Yes and the Restoring Honor crowd also:
Had jobs they had to get time off from;
Had to pay their own way to and from the event; and
Had enough sense and decency to pick up after themselves.
Posted on 08/30/2013 1:56:06 PM PDT by TBP
Wednesday was a big day in Washington, D.C. Huge crowds swarmed the area beneath the Lincoln Memorial and along the Reflecting Pool as three American presidents — Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter (George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush could not attend due to health reasons) — a host of congressional representatives and dignitaries gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech.
NBC News initially described the crowd in a rather nebulous manner, reporting that “throngs of people” were there. The post was amended to say “tens of thousands.”
The New York Times coverage only mentioned crowd size once, using the phrase “tens of thousands of Americans.”
ABC News’ Mike Levine quoted “unofficial” law enforcement estimates saying “over 20,000″ people were on the National Mall just after 2 p.m.
CBS News actually posted a photo from above the crowd, estimating “tens of thousands” of people.
Back in 2010 during “Restoring Honor,” AirPhotosLive provided CBS with the crowd estimate of 87,000.
Looking back to “Restoring Honor,” media accounts of the crowd size varied quite a bit. However, even the lowest estimate from CBS News appears to have dwarfed Wednesday’s event.
CBS News: 87,000 (plus or minus 9,000)
ABC News: 100,000
NBC News: Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Between 120,000 – 200,000
Washington Post: Between 80,000 – 200,000
Australia’s Daily Telegraph: 300,000
How many were on the National Mall on 8-28-2013 vs. 8-28-2010? The photos show a compelling argument that Beck’s rally was an easy winner in the total attendees category.
In fact, it may have been larger than Glenn is now claiming.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/08/restoring-honor-rally-americans-honor-our-great-nation/
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/truth-be-told/2010/aug/30/rally-honor-hope-faith-charity/
http://voices.yahoo.com/glenn-beck-draws-estimated-500000-people-restoring-6693902.html
Compelling pictures, clearly Beck wins hands down. There’s also the fact that the only known Republican in attendance at the Obama event was Abe Lincoln.
who cares ???
I don’t watch MSM news anymore and hadn’t seen the photo, but I’m really surprised at the light turnout for Barry and his buds. The MSM really flogged this thing.
bttt
...especially when you consider how many of his 'buds' live a short distance away...
Everyone already knows the answer: Whomever has the lamestream media in their pocket wins the contest.
the media also said no racist Republicans cared enough to show up
Yes and the Restoring Honor crowd also:
Had jobs they had to get time off from;
Had to pay their own way to and from the event; and
Had enough sense and decency to pick up after themselves.
NOT EVEN CLOSE
Never in our history have so many raced across this country to swell the objection to this man-made malignant curse, only to be deliberately ignored and then be forced to watch the basic nature of our economic and health protection system be set up for abject destruction after having achieved global pre-eminence in the history of mankind!!!
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