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More comical, right-wing crowd estimates from Saturday's tea parties

September 13, 2009 6:49 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

This one came from Quincy, Illinois, where according to the right-wing blogosphere 12,000 people showed up to condemn Obama. That's right: 12,000 in the relatively small town of Quincy, Ill.

Fact: Divide that number by six and you might be right.

From the Quincy Herald Whig:

Quincy police estimated Saturday's crowd at between 2,000 and 2,200 at 2:30 p.m.

I guess it was fitting that Andrew Breitbart was a featured speaker in Quincy on Saturday. He's also allergic to facts.

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    • Author by ReasonAndResolve (September 13, 2009 7:30 pm ET)
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      Here is what I can say for certain: over 300 million Americans didn't march against taxes, health care, or President Obama yesterday.
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      • Author by newzhound (September 14, 2009 9:39 am ET)
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        Excellent!

        Reads like an Onion headline: "Hundreds of Millions of Americans Stay Home Instead of Protesting"
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    • Author by anyfreedomleft (September 13, 2009 8:23 pm ET)
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      analysis done by zbdent on Democratic underground:

      http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x37914
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    • Author by dr. matt (September 13, 2009 8:30 pm ET)
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      Mall pic
      [http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4854/mallpicture2.jpg]

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      • Author by captfoster2 (September 13, 2009 9:32 pm ET)
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        Come on now Dr. Matt

        There is no comparison... Glenn Becks little gathering had way more people! Or didn't you hear about the report from ABC as picked up by Michelle Malkin and repeated over and over by all the gullible right-wing dunderheads!

        Or didn't you get the memo?
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      • Author by CassavaLeaf (September 14, 2009 4:30 am ET)
           
        I was at both and there is no way the 9/12 stuff even compares to inauguration! As a matter of fact, my friends and I didn't even know about 9/12 until we stumbled upon it.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (September 14, 2009 6:28 am ET)
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        There were more people at the Vanderbilt versus LSU football game Saturday than at Glenn Beck's 9/12 event. More people at the UCLA versus Tennessee game... More people at the USC versus Ohio State game... More people at the Notre Dame versus Michigna game... More people at the Troy versus Florida game... More people at the Florida International versus Alabama game... Etc., etc., etc...
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    • Author by The_Cat (September 13, 2009 8:31 pm ET)
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      See, if he had been even half clever, he would have pegged the turnout at 22000, leaving him room to backpedal and claim it was a typo. Instead, he not only goes with a lie, he goes with a stupid lie.
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    • Author by 24enak (September 14, 2009 12:33 am ET)
         
      Holy crap, Quincy is forty miles from my home town, and I knew nothing about it. Quincy is a town of about 45,000 people, I wished I would have known, that way I could go see the crazy in person.

      You know in the movie American Pie where they say that whatever number a guy says he has had sex with divide it by three, same kind of thing with the right wing, except divide by a power of ten.
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    • Author by PurpleState (September 14, 2009 8:42 am ET)
         
      Andrew who?

      Oh, that wannabe who used his Twitter to urinate all over Ted Kennedy's legacy the day after he died?

      He's still important?
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