Speaking At 9/12 Rally, FreedomWorks Lies, Inflates Attendance By Over 2,000 Percent
Speaking At 9/12 Rally, FreedomWorks Lies, Inflates Attendance By Over 2,000 Percent
Last Saturday, FreedomWorks, a corporate-funded right-wing advocacy group headed by former Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), hosted an anti-Obama rally in Washington DC. The event was attended and paid for by various conservative organizations, from Parental Rights associations, to “birthers,” to the Rural Landowners, a militant faction that has referenced Waco and Ruby Ridge to call for violence against the government.
Standing proudly on-stage during the rally, FreedomWorks leader Matt Kibbe proclaimed that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance. However, ABC News quickly called Kibbe out for his lies:
At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands.”
Kibbe also lied and said that the crowd stretched back to the Washington Monument, even though the crowd barely got past 3rd Street (the Washington Monument is at 15th Street). Kibbe’s lies were echoed by much of the right-wing community. Michelle Malkin dutifully enlarged the number of attendees even more, claiming 2,000,000 people were there. As Nate Silver has noted, “That’s not a twofold or threefold exaggeration — it’s roughly a thirtyfold exaggeration.” Conservatives on twitter distributed a fake picture of the rally showing the entire mall filled with people:
The problem? The picture is over ten years old, from another rally.
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Speaking At 9/12 Rally, FreedomWorks Lies, Inflates Attendence By Over 2,000 Percent
– - Ahem, Attendance.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:34 pmMatt Kibbe proclaimed that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance
– - Seeing as how ABC had gone on the record saying 60,000-70,000 people, you’d think Kibbe would have quoted FOX News. He’d have gotten some cover from them.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:36 pmAhem, Mr. Kibbe?
You lie!
September 14th, 2009 at 5:37 pmAs Politico reported, DeMint announced to the crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Waterloo!”
DeMint continued, “My name is Bonaparte and I’ll be your leader for the day! Our Hundred Days of Exile are almost at an end!!’
September 14th, 2009 at 5:39 pmSeems to be while freedom works doesn’t have the numbers the progressive caucus may well have !!! Call your congress person and tell them to vote with the progressives and sign the petition for a public option !
http://ga3.org/campaign/healthpetition/8uebkse9ljxmm58e?source=sep1009_leahy
September 14th, 2009 at 5:39 pm“This just in! Right-wingers lie to the public. News at 11.”
/Snark
September 14th, 2009 at 5:43 pmSomebody should have Joe Wilson check this out,
so he can see what lies really look and sound like.
Storm? You taking notes, too?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:44 pmWhere’s the picture of the ACTUAL crowd?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pmABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department.
You can’t believe the fire department. They are a socialist organization.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:47 pmDeMint announced to the crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Waterloo!”
Little did he know, it was his own…
September 14th, 2009 at 5:47 pmI hope to see this hammered early and often! They keep claiming “the American people this and the American people that” when the REAL American people are being duped by lying self-interest groups who are aided by the story staved media. Shame on us if we do nothing.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pmWelcome to “1984″. If the facts don’t support reality – just lie your ass off – it doesn’t matter – people are too stupid to actually look for what is the truth.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pmI suppose it’s only a matter of time before some fired-up righties appear here to help sell those lies by claiming they were there, and the crowd stretched from hither to such-and-so, and yadda yadda that’s why we’re afraid of Sarah Palin and so on….
…that’s going to be funny.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pmguessing that there swinger Polaroid camera did not work so they mush have called Gretchen Carlson to do some more crack (research) to fine a picture they can use.
they would have had billo do it but his loofah was out to the car wash.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:49 pmLemme get this straight. The wingnuts make advertisements against health care reform by tricking citizens of other countries into bad-mouthing their health systems or misrepresenting what they say about them.
They lie about the “grassroots” quality of their events.
And now they lie about how many people attend.
