted are the mini rallies all across the usa. im a realtor. and i seen 3 dif mini rallies across nw indiana yesterday. it was so inspiring!!!!!! the funny thing is people are so mad the media and the dummicrats got another thing coming in 2010!! lets not stop now!
The media guy commented that they had tried to get 6 people to stand within a 3-foot square but that this hadn't worked.
Bottomline: size estimates are used to show what they want to show.
Yep. That’s why, imo, we should be using the 2.5 million figure in DC and 3 million nationwide.
I was just discussing the exact same thing with my father yesterday. You have a huge event in our nations capitol and Fox (the most powerful cable network on earth) could pony up a copter let alone a few decent aerial shots?
Some little pissant local network in Knoxville Tenn. can have a traffic chopper calling the situation daily and Fox can’t dedicate a chopper for this????
Embarrassing.
Oh, and of course in the meantime coming up with real numbers from photos and other sources. Personally, I’d like to see the turnstile counts in the metro yesterday, and compare them to other Septembers and other major rallies.
ACORN supplies them with the information.
As we marched passed the CNN truck, we all chanted “We Love Fox News”! ~~~~snicker~~~~
I know it doesnt seem to make sense, but it is based on statistical measures. for example, when you are standing on a crowd there are always people walking around. While it would be difficult to have six people standing on a square yard of ground, it DOES make more sense when people are meandering around.
Generally speaking, when I look at crowd size, I tend to just compare one crowd to another. For example, how did this compare to an inauguration, or the “million man”march, or the Civil rights march in the sixties.
I do wonder if Homeland Security, FAA, may have discouraged/prevented some flights.....Just a guess.....
Same place as the wishful-thinking two million figure: thin air.
There were very clearly 1.5 million protesters in DC. No matter what the biased MSM say. They would not even show themselves in public.
As an attendee to the protest, I saw no MSM in attendance. They were in hiding; now they are in denial.
Well actually DC is the one city where it's pretty hard to get clearance to fly anything.
The truth is that there were so many people that NO BODY can say it was a failure of any sort. I think the politicians are stunned. I think the new people are stunned. The fact is they can ignore us on the news but they can’t ignore us at the ballot box. I wish Sarah Palin had been invited to speak. There would have been an earth quake in DC.
hey, everyone, there is a great pic of the crowd on lucianne.com......taken from a rooftop nearby........crowd looks MASSIVE....
Not even close to 1.5m. Not even close to 150k. I know everyone's pumped up about this, but we need to be realistic about this or we will be laughed at like we laughed at the claims of the organizers of the million man march. I was there and it was the equivalent of a full large football stadium. Perhaps 70,000.
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