(cross-posting-crap-cut).

Dave, your spot on. Okie Joe said in an email, it looked to be, maybe
20 to 25K. less than i see at a Steeler game by a bunch. here in Western
PA, the express came last week to Cranberry twp. TV news said maybe 100
people, friend told me 15 at most. Teabagger git together at Bushy Run
state park, over the weekend, maybe 10 people. the neo-cons can jump
up and down all they want. this is the truth. I did Pat-Guard at a
small local cemetery. one Vet, we got almost 500 people. i love doing
Patriot Guard, VN vets are people too ya know.

Drifter...




dave wrote:
~ RHF wrote:


Two Million American US Citizens on the Streets
of Washington, DC =Photos=Reality=Proof=
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109844
Real News Coverage of a Human Event
http://www.foxnews.com/search-result...m#q=9-12+Rally

Not a Government Media Black-Out

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_286082.html

Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on
Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed
National Mall. But the picture is years old.

Politifact asked Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire
and Emergency Department, if the rally was big enough to fill that
space. Piringer said no -- and moreover, the picture can't be from 2009.

"It was an impressive crowd," he said. But after marching down
Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd "only filled the Capitol
grounds, maybe up to Third Street," he said.


Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the
Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.

There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include
the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the
corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14,
2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper
right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space
Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened
exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea
party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.

"I've seen bigger crowds at Montreal Expos games, but I still wouldn't
fake a photo just to justify your predictions of millions descending on
Washington," said one gleeful Democratic media strategist. "This is
grade-A stupid and just plays into the argument that these were
astroturf protests to begin with. They've always brought the noise, but
the question that was supposed to be answered this weekend was, could
they bring the numbers? In that respect this was an unmitigated disaster."

The photo had been circulated on blogs and Twitter. A number of
conservative blogs have since taken the photo down. Some have corrected
their posts. Others say the circulation of the picture was a left-wing
conspiracy to discredit the event. However, many of them are still
claiming that at least a million people attended the march. Nate Silver
estimates about 70,000 protesters showed up.

It isn't the first failed attempt by the protesters to inflate the size
of the event. On Saturday, organizer Matt Kibbe announced on stage that
ABC News had estimated a crowd of 1 to 1.5 million. ABC News had
reported no such thing.