If their position is truly the correct one, why do they have to lie to sell their message?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pmNotice how MSM has dropped this story? MSM gives these people a platform. Which is totally underseved. Iraq Wars deminstraors were treated with distain and and called ‘hecklers.’ Yet, these guys are a ‘MOVEMENT!’ These guys are ‘Average Americans!’ Please. How many ‘Average Americans’ Hold Obama signs as Hitler. Or call him a Nazi? All I saw was a angry sea of young paranoids and older, bitter, white folks who can’t accept a Black man as Pres.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pmHere
September 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pmNumbers are just a “theory”.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Oy, shoeless…
You’re too clever by half. :D
September 14th, 2009 at 5:52 pmMatt Kibbe proclaimed that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance
– - When you want some professionally doctored photos, you really should turn to the North Koreans.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:53 pmSTORM says:
I Hate those ‘fringe’ sites like ABC News and the D.C. Fire Department… why they’ll say ANYTHING, won’t they?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pmum storm,
this is the thread that debunks the Dick Armey.
you must be looking for something else.
-thanks for pouting!!
September 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pmmisscoleopteramolly says:
If their position is truly the correct one, why do they have to lie to sell their message?
the lie is there message.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pmUh, there also was something else going on at the Mall Saturday — the Black Family Celebration Reunion — so wondering how any accurate count could be generated — anyhow, who cares what these a-holes protest. Obama won in November by a majority and Electoral College Landslide , and he didn’t even need the SCOTUS to annoint him president. So. Get. The. Hell. Over. It.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pmStorm is feeling fresh, his mom changed his diaper and he has a new bottle of titty juice.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:55 pmStormpoopy, there is no indication whatsoever about what date that video was taken.
Nice try.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pmHow can one expect to get an accurate attendance count
September 14th, 2009 at 5:56 pmfor a lie festival?
Hmm. I wonder what Michelle Malkin has to say about ABC standing by their number of MAYBE 50,000 to 70,000 compared to her outragous statement of of over a million?
September 14th, 2009 at 5:58 pmSay, STORMY, why was the flag at half-staff in that video from Saturday, Sept. 12th?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pmEach of these men also claims 6″ flaccid.
PEACE
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pmFunny that Storm should mention “King of the Hill”……..
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pmDamn. That’s irony.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pmwell no wonder the Conservatives ran this country into the ground.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pmif they have problems coming up with theses numbers how in the hell they can come up with numbers for the Gov.
Storm,
September 14th, 2009 at 6:01 pmIf you read below the video, a lot of posters say the video is bogus because the flag was at full staff—-not half-staff!
A lot say you can’t get to full-staff, either.
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Storm? Storm? yoo hooo, Storm?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:04 pmStormpoop and mgparrish have a serious lack of critical thinking skills.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:05 pmGlen Beck . com Is that one of those underage boy sex sites that are illegal?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:08 pmOkay, in most of the photos on Glenn Beck’s site (which are sent in by Lord knows who) there are dozens of people.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:08 pmOne photo shows thousands of people, but do we know which day it was? The video is the same half-staff video.
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Back in April, the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart offered some sound advice for frothing at the mouth Tea Baggers, “I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing.” Now five months after their Tax Day outburst, thousands of vein-popping Obama opponents descended Saturday on Washington for Tea Party II in an even larger display of confusion.
Here, then, are 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers:
1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes
2. The Stimulus is Working
3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt…
4. …Then George W. Bush Doubled It Again
5. Republican States Have the Worst Health Care
6. Medicare is a Government Program
7. Barack Obama is Not a Muslim
8. Barack Obama was Born in the United States
9. 70,000 Does Not Equal 2,000,000
10. The Economy Almost Always Does Better Under Democrats
For the details and data behind each, see:
September 14th, 2009 at 6:09 pm“10 Lessons for Tea Baggers.”
Here are your photos …
And here are your numbers, mgparrish! You’re Welcome!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120
September 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pmWow, can you imagine if liars’ pants WERE on fire? The whole city would have gone up in flames. Would have made the Chicago fire look like a weenie roast.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pmThink Progress:
“Update Here is video of Kibbe’s bogus claim that the crowd stretches to the Lincoln Memorial.”
That’s not what the video says. Kibbe says “to the Washington Monument.”
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pmkwsventures says:
So you taking over from storm? how crowded is that closet in that basement?
just asking seeing it stop responding (storm) then you show up.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pmkwsventures says:
It is like a billion here and billion there and eventually we are talking about a lot of money. Media and exaggeration go together like gin and tonic.
Umm, the ‘media’ is not the one doing the exaggeration… did you miss that?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pmHere is another picture of the protest.
