The ongoing childish, and sloppy, attempt to boost the size of Tea Party rallies continued unabated this weekend, with right-wing bloggers once again just pulling numbers out of thin air. And of course, leading the pack was Gateway Pundit, last seen lying about the Tea Party crowds from last September.
This was Gateway Pundit's one-for-the-ages proclamation on Saturday:
It's almost difficult to put into words what a load of crock that number is, but please keep in mind that even right-wing organizers only claimed that 25,000 people showed up; an estimate that seemed quite generous. (i.e. 8-10,000 tops?) So what did Gateway Pundit do with the best-possible estimate? Quadruple it, of course.
One of the reasons I've been mercilessly mocking these fabricated crowd estimate over the last few months and callling bloggers out for their lies, is to highlight how this fact-free movement is championed by people who can't even tell the truth about rallies.
Just amazing.