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No kidding; I'm really disgusted with O'Reilly continuing to promulgate the fiction that there were only 70,000. My wife and I were there. We stayed in Crystal City, south of the Pentagon, and caught the Metro at the Crystal City station. We saw the same situation there that others observed at their stations - thousands and thousands of protest attendees packing the stations and the trains (as well as the hotels and restaurants in the area).

By the way, I can offer a point of reference from my personal experience. I once attended an airshow here in Colorado that ended up being attended by 300,000 people (far more than they expected - should have seen it coming since it involved the Thunderbirds and was free to attend). Anyway, while that was a massive crowd, I can definitely tell you that the crowd in D.C. was at least several times as large as the airshow crowd.

I also attended championship celebrations here for the Avalanche and Broncos that were estimated in the 150,000 - 450,000 range (depending on year) and again the crowd in D.C. was FAR larger than any of those.