Link
September 14th, 2009 at 6:11 pmPerhaps Kibbe was just using Karl Rove’s “the math”for his calculations.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:12 pmThat’s not what the video says. Kibbe says “to the Washington Monument.”
Yeah, I’m afraid he does TP…
September 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pmAngryOne, small critique:
September 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pmReagan+GHWBush=4.5X debt of prior 200 years!
not only they these teabbaggers looked like uneducated racist fools on TV.. It looks like they showed their ignorance once again in their ability to count!!
We shouldn’t make fun of them.. we should show it to our kids and show them what they will become of they don’t stay in school!!
here are some shots of the million man march that confirms these people don’t know how to count
http://rightwingsuperturds.blogspot.com/2009/09/million-moron-march-numbers-confirmed.html
September 14th, 2009 at 6:15 pmNPR has an article specifically on the question of whose numbers are accurate.
One item in the NPR piece mentions that there were actually two events going on at the same time, which may have given some people the idea that more people were participating in the rally than were there.
Nate Silver may be the most telling: If there had in fact been 2 million protesters in Washington yesterday, there would have been no need to lie about it — the magnitude of the protests would have been self-evident.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:16 pmWhy do we still call these people “conservative”? These people are far from conservative, they are radical. I suggest they are called the radical right.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:17 pm54. Wiz I know what I’d call em but I’ll get censored.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:18 pmMeanwhile, ABC News reports that Obama himself drew a crowd of 15,000 for a speech.
Not a cross-country rally promoted by Faux News and FreedumbWorks, just a policy speech.
The President drew one-fourth the crowd in Minneapolis that the Teabaggers were able to muster in the nation’s capital for their big marquee protest.
(h/t belaccifer lacca)
September 14th, 2009 at 6:18 pmShoeless, that was a photo of an anti-war protest!
September 14th, 2009 at 6:23 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Shit. We got caught again. It’s not that we expect you lefties to be unintelligent enough to overlook our phonies and forgeries, we simply expect you to be so exhausted at the end of a long day of fact-finding and making fancy arguments that you simply overlook it. That is the point where we retake the debate – based on our usual lies – and we don’t even have to repeat the lies until they become truth. Yet again, no gain, however. Once again you’ve bested us.
Just wait until the next kenyan birth certificate comes out. This time it will have an imprint of the newborn president’s butt cheeks. Maybe tomorrow will be the day!
September 14th, 2009 at 6:26 pmmgparrish says:
Look over here! Ignore the number problems and misleading claims! Nothing to see here!
Please!!
September 14th, 2009 at 6:26 pmSo basically… the teabaggers drew as many people as the Redskins did for their last pre-season game.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:27 pmCrazy people like me and Says Who believe crazy is popular. Tomorrow we’ll be posting photos of our hot model girlfriends.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:28 pmmgparrish says:
Here are your photos …
Wow. I count at the most a dozen african-americans in those pictures with hundreds of protesters. Weren’t they invited as well?
Far from me to say those protesters are racists, of course. They must’ve had their reasons, I guess.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pmBelac, you know the trolls are feeling the desperation when they have to throw Acorn against the wall.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pmI was able to access a couple of webcams of the traffic around the mall the day of the radical right teabagging each other. I can report the traffic looked pretty light, nothing like you would expect if a million people had shown up.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pmSo basically… the teabaggers drew as many people as the Redskins did for their last pre-season game.
http://www.grandprixcities.com/raceattendances.html
And far less than the Average Grand Prix weekend!?!
Whoa, football and teabaggers are less AWESOME than Formula One… that smarts, huh?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:33 pmI watched Chris Matthews tonight.I believe that he showed the fake picture as though it were accurate.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pmJust looking at the video tells you that it was a pretty light crowd. If there were a million people they would have jammed in tight, people are standing around with lots of space in between. The cheers sound like about 20 people.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:38 pmBe nice to blow up there picture and find out that it was taken during the Million Man march.
how would that go over with there white wing… they be boasting about how they were there,,, then notice picture and no whites in the crowd.
be like that 007 movie live and let die and the boat scene where the southern sheriff talking about jimjohns boat.
see all those white faces turn red>>> that be great watching. but they still not understand just how duped they were.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pmZooey says:
Where’s the picture of the ACTUAL crowd?
