Posted on 07/24/2008 4:25:51 PM PDT by reader25
Remember back in May when media gushed and fawned over a huge crowd in Portland, Oregon -- supposedly gathered to hear the words of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama -- but chose not to report the free concert given before his speech?
Well, it has been learned that before the presumptive Democrat nominee spoke to a crowd in Berlin Thursday, two popular German acts -- reggae artist Patrice and rock band Reamonn -- entertained the gathering audience.
Will media report this tonight, or just gush and fawn over the huge crowd again?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Me thinks not.
Sort of answered your own question didn't you?
I wonder who paid for the bands?
It wasn't "huge" and it wasn't anything like as big as they claim.
You can check this by looking at the news footage and then using Google Earth to measure the actual size of the area the crowd occupies (use the "ruler" tool).
You will find the square footage is a bout enough for around 50,000 people to occupy at a reasonable crowd density.
That's ONE TWENTIETH of what they were hyping it to be before the event.
I haven’t heard it reported.
If it takes a concert to bring people out, McCain better be doing the same kind of thing. He certainly isn’t much of a draw just for one of his speeches.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/07/24/wilson-waxes-wexler-matthews-double-team
Take a look at this! Chrissy was smoked tonight!
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