VERY FEW protesters in DC

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Several conservative groups behind the march say that as many as 2 million people turned out to protest everything from Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul to the legitimacy of his election.

The crowd was much smaller.

A spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire Department made an estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 people.

A photo circulated among conservatives as proof of a larger crowd was revealed to be a fake.

The photo depicts a crowd stretching from the Capitol nearly to the Washington Monument. It was posted on several conservative blogs and Facebook pages, with notations that it was taken on Saturday.

There is no way it could have been taken Saturday because the National Museum of the American Indian is not there. The museum opened in 2004 on the east side of the Mall. It's not there, so the photo must have been taken before then.

Several bloggers who ran the photo have grudgingly corrected their errors.

PolitiFact, the ever-valuable fact-checking arm of the St. Petersburg Times, has much more on the photo controversy.


http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...arty-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/

Rightwingnuts pwned again! :cool:
 
RIGHT preacher because you show something besides braindead daily. NOT

I would have to say that you would have to be braindead to 1) think I was a preacher and 2) think I was Catholic, and 3) think I was a pedophile....yet, you keep making the same error, over and over.....
 
your right about that, like Bill Mahr I'm against all religions.
revel in your cartoons, I'll stick with movies.
 
like Bill Mahr

yeah, you're like Bill Mahr all right....

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The 912 march was dissapointing. None of the old white geezers dropped dead during their hate show. They were mine if they had.
6 did die in accidents on the way home though, so it was not a total loss.
 
Most estimates under 75,000.

Rightwingnut Astroturfers claim over 1 million. They lied.

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When millions of Americans protested the Iraq war, the media ignored it. 70,000 lunatics protest healthcare, they got hours of commentary. When a couple went to a Bush rally wearing anti-Bush t-shirts, they got arrested. Guys at Obama rallies openly carry guns and get interviews.

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Teabagger-birther-handjobs claim that ABC News had reported crowd size as 1 million to 1.5 million people. Problem is, ABC never said that:

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 D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as "tens of thousands." Here's the picture Michelle Malkin's been spreading about Saturday's Obama protest:

http://www.osborneink.com/2009/09/teabaggers-lie.html

Here's the picture Michelle Malkin's been spreading about Saturday's Obama protest:

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Here's a live shot, according to Osbornink.com

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Looks to me like nobody showed up.
 
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