Cavuto allows guest to repeat bogus claim that there were "approximately 2 million" people at the 9/12 protest

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- by Conchobhar (October 26, 2009 5:25 pm ET)
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  Cavuto non computo.
  
  Keep shooting the foxbots down on this, MMFA. If you don't it'll become "true by repetition."
  
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- by Conchobhar (October 26, 2009 5:27 pm ET)
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  Why do do many of these right-wing "spokespersons" look like milquetoast Soprano wannabees? Just askin'.
  
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- by MickD (October 26, 2009 5:33 pm ET)
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  Yep, the propaganda outlet that promotes the 2 million meme can't be expected to correct it. Next.
  
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  - by Conchobhar (October 26, 2009 5:42 pm ET)
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    It all becomes clear. "...Obama left the [b]state.[/b"
    That's why the two million didn't make it to D.C. They went to Washington, the state! No wonder we missed them.
    
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    - by Conchobhar (October 26, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
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      Wouldn't you know it? The one time I don't preview, and the bold gets blown.
      
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    - by phredicles (October 26, 2009 7:27 pm ET)
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      Right, and at least one publication covered it: Nation's Morons March on Washington State
      
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- by jmariemo (October 26, 2009 5:38 pm ET)
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  Oh no. The tea-baggers, again? Need I ask my slew of rhetorical questions one more time?
  
  To the American Tea-Bagging Protester: WHAT ARE YOU PROTESTING?!What taxes do you speak of? What repression are you encountering? What rights have you lost? The right to make medical choices? (Kaiser Permanente revoked that supposed priviledge from you long ago, lady with the NObama sign.) Where is that right in the Constitution that you apparently love to quote so often? How do you tie your shoes in the morning? How do you function in your daily life? It must be hard. I'm sorry.
  
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  - by pilotx (October 26, 2009 6:08 pm ET)
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    The Libertarian movement was created after the fall of communism. Just another way to let the rich keep their money. How else do you explain lower and middle class people who's taxes have either remained the same or been reduced championing the rights of the wealthy? The rich link "free markets" to ideas such as liberty and freedom and who would be against freedom and liberty? It was a brilliant strategy but then again when billionares and multi-billion dollar corporations throw their money to support a cause what do you expect? Rachel Maddow showed us who is behind the curtain but people are still out there. The funniest thing is that now this "movement" is dragging out communism out of the dustbin.
    
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- by New Frontier (October 26, 2009 5:44 pm ET)
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  Cavuto:
  
  "President Obama is on his way to Miami for two fundraisers..."
  
  Hey Neil, are you sure Obama's not going to 132 fundraisers?? 'Cause when I use your guest's counting method, that's what it comes out to be.
  
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- by wolf kotenberg (October 26, 2009 5:51 pm ET)
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  No,not Cavuto. Cavuto is an employee. It is Roger Ailes, the guy who really loves his country (sarcasm set at 11 ) , that is orquestrating this parade..
  
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- by Dmacalypse (October 26, 2009 5:53 pm ET)
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  "How many are you expecting?" "Oh about 500 to a thousand" Translation???? 5 to 10. This tea party crap is outta hand and utterly embarassing, at least it should be. 2 million???? Partisanship aside, who actually believes that crap? Maybe that's a rhetorical question.
  
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- by DellDolly (October 26, 2009 6:13 pm ET)
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  There were about 40,000 extra round trips on Metro on 9/12. There were about half a million extra round trips, or more than 10 times as many, on Inauguration Day. There's no way there was close to as many people in DC for the 9/12 rally as there was for Inauguration.
  
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  - by magnolialover (October 26, 2009 6:27 pm ET)
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    I was there (for both events inauguration and the 9/12 protest) and in terms of size, and scope, Inauguration was gigantic compared to the tea party protest event. The tea party protest event was miniscule in comparison.
    
    As I was riding Metro back from the protest, there were tea partiers all around me, and they were telling each other that there were 2 million people there, and they had just left the protest, and they had already convinced themselves that there were 2 million people there. Nope, not even close.
    
    Let's put it this way. After Obama was sworn in, and Inauguration started to break up, on the closed streets of DC (Almost the entire District was closed down) it was literally human gridlock, as in, I could barely walk because there were so many people there. Any Metro station near the Mall and downtown DC was shutdown. During the tea party protest, as soon as I walked about half a block from the main part of the protest, the crowd thinned, I got on a train at the Smithsonian stop, and rode him in comfort, and got a seat.
    
    There is no comparison between the 2 events. One of them actually HAD 2 million people, and the other one only wished that it had 2 million people.
    
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- by eweston8542983 (October 26, 2009 6:43 pm ET)
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  Most of that population of 2 mill where imaginary, mythological creatures, pink eleifants, small innocent mamals, and bugs.
  
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  - by John Paradox (October 26, 2009 8:00 pm ET)
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    There are the Orcs, Balrog, and I think I saw a photo of Sauron.
    
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    - by Conchobhar (October 27, 2009 12:57 am ET)
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      What is this new devilry?
      
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- by manofmystique (October 26, 2009 7:12 pm ET)
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  This demonstrate that Republicans [and conservatives] perfer the base of the Party to be dumb. How else can you explain their willingness to repeat a proven lie over and over again?
  
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- by smarshall1432997 (October 26, 2009 7:46 pm ET)
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  Pres. Obama attended two fundraisers in Florida that raised over $20,000,000 (Twenty Million Dollars) was what we heard from this report on FoxNews' Cavuto Show today, LOL.
  
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- by Boxer1979 (October 26, 2009 8:18 pm ET)
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  Cavuto allows guest to repeat bogus claim that there were "approximately 2 million" people at the 9/12 protest
  
  I see Fox Snooze is still wanting to beat a dead horse. Sorry Cavuto the 9/12's protest numbers have already been told and lies shot down.
  
  Let it go!
  
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- by mcnairbo6573 (October 26, 2009 8:25 pm ET)
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  Well, according to "murmer murmer" University that is the case.
  
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- by aBeck in 10-O-C (October 27, 2009 2:38 am ET)
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  Trying to knock down the "2 million protesters" lie is like playing Whack-a Mole. That phony number from 9/12 became a part of the right-wing catechism by 9/13. It is here to stay.
  I nearly came out of my chair when Chris Matthews let this same guy get away with the same hype last week on Hardball. Perhaps he too is fed up playing Whack-a Mole.
  
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