More comical, right-wing crowd estimates from Saturday's tea parties

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More comical, right-wing crowd estimates from Saturday's tea parties

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909130015

More comical, right-wing crowd estimates from Saturday's tea parties

September 13, 2009 6:49 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

This one came from Quincy, Illinois, where according to the right-wing blogosphere 12,000 people showed up to condemn Obama. That's right: 12,000 in the relatively small town of Quincy, Ill.

Fact: Divide that number by six and you might be right.

From the Quincy Herald Whig:

Quincy police estimated Saturday's crowd at between 2,000 and 2,200 at 2:30 p.m.

I guess it was fitting that Andrew Breitbart was a featured speaker in Quincy on Saturday. He's also allergic to facts.

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Sun Sep-13-09 07:52 PM
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1. I sent Media Matters this link ...

comparison of media reports of estimates of 400k at the Million Man March, based on photographic estimates ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x37914

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