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By: The_Livewire

The_Livewire — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:04:53 +0000

And there’s the civility from the left we all expect. You also have the terrorists and the truthers that the President associates with, so you can keep them.

By: Tano

Tano — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:29:09 +0000

“Libs like Tardo are just outraged because their protests are all the left has.”

We have the government, dude, so suck on it.

By: American Elephant

American Elephant — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:14:39 +0000

Libs like Tardo are just outraged because their protests are all the left has. We have talk radio, they tried to copy it, and failed miserably. We have successful cable news, they tried to copy it, twice, and failed miserably. Now we have shown that conservatives concerned about the constitutional role of government can out-rally them as well, and being the responsible adults, we actually pick up after ourselves, they mess themselves and wait for government to clean up after them.

By: Tano

Tano — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:50:53 +0000

“if there were only 70,000 at the rally, that’s still more than 150 and it still didn’t get a Yahoo! headline”

OK Dan, I guess we can find common ground here. You admit the crowd was only 70K, and I will agree with you that it still deserved a Yahoo headline.
We cool now?

By: gary

gary — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:42:13 +0000

AOl Also didn’t have any mention of Yesterdays Protest.

By: Sonicfrog

Sonicfrog — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:19:31 +0000

If one million people rally against big government and the MSM pays their protest no heed, does it still make a sound?

Remember how much publicity Louie Fahrakan’s non-million man million man march got before during and after that lame event? Not a big fan of some of the content on Fox news (the screaming heads shows), but when the rest of the media ignores something as unprecedented as this, well, it’s no wonder Fox’s rating continue to increase while the others erode.

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:34:06 +0000

Oh, and Tano, even if there were only 70,000 at the rally, that’s still more than 150 and it still didn’t get a Yahoo! headline like that miniscule Cheney protest did.

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:56:03 +0000

Tano, calling a sourced number “pathetically sad” shows just how pathetically sad you are, frequently a sight you call “pathetically sad.” I included “as many as” because I had no clue how big the rally was and that was the largest number I could find; it was even included in a news article.

And from the guide that TGC linked above which describes how the Park Service measures crowd size, it’s clear the crowd easily exceeded a quarter-million.

So, maybe it wasn’t “as many as” 2 million, but every number I have seen pegged the turnout in a range from the high six figures to “as many as” 2 million.

And please, before you comment on something you cut and paste into your comment box, consider the meaning of the words I use. Your lesson for today is the meaning of “as many as.”

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:38:04 +0000

Richard, thanks for the tip. When I checked Yahoo!’ main page, I could find no reference to the rallies whatsoever. Did you perchance to do a screen capture?

By: ThatGayConservative

ThatGayConservative — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:43:12 +0000

Try this, Tano.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm

By that, there’s no way the crowd was only 60-70,000.

By: Steven E. Kalbach

Steven E. Kalbach — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:40:18 +0000

I think the single most important benefit we gain from lefty is when he/she opens their mouth; without fail, up pops 5 more conservative activists and the crowd keeps getting bigger.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:23:37 +0000

Just to update, the protests are now the 4th most read US article and 3rd from the top in the Top Stories box on Yahoo.

By: PunditKix

PunditKix — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:02:03 +0000

Tea Party – “We are living in a weird era, in which news organizations studiously avert their eyes from the news.“…

Thank you for submitting this cool story – Trackback from PunditKix…

By: Tano

Tano — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:55:49 +0000

Checked in with ABC news, and their “unspecified officials” were actually the DC Fire Department estimate.

“approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, according to the Washington DC Fire Department.”

By: Tano

Tano — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:45:09 +0000

“With as many as two million people attending, ”

This is so pathetically sad, it isn’t even funny.

From HotAir – as wingnutty as it gets: ( at 8:30PM)

“As of a few hours ago, D.C. police were refusing to make any estimates but ABC got some unspecified city officials on the record claiming there 60,000 to 75,000 people there.”

By: John in Dublin CA

John in Dublin CA — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:17:22 +0000

The only words that come into my mind every time I watch/hear Obama speak are two: “Sieg Hiel!

By: democratsarefascists

democratsarefascists — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:05:46 +0000

The last count I heard was over two million.

Glenn Beck should open every show with footage of it.

It might be the only accurate portrayal most people ever see.

By: ThatGayConservative

ThatGayConservative — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:57:25 +0000

If one million people rally against big government and the MSM pays their protest no heed, does it still make a sound?

Yeah but if you’re tone deaf, you won’t hear/see it.

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:35:38 +0000

“I will not accept the status quo. Not this time. Not now,” the president told an estimated 15,000 people during a rally that had every feel of a campaign event, right down to chants of “Fired up, ready to go!” and “Yes, we can!”

Is it just me or is Obama sounding more and more like a Mussolini with better-toned abs and pecs?