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Photos show 65,000 at peak of S.F. rally
Aerial study casts doubt on estimates of 200,000
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 2/21/2003
| Wyatt Buchanan
Posted on 02/21/2003 7:05:19 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Drango
Why can't the Chron say...? Because too much honesty at a time would cause complete vapor lock at 901 Mission St. Paramedics would be taking Chronicle editors out on slabs.
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posted on
02/21/2003 7:47:46 AM PST
by
skeeter
( Quo signo nata es?)
To: skeeter
Same thing in maine- the estimates in the paper were over 1000 but the number was closer to 3-400, with that being a bit high. Interesting that when about 200-300 freepers rallied during the fl recount, there was not even an article in the paper, yet it was almost the same size that got a front page article for the appeasers.
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posted on
02/21/2003 7:47:51 AM PST
by
KeyWest
To: finnman69
65,000 people Hmm, about the average size of football attendance dozens of times a week around the country in the fall. Do these numbers mean anything besides an affinity for football? Sports, competition, adherence to rules, etc ie typical conservative sentiments.
To: Gopher Broke
No, those are no longer PEACENIKS...now call them APPEASENIKS.UTOPIAN APPEASENICKS
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posted on
02/21/2003 7:53:29 AM PST
by
Frapster
(Viva la revolucion... er... I surrender!)
To: Frapster
UTOPIAN APPEASENICKSBar room parrots.
Polly wants peace, Polly wants peace ... awwwkkk!
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posted on
02/21/2003 8:07:18 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(Let the liberals whine -- it's what they do.)
To: concentric circles
Out on a limb, here:
I predict that as the criticism of the marchers continues and as they are exposed to analysis that they are helping the cause of military action by enabeling Saddam, fewer and fewer who marched will admit to it after the war.
Already I am seeing quotes from participants in Paris to the effect that "very few French people marched" and on the BrainTerminal video, I noticed at least half the respondents
had non-native American English-speaker accents.
To: skeeter
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To: skeeter
Don't give the Chron too much credit. They may have sat on this story since Monday or Tuesday, when its publication would have had a bigger impact. By now, the bigger numbers are imbedded in the consciousness of the minimally involved (the majority).
To: skeeter
Indeed -- the way the Comical was pushing the rally,and their general bias against cleaning house, makes this a case of "arguing against interest", as the lawyers would say.
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posted on
02/21/2003 9:31:35 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
To: onetimeatbandcamp
Maybe not, most of the crowd was in the vicinity of the march. It seems the same type of aerial footage could just as easily be used to document a larger area of crowds. I think the NY crowd was in fact smaller than the San Francisco fruitloop fest.
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posted on
02/21/2003 9:58:35 AM PST
by
finnman69
(!)
To: smith288
Bombs Away!!
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To: jiggyboy
jiggyboy, I think I see the top of your head in one of those pictures...you too HRTC :-)
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posted on
02/21/2003 10:13:40 AM PST
by
Drango
(don't need no stinkin' tag line)
To: skeeter
The truth won't matter now. Mike Farrell et al have already gotten their mileage out of the "millions of protestors" line.Thankfully, that mileage is zero.
To: skeeter
Many of these anti-war folk are nothing if not fickle. I predict we will start seeing Chronicle news racks vandalized and the Chronicle building itself may become a target for vandalism.
To: finnman69
The NYC police said about 100,000 - and the event was saying it was 350,000 - 500,000. To me, it did look bigger than SF's - so I'm guessing it was more like 75,000.
I sent a note to GW and told him "I" was one of 259 BILLION who did not march against the war - or against him.
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02/21/2003 1:10:41 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
( Yo! Syracuse)
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