'Tea Party' Photo: False Image Spread By Anti-Reform Activists »
Posted By Aidenag 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Over the weekend, conservatives enthusiastically passed around a photo they said showed a huge crowd protesting President Barack Obama's policies during the "tea party" demonstration on Sept. 12, 2009. The only problem is that the photo was taken over a decade ago during the Promise Keepers 1997 rally...
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jordan112 months, 1 week ago
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What a joke those morons are. Hey, if any of you are lurking around, here ya go. Now THIS is a crowd, that went all around the world.
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http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inaug...-
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mrflibble2 months, 1 week ago
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Yeah, that's a liberal for you.
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So when you protested Bush, it was ok.
But when people protest you, their morons.
Gotta love that "bi-partisan" spirit of mature discourse...
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ameliog2 months, 1 week ago
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Oh yeah? Well I heard from the fringe that over 10 BILLION people attended the march.
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What, you say there's not even 10 billion people in the world? That's just what the "liberal" media wants you to think! ;)
This silliness is kinda fun once you completely let go of the truth. I wonder what photoshopped photos of the "humongous" march we'll see tomorrow? -
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fiftynine2 months, 1 week ago
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Any so called political party that has to rely on lies,over and over again, to push it's agenda is something that is a danger to democracy and this country and should be eliminated..
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This is not the republican party,this is some strange entity that has morphed out of the religious right and the P.N.A.C. and hijacked the republican name.-
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rbiii2 months, 1 week ago
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This one picture was first called out by other conservatives when it started being floated around.
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There were still a couple of hundred thousand out there on Saturday and thousands more across the country. The numbers don't matter as much as the fact that these are people who have never been moved to protest before.
Ignore them at your own peril. Actually, please ignore them. It will make your defeat that much sweeter.-
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cowboygrandpa2 months, 1 week ago
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rbii:
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Well all I can say is the number used by the tea baggers show why the economy is always in danger when the conservatives are in charge.
It is obvious ya inflate certain numbers to make things look like they are in your favor and discount other numbers that show how wwrong ya are !!!!!!!
Hahahahahahahaaaaahahhaaaaa !!!!!!!!
Lunacy is thy name oh lost one !!
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jovial2 months, 1 week ago
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Grandbaboo2 months, 1 week ago
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This is ridiculous nonsense. That photo was only one of about 20 that were shown and most of them were taken from cell phone cameras at the event itself. To try to minimize this event is to be the one to lie. This was a huge crowd whether it was 500,000 or 2 million. The point is this is only the beginning and this is only the tip of the iceberg. We will be coming back again and again to make our voices heard until we get the party that will spend us into oblivion, destroy our national defense, ruin our fine health care system, and continue the Chicago style thug politics out of Washington.
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granitepaw2 months, 1 week ago
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That's right libiots, try to ignore the huge up swell of discontent from all these 'angry mobsters". Try to make the numbers smaller, try to pick out the crazy ones. You are contributing to your own demise in 2010 and certainly in 2012. Obama won't even be in the running. He will not make it out of the primary. It will probably be Hillary
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 1 week ago
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Obama will never win the primary
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Obama will never win the nomination.
Obama will never win the presidency.
Obama will never be re-nominated.
Obama will never be re-elected.
Obama will never be put on Mt. Rushmore.
Obama will never be praised by conservatives
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lum-chate2 months, 1 week ago
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"Obama won't even be in the running. He will not make it out of the primary. It will probably be Hillary"
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How did he beat Mrs. Clinton in the first place? He is either listening too much to the radicals in his party or is completely inept!
I'll give him this, he can sure shoot funny barbs at the competition. I'll never forget when Clinton was campaigning for the gods & guns crowd in Pennsylvania he quiped "Who does she think she is, Annie Oakley" that cracked me up! -
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reachingout2u2 months, 1 week ago
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So quick to forget, to easly fooled my the same party that told you that"The fundamentals of our economy are strong" as we were headed toward Financial economy collaspe....There's WMD in Iraq of which they never found.......It's ok to torture, is it?.....The 4 Trillion they add to the debt was ok meaning because they are conservatives.....The same party that scream during the 2008 campaign to drill baby drill in there belief we have a endless supply of oil.....strange wasn't just last year when the price of gas was around $5.00 almost six........did we not have gas lines at gas station and in some place it took months to get supply to....alway afraid, contant fear....wiretapping beyond regulations on Americans... The same people who actually expanded the government without any retraints.....The same one's who shouted bomb bomb bomb Iran......The same people who through two elections use false rumors without shame to win elections.....who only believe in giving taxs breaks to the very rich....you might have forgotten but I haven't.
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mrflibble2 months, 1 week ago
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Well, I'm still waiting for that stimulus to:
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"Unemployment will not got above 8%"
Spending Trillions will not increase the debt.
Spending Trillions more on National Health Care will not increase the debt.
Talk about Voodoo Economics... -
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 1 week ago
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Aargh! "Panties in a wad".
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Again.
Why is it always panties?
Why in a 'wad'?
Are you picturing liberals in lingerie twisting themselves in
strange positions?
Do you do this as a mental trick to avoid shyness,
like speakers imagining the audience naked?
Or are you just one of those people on the internet
we aren't supposed to be talking to?
You be the judge.
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Klarissa2 months, 1 week ago
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CRYMTYPHON2 months, 1 week ago
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You are mistaken.
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We are not arguing the size.
We are pointing out that they are lying about the size.
But you were correct;
- the important thing should been that 70,000 americans came to
a political ralley. Pity conservatives torpedoed their own victory;
there is probably a moral there.
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ukjmarcat2 months, 1 week ago
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I don't know if there was a million people there, but there was a heck of a lot more than the media is stating. Check out these photos. http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1...
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fsev412 months, 1 week ago
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Now, let me understand this. First Mr Kibbe, the march organizer and spokesperson for Freedom Works claims that ABC has estimated the crowd at 1.5 mil and is later proven to have lied. Then right wing pundits and blogs circulate a photo of a crowd that is quickly proven to have been fraudulent. Then an unofficial spokesperson for the Washington Fire department says the crowd was 60 to 70 thousand. Now you come up with photos off of some blog and want us to believe that the Washington FD and almost all media sources are lying about the crowd size. How can you possibly be that stupid? You're as dumb as Mannix.
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fritz10212 months, 1 week ago
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As many many of us have stated Publicly "Dreamer Beautiful" LIARS.But i would Encourage all So Called Right wing baggers to do what they best Tell great fables and have moron try to support your out right LIES.Just like a few weeks ago the Big Rally In Illinois(Right)Where you claimed 10,000+and you where lucky if 2,500 people where their.
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fritz10212 months, 1 week ago
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A few ago the So Called teabagger had a Rally in New Lenox Ill the story they published the next day Claimed they has over 10,000 People their and posted so called proof via Pictures.One Problem with the Claim 10,000 if you counted every person 2 to 3 times you could not come up with that number .The Truth is closer to 2,000-2,500 at the best count. and i Know this for a Fact i was one of them i went their to hear their side of the Story
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i left with no more ino then i came with all it was at best was a OBAMA bashing fest.
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Georgia502 months, 1 week ago
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The Michelle Malkin web site linked to a live image of the scene. It's a false photograph that the filth are circulating in their DanRatherian attempt to discredit the 9/12 Tea Party.
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Malkin even has a link to a web site put out by the park service to estimate crowd size.
The evidence is indisputable that a crowd approaching and perhaps exceeding 1 million gathered on 9/12 at The Mall.
All the filth have to do to see the truth of the matter is to pull their head out of the dank, dismal fetid darkness of the body cavity into which they've all collectively inserted it.
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