Posted on 10/30/2010 4:33:26 PM PDT by Tea Roll
No one seems to be sure exactly how many people packed the National Mall today for the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, but there's one thing everyone can agree on: sanity and/or fear are extremely popular.
MTV's spokesperson told the Washington City Paper's Mike Madden that 250,000 people came out to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert take the stage Saturday, while Viacom (the parent company of MTV and Comedy Central, home to Stewart's and Colbert's show) told the New York Times' Brian Stelter that "well over 200,000" were in....
At the rally itself, Mythbusters hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage said they counted about 150,000....
To be sure, even the smaller estimates show an extremely large crowd for a DC event, even one in this year of tea party rallies packing the Mall and the Capitol lawn. I have been to many a tea party rally, from the big ones to the small ones, and jammed in the crowd at Stewart's rally as I was today I can say there was an amazingly big turnout....
(Excerpt) Read more at tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com ...
IBTZ!
Well since we are so ‘evenly divided’, how do we tell who to shoot when the shots start flying?
I don't trust the Liberal or far Left media.
We need some overhead shots. I have yet to see any so maybe they are hiding something?
IBTZ
Well, that’s what happens when you bus people in.
Can we say “Astroturf”?
Aww come on...just because little old ‘tea roll’ just joined on 10/21 doesn’t mean he or she is a troll... (does it??)
Created an account today to post this?
p.s. Why shouldn’t Sorosites write comments in Free Republic? It would be useful for them to do so.
Looked like 5k people.
OK
ASTROTURF!
Big deal . . . they could have gotter 150,000 just from college kids within driving distance, nevermind the AFSCME union members.
Looking at the short posting history,looks like a bad act.
Keep your weapons handy, kitties.
lol!
I saw overhead shots on another thread. Not even close to the other rallies. Possibly one-third the crowd. No matter. Tuesday we kick all their @sses. Volunteer, call, donate and vote!
Where are the pictures of the Mall showing how many people were there?
we need to see the aerial photo
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