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.
Yes, ABC and the other Alphabet stations are using the “official” figure of 60,000. That doesn’t explain the fact that they(the police)shut down roads and wouldn’t let any more people drive in because there wasn’t any more room. The official figure is BS,the on picture alone showing the crowd from the capitol to the Washington Monument has more than 60,000 people in it, hundreds of thousands is more like it. It was hard to get an exact estimate because people kept coming in for hours, but more than the one area was filled with people. I know there had to be at least 200,000 and very possibly several times that. I like the 1.2 million estimate that the police gave at first and then later clammed up about it.
There might be some satellite footage that could be acquired. I am sure there is always a satellite over D.C. taking pictures.
Awesome - thanks so much for your report and for being there. I couldn’t go but was praying for you guys while I helped a friend who lost his house move some stuff.
After reading the article, I see why they went more conservative, they have to down-play it because their Messiah only drew a few thousand in the Twin Cities in MN.
The reason...they were in DC! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Damn troll.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/12/tea.party.rally/index.html
CNN Aerial shot - look at #3. I’m still trying to get accurate estimates from good sources. Has anyone else found any other good numbers/pictures?
Did anyone screen capture that earlier ABC News report?
Too late for that. It's a done deal.
post cam shots of 9-12-09 compared to 1-20-09
I’m still trying to get accurate estimates from good sources.
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People on this string that attended are saying Hundreds of Thousands to 1 million+. So the estimates I’ve seen range greatly, but way more than ABC, Fox or CNN ridiculous non-estimate, and talking about how 2,000 protestors had shown up on July 4th. Really CNN? REALLY?
Earlier in the day, ABC was reporting 1.2 million per DC police reports.
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I heard ABC Radio also said 2 million estimated. Yes, did anyone screen capture that?
Also, does anyone have the DC Police link?
Some pretty impressive shots in post 2124.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2337946/posts?q=1&;page=2101
I am quite certain that there were over a million, maybe closer to two.
And I am absolutely certain that no matter how the numbers are spun, or lied about, or fudged, or minimized by the Democraps, they are absolutely all terrified. They know what the real numbers were, and they know what the real numbers mean: it means that their DAYS are numbered.
Anybody who would go to the trouble of getting into that demonstration today is going to be an activist, a voter, and voting against Washington’s disgusting, corrupt, communist manipulation. And for everyone that was there, there were 5 who wanted to be, who couldn’t. And all of us feel the same way. AND WE VOTE!
Zero’s going to get his change all right. Americans are going to take their country back, and he and his gangsters don’t have much chance of keeping their jobs.
Why did they close bridges and streets..one of the reports said buses were turned away because of the size of the crowd. How large would the crowd have to be before they turn away people and close streets?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/12/AR2009091200971_pf.html
“Tens of thousands of conservative protesters crowded outside the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, a massive demonstration aimed at stopping what organizers called the over-expansion of the federal government under the Obama administration.”
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Tens of thousands - yeah, like maybe 100 ten thousands (=1 millions?)
The “other” group drew 1,940,000 and ours numbered 60,000. Ya, that’s the ticket!
“Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Update: TURNOUT ESTIMATES RANGE FROM 350K TO 2 MILLION”
Lets’ just call it “a lot” and be happy. I was expecting no more than 75,000.
Are these crowd estimates from Obama’s economic advisors?
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