[KarlInOhio]

Nice bunch of people walking across the street on the camera closest to the Lincoln Memorial, but it wasn't the wave of people jamming the streets like last time. Maybe that isn't where most of the people are coming from or maybe the crowd just isn't as big as last year.

[Never on my watch]

Looking at the photo’s of the early morning, I think the mass of people arrived in antipation of the traffic snarls. It looks like a similar size croud on the live stream. I also heard that the Metro is overwhelmed and many are still enroute.

[MyDogAteMyBallot]

We were at last year's rally, which received very little coverage. I'm local and have been to every rally except this one. Unfortunately, this rally will likely receive the most coverage because it's a “glen beck rally”. I do not believe it truly represents the tea party movement, although many of the people attending are true patriots from what I've observed (and in talking to attendees when I was downtown yesterday).

What I've seen so far on C-span is more like a hijacking of the tea party by Glen Beck than any of the other tea party rallies. It has also sounded more like a revival meeting at times than a presentation of conservative principles.

The tea party movement is supposed to be about we the people, not me the celebrity Glen Beck. I like many of the educational topics and guests on his show and the fact that he usually allows them to speak, but am totally turned off by the high drama and the constant self-promotion. He brings a good sound system (unlike previous rallies), but I prefer the voices of the people and their handmade (very clever) signs to the made-for-tv production quality of what I've seen so far.

Anybody who hangs out with Bill O’Reilly is not a true conservative (in my opinion).