Over the weekend, Instapundit's Gleen Reynold unccorked the claim that over the past twelves months “millions of Americans” had taken to the streets to protest the Obama administration. The problem? Rather than millions, the actually number is probably in the low six-figures.

Oops.

But mere facts have never stopped Glenn Beck, of course. So yesterday he endorsed the Reynolds fabrication and wallowed in the wonder of the “millions and millions of tea party people” who protested last year.

Punchline: Beck made the phony crowd claim while critiquing the New York Times' supposedly inaccurate Tea Party reporting!

UPDATED: Also last night on Fox News, Tea Party organizer Karin Hoffman eagerly spread more falsehoods about protests, claiming 1.7 million people showed up in D.C. last September. According to official crowd estimates by D.C. officials, that number misses the mark by 1.6 million.

Please note, the Tea Party movement is now building itself around an obvious, and provable, lie. Will the press ever point that out?