airbornegeek's Diary http://www.redstate.com/airbornegeek Just another RedState: Where the VRWC Conspires Online weblog Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:34:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Regarding the 9/12 crowd size… http://www.redstate.com/airbornegeek/2009/09/14/regarding-the-912-crowd-size/ http://