Down the memory hole?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:43 pmI love that smiley face protest sign thar reads “Stop Liberal Facism”.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:43 pm***
#58,
but blackwater
is still on the federal dole , right?
:)
September 14th, 2009 at 6:43 pmtypo @ 6:43 sign ‘that’ reads……
September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 pmcec says:
“I watched Chris Matthews tonight.I believe that he showed the fake picture as though it were accurate.
No surprise there, he wouldn’t even know the difference.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:47 pm***
#19,
more than twice as many people saw
the usc/ohio st. game saturday night.
*
and had a much better time too :)
.. …
September 14th, 2009 at 6:47 pmFox is probably photoshopping old tweets from the election protests
September 14th, 2009 at 6:50 pmin Tehran.
It’s not really that many when you figure the asylum workers had to be there to make sure they all took their med.s.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm.. … ..
#67,
I watched Chris Matthews tonight.I believe that he showed the fake picture as though it were accurate.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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call him on it dude.
:|
September 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pmGood link joe, who is it he just fawns over, what criminal is it, Tom Delay. That’s it.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:52 pmWhat Chris Matthews did was show a wide angle picture of Saturdays loon march and then showed a wide angle shot of the Million Man March. The million man shot had ten times as many people as Saturdays, and the million man march didn’t reach a million people.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:54 pm****
fake photo.
fake kenyan birth certificate.
fake grass roots movement.
*
- astroturf -
:)
September 14th, 2009 at 6:56 pmI’ve been to bigger rock concerts….
September 14th, 2009 at 6:57 pmToo old to rock’n'roll and to young to die..!
Where’s the birth certificate? Where’s the birth certificate? Where’s the birth certificate? Where’s the birth certificate?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:57 pmWhere’s the breath certificate? Where’s my girth certificate?
Where’s .. wheres’s the .. where’s … (catching breath).
YOU LIE!!!
Lies are all the scum sucking sh!t for brains conservatives have left…
….oh and fear, can’t forget fear…
…oh and stupidity, can’t forget that either…stupidity is important..
…oh and racism, that’s an special one…
…oh and ignorance, violence, and hate, those gotta count for something.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm“Welcome to Waterloo”
Right.
Yours.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pmhttp://www.examiner.com/x-21060-Seattle-Local-Music-Examiner~y2009m9d8-How-was-your-Bumbershoot-this-past-weekend
Constant rain and $50 tickets and Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival STILL attracted more…
September 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pmKibbe? Isn’t that a Lebanese meat patty? I demand to see this liar’s birth certificate
September 14th, 2009 at 7:03 pm#80-thanks for the info.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pmhttp://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/14/march/
A look at other recent marches on the nation’s capitol…
September 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pmThe only times Reichwhiners tell the truth is when they say, “I’m scared”. Of course, they then lie about what they are scared of.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:07 pmRich @ 6:52pm
The asylum nurses would explain the sprinkling of minorities that were present…..
September 14th, 2009 at 7:10 pmralph the wonder llama says:
So basically… the teabaggers drew as many people as the Redskins did for their last pre-season game.
____________
And the similarities don’t end there, ralphie…
Just like the ‘Skins, the Baggers lost their game too!
Eerie…
September 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pmDon’t forget Ronald Reagan Optimism ™, buckie. It consists of two tablespoons of happiness despite the worst and a teaspoon of snide arrogance. mmmmm .. conservadelicious.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pmThis is just another McCain-Palin.Same signs,same morons,and the same gutter speech. I only hope that citizens aren’t fooled.I wouldn’t bet on it though.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pmi can’t remember where i went, or how i got there, except
no doubt it was from TP or C&L, but one site was showing
pictures of the crowd and signs – AND EVERYONE HAD COATS ON.
i wish i’d dug deeper, and i did a cursory look around the
page for dates, because i was made to believe they were pics
from that day in d.c. …
maybe someone else found that page too…?
September 14th, 2009 at 7:14 pmbelaccifer lacca says:
Constant rain..
…well, not much rain on Saturday, WOW, Sunday was a downpour, but rain doesn’t stop Seattle from doing stuff.
Me, I was working on my remodel…so missed it.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pmSixty to Seventy thousand crazy teabaggers. Jeebutz.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 pmWhere is the lightning when you really need it.
