President of FreedomWorks just announced that ABC is Reporting Tea Party Crowd is 1.5 Million

:wtf:


"Highways are closed and crowd is streaming all the way back to the monument."

He's having people text in to "prove" their attendance to "verify" the numbers.

I read somewhere that 1.8 to 2.0 million people attended Obama's inauguration. DC was scrambling to deal with the crowd, and they were worried about having enough potties to handle the crowds.

This is not 1.5 million.

there.

From the ABC News website: "Thousands March to US Capitol to Protest Spending"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8555072

going to need an aerial shot for confirmation

scroll to center

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1122463/Congratulations-Mr-President-Two-million-watch-Obama-oath-Americas-black-commander-chief.html

Check out this first one:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10146314-39.html

great photos.

And there's no way the freepers mustered 100k today.

no way

:hi:

Scroll to the bottom and you can see Obama taking the oath again!

What a day it was! :bounce:

CBS is reporting 5 million in attendance! The earth here in DC is literally shaking as the crowd fills the mall and spills across the bridges into Virginia! The highways are shut down, Metro is shut down, the buses aren't running, blood is raining from the sky and dogs and cats are living together!

There you go, RW blogs - feel free to use my post as your source for attendance figures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8kGPXOoUw

as it all goes down

:rofl:

And we all the way over on the west coast can feel the earth trembling beneath our feet - must be the teabaggers in DC!

Prove it!!! ;)

Considering this "protest" is just a racket.

in DC and see that traffic is light and no highways are closed.

http://www.trafficland.com/city/WAS/camera/9087/index.html

are strategically "spread out."

Would you expect anything less from a CORPORATE sponsored - Astroturf - protest. :eyes:

The Metropolitan Police Department has announced that there will be several events taking place in the District of Columbia that will necessitate street closings during the weekend of Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, September 13, 2009. The specific information with respect to these individual events is listed below.

National Press Club 5K:
This event is scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 9 am. The street closure will begin at 8:30 am and may last until approximately 11 am. The streets along this route will remain closed for the duration of this race. A turn by turn route is as follow:

• Beginning in the 1300 block of F Street, NW
• South on 13th Street, NW
• East on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
• East on to Constitution Avenue, NW
• Northeast on to Louisiana Avenue, NW
• East on to D Street, NW
• Loop u-turn at D and 1st Streets, NE heading West on D Street, NE
• Southwest on to Louisiana Avenue, NE
• West on to Constitution Avenue, NW
• West on to Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
• North on to 13th Street, NW
• West on to F Street, NW where the race will conclude.

Tea Party Express Rally and March:
This event is scheduled for Saturday, September 12, 2009 at approximately 11 am. As the march proceeds from Freedom Plaza, there will be temporary street closures on Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th and 3rd Street, NW. The march will end with a rally on the National Mall.

link


rocktivity

Decent crowd, but not nearly what they were expecting and hoping for.

he's speaking there now - I think he was introduced as Mike Prince, but I may have misheard, lol

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1

So, there are only a few thousand nutjob conservatives willing to march for their FreedomFries. :rofl:

Tops!

I went to an anti-war protest in JANUARY during the Failure Fuhrer's reign that drew more people than that.

And that was without 2 months worth of promotion on every major cable/radio news network. That's what they don't seem to be getting. Anti-war protests aren't given CNBC/FAux/CNN promotion and streaming coverage and we STILL outdraw this pathetic and highly-promoted Parade of the FootShooters.

Publicans, YOU LIE!!!!!!!

Even if the truth is favorable, they are compelled to lie - it's what they do best and all they do well.
Pathetic sociopaths leading pathetic idiots = GOP.

mark

:rofl:

i wonder if the teabaggers will beat 35,000?

Maybe they will come close to 35k at this neo-Klan rally, but their numbers are dwindling exponentially.

They will never catch up to the rising non-white birth rate in America. 'White' people will become a minority in this country, perhaps in less than 2 generations. :)

Yes, this sign (at link) is disturbing enough to me, and when I found out a child was holding the sign it saddens the heart further:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/09/bury-obamacare-with-kennedy.html


(On a personal note, my mother moved down to NO this past spring - to get back home, closer to her roots, as she ages. Missing her but I can't think of a better place for her to be now. Hoping to get down there in the next few months for a visit myself! :hi:)

it's weird.

forgot their sheets.

The only people talking about the idiocratic class are the idiocrats. And us. Because we get a kick when we talk about them. The rest of the world is doing what they always do on Saturday.

They don't even have sense enough to know that weekends are not great news days. Even the big anchors don't bother to work on weekends.

the Parks service decided not to release their numbers any more ... apparently for fear of backlash from the RW media ...

claim about 2 million protesters today "is a total myth"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6534618&mesg_id=6534618

It's maybe 10,000 at most. Not more than that!!!

:rofl:

What do we expect him to do - suddenly grow a spine and tell the truth?

free guns and bibles at a Toby Keith/Ted Nugent concert.

Protesting has never been their strong suit.


:rofl:

Judging from the vids, there were TOPS 10k there, probably less!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-misquoted-crowd-size/story?id=8558055

Well, no shit.

:rofl:

when the delusions get that bad most people have butterfly nets thrown over them, usually while they're running naked through the produce aisle. instead, he'll probably get a bonus from his corporate masters...