The MSM continues to repeat the “tens of thousands” estimate, despite numerous reports from people who attended that this estimate is woefully inaccurate. For some reason there has been a conspicuous lack of arial photography to either confirm or discredit this estimate.
Fortunately, Constitutionally Speaking (http://constitutionallyspeaking.wordpress.com/) seems to have been able to dig one up. Scroll down a bit, I’m not allowed to upload media =).
Compare it to this arial of January 20, 2009: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/obamainaug-blog.jpg.
USA Today was helpful enough to provide the system by which the NPS estimates crowd size on the National Mall: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm
MSM still sticking to “tens of thousands.” Hmm…
Also, a very good write-up by Charlie Martin at Pajamas Media: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-big-was-the-crowd/
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Well that turned out well.
AirborneGeek (Diary) Monday, September 14th at 3:48PM EST (link)Ah, to be a noob.
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dave_in_atl (Diary) Monday, September 14th at 3:50PM EST (link)That is not an arial photograph of the 9/12 rallies…. that is an arial photograph of the promise keepers rally.
http://hiscrivener.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/promise-keepers-breaking-one-off-for-the-ladies/
can also be found if you scroll down on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169251/posts or just by going to google image search and typing in “promise keepers arial”
Best estimates seem to have the 9/12 rally at between 200-500K…
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/09/12/2000000-march-on-washington/
Ain't it a Hoot...
Patricia_C (Diary) Monday, September 14th at 6:29PM EST (link)It’s the liberal, “post inauguration” “green movement” crowd someone else always has to “clean up” after.
“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”