When are they going to learn the tortoise [truth] has caught the hare [fib]
September 14th, 2009 at 7:22 pmMe, I was working on my remodel…so missed it.
Monday was pretty wet, too… but it did dry out occasionally. The Cave Singers were great!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:23 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Off topic, but going with the football references earlier.
The Pats are wearing their throwback uniforms tonight. Sweet.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:25 pmIn fact, they left the place just like they found it.
It’s almost as if there weren’t that many of them at all… in fact, it’s exactly like that.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:26 pmOh Slappy, relax and drink your cool aid.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:28 pmWhat do you expect from a group headed by Disk Armey?? He’ll just have you walk down the street from his house, that was bought and paid for with lobbyist money, to the local grocery store and pick up another gallon of Rove KoolAide and have a swig…That’s the ticket – all is well…
In VERY tough circumstances where he and Freedom Works is coming under intense scrutiny he’ll actually send you to his basement where the ’special’ koolaide stash is (brewed especially for pappy bush and Dick personally by Lee Atwater) and have you take a small swig down there..If your still not with the program then the next step is a personal meeting with the Grand Wizard of local KKK chapter..If you are unmoved after that, your fate is doom…
September 14th, 2009 at 7:29 pm“The problem? The picture is over ten years old, from another rally.”
lol Stay classy Repubs….
September 14th, 2009 at 7:31 pmthese people still don’t understand that the internet is an archive as well as a bullhorn. or, they don’t want to concede it.
they think they flood all venues with enough batsh!t crazy lies that it will be impossible to refute any of them…
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/eleventy-million-angry-white-people/
September 14th, 2009 at 7:31 pmIn watching the videos I was struck by something. What’s with the utter disregard for Flag Etiquette?
I saw flags on asses, flags as logos, flags as advertisements, defaced flags, handkerchief flags, and that doesn’t even include all the t-shirts that are going to end up in hampers with dirty underwear.
I thought these were supposed to be patriots. Obviously their “patriotism” doesn’t extend to respecting the traditions of treatment of the American flag they claim to “honor”.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pmThe most pathetic thing about the pitiful SlappyMORON is how he thinks he is clever while he he begs us to pity him. I mean it is SO obvious he is only stupid and pathetic but he really is that delusional. Thats why though his posts all go straight to the sewer he STILL comes in here begging us to pity him. Dont do it. He is a pitycrackhead
September 14th, 2009 at 7:38 pmSo sad, so pitiful. At the same time this ‘grass roots’ event was happening almost 10,000 people gathered for an event in rural Wisconsin, where the people who came by bus paid for their own bus. A crowd that listened to the words of Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Bernie Sanders, State Senator Tammy Baldwin and others without an indication of protest of socialism, nazism, communism, racism or any other ism other than that dread progressivism.
You know, the people who want progress.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:40 pm****
#100,
there was a huge pile shi†,
but it was gone as soon as they left.
:\
**
ot,
do your friends think you’re funny?
:)
September 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pm***
do you have any friends?
:|
September 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pmFor those here who want to indulge in an environment where progressive ideas are the norm, go to http://www.fightingbob.com/ It is an organization over 8 years in the making, growing stronger every year.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pmDavid Shuster of MSNBC had some of the best proof ever when he tweeted on Saturday at 5:57PM that he’s seen lots of protest over all the years he’s been in DC and he said that when the crowd only reaches back to 3rd street, which was where the teabaggers crowd ended, Shuster said you’d only have about 30,000 people. President Obama’s inaugral crowd was back up to 17th street. Kinda puts there little gathering more like a huddle!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:48 pmSorry for the blatant ad but it is worth it.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:48 pmyou don’t say, a lobbying firm that lies.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:52 pm#110,
“huge pile of shi†”
*
sorry i forgot the link.
:|
September 14th, 2009 at 7:56 pmI would just like to add:
September 14th, 2009 at 7:57 pmhttp://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09381/r133.jpg
http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09381/r630.jpg
So just what is the difference between our present day tea bag protesters and the Anti-Reconstructionist groups of the South (such as the Klan, the KNights of the White Camelia and the White League)?
