How many showed up to Becks rally?

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brettdale  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-28-10 06:01 PM
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How many showed up to Becks rally
   
According to the media????

According to faux news??????????????

and what was the real crowd number?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9035257

Yep just as I predicted the dummies will be claiming only ten people showed up.

The_Commonist  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-28-10 06:06 PM
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1. 79,428
   
I pulled that number out of my ass.
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Aug-28-10 06:06 PM
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2. CBC and BBC "tens of thousands," Fox claims "thousands"
   
So I'd assume something in the low to middle five digit range.

nadinbrzezinski  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-28-10 06:07 PM
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4. You be the judge   Updated at 12:34 AM
   
*Some photos*



Now wonder Fox is reporting only thousands...

This is not what they were expecting.

And the spinning has begun.

[formerlurker]

Officials do not make crowd estimates because they are unreliable and can be controversial, but event organizers put the number of attendees at 500,000; NBC News said it was closer to 300,000, but by any measure it was a large turnout. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/us/politics/29beck.html

[delilahmused]

Wonder how many were at Brother Al's counterrevolution?

Cindie

[true_blood]

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Original message
How many showed up to Becks rally
   
According to the media????

According to faux news??????????????

and what was the real crowd number?

Hey dickhead, turn on the TV/internet connection and see for yourself! There were TONS of people there. 

[Chris_]

Wonder how many were at Brother Al's counterrevolution?

Cindie

14

[crockspot]

NBC is reporting around 300,000 at Beck's, and "several hundred" at Sharpton's. lol

[The Hollywood NeoCon]

brettdale  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-28-10 06:01 PM
Original message
How many showed up to Becks rally
   
According to the media????

According to faux news??????????????

and what was the real crowd number?

To paraphrase Mayor Giuliani, "more than [you] can bear..." 

[RobJohnson]

lob1  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-28-10 06:24 PM
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16. I was watching CNN a hour or so ago, and they
 showed an ariel shot of a BIG, BIG crowd. If you are correct, (and I believe you over CNN), then CNN showed shots from a previous gathering. What rotten bastards.

 

[lars1701c]

They said 87,000 attended? That number is so full of shit. 

[formerlurker]

Kookaburra   (1000+ posts)           Sat Aug-28-10 06:30 PM
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19. It's misleading
   
As someone in another thread mentioned, if you enlarge the photo you'll notice a lot of green in there and a lot of lawn chairs taking up space.
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Demoiselle   (1000+ posts)           Sat Aug-28-10 06:47 PM
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24. This shot looks grayer and cloudier than the other shot at the Fox website..
   
It could be my imagination, of course.
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LostinVA   (1000+ posts)           Sat Aug-28-10 07:09 PM
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33. That photo proves the crowd was quite small
   
As I said several hours ago: look at the grass.

I bet they told the folks to spread out, and I also bet the majority were bussed in.

Of course all they had to do was actually watch it, and they would have noted the very large turnout.  

[miskie]

They said 87,000 attended? That number is so full of shit. 

The number the loonies are trying to push now is something like 74.000 - I figure by the time next Friday comes, the liberal estimate of the Beck rally crowd will be somewhere about three... One of which will be a stray dog.

[Ballygrl]

rant on

Yes progressives, keep deluding yourselves, there were only a few thousand at Beck's rally, you're not going to lose the mid-terms, in fact you're going to pick up a few seats, ask yourself this question though, if you're really confident that there were just a few thousand at that rally, and that you're going to pick up seats during the mid-terms? then why are you so angry and miserable and outright bitchy with your fellow progressives? why do you do nothing but complain? why are you in chronic PMS mode? A reality check is due, there were hundreds of thousands of people at that rally, a # you can only dream of getting at hatefest rallies you throw, and you're going to lose the mid-terms because hard working Americans who dream of a better life and less Government realize that your utopia is just that YOUR UTOPIA not theirs. So you can continue to delude yourselves that things would be so much better if Obama listened to you, but you'd be wrong as usual, Obama has listened and implemented a lot of what you stand for and it's FAILED and you can't deal with it because to acknowledge that Obama has been a failure is a reflection of everything you've stood for and believed in your whole lives. Well it's time to either grow-up or shut-up!

/rant off