"I would say there were about 500 people there from each side." -- not even close Douchebag.
Even the Boston Globe has sheepishly admitted a crowd of better than 6000 -
Waving stars and stripes and Gadsden flags warning “Don’t Tread on Me,’’ [b]a crowd of some 6,000 gathered on Boston Common [/b] amid patriotic tunes, heated antitax rhetoric, and much-anticipated exhortations from the tea party movement’s adopted standard bearer, Sarah Palin.
It must have been painful for the Globe to admit that.
It also suggests that the actual number was likely higher, and the Globe took the Lowball estimate.