Math Is Hard: GOP Over-Inflates Audience Participation At Bachman's Teabaggery | Crooks and Liars »
Posted By mesodude 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsToday’s anti-health care reform rally has been much more sparsely attended (than the 9/12 protests, but) that hasn’t stopped conservatives from inflating the numbers again. On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show (Thursday), producer Franklin Raff, who was on the ground at the rally, told guest host Joseph Farah that the crowd is “just as big or bigger than” the 9/12 rally, which Raff estimated “at about a million.”
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normallysilent1 month, 3 weeks ago
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with 72 hrs notice how many people do you think you can get there?
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Give it a try. it's not as easy as you would have believed. Well not unless you are talking about that top of the line AstroTurf the left has become accustomed too. You know that good union made stuff. -
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CRYMTYPHON1 month, 3 weeks ago
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What about RINO's? Dont' we want to keep them?
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VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS except RINOS,BLUE DOGS, AND LIEBERMAN IN 2010!
Except, what about independents and centrist types?
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS, RINOS, BLUE DOGS, NON-INDEPENDENTS
AND EX-CENTRICTS AND LIEBERMAN IN 2010!
And what about the ones who love puppies?
And what about the ones who kick their old mothers?
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS, RINOS, BLUE DOGS, NON-INDEPENDENTS
AND EX-CENTRICS AND PUPPY-HATERS AND MOTHER-BASHERS AND LIEBERMAN IN 2010!
And what about the ones who never tip?
And what about the ones who are secretly aliens?
And what about the ones who have the right politics and spirit but
are just kinda dumb ?
VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS, RINOS, BLUE DOGS, NON-INDEPENDENTS
AND EX-CENTRICS AND PUPPY-HATERS AND MOTHER-BASHERS AND LOW TIPPERS AND DISGUISED ALIENS AND NON-HIGH IQ'ERS AND LIEBERMAN IN 2010!
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jjbuff1 month, 3 weeks ago
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If 1.8 to 2 million people were in DC the city would be swamped.Airports would be extremely busy Hotels would be swamped throughout the DC,Baltimore,Alexandria area.Traffic would be a major problem.Obamas inaguration drew in about that many people and their was barely room to stand on the mall.The 9/12 rally didn't even draw enough people to motivate Glenn Beck to show up to his own event. SORRY cowboybill.
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fsev411 month, 3 weeks ago
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Gee your facts are really accurate but then none of the demonstrations were at the White House. They were at the Capitol and on the mall which is a fair distance from the White House. Makes one wonder about the rest of your "facts".
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wsorrian1 month, 3 weeks ago
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This kind of dishonesty is disgusting. Bachmann and other said DURING THE EVENT the crowd was 20-45 thousand. They never once inflated the numbers. Liberal zealots did so you could try to marginalize them.
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The story you link to uses MSNBC as a source and somehow you think that's credible? The picture they use doesn't state the time of the photograph or the peak times of the protest. Yet you'll swallow whatever left wing propaganda is fed to you.
Just because one person on a radio show said something doesn't mean "the GOP inflated the numbers". This is why thi site is a sewer. It spreads nothing but left wing filth. I have yet to read a story on here that didn't source HuffPo, DailyKos, MSNBC, or NYT.
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jjbuff1 month, 3 weeks ago
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FOX says that thousands showed up for Tea Partys all over the country.The event in Tacoma Washington was held in the parking lot of a Doughnut shop.When I drove by I thought the Teabaggers were those people who carry signs advertising mattress sales.I didn't realize what it was until I saw it on the local news.I have seen bigger crowds for pet spaying events.I don't know why they are even covered.I attend charitable events that draw more people and don't get promoted by cable news channels. I have noticed that fringe groups always have to remind people how popular they are.
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harpro2071 month, 3 weeks ago
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Out of curiosity, Friday morning I tried to find a reputable attendance figure for Thursdays mass teabagging. A figure of 3000 by a local DC tv station was the best I could come up with. Another dismal failure. Stick a fork in their teabag, they're done.
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