September 14th, 2009 at 8:03 pmTrying some guilt by association there A? Aint gonna fly.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:04 pmWhats this upgrade wordpress
September 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pmdatabase stuff…
There had to be 5 things going on. All I know is that there were so many people, I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t park anywhere or get into anywhere. I couldn’t even get a slice of pizza. I just gave up and went home.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pmThere had to be 5 things going on. All I know is that there were so many people, I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t park anywhere or get into anywhere. I couldn’t even get a slice of pizza. I just gave up and went home.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:08 pmThere had to be 5 things going on. All I know is that there were so many people, I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t park anywhere or get into anywhere. I couldn’t even get a slice of pizza. I just gave up and went home.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:11 pmFun graphic… you can see how easy it is to get confused…
September 14th, 2009 at 8:35 pmhttp://pbump.net/912.html
Alejandro says:
Wow. You’re right. The teabaggers can’t even come up with original artwork.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:38 pmAnd that, my friends is what’s known as making lemonade when life hands you a basket of lemons.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:44 pmTo Alejandro @117: What country are those pictures from? If you wanted us to think they were from the U.S., you should have only posted the second link. I assume you were trying to make some point about Bush having been compared to Hitler, whereas you just indicated that the whole world didn’t like Bush. But then we all knew that.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pmToo HILARIOUS! The teabagging loons are so busted.
Now – I hope the MSM will stop saying Americans are angry when the screaming wingnuts do not speak for us all.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pmFolks, this is what it looks like when someone makes lemonade out of a boxful of lemons.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:51 pmhttp://pbump.net/912.html
Fun visual aid for the trolls…
September 14th, 2009 at 8:53 pmYet again, another example of what happens when wingnuts try to do math. And we’re supposed to listen to their economic arguments?
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NoMoreBush says:
Uh, there also was something else going on at the Mall Saturday — the Black Family Celebration Reunion — so wondering how any accurate count could be generated
The fire department would just be counting everybody.
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kwsventures says:
Media and exaggeration go together like gin and tonic.
Only wingnuts immediately exaggerate by entire orders of magnitude. We’ve seen y’all do this before.
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cec says:
I watched Chris Matthews tonight.I believe that he showed the fake picture as though it were accurate.
A lot of people fell for this. DailyMail.co.uk initially repeated (”up to”) a million as well.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:53 pmYet again, another example of what happens when wingnuts try to do math. And we’re supposed to listen to their economic arguments?
.
NoMoreBush says:
Uh, there also was something else going on at the Mall Saturday — the Black Family Celebration Reunion — so wondering how any accurate count could be generated
The fire department would just be counting everybody.
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kwsventures says:
Media and exaggeration go together like gin and tonic.
Only wingnuts immediately exaggerate by entire orders of magnitude. We’ve seen y’all do this before.
.
cec says:
I watched Chris Matthews tonight.I believe that he showed the fake picture as though it were accurate.
A lot of people fell for this. DailyMail.co.uk initially repeated (”up to”) a million as well.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:54 pmSlappyBastinado says:
I don’t know how many Neocons were there over the week end but it could not have been THAT many because there was not even 1/10th the the garbage left laying around, grass killed and the environment ruined…
Precisely. A larger crowd would have done more damage to the Mall. That’s another way we can tell they were lying.
September 14th, 2009 at 8:58 pmSorry for the obnoxious near-double post. My browser was acting freaky and not updating.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pmSlappyBastinado says:
I don’t know how many Neocons were there over the week end but it could not have been THAT many because there was not even 1/10th the the garbage left laying around, grass killed and the environment ruined like during the Democratic inauguration. In fact, they left the place just like they found it. Somethings just not right here…..
Someone has been reading Nate Silver, which is a start. Slappy, you tool, there were two MILLION people at the inauguration, for many many hours, so yes, they left a mess.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pmralph the wonder llama says:
Sorry for the obnoxious near-double post. My browser was acting freaky and not updating.
The new software! You’re not the only transgressor, or even close to the worst.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:03 pmThe new software! You’re not the only transgressor, or even close to the worst.
Yeah… I somehow posted the same thing about twenty times on the Beck thread… weird.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:05 pm***
#120,
so did everyone else.
:)
September 14th, 2009 at 9:16 pmi think TP is having some technical problems this evening…
September 14th, 2009 at 9:17 pm…
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#117,
you’re reaching pal.
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never seen that one before.
but this one is everywhere.
