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After walking back number on radio show, Hannity repeats claim that 20,000 attended Fox-promoted GOP health care protest

November 05, 2009 10:17 pm ET

From the November 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

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Citing no evidence, Hannity estimates that 20,000 attended Fox-promoted GOP health care protest

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    • Author by 3amnoise (November 05, 2009 11:26 pm ET)
         
      WTF? Does he not know? I mean, it's THE SAME SHOW. He JUST said 5000 EARLIER IN THE SHOW! He's gotta know, RIGHT? Jesus...
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    • Author by gg (November 05, 2009 11:43 pm ET)
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      We didn't organize any buses, i.e., we left that up to the Koch family. What I really love is the crowd estimates, 20,000; now up to 50,000; do I hear 1 million? Going, going, please for the love of God, be gone!
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      • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 05, 2009 11:54 pm ET)
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        ThinkProgress reports that Gordon Liddy's producer reached for the brass ring and claimed 1 million. TP also posted an aerial photo. See link below:

        "At around 2 PM eastern time, Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) posted an aerial picture of the crowd clearly showing a crowd far, far smaller than “a million”

        Aerial photo of rally
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      • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 06, 2009 12:00 am ET)
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        Thanks ThinkProgress
        Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (November 06, 2009 12:15 am ET)
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        The Koch family operates paper mills.Paper mills get a $2 dollars per gallon tax rebate for every gallon of tree sap they burn.Paper mills burn millions and millions of gallons tree sap.Paper mills have burnt tree sap since the existance of paper mills.The Koch family has recieved $$ Billions of dollars in bio-fuel (wink,wink) tax rebates over the past few years.This is one of the raesons money ran out to pay rebates to increase bio fuel use.Sometimes people fight to keep other hands out of the cookie jar,because they are eating all the cookies
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    • Author by thundavolt (November 06, 2009 2:16 am ET)
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      Why do people not see through someone who denies something they haven't been accused off.
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    • Author by johnemack (November 06, 2009 10:12 am ET)
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      Towards the end of that interview with Bachmann, they showed other footage of the crowd and I swear that they used stock footage of the 9/12 rally to make it look like the crowd was closer to that "20,000 or 50,000" number they were touting. Of course they did have the footage labeled as "Earlier" so they really weren't doing anything deceitful, because the 9/12 rally was "Earlier"....wink wink!
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