Posted on 09/01/2010 12:02:24 PM PDT by topher
Tuesday August 31, 2010Glenn Becks Restoring Honor Rally Draws Tens of Thousands
By Peter J. Smith WASHINGTON, D.C., August 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) Concerned that religion is slipping from its time honored place at the heart of America, tens of thousands of Americans of all different faiths gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The massive crowd gathered in response to conservative icon Glenn Becks call for a fundamental restoration of traditional American values. For Beck, the August 28 Restoring Rally was an ecumenical call that could serve to make the United States great again by bringing it back to God. "Something that is beyond man is happening," Beck told the massive cheering audience, which was gathered at the same location (in front of the Lincoln Memorial) and on the anniversary of the date when Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech 47 years ago. "America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country has wandered in darkness," said Beck, who praised American icons like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as men of abiding faith, a component once considered essential to American greatness. The Restoring Honor website described the event, saying, We are calling on all church leaders to join with us in building a united community of constitutionally minded and Christ based patriots willing to push back against an overreaching federal government. While Beck is a Mormon, his event had the strong support of Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, who shares Becks concern that belief in God is on the verge of being banished utterly from the U.S. public square. Dobson was among a contingent of 240 ministers, priests, rabbis, and imams that recently gathered to promote the religious restoration of America in their congregations and in their communities. The group was named the Black Robed Regiment a name alluding to the influence of American colonial preachers in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain. Beck emphasized that the message of the rally was apolitical, and intended to promote a prayerful return to God in the nation. Virtually no signs were observable at the rally. Dr. Kings niece, Dr. Alveda King, was a featured speaker at the rally, and said Saturdays ecumenical gathering of Americans to give public recognition to God fit in with his legacy. "If my uncle Martin was here he would commend us for giving honor where honor was due and focus on the content of character, not the color of skin," she said, emphasizing, "We must rediscover the values and principles our fathers established." Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate also spoke, saying that giants like Washington, Lincoln, and King were all formed by a solid rock foundation of faith in the one true God of justice. It is so humbling to get to be here with you today, patriots you who are motivated and engaged and concerned, knowing to never retreat, Palin continued. I must assume that you too know that we must not fundamentally transform America as some would want. We must restore America and restore her honor! Media estimates for the crowds pegged the number between 87,000 (CBS) to 500,000. The number is difficult to gauge precisely since the National Park Service no longer does crowd estimates. Beck himself stated that he thought the crowd was at least 200,000 strong, and said he planned to compare photos of the crowds of the rally taken by the Associated Press (which declined to give a specific number) to another photo of a St. Louis, Missouri rally taken by the AP and estimated at 100,000 people. However, CBS reports that the 87,000 figure comes from an independent firm, AirLivePhotos.com, that also burst the bubble surrounding assertions that over a million showed up at the Obama inauguration. Instead the company pegged the Inauguration crowd at 800,000. |
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.
Media estimates for the crowds pegged the number between 87,000 (CBS) to 500,000
The article also states that:
CBS reports that the 87,000 figure comes from an independent firm, AirLivePhotos.com, that also burst the bubble surrounding assertions that over a million showed up at the Obama inauguration.
Glenn Beck draws about one tenth or more that the Obama Inauguration drew. It really did not have much publicity compared to a presidential inauguration...
Oh, the 0bummer inaugural “only” drew 800,000? Why the gross underestimation? [sarc]
“airlivephotos.com” doesn’t seem to have an internet presence. Hmm?
bttt
Excuse me, Düsseldorf.
I am used to calling them “Dusseldork”.
Isn’t that odd.
I can’t even find a company called “air live photos” in a google search.
“tens of thousands”?? How about 300,000, as reported even by most of the leftist media?
The Metro system should be able to calculate how much traffic they bore more than normal. The Beck organization also handed out a pamphlet and ticket to individuals as they approached; and they should have a very rough estimate of how much they had left over, since people willing to be there wouldn’t have rejected them — but wouldn’t wanted to have been bothered by having two of them, either.
Do we really need to help the MSM, by using the fake number?
Yep - it really was “tens of thousands.”
And there were at least 30 or 40 groups of them.
There were between 30 and 70 tens of thousands, depending upon the time of day when you counted.
http://domains.whois.com/domain.php
No match for "AIRLIVEPHOTOS.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:17:02 UTC <<<
If Liberal Blogs and and our MSM were around in 1863. They may have posted a news story like this:
Philadelphia Gazette November 20th 1863
Reported by: Christopher Jedediah Mathews
LINCON ADDRESS SPARKS DEBATE OVER CROWD SIZE
In his address at Gettysburg yesterday, Mr. Lincoln said, The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, and Lincoln is spot-on right for a change. The actual crowd size is highly disputed, but take it from me, it looked puny, and was comprised of only older white male politicians and soldiers ordered to attend. There were no freed slaves or women seen in any of the published photographs which begs the question, were they prevented from attending?
I saw people leaving in droves bored by the long speeches that preceded Lincolns speech. Lincolns address itself was not delivered well, its words poorly chosen. And without a microphone (because they havent been invented yet) the people in the back had a hard time hearing him. Several were heard shouting mockingly during the address, Hey Stretch, speak louder. Some of these same people were also holding signs with a picture of Lincoln, with no beard but a little funny looking square mustache added.
On to more important news - In last nights Emmys, My American Cousin lost out on an Emmy for Best New Comedy Play. Certainly this play will not survive another season, nor will Lincolns speech. Mark my Words.
And the photo is either cropped, or only caught a part of the crowd.
Their home page seems similar to some other designs I have started seeing crop up.
As if they are 'fake' right wing websites passing misleading information, and one person is providing the 'style' for all the websites.
i.e. Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.