how many were there in your estimate?
These people have an agenda, and it's not our agenda.
I was at one of the biggest marches for life in DC some years ago. Sponsors said half a million. I'd say at least 300,000. The press and the DC police said 50,000, and ran a picture of a small group of abortion supporters. Someone took an aerial photo, and it showed a huge crowd, maybe the biggest in DC history, but somehow that never made the news.
This is standard practice. If the Seattle police give out numbers, I'm sure they know which side their bread is buttered on.
The age old question: "Does size really matter?"
Yes, hold their feet to the fire.
get that video on the net. please
Crowd estimates are almost always purpose-driven, even if there's no politics involved. Back in the 1950's, they used to say that 500,000 people showed up for the hydroplane races on Lake Washington in Seattle, even though the city only had a population of 490,000 and there's no way you could squeeze even 200,000 along that shore.
I just checked KIRO's website. They claim only 200 Gregoire supporters.
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We had at least 200 in Clark County.
KOMO TV just revised the numbers. They had been reporting 1,000 for Rossi and 500 for Gregoire, but that has changed. Now it is 2,000 with KOMO TV saying Gregoire had just 200 supporters. So that leaves us with 1,500.
KIRO (CBS) has a long, long history of lying about crowd sizes. They always lie in favor of communists, socialists, anarchists, greens, hippies, dopers, losers, homeless, homosexuals, gun-banners, vegans, anti-smokers, "pro-choicers," democrats, etc.
The lie factor you cite is tame for KIRO. I witnessed years with consistent lie factors of 10x. Applying that to your numbers, they would report 250 for you and 500 for the anti's.
Speaking of KIRO's (CBS) decades of lies to support the communists, does the name Mary Mapes mean anything to you?
Hence, my tagline:
When a thousand or more conservatives protest it's always "some demonstrators", or "a few hundred".
When liberals demonstrate, if it's a few hundred liberal protesters they call it "thousands".
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That is why I now call it the MSF or Main Stream Fiction. They don't even deserve the title Media. Suppose it could be MSP for Main Stream Propaganda.
I try to not watch it. Or watch it to make fun of it.
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Figures.
They've done this for decades, shooting pro-abortion clusters of a dozen angry ugly women and acting as if it were a massive crowd, while ignoring the throngs of pro-lifers.
In the past, we've just taken it. It's time to start giving them a non-stop thrashing everytime they do it. Those in the area should CALL AND CALL AND FAX AND FAX AND WRITE AND WRITE until they change their ways. For years, we've been nothing more than gnats to the MSM. We've now elevated ourselves to mosquitoes. We actually drew blood and a big OUCH from CBS. Do not relent.
Make no mistake: The media are our #1 practical enemy.
MM
I almost called KIRO,too.
I wanted to ask them who does their counting Dean Logan?