Up to 2 mil march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in 'tea-party' demonstration

Daily Mail ^ | 9-12-09

[Justaham]

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending. The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

People were chanting "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

[ChocChipCookie]

Let’s count and see how many times this ‘2 million’ number finds its way into the U.S. MSM.

[muawiyah]

Folks have learned long ago it's not worth the effort to challenge the claims of advocacy groups. I live here and I don't, but I have my own way of counting.

Like I said yesterday, when you start hearing bout some of our people out on the fringe getting robbed you are near 2 mil. That's because a crowd that size necessarily spills over into parts of near-downtown DC where you don't want to go on foot!

[Jim from C-Town]

UHHH, let’s see’ ZERO!

[OpusatFR]

You have to watch BBC or read the foreign papers to actually find out what is going on in the US.

My spouse watches univision, doesn’t speak Spanish, and manages to get more news off their broadcasts than on American media in English.

Go figure.

[Elyse]

It makes me crazy that the writer inserts a guy with a gun into this article. What the heck does that have to do with the subject of this article?

[China Clipper]

The local paper here (Nebraska) put the "Conservatives March on Washington" story buried on page seven.

Osama's recycled speech Saturday in Minnesota was above the fold (as they say) on Page One

Anybody do better than that?

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[tophat9000]

The thing is when the US media try to bury something like this they hurt themselves...

This was big enough that everyone will hear the truth about it about what happen...

Then judge the honesty of each report and see who spins or try to bury it

[Dallas59]

Lol...My roomate watches it too...He tells me what’s going on before it hits FOX.

[HollyB]

Good pictures here, you can get a good idea of the crowd size:

http://www.stealthfusion.com/forum/fusion-research/4910-amazing-photos-9-12-march-washington-vs-usa-today-national-mall-schematic.html

Keep in mind, we could not use much of the mall because another event was set up there - that is why everyone was overflowing to the sides.

[Nachum]

Wow. Great pics. I have some vid at my site that is a time lapse photography thing that shows the crowd swelling.

I just wanted to point out the size of the protest. Interesting that no American MSM source has the crowd as large as a UK paper I cited (2 million).

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I read the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning. The two million people present was translated down to ‘thousands’ on their front page and they can't figure out why they are in financial trouble? They ‘safely’ reprinted an article by Mark Z. Barabak of the Los Angeles Times entitled ‘Thousands in D.C. to protest Obama's agenda. Philadelphia is 2 hours from Washington D.C. Los Angeles is 2400 miles from D.C. The Philadelphia Inquirer should be being reprinted in Los Angeles rather than the other way around. There is no question in my mind that The Philadelphia Inquirer had people there, so why are they just reprinting an L.A. Times story rather than what was really going on? You are looking at the reason the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News are in bankruptcy. Instead of reporting the news, they are encumbered with the Cronkite syndrome! People buy newspapers to find out what is going on. When what is going on is tainted, as it is in this case, they lose a few people at a time. When the smoke clears and the dust settles, the news outlets that will survive, will be those that are 'Newspapers', not opinion rags. Two million people and the Inquirer prints 'Thousands'! Great journalizism guys! Check what your local paper did with it.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

And yet my local news station reported on a protest down at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh (where there was no game today). The protest was against Mike Vick playing football. From the wide shot, it looked like there was between 12 - 20 people. And they interviewed two of them. 20 libs protesting makes the news.