The Obots were unpleasantly surprised by the size of yesterday’s demonstration, but their reaction is utterly predictable. They are already claiming the crowd was far smaller than it actually was, that it was just a bunch of crazies, and that it was all about racism.
My favorite piece of BS is the claim made throughout the wackosphere that the pics and videos showing monster crowds were somehow faked. The proof? The flags in the photos were at half mast, allegedly indicating they were actually from the Kennedy funeral. Michelle Malkin responds thus:
Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in honor of the murder victims of the 9/11 jihadi attacks.
So, how big was the crowd? Estimates vary, but it was OBVIOUSLY hundreds of thousands. Per the NYT, there were ”throngs of people streaming from the White House to Capitol Hill for more than three hours.” Three hours flowing through in the numbers shown in the following pic adds up to far more than “tens of thousands”:
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I was the Event Medical Treatment Coordinator for the 912 March on DC yesterday. Using USA Today’s diagram to estimate crowd size, and from actually marching, having a first aid station set up on the west side of the reflecting pool, I believe that an estimate of 1.2 million in attendance would be a CONSERVATIVE one, and that estimates between 1.5 and 2 million would be believable.
Posted 13 Sep 2009 at 11:09 am ¶Four-fifths of the Mall was full, with the crowd being kept from the final section by the Washington Monument by the previously scheduled Black Family Reunion. The crowd was very respectful, well-behaved and, for the most part, CLEAN. The crowd was made up largely of average, everyday people
Posted 13 Sep 2009 at 11:11 am ¶Post a Comment