You mean a friend who eye balled the fake picture and came up with an estimate?
On Sep 14, 4:58 pm, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > Do I have to repost the links to people who actually did the math??? > Why do you rely on folking spreading fake news??? You should rely on > the continuous photos of the site.. Oh I know, you must deny that the > Tea Parties are a grass roots movement... > > On Sep 14, 4:47 pm, VT Sean Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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." > > > 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. > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/912-tea-party-photo-false_n_... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
