Hundreds of Thousands at Tea Party on Washington

[runningman]

The media reports that a few thousand were in attendance but the pictures don't lie. Hundreds of thousands were in attendance. Media must have missed this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJFvlbijbs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fcorporate-media-seriously-under-reports-numbers-at-d-c-tea-party%2F&feature=player_embedded

[floridaorange]

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[runningman]

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what are you laughing at? Where is the media on this one?

Go turn on CNN.. you wouldn't even know that the tea party was even going on. They are talkinga bout Airport security instead.

[Cj Tari]

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this is the same as left wingers taking the streets when bush was in office, nothing new.

the only difference is that in these "tea parties" they dont seem to be arresting people or calling them out to be hecklers or rioters.

[Lorn]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

Whatever the number is that picture looks like a lot of people. People exercising their constitutional right to protest and demonstrate peacefully.

[toasty]

Re: Hundreds of Thousands at Tea Party on Washington

Whatever the number is that picture looks like a lot of people. People exercising their constitutional right to protest and demonstrate peacefully.

Demonstrating peacefully this time, anyway...



Definitely a good sized crowd. Definitely not "hundreds of thousands," though.

[Lorn]

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Demonstrating peacefully this time, anyway...

Perhaps one day it will be necessary. Lets hope and pray it's not during our life time.

[runningman]

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your right toasty it was more like 2 million according to the media in the UK. Check out Lorn's link it says up to 2 million. Toasty why do you always have to look at the negative of what was a million person very peaceful protest? It even caught the police off guard.

How could this be? Who is right the US media or the UK media?

[Cj Tari]

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be realistic man, look at the pictures, that doesnt look like "millions" yes its a big crowd, but i doubt theres more than 20 to 30 thousand.

when obama did the speach in germany where he supposedly gathered 300,000, the crowd looked at least 20 to 30 times bigger than this crowd, so i doubt there was "millions".

[Miroslav]

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According to this ABC news article, DC fire department folks who were on site estimated it at 60,000 to 70,000.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120

Random thought: I wonder how many of the 60-70 thousand at that protest railing against "Socialism" are on Medicare, Medicaie, or any other US social programs (like unemployment benefits, etc.) - or have family members who are?

[Lorn]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/01/19/GR2009011900114.html

Well, going by this estimate of how many people fit in the mall and talking with my father today who was down there whose anecdotal view was the entire mall was filled with people (I have no way of verifying that), I'd say there was a lot more people protesting then is being reported.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

So why all the discrepancy?

[runningman]

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this is a great example of how the media lies.

[toasty]

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your right toasty it was more like 2 million according to the media in the UK. Check out Lorn's link it says up to 2 million. Toasty why do you always have to look at the negative of what was a million person very peaceful protest? It even caught the police off guard.

How could this be? Who is right the US media or the UK media?

There's a lot of people there, no question, but the photos there do not depict "hundreds of thousands of people." They just don't. The crowd isn't near dense enough. I'll give you "tens of thousands," but it ain't 2 million, or even close. Obama's inauguration, for example, was estimated at 1.8 million, and that included a dense swath of people along the parade route through DC, plus the capitol grounds, steps and mall packed in like sardines. This isn't in that same realm.

And I'm not "looking at the negative," we're talking about a matter of empirical fact here. I could honestly care less if a dozen people or 2 million people showed up, but when you're just making shit up, I feel compelled to call you out on it.

[Huggie Smiles]

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but when you're just making shit up, I feel compelled to call you out on it.

which is why Toasty's post count is so high!

[floridaorange]

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^^^indeed