Just followimg the rules...
Posted on 09/20/2009 12:10:08 PM PDT by Scythian
O'Rielly just said 75,000 were in the march, he said the "Let's be careful there, the fire department says only 75,000 were there" when a conservative guest said there were 1 million people there.
Sigh ...
That was just part of the Obama Economic Recovery/Miracle - eager consumers swarming out to put more money on their maxed-out 30% interest rate credit cards - because Obama has saved us all...
;-)
O’Moron constantly repeats lies of his leftist guests. Just this week I heard him repeat the 75,000 figure and then he repeated the lie that the O’Keefe and Giles were turned away at lots of ACORN offices.
My guess is that O’Moron wants a MSM anchor job and think he will get one with big numbers on FNC while buying into some percentage of leftwing looniness.
I think I would watch msnbc before watchimng oreily again.
The man is a scumbag.
join (oathkeepers.org)
he’s not a bright man
a fireman?
that so foolish
a fireman (before the protest even got going) said a number(to somebody) so he goes with that?
LMAO
open your eyes O’Reilly and check out the moving elbow to elbow crowd marching over a mile and a half long on a wide DC avenue..... and those weren’t counting the ones on the side streets and the Mall already
and another thing...... a large percentage of those people who marched the mile and a half and then went back home and didn’t attend the rally afterwards, so no one picure ever caught all of the protestors at once, not even close
As a DC Metro native I’ve been attending big events in DC and on the Mall since I was a toddler (JFK funeral).
Looking at the Breitbart time-lapse vids and some other photos, I’ll stick with my first guesstimate of maybe 200,000 to 300,000 max.
1 million seems excessive, 2 million is absurd.
I wonder when he asked?
-PJ
On my flight out of DC (to Thunder Ranch) on Sunday, I read thethe Washignton Post and it reported 2 Million “Plus” in attendance.
Say, the DC fire department (that reported 60,000-75,000 attendance) wouldn’t be a Union shop, would it?
Bandit3
Out
Well, someone is tuning into his crappy show.
I have never trusted him. He has no character.
Anyone who can stand him waving and pointing his damn pen at them at the end of his show is fool enough to watch him and give him ratings.
Pompous a-hole!
There are more than 300,000 visible in that one photograph, posted earlier in the thread.
2,000,000 may be an upper-end estimate, but it is completely plausible.
Since when does the fire department have anything to do with crowd control?
Actually it is that single photo that’s caused me to be even MORE skeptical that attendance exceeded 300,000, or even 250,000.
Because what you see is what you get.
There’s no other place on or near the Mall for people to be hidden (except inside the museums).
This is a repeat show from early in the week. O’Reilly does not work on weekends.
They should stick Beck in that time slot. Beck is the only reason people are sticking around until 8pm
Did any of you see the thread last night that had the over head picture of the rally? It showed almost the whole crowd, and if there were only 75,000 people there then I will eat my hat, without salt.
BOR. I used to watch his show every night. I read his book “Bold Fresh” recently and unlike other autobiographies where you like the author more if you liked him before, I liked him less at the end of his book.
I saw him insist this week that there were only 75,000 at the rally. There was an aerial study of the crowd done, and there were about 1.3 million at the 9-12 rally.
BOR recently had a good natured spar with Glenn Beck where BOR said Zero was certainly not a radical or a socialist or a marxist...etc and Glenn said “Oh really?” and gave us his bemused grin and look of astonishment.
BOR has lost it. He’s shilling for the big Zero interview.
I didn’t used to yell at BOR from my LazyBoy. But lately, he’s not just fair and balanced, he’s going lefty on some stuff. He’ll always be on the side of protecting kids from evil, but in the political realm, he’s all soft and mushy and ignoring glaring fact to appear to be “fair”.
O’Reilly is one of the most disingenous people I’ve ever encountered. But he does fear one thing—Fairness Doctrine.
Still proud to say I’ve never watched BORe and getting prouder by the day. I pegged this phony sack of crap when he was local in New York. Didn’t like/trust him then and nothing has changed. I was there on Saturday. There might have 75,000 buses there!
“There’s no other place on or near the Mall for people to be hidden (except inside the museums).”
Have to disagree. It is reported that the streets leading to the mall and vicinity were also full.
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