Glenn Beck rally attendance: calculating how many really showed up (Remote sensing est.: > 800,000)

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 08/30/2010 | Peter Grier

[Stand Watch Listen]

FYI…

Metro ridership spiked on day of Glenn Beck rally (510,000 riders)

[BerryDingle]

Sharpton had 2,000, max. Where’s the Media on that?

My same thoughts, isn't the focus on the wrong "gathering" here?

[MamaDearest]

But wait, didn’t one of the MSM (code word for propaganda) stations say it was about 87,000? They wouldn’t lie to the American people would they? Or would they? (sarc.)

[the_Watchman]

Perhaps you should refer to post #21 above. The problem was with the original title. It implied that the remote sensing technique had estimated Beck’s rally at >800,000. The original poster graciously concurred with my observation.

[paudio]

Most people are not concerned with the exact numbers, as it is next to impossible to get them right. It is, however, the blatant lies of ‘ten of thousands people’ when it’s clear it was in the ‘hundred of thousands people’-range, that make people angry.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Sharpton had 10s of 10s.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The crowd was so huge that it disrupted Washington's subway system.

I can vouch for that. It was a mess.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Accompanied by this public service ad to counteract the Restoring Honor attendees:

[Catsrus]

Nope.

[Artcore]

And they left the place spotless!

[VAarea]

My family and I sat underneath the trees and were shoulder to shoulder with other familys, where there was shade...the crowd was packed THICK under it! Can only see how much from the ground level photos.

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Not only under the trees, but people were arriving throughout the event. While walking around the west side of the Lincoln Memorial around just before 1100 there was a steady stream crossing the bridge from Arlington Cemetery. No doubt the same was happening from other directions, due in part to the Metro backups that others have reported. It was a dynamic situation.

[blues_guitarist]

Just for perspective, this was the Promise Keepers "Stand in the Gap" event Oct 4, 1997. I was there . . .

The National Parks service would not admit it was a million men . . . I believe it was about 1.2M

Compare this photo with the ones from last Saturday for perspective . . .

[ken in texas]

Mea Culpa, I completely overlooked that part.

[the_Watchman]

The article was not well constructed. The paragraph break was probably not in the best place and it would be easy for a quick reader to come to the wrong conclusion.

[The Wizard]

Glenn spoke about the bullet proof vest on today’s show

[luckybogey]

Sarah was also wearing a vest...

[Dante3]

It was an enormous crowd, and it was pathetic how MSM tried to spin Rev. Al’s.

[taildragger]

LB...

How can you tell or how do you know.

I could tell on Glenn, but what do I know about women's clothes and vest-type top she is wearing.

[taildragger]

LB...

How can you tell or how do you know.

I could tell on Glenn, but what do I know about women's clothes and vest-type top she is wearing.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Accompanied by this public service ad to counteract the Restoring Honor attendees.

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Obama did respond when asked whether he watched the rally. He said he didn’t and then gave a standard == “I’m glad that people are exercising their freedom of speech”.

In other words, he’s not interested in what hundreds of thousands (perhaps a million) Americans are concerned with.

But then he has the time to wade in to the matter of the ground zero mosque when a handful for Muslims are agitating for it.

Talk about where his priorities lie...