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You know, I've been to so many small tea parties that I don't care too much about the size of events after a while. The feeling at the massive rallies is just exponentially different. I covered the Phoenix amnesty and reconquista march, which easily saw 50,000 people make the trek from the starting Indian School location to the civic center. But whenever tea partiers march there's a systematic press effort to suppress the numbers. What's so funny about the socialist rally yesteday is that there's nothing the media could do to help the measly turnout for the radical leftists. Perhaps 10 or 15 thousand showed up all day, but it's pretty odd for speakers to still be yelping to the crowd when the mall is virtually empty (at the video). That said, Nicole Belle --- obviously of the reality-based community, right? --- is undeterred: "Here's Your Enthusiasm Gap: One Nation Rally Draws More Attendees Than Beck's 'Whitestock'." (Via Memeorandum.)
Even during what would appear to be at the period of peak attendance it's just not that crowded. Check this CNN video at about 30 seconds. Pay attention to the grassy area on the left, next to the reflecting pool. It's just wide patches of grass. And then check my post from yesterday.
Roughly the same shot can be seen at this C-SPAN screencap:
The Blaze says Huffington has a shot from the Washington Monument: http://tinyurl.com/2fgffq8
Good photo comparisons if the HuffPo photo is authentic.
Those of us who attended 8/28 didn't get free transport, free lunch, or a T-shirt. We didn't get paid to attend. So that seems worth noting, IMHO. We went because we felt the need to. Also there's the litter comparisons, but that was almost expected: people who demand entitlements expect someone else to clean up their mess, too, evidently.
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One of the comments at This Ain't Hell included this link.
There's your viral shot.
What I think is funny is that they also say that numbers don't matter.
Um, last I checked, numbers DO matter, because numbers get people into office!
The Blaze says Huffington has a shot from the Washington Monument: http://tinyurl.com/2fgffq8
Good photo comparisons if the HuffPo photo is authentic.
Those of us who attended 8/28 didn't get free transport, free lunch, or a T-shirt. We didn't get paid to attend. So that seems worth noting, IMHO. We went because we felt the need to. Also there's the litter comparisons, but that was almost expected: people who demand entitlements expect someone else to clean up their mess, too, evidently.
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