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keep trying alie,
keep lying.
:)
want to see more?
here.
:|
September 14th, 2009 at 9:25 pmThe sick thing is We Could Prevent Another Attack! (video)
September 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pmThe Anti-Reconstruction people didn’t have Faux News to distribute their talking points for them.
September 14th, 2009 at 9:36 pmPoll: 62.9 percent of US doctors support the public option
September 14th, 2009 at 10:02 pmhttp://rawstory.com/news/afp/Most_US_doctors_back_public_health__09142009.html
Dick Armey’s crowd may be an army of dicks, but certainly not in the numbers or size that he and his buddies claim it to be.
Men always lie about size.
September 14th, 2009 at 10:05 pmSorry. Someone from Redstate sent it to me and said it was from the anti-Obama rally.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:45 pmVan Jones, why do you hate black people?
September 14th, 2009 at 11:47 pmWait, a person from Free Republic just sent me a real picture of the anti-Obama rally.
Link
September 14th, 2009 at 11:52 pmVan Jones says:
I just LOVE to laugh at morons as stupid and brainwashed as you are. Just put on the red rubber nose and size 18 shoes because you are a free clown show about 400,000 showed up and it was reported that about 400,000 showed up which was pretty good. Now the Anti War rally at Washington DC about 200,000 showed up and the liberal media called it tens of thousands. Do you even get how STUPID you are? Dont you realize that only the most brainwashed sheeple imaginable take the whole liberal media thing seriously? My GOD you are stupid
September 15th, 2009 at 12:26 amBiased blogs! Why do you refuse to accept the FACT that the American Citizens that were there to stand up for their Constitutional Rights disassembled the National Museum of the American Indian shortly before that photo was taken, and then reassembled it before they left at the end of the day? Hmmmm? You can’t explain that can you?
September 15th, 2009 at 1:02 amMissed a million mullet march by “That Much”. My favorite quote? “We are not the lunatic fringe.” Let’s see U.S. population 305 million, tea-baggers 20 to 60 thousand, looks like lunatic fringe to me.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pmAll this fakery is only possible because of the Zionist controlled media. Congress should outlaw Jews from owning the media. Until that happens, all we’re going to get is more and more propaganda.
Israel is the enemy of all humanity.
September 15th, 2009 at 3:07 pmWhat 9/12 signs say vs. what they mean.
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republicanSScareme says:
All this fakery is only possible because of…
Antisemitic rant flagged.
September 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pmSure looks like more then the million men jerk off with Calypso Louie
September 15th, 2009 at 9:06 pmDeuce Coupe says:
Looks to me like you are an ignorant punkass troll. Without a shred of honesty, decency, or integrity. Just STFU. You are pile of dogshit
September 15th, 2009 at 9:18 pmThank you for your sharing.!
September 16th, 2009 at 11:49 pmIt was hard to estimate DC Tea Party crowd size with so many walker-wielding Medicare recipients protesting government healthcare.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/march-of-the-disgruntled-in-dc/
September 17th, 2009 at 7:36 pmI was there & taped it. I think this helps debunk the attendance claims:
short version
longer version
Also, Metrorail ridership shows that there were only about 40,000 extra riders that day. Short analysis here.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:35 pmI was also at the Inauguration. Here are 2 photos my wife took from the same spot on each day:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emjem1963/3937478887/
Browse the rest of our flickr photos for more comparisons.
September 20th, 2009 at 3:16 pmenough is enough! i’m tired of all the misinformation about the 9/12 attendance numbers. if a comprehensive university of indiana, peer reviewed, study isn’t good enough for you naysayers. and, if a highly regarded british media report is as equally dismissed. then, as a last resort i offer from the most highly recognized seekers of truth the undisputed, most accurate figure that is available. now i know you left-wingers are going to bash me for bringing out the truth, but i have only two words to say to you….bring it on!
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Boehner: ‘Tea Party’ Protests a Legitimate ‘Political Rebellion’
House Republican leader John Boehner says nationwide protests known as “tea parties” are the result of pushback against Democrats’ spending.
FOXNews.com
Saturday, September 19, 2009
….A prominent demonstration that weekend on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., drew tens of thousands in an event that organizers said was in opposition to big government proposals….
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HA! got you liberal, commie, basterds! BEK for Perez!