It seems Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly have a wager going over the number of people that will turn up for Beck's 8/28 rally in the nation's capital. According to Beck, O'Reilly has agreed to hand over his Fox News time-slot if the 8/28 event draws more than 100,000 people:
It doesn't really matter how many people show up for Beck's rally.
If 10,000 people turn out, he'll say there were a quarter of a million people in attendance. If 100,000 people do actually show up, he'll say there were nearly a billion people there. And Fox News will have his back, breathlessly inflating the turn out estimates, all evidence to the contrary be damned.
As Media Matters noted almost a year ago:
Conservative media have repeatedly provided conflicting crowd estimates for the 9/12 March on Washington, citing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and in some cases, millions of participants, while one unofficial D.C. fire department estimate placed the number between 60,000 and 75,000 participants. On his radio show, Glenn Beck said a “really conservative” estimate is 500,000 based on photos, and on Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson alternately claimed that “tens of thousands” attended and that “hundreds of thousands” attended.
At this point, Fox News might as well start cutting together some promos for Beck's new time slot.
h/t Huffington Post