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Tea Party Protesters March on Washington [DC Fire Dept. Estimates 60,000-70,000]
ABCNews ^ | September 12, 2009

Posted on 09/12/2009 3:11:37 PM PDT by Steelfish

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21 posted on 09/12/2009 3:28:33 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: icwhatudo

THey appear to have pulled it — I need to look further.

A few hours ago, CNN was saying 2 million and ABC 1.2 million.


22 posted on 09/12/2009 3:28:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: JoSixChip

If they’d 8 or 9 in front of that 60,000 I’d believe it.


23 posted on 09/12/2009 3:29:47 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: CondorFlight

God Bless you all for going - and for standing for those of us who could not.

A Silent Majority no longer.......


24 posted on 09/12/2009 3:30:08 PM PDT by trimom
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To: Steelfish

I’m sure ABC’s count is less than half the total number actually there and the White House will say it was only a few hundred activists and a few thousand mind numbed robot followers. The reality is that for every one of those in Washington there are hundreds of people back home who are equally as fed up with Congress and Obama. No wonder Dear Leader left town to have his ego stroked with a ginned up rally of union thugs.


25 posted on 09/12/2009 3:30:16 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: freedumb2003

Appreciate it. The dems put out the 2 million figure yesterday so a crowd of 400-500k would be considered a “failure”. We have to be careful not to fall for their tactics. 400-500k is awesome!!!


26 posted on 09/12/2009 3:30:50 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: icwhatudo

Thanks for the great pics. There were patriots as far as the eye could see. 60-70K is a ridiculously low estimate.


27 posted on 09/12/2009 3:33:18 PM PDT by Starboard
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By Monday morning, we’ll be looking at “a couple hundred.”

No, by Monday it will have been determined that it was a form of GOP conspired virtual reality holograms or a Jedi mind trick.

28 posted on 09/12/2009 3:33:39 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: Steelfish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8

Judge it for yourself.


29 posted on 09/12/2009 3:34:42 PM PDT by VOR78
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To: Starboard

I’ve hear 1.2-2 million .. so nuts to those low numbers.


30 posted on 09/12/2009 3:36:22 PM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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The beauty part of these lies is that the people that were actually there know the truth.

Obozo, the MSM, Congress or the Senate can't pull their snow job on the public any longer.

They have wakened the sleeping giant & it's bigger than all of the liars put together!!

31 posted on 09/12/2009 3:36:24 PM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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To: Steelfish

BS. The average baseball stadium holds 50K. The one shot from the traffic cam on Pennsylvania Ave had at least 3 stadiums worth of people.


32 posted on 09/12/2009 3:39:15 PM PDT by CaptRon
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To: Steelfish

TOTAL BS from the leftist FD


33 posted on 09/12/2009 3:40:17 PM PDT by stockpirate (Joe Wilson Truth Czar for a Free Republic!)
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To: LADY J
BTW, just for reference. These are pics of a crowd in 2000 that the same media often claimed to be as large as 500,000.

I was actually there, and I would say the crowd in these photos actually numbered between 200,000 and 300,000.

One more image, this is the Promise Keepers rally, I don't have the date handy, but the estimate for this crowd is 700,000 to 800,000 people.


34 posted on 09/12/2009 3:44:04 PM PDT by cc2k (Are you better off today than you were $4,000,000,000,000 ago?)
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To: TADSLOS

I heard it was a bunch of Glenn Beck cardboard cutouts.

At first glance that might sound eco-unfriendly, but OTOH none of them were observed using the Porta-potties all day long...


35 posted on 09/12/2009 3:49:33 PM PDT by GnuHere
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My wife and I attended today's rally and we kept hearing that there was anywhere from one to one and a half million people in attendance!

We were being told that from the guest speakers. Now I hear that the crowed estimate was about 450,000.

The streets were shut down to traffic from the Capitol to the Washington Monument because of us. I believe that that is a two mile stretch. We were not permitted to use the Mall as there was another event going on today as well so we had to use the streets. If it is true that these roads were closed for that long of a stretch then I believe that the number is closer to the one million mark rather than 450,000.

36 posted on 09/12/2009 3:50:41 PM PDT by bayliving (Government is NOT the ANSWER!!!)
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To: VOR78

Amazing video!


37 posted on 09/12/2009 3:51:11 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: cc2k
Thanks for the update & pictures.

They can try all they want to - but it's going to fall flat!!

It's great that so many people showed up. You can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool a crowd of THIS size!!

38 posted on 09/12/2009 3:56:57 PM PDT by LADY J (Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale)
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To: Steelfish

The DC Fire Dept is lead by Racist.


39 posted on 09/12/2009 3:58:59 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Liberals feed on dead Senators and babies)
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To: LADY J

It will be fun to watch the marxists’ try to explain away the numbers early next November...with ACORN tied up in court; maybe we will get a reasonably accurate election.


40 posted on 09/12/2009 4:01:10 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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