Fox News: NYC Protests got well UNDER 100,000 people!

Fox News | February 15, 2003

[Dont Mention the War]

A reporter at the UN just reported that the Manhattan protests got nowhere *near* the 100,000 they were predicting, big empty holes in the specified protest area, and sporadic arrests. It's already broken up because they never got to critical mass.

A total failure!

[MarMema]

Our family protested the bombing of Serbia and people here in Seattle walked by and cursed us.

Now they are instantly peaceniks and all worried about bombs hurting children. Funny how that happens.

[Brad’s Gramma]

That man needs a good night's sleep.

His bags are now part of his chin.

[Dont Mention the War]

What is truly B.S. is the fact that, if they did have 100,000 people protesting, the figure is not that impressive when you consider the population of NYC, if not the United States.

Exactly. Even if we accept the highest numerical claim of every single turnout at every rally on the planet today, it still only adds up to .00001% of the population.

The truly amazing thing is that I've seen all three news channels making this point today! Even CNN is asking "What the hell is it these people want? Where are their solutions?"

[StarFan]

More confirmation that numbers are grossly inflated. Wish someone would tell Drudge to change his misleading headline.

[Dont Mention the War]

If we don't accept that there are millions of people opposing this war we're just lying to ourselves. Accept the situation and prepare a response. Ignoring reality is not going to help our effort.

I accept it. I just don't believe it matters. Millions are not enough to effect change, particuarly when 90% of them are outside the US. Sure, a lot of people went out and stood around today to show their discontent. And then they went home. What does that change except for the amount of overtime the Sanitation Department is going to get tomorro in all those cities?

I will admit, though, that I found this poster kind of funny:

Is that Prince holding it up?

[Dont Mention the War]

I hope she was dumb enough to get permanent tatoos.

Sadly, they appear to have been drawn on with a Magic Marker.

[MarylandPines]

ROTFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ZEET]

There is also a pro war rally going on in N.Y. today.
I heard last evening on talk radio.
Good luck trying to find anything on it on t.v.

[Dont Mention the War]

up yours, tim robbins. never knew who you are, but now i care. TRAITORS!!

God help us all if Kevin Bacon ever speaks out publicly. We'll never be able to rent another movie again ever!

[Dont Mention the War]

That aerial picture of the park with two large groups -- I estimate to 20-40 thousand people, based on sampling a smaller part of it. Not a hi-res picture, that's a ballpark estimate.

There is computer software now that can analyze photos and estimate crowd sizes. It's still a bit flaky, but certainly more accurate than the numbers that everyone else - the protesters, media *and* police - are all pulling out of their butts.

[Dont Mention the War]

Fox just now showing aerial coverage of the protests in Seattle. It looked like less than 1000 people, spread out over a good 7-10 square block area. Total failure.

[Southack]

"Our family protested the bombing of Serbia and people here in Seattle walked by and cursed us. Now they are instantly peaceniks and all worried about bombs hurting children. Funny how that happens."

Didn't you get your memo back in 1999 from the Left?

You know, the one that said "Clinton, Schroeder, Chirac war on Serb Christians = Good; War on Iraqis = Bad".

Funny how Clinton, Schroeder, and Chirac could wage war on Serbia in 1999 without the UN, but heaven help anyone else waging it that way.

By the way, is there even a war in Iraq yet?

If these "protestors" truly want peace, then they should be demanding that Iraq publicly disarm in the same manner as did South Africa at the end of Apartheid.

But these protestors don't truly want peace. Heck, they didn't protest the Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, or Kurdish massacres over the last ten years.

The organizer behind these protests, International ANSWER, is a front for the Workers' World Party, the very same WPP that SUPPORTED the Soviet military invasion of Hungary in 1956.

Thus, these protests are as much pro-Communist as anything.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The protests in Iraq were the best. Many of the peace protesters were in uniform and some were carrying AK-47's.

[Dont Mention the War]

You know, the one that said "Clinton, Schroeder, Chirac war on Serb Christians = Good; War on Iraqis = Bad".

Didn't Clinton, of all people, do the old Cruise-missile-up-the-camel's-butt thing after Saddam tried to assassinate 41 in 1993? Clinton BOMBED IRAQ. Where were the protests?

[finnman69]

BWAHAHAHAHAA

The DUmmies and other Anti-American Saddam Hussein fan club members think their hate march actually made a difference.

ROFL

[SerpentDove]

Matthew Lesko! LOL You nailed it!!!

[VietVet]

"...were there these kinds of protests when we dropped bombs on Serbia?"

There was at least one, in Washington, D.C., where c.30,000 people marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. The original purpose was to protest the threat to bomb Serbia over their actions in Kosovo, but by the time it took place, the bombings had occured and the Serbs had already capitulated to ... to NATO, I guess. I was there to register my protest, because I never did, and still do not, see where the US had any interest, right or authority to tell Serbia how to fight an anti-terroist campaign against the Albanian UCK, which even our own State Department called terrorists. Most people there seemed to be Serbian-Americans. No surprise, but the various left-wing protest groups took over the programing, and gave speeches insiting that the US "free Mumia" and pardon Leonard Peltier, and spend lots of money on their pet projects. What this had to do with the issue at hand, the US intervening in the Balkins, I have no idea, and said so - loudly - at the time. I was told, both politely and not so politely, to shut up and go along with the program.

VietVet

[Dialup Llama]

>They've been reporting inflated numbers, with the London correspondent (a combo John Cleese/Matthew Lesko) reporting "500,000, one million, possibly two million protestors."

If by the London protest, you mean at Hyde park, there is an aerial pic on another thread. Like the million mom march there is a crowd near the speakers tent, but not near the numbers advertised. Someone could do an analysis, but it was not 500K.

[Dialup Llama]

>>They've been reporting inflated numbers, with the London correspondent (a combo John Cleese/Matthew Lesko) reporting "500,000, one million, possibly two million protestors."

Am I bid 3 million? Do I hear 3 million? Anyone for 3 million? Someone tell the BBC reporter that estimating crowds is not an auction.