Limbaugh refers to "2 million people crowd" at 9/12 protests
September 14, 2009 12:56 pm ET
From the September 14 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Actually, drugbaugh, there were a Trillion Gazillion teabaggers at the whinefest 2009.
They can't get their numbers straight which have ranged from 100,000 to 500,000 to 1.2 million and now 2 million.
I think they got all flustered when they saw the sad little turn out they had managed to muster.
You know, when I saw the marching doughboys and girls on Saturday I kept wondering why they were against health care reform because if any group needed better access to doctors, this was the group.
At lease thats only way i can see how they get a figure like that.
I've seen 10, 20 and even 100 in place of X, so maybe they're including the hypothetical people who wanted to attend. Those men in the coats don't just lave the asylum doors unlocked, you know.
Or, as Bill Maher suggested the other night, many may have been confused an gone to Washington State.
Looking back on Inauguration, estimates for the crowd for that gathering was almost 2 million (1.8 million), and the Mall was covered completely with almost no room to spare from the West Lawn down back PAST the Lincoln Memorial.
No way this crowd even approached that massive onslaught.
Why could that be?
The pick up truck broke down. The nursing home wouldn't let them leave. They couldn't read a map.
http://cid-8fa5718388d6cbd2.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/9%2012%20March%20on%20DC
Somewhere some whack job makes a claim and then it echoes through right wing radio to Fox and keeps going until the next lie.
Michael Moore is often criticized for his style of film making, which is to have a point of view and then in a mock documentary style, assemble footage and data to substantiate that point of view. It's not fair or balanced but it can be very effective.
Well, Limbaugh and Beck trying to inflate the value of the 9/12 teabaggers is the same thing. They already were operating on the premise that there was this grass roots uprising in this country in support of their myopic beliefs. They are looking for validation wherever they can find it, even if they have to make it up. Or in Beck's case in Rockefeller commissioned art in Rockefeller Plaza.
Claiming that there were 2 million people at the 9/12 event is obviously the sign of needy people in search of validation. They have stepped into the fringe elements of our society.
That's exactly why they and their pathetic followers are always ranting on about the so-called "ratings". They are sad little people in desperate need of validation and "accomplishment".
If you ever watch Fox News, pay attention to how many times they cite a survey or poll asking how many people "believe" something, then discuss that belief (no matter how unsupported) as a fact, or at least a trend. The "belief" is generally something that Fox has been promoting as fact.
Maybe you have some pictures from the million man march, with the flag at half staff, that you'd like to palm off as pictures from the 9-12 tea bag rally, in an effort to fraudulently boost those numbers, though, highliter. If so, I'd be happy to debunk them for you...
"ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands."
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Sincerely glad to hear you have a job, though. In this economy, that's quite an accomplishment! :)
I trust ABC enough to believe that they did receive word from the D.C. fire department on estimated crowd size, but I think I'm going to wait for a day or so, and let the media outlets with the time and resources to devote to an actual investigation figure some of this out. Wish I had more info or links for you.
"Don't use the ABC report because I know of it and don't want to deal with the reality of it."
Fewer than the anti-war demonstrations of 1969 or 2003, fewer than the Million Man March, fewer than the two million who showed up for the Obama inauguration. Probably closer to the 65,000 to 75,000 turnout for the anti-nuclear march in May of 1979.
Fatman is saying that 2 million attended on Saturday. That is the most preposterous claim anyone's ever made. If that was two million, then 200 million attended the inauguration.
To get away with stretching the truth, your claim needs to be believable.
can you give them a easier math test. like maybe how many stomps of your feet will it take to reach your IQ level.
just saying after all its been a long hard week end of trying to count people with there toes and fingers.