Crowd controversy - apparent contrasts in inauguration crowd (slow load)

CNN, Reuters ^ | 11:18:03 PM Mon, 01/23/17 | daniel1212

[redleghunter]

So basically all the people stuck in security missed only Shumer’s speech. They can be glad they were being frisked instead of hearing his drivel.

[gunsequalfreedom]

You know, I read every word of your interesting post. Good post and thanks for the reply.

[greeneyes]

The two photos that CNN had side by side and the narrative that Trump’s inauguration was not well attended showed a blatant attempt to grasp at any straw to make a snide comment about DJT.

Any one who watched the swearing in ceremony knew that the sparsely populated picture was a blatant attempt to downplay the support shown for DJT.

Just one more nail in the coffin for CNN. CERTIFIED NOT NEWS.

[Freee-dame]

The first use of the white plastic (?) platforms to protect the grass also make any space without people standing show up much brighter than dirt/winter grass. In addition, there were no disrupters blockading entrances in 2009 or 2013. I am amazed that so many people braved the threats to attend.

[Salamander]

Lots of bikers had to literally fight their way in.

All the entrances were blocked by hundreds of protesters, locked together.

FB is full of stories of people waiting many hours to get through the security checkpoints and lots of them never did get in, in time.

I watching the news at 6am and there were already lines of people at the security gates, being gone over with a fine-tooth comb.

Nobody wanted Zero harmed.

Innumerable people do not feel the same about Trump.

The liberals are insane and dangerous and security knows that.

[Swordmaker]

Sworn @ 1:59 PM EST.

NO! I watched him be sworn in starting at 9:02 AM Pacific Time, which is three hours earlier than Eastern Time. That makes it 12:02 PM Eastern and Trump s[per for sixteen minutes. The Gigsplex photo shows him him speaking st the time it was taken.

[Swordmaker]

Trump spoke for sixteen minutes

[metmom]

They’ve been harping on the *Trump is not a legitimate president* since he got elected.

They’re just trying to further turn people ahd public opinion away from him.

It’s not working. The harder they push the more they damage their credibility. Since they no longer control what is fed to us because we have other sources for our news, they’ve lost their control and power.

Too bad for them.

They just keep continuing to expose themselves for the liars they are.

[chiller]

Spot on. If I might add to the equation the distance traveled. DC is 92% democratic.

And a question: What's the white temp. structure near the opposite end of the national mall ? It was not there for Obie's inaugs. It in affect shortened the length of the mall somewhat as it's some distance from the Washington Monument. I think I heard/read it was a broadcast center for the nets. I do think it distorts comparisons. Obie understandably had more in attendance for his 1st, but not necessarily for his 2nd.

Trump was correct to point out deceptions, and Spicer was right about total viewers worldwide in all platforms.

[Elsie]

I’d guess there are HUNDREDS of videos out there now, from every viewpoint, from dawn to dusk.

We need them if anything ‘happens’ to identify perps.

[daniel1212]

Just one more nail in the coffin for CNN. CERTIFIED NOT NEWS.

Or Constantly Contorted Nuanced News

[Wuli]

The media, particularly CNN remains focused on a irrelevant issue.

Yes, more Liberals go to where crowds are going, they are the party that loves the mobs. It goes with a mob mentality. Conservatives are more individuals, and tend much less to favor going to where the crowds will be.

[daniel1212]

Yes, more Liberals go to where crowds are going, they are the party that loves the mobs. It goes with a mob mentality. Conservatives are more individuals, and tend much less to favor going to where the crowds will be.

They also are more organized and have more free time (less work, kids) and more of Soros cash.

[Swordmaker]

"I saw a new Reuters article entitled "Crowd controversy: The making of an Inauguration Day photo ," which reported that the popular images to the left and right of the CNN images ( taken from this panorama view ), were taken at different times, the one on the right of President Barack Obama's first inauguration was taken at 1:27 p.m., while Reuters reported that the other one showed U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration at 12:01 p.m.

Meanwhile, the CNN image shows Trump giving his speech, and it appears a lot of people showed up. Perhaps the traffic was such that it caused this. Interesting comparison I would say."

Reuters Copy of the Tweeted Photo (L), Section CNN of Gigaplex Photo (Center), Unknown photo of Obambi Inauguration (R)

Reuters is lying with their cited photo times. . . both of them. Only the CNN photo above, which is taken from the Gigaplex photo taken while President Trump is giving his Inauguration Address (you can see him standing at the podium making the speech in the Gigaplex photo!), shows the correct crowd near 12 Noon on January 20, 2017. Since President Trump was sworn in starting at 12:02 PM on January 20, 2017 and started his Inaugural Address at approximately 12:04 PM, after hugging family members and shaking hands, and finishing the speech just sixteen minutes later at 12:20 PM, that source image is pretty well established in time to somewhere in that sixteen minute time frame.

The photo on the left, the one showing the sparse crowd has now been reliably shown to have FIRST been tweeted at 9:02 AM Eastern Time on January 20, 2012 as people were starting to arrive, filling in the available areas which had been covered by a white tarp.

[daniel1212]

Reuters is lying with their cited photo times. . . both of them. Only the CNN photo above, which is taken from the Gigaplex photo taken while President Trump is giving his Inauguration Address (you can see him standing at the podium making the speech in the Gigaplex photo!), shows the correct crowd near 12 Noon on January 20, 2017. Since President Trump was sworn in starting at 12:02 PM on January 20, 2017 and started his Inaugural Address at approximately 12:04 PM, after hugging family members and shaking hands, and finishing the speech just sixteen minutes later at 12:20 PM, that source image is pretty well established in time to somewhere in that sixteen minute time frame. The photo on the left, the one showing the sparse crowd has now been reliably shown to have FIRST been tweeted at 9:02 AM Eastern Time on January 20, 2012 as people were starting to arrive, filling in the available areas which had been covered by a white tarp.

Interesting. A search on the issue results in myriads of pages posting the same contrasts as if they were taken at the same time. Note that in Barack Obama's first inauguration the big white building is not there, and the crowd that is shown extends beyond it, and which area is not visible in any images we have. However, in stark contrast to the comparative image used by the MSM of Trump's inauguration crowd, the CNN image does show the crows as filling all the sections back to that building.

Given the fact DC itself is heavily liberal, and that such are less likely to be tied to blue collar jobs they cannot get time off from (or do not have jobs), and with Soro$ tend to be more organized, plus less security and opposition, in addition to the ground breaking election of the first black President, then a larger crowd would be expected. And which itself should not be an issue of contention, but that of the MSM uncritical use of vast disparity photos.

[Gene Eric]

Exactly. The MSM deliberately omitted the hostile confrontations to the inauguration that not only suppressed turnout, but denied many the opportunity of their Constitutional rights.

The 2017 thugs should get no less than 10 years. The complicit MSM should be financially eviscerated.