“These two pictures are not comparable, because they cut off the bottom of the pic on the right.”
Agreed. I don’t understand why we don’t see comparable photos of each event, both taken from more or less the same height and direction. It’s not like there wasn’t plenty of advance notice.
“These two pictures are not comparable, because they cut off the bottom of the pic on the right.”
“Agreed. I don’t understand why we don’t see comparable photos of each event, both taken from more or less the same height and direction. It’s not like there wasn’t plenty of advance notice.”
Actually, I saw another version of the picture on the left (the Beck rally) posted here yesterday. It extended farther down below the war memorial, showing even more people at the Beck rally. I think someone cropped the Beck rally pick just to make them the same size.
If you look at the horizontal graphic below the two pics, you can actually see that the two rallies were held in completely different spots on the mall, and the area covered by the Beck rally was much larger. I don’t know what kind of vantage point is available to catch both of these venues in the same photo, but given that the joke rally was planned and announced after the Beck rally, there would have been no reason for someone to take a photo at the actual time of the Beck rally that showed all the way back to the area where the joke rally was held. So something like these two pics, along with the graphic below, are probably the best we are going to get for comparison of the two.