Posted on 09/15/2009 5:41:19 AM PDT by Rufus2007
You might have figured this was coming, that when dust settled from the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C., the brain trust at MSNBC would attempt to frame it as negatively as possible.
And MSNBC's resident left-wing curmudgeon-in-training David Shuster didn't disappoint. The former host of the canceled "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" took a report from the Huffington Post debunking attendance figures and attempted to belittle the event. The story focused on an old photograph that had been circulating on some minor conservative blogs showing a huge crowd for the Sept. 12 march.
Shuster asked Washington Examiner columnist and author of "The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money" if some conservative blogs were going to circulate a phony photo, why should the movement have any credibility? But Carney didn't take the bait and instead showed that MSNBC and other mainstream media outlets were committing a similar offense.
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” debunking attendance figures “
Just heard F&F use the phrase ‘hundreds of thousands’, breaking from the ‘tens of thousands’ they’ve been grimly hanging on to since Saturday...
Earlier, on the same show, Beck claimed 1.7 million....
The TRUTH is getting out......
I’d give two weeks pay to get a realistic, bonafide estimation of the true crowd size.
It can only be verifiably done with airial photos, comparing peak crowds at other events such as the million man march, the Obama inaugeration etc.
However, flying over DC post 9-11 is out of the question.
I would bet the house on 400k. Above that I don’t have the information, but 4000 buses hold about 200,000 people. Add in the increased Metro traffic and we easily get to 400,000. Can somebody scientifically establish more that a million? I’ll listen, but I can’t yet.
I was there. Believe you’re eyes...It was MASSIVE.
What photoshopped pictures? The only ones I saw that were photoshopped were the ones from the left.
Pray for America
But O'Reilly said it was officially 75,000. Who are you going to believe, a conspiracy theorist like Beck or the always fair and balanced O'Reilly? (ignore the fact that Glenn really has all his ducks in a row)
After all of the problems with counting the "Million" Man March, the government stopped giving crowd estimates so there cannot be any official count. STFU O'Reilly.
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 1: (UNDER 8 MINUTES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1bGBY3BcE
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL, PART 2: (UNDER 8 MINUTES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ylFTOObbF0
I heard Beck on Greta last night say that the University of Illinois did some imaging tests and determined that the crowd was about 1.8 million people.
My question is which media outlet planted the old crowd photos? I think the real story is in the source of the old photos. Maybe this should be looked into.
I heard a newsbusters guy on the radio this morning who said they believed the DC Fire Department number of 60-70 thousand demonstrators yesterday.
I was shocked, of course, as generally I thought newsbusters was pretty good about looking for the truth. And it’s clear there were more than 70,000 people in that crowd.
I watch(and used to Listen to on talk radio)O'Reilly on his show on FOX. He has to say only 75,000 protesters were in DC on September 12, 2009 so he will have some credibility with those without credibility (Liberals from the MSM, DEMOCRATS, etc.).
Remember he has a show where he is trying to appeal to a wide audience. He is in the business to get ratings and beat out CNN,ABC,CBS and mostly NBC. If he challenges the Liberal Establishment, he won't get left wing guests like Axelrod, Kerry, or even ALGORE. O'Reilly could not get the undercover reporters who blew the lid off of ACORN with that kind of up and coming, risky investigative reporting. That's why he avoided the SWIFTBOAT VETS. It was too Risky. He will only deal with old line established investigative reporters like Rivera and eventually Stossel.
This is the game O"Reilly has to play.
Beck does not have to play that game. Beck feels there are enough folks out there in the viewing audience from 5:00 - 6:00 PM who agree with him or are at least willing to listen.
Hurry before the study is suppressed and those responsible are eradicated. This is the peoples republic of the University of Illinois we are talking about. William Ayers is a professor in good standing there.
Same here, but it ain't coming--from either side. Crowd estimation is just to political to ever be correct.
I wish I had been there to see the crowd myself.
He quoted the DCFD. I call BS. They don't make official crowd estimates.
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