Remember last month when Glenn Reynolds wrote an op-ed in the WSJ and fabricated the claim that “millions” of Tea Party activists had taken to the streets in the last year to protest Obama? And remember how Reynolds never fessed up to the fabrication?

Maybe Reynolds was just being a good misinformation soldier, because the phony idea that “millions” have protested has since been endorsed by Glenn Beck himself, which means this fake fact is now certified for all right-wing use. (`Wingers have been lying about crowd sizes for months now, in en effort to boost the cause.)

Anyway, I was recalling the comical “millions” claim while reading about the embarrassingly small turnout for the “kill-the-bill” health care rally in Washington, D.C. this week. Best estimate? A “few hundred” people showed up.

But just wait a few weeks. In the hands of Reynolds and Beck we'll soon be told that tens of thousands stormed the D.C. streets in mid-March to protest health care reform, right?

UPDATED: More “millions” action from the heartland. Actually, this report came from Lebanon, PA., where Tea Party folks were supposed to rally outside their local Congressman's office and protest Obama's health care push.

Ready for the turnout total? Two. As in, one and then two people showed up. They were promptly dwarfed by a pro-health care crowd.

But pay not attention. It's millions, I tell you, millions.

UPDATED: Today on his radio show Beck is hyping a “huge” anti-health care rally for Saturday in the nation's capitol. I wonder if it will top the “two million” who marched last September?