OMG! YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT
I pulled it up on Virtual Earth (3D) you will see what it not in the picture. I looked at it from all types of angles.
An Interstate
Memorial Drive
What’s that flag Hanging from?
The picture has be doctored.
Meant to add
There is no way the crowd can get to the grounds of the domed building
NO WAY because there is an interstate in the way
If you two can verify that the picture is doctored, please do! It has already come out that the ST.Louis Dispatch has endorsed Obama, and most likely all St. Louis papers will. Would be great to be able to say that the Obama campaign supporters in the news have come to doctoring pictures of his crowds!
Well, the horizontal piece looks like the girder things that we use for major outdoor events that are lifted into place by either fire truck ladders or scissors lifts. Not hard.
I've been reading through this thread and it's obvious that the St.Louis people commenting don't work downtown. Memorial Drive, which is literally ABOVE the highway (the depressed section) was probably closed. The other thing is that the stage looks to be directly under the Arch with the pictures being taken facing west. There is a rise on that field that is graded down to Memorial Drive meant to catch the arch if it happens to fall that direction in an earthquake. What you see in the picture is the top of the rise.
I doubt the photo is faked, but 100K is stretching it. They kept the crowd between the walkways.