Just when you thought "the media" couldn't make bigger fools of themselves, along comes their buffoonish treatment of the attendance at yesterday's Glenn Beck rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Most danced around the issue, falling back on the stock "thousands" or "tens of thousands" weasels. But there was one twit among them who spilled the beans. CBS went on the record: Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000.
Fortunately, we have better ways to judge the size of the crowd than to rely on Dan Rather's news organization. MLK's famed 1963 "I Have a Dream" rally was held on the same ground, and the accepted figure is 250,000.
Judge for yourself. Do you think Beck drew less than half?
As an aside, the open field filled with people on the left was overgrown with trees and unavailable to spectators in 1963.
Oh BTW, Sharpton's rally, which the clowns positioned as the anti-Beck rally, "attracted" 3,000. So much easier to count.
Beck, in his interview right after the event with Chris Wallace , the anti-Geraldo coverage (good fair interview Chris!) said they would be getting official numbers (he probably hired an outside group to get an official count) but he could definitely say there were 300,000+ people there and it could turn out to be has high at 650,000 people.
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