Beware The FAKE Tea Party Photo (From 1997 Promise Keepers March)

9-13-09

[icwhatudo]

THIS PHOTO IS NOT FROM THE TEA PARTY!

THIS PHOTO IS NOT FROM THE TEA PARTY!

THIS PHOTO IS NOT FROM THE TEA PARTY!

THIS PHOTO IS NOT FROM THE TEA PARTY

Please be careful as this photo is from the million man march. The left and nutroots are using it as a tactic to discredit the real photos. Real photos will have a huge white tent in middle of field.

These are real photos from the Tea Party:

[Mamzelle]

I think that photo from the top is from the Promise Keepers.

[icwhatudo]

Sadly I’m still getting this fake photo emailed to me and I’m seeing it on some conservative sites where the left is having a field day with it. The left is using it to say that somehow all the photos are fakes. Just a heads up.

[ElayneJ]

OK. How can you tell?

[Mamzelle]

How to tell--912 was a very cloudy, cool day. Look at the shadows in the Promise Keeper photo--that's sunshine.

Yesterday in downtown DC was dark!

[Mamzelle]

see below

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Thanks for the heads up.

-———————The left and nutroots are using it as a tactic to discredit the real photos.-———————

Can you give a brief explanation?

[bayliving]

Actually, I think that that photo is from the Promise Keepers Rally that I attended.

At least that photo looks awfully a lot like the one I saw that demonstrated the crowd size. At that time the estimate was the crowd size was over one million people there.

[ElayneJ]

Thanks

[toomuchcoffee]

Our photos can be identified by the hints of colors in the crowd.

[Cheetahcat]

LOL the entire Left is fake they could disappear tomorrow and America would be a better place.

[icwhatudo]

I believe you are correct. If you google “images” for Million Man March the photo comes up. After reading your comment, I went back to look and saw that it was used to discredit the million man march numbers and is in fact a photo from promise keepers.

Thanks for the correction!

Either way its NOT FROM THE TEA PARTY!

[editor-surveyor]

Its not the tea party, but its not the ‘million man march’ either.

[icwhatudo]

This is a real pic as it has the white tent in middle (way in back by Washington monument). Hopefully someone will post a clearer photo of the mall showing this tent.

[icwhatudo]

Yes, its from Promise Keepers-I alerted mods to fix title.

[Jeff Head]

[I see my hands]

"The left and nutroots are using it as a tactic to discredit the real photos"

Yeah, it’s good to tell the truth but should a Leftist criticize you fairly or unfairly: it is no matter. Answer like this:

Lefty: “Hey! That photo is fake!” or "I like your shirt."

You or me: “Go to Hell, you stinking piece of filth."

[icwhatudo]

I’ve seen it on minor blogs and other places and its getting ripped to shreds by the left as “proof” that all the large crowd photos were somehow faked. Even Malkin’s original pic was getting questioned by the Kos Kids.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/12/yes-the-picture-is-real-nutroots/

[Mamzelle]

Remember—dark, cloudy day—there will be no bright sunshine or sharp shadows in any photo of 912. It was rather cool, for which I was grateful.

[Mamzelle]

The Kos kids will never be able to get a turnout like this. Palin's crowds beat Obama's.

Here's a fair account from MSNBC. That's right, MSNBC. http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/09/nbc-report-says-their-people-estimate.html

[indylindy]

This is not important so do not get caught up in it.

[keypro]

[ElayneJ]

“the white tent in middle”

Thanks for pointing that out. It helps in the ID.

[txrangerette]

I read where the WH is saying the protestors do not represent mainstream Americans.

Just about blew a gasket.

There’s so much wrong with that statement.

We are Americans.

That’s all we need.

Who judges who’s mainstream?

Far Left loons and liars?

These are people who had Michael Moore with a seat of honor at their convention.

These are people who have avowed Communists in the WH and other nutcases such as Mark Lloyd, Holdren and Sunstein.

In Congress they have Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Diane Watson etc. who love Fidel, want to take over private enterprise and regulate away free speech.

I am angry as I’ve ever been.

[mentor2k]

Taken at the 9-12 Tea Party in the Captial. Gotta love it!

[Texas4ever]

I think if we trace back to the beginning of this error we will find a left radical MSM......at the end of this.

they wanted to start any kind of controversy...unfortunately too late...its out and everyone is soooooo proud....DONT TREAD ON ME.....ITS ON AND NO WAY TO STOP THIS BUS!

[Right Wing Assault]

Do we have any shots taken from the same angle as Promise Keepers (monument in foreground)?

[martin_fierro]

THIS is the real photo.

[TexasFreeper2009]

What is good about that photo you have is you can clearly see that the crowd is much WIDER than you expect also, it goes and fills the adjoining areas on the other side of the tree line.

Someone, somewhere HAD to of taken an aerial photo.

[RedCell]

You need that dude carrying the Heineken in there somewhere, too.

[Hot Tabasco]

These are real photos from the Tea Party:

Sorry but the Fox coverage does not support your claim..........

[PGalt]

LOL the entire Left is fake they could disappear tomorrow and America would be a better place.

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation” - 23.11 “Economic Harmonies” Ch.23 Evil, Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850

[CWCoop]

OK, that was funny.

[PGalt]

LOL!

FReeper humor BUMP from a very humorous FReeper.

[loungitude]

Or, one of my favorites, “Go f*** a tree.”

[GOPJ]

You don't have to feel bad. If there's a fake photo out there, the left probably put it there.

A bunch of performance artists putting out lies...

[keypro]

Just because it's fake doesn't mean it isn't true :-)

[icwhatudo]

Thanks! Another great way to spot a fake-See post #22

[Shelayne]

In the photo from Promise Keepers “Stand in the Gap” rally you can see white teepees in pairs all the way up the street, peeking amidst the crowd. That is how I can tell the difference, FWIW.

[Oberon]

Yes, that is definitely from the Stand In the Gap rally that Promise Keepers sponsored.

[mentor2k]

When the WH say these people "are not representative of mainstream Americans", they are offering a subjective opinion.

And that opinion is purely based on a liberal slanted point-of-view.

The statements intent is to support the WH position, "it clearly understands" what the "pulse" of America is.

And to comfort the left in telling them the Tea Party movement is minimalist.

The problem for the WH, however, is that it is none of the above is true. In fact, as the movement gains strength, failure to recognize and acknowledge its growing presence is like walking down railroad tracks hoping the train will stop before it hits you. A strategy that will certianly lead to it's downfall, as history has proven time and again, over the ages.

[ElayneJ]

Oh, I see those! They’re at intervals along the street. Interesting. I never would have noticed that.

[LibLieSlayer]

Malkin posted this picture and she has debunked this crap... the picture was real 100%.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338847/posts

Malkin: Yes, the picture is real, nutroots
Michelle Malkin ^ | 9/12/09 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 5:37:20 PM by Jean S

Yes, the picture is real, nutroots
By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2009 10:51 PM

I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here — is somehow “fake.”

The claim is that the shot came from the Kennedy procession or a previous left-wing protest and that the flag at half-mast proves that it was “fake.”

Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in honor of the murder victims of the 9/11 jihadi attacks.

Guess the 9/11-was-an-inside jobbers are still that much in denial.

Unbelievable.

(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...

[FMoran]

Thank you for posting this. I was there yesterday, and there was some convention going on on the other end of the mall (hence all of the white tents). Furthermore we were more down Pennsylvania Ave - the mall, except around the Capitol, was almost barren.

[The Comedian]

Lefty: “Hey! That photo is fake!” or "I like your shirt."

You or me: “Go to Hell, you stinking piece of filth."

Lefty: "Excuse me, do you have the time?"

Me: "It's time for you to self-abort, you scum-sucking parasite!"

Note that both responses are equally valid to *any* inquiry from the Left. Additionally, any portion of an exorcism ritual may be submitted as a greeting to any statist.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

We marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. We weren’t on the mall down to the Monument. There were some in there, but we didn’t fill that area. There was actually a Black Unity something or another down by the monument (which was a lot of fun walking through afterwards).

Everybody who was there can tell that the Promise Keepers’ photo wasn’t where we were.

[Cheetahcat]

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation” - 23.11 “Economic Harmonies” Ch.23 Evil, Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850”

Nice Quote I thank you.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

This picture is not where we were. There was another event, a black unity event, down by the monument. Trust me, I was there, I walked right through it. This photo is absolutely, positively the Promise Keepers rally, not ours.

Michelle was referring to the time-lapse video down Pennsylvania Ave. That’s where we marched. And the video clearly shows in excess of a million people.

[LibLieSlayer]

I understand now... I thought they were one in the same but they were not. Heck the left is in denial about everything. I apologize.

LLS