Posted on 09/12/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by Zakeet
Edited on 09/12/2009 4:03:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Huge crowd, yes. But not two million. Even DeMint has now changed his first boast on this. Malkin is wrong because the police do not give estimates.
We were there and have seen a lot of crowds on the mall for inaugurations, July 4th festivities, marches, etc. Two million would not fit on the Mall in its two mile stretch.
Best estimate from experience? - 200,000 plus. For those familiar with the Capital and the Mall, the crowd filled the Capital west lawn, the area around the Grant reflecting pool, and west to Fourth street. It started encroaching on another group’s permit west of the Grant statue. It could be another 100,000 to 200,000 because they were forced to spread out along the sides of the rally because of the permit limits and the loudspeakers’ range.
It was a very large crowd, far beyond expectations, but too many groups inflate the numbers (mostly libs). It was NOT “tens of thousands” as the CNN NBC crowd are trying to say, but more like hundreds of thousands. BTW, the DC or Park Police do NOT make estimates, so anyone saying so is wrong.
Not bad for a rally organized by amateurs with no coordinating megalith like unions or the NAACP. Just real people. Almost ALL of the thousands of signs were handmade, not the fancy pre-printed ones handed out by liberal groups like MoveOn and SEIU.
I posted this on earlier threads. Now reports coming out are backing up my estimate. 200,000 (up to 400,000 because many were off to the side in the nether reaches of the Capitol lawn) is a HUGE number - four full Yankee Stadiums. Let’s not get carried away with the 2 million claim and give the left an opportunity to refute everything else.
And it was true grass roots. Almost ALL the signs were handmade, not the product of SEIU and DNC printing presses that characterize liberal rallies.
60-70,000 is a flat out lie. I was there.
A link to the actual ABC story would be really nice.
That would be the information czar.
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ginaswo replied:
we will have to see, ABC radio reported the 2m, DC police said 1.5 and closed the roads to buses, head click count at one passway was at 500,000 around 1100am
September 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm. Permalink.
2 million!!
That’s 1.9 million more people than attended the much-ballyhooed so-called “Million Man March.”
We can't fall for the trap of overstimating and then have the MSM prove we're worng. Better to undersetimate.
prisoner6
A link to the actual ABC story would be really nice.
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I just posted a post that claimed the 2M figure came from ABC radio. We need to get a source acceptable to independents, at least.
Exactly.
“The tens of thousands of protesters marched to the U.S. Capitol chanting various slogans and waving posters that voiced a rather broad array of grievances against big government and the leaders, particularly President Obama, who the protesters blame for its size and scope.”
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WHAT??
Well, I was there and I saw around 300,000 at the Capitol end of Pennsylvania Ave. I could not see everybody, so I don’t know how many more than that there were. I doubt it was over a million but I could be wrong. It will take some time to get more level headed estimates, but eventually the photos will tell the truth.
Sarah's party!
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/09/video-shows-massive-crowd-gathered-for.html
That is a picture from this morning. Next time shut your mouth before you look like an idiot.
BUMP!
The People’s Party? I think I like The American Party more.
I haven't seen the word "emocrats" before--I assume it's from the same root as "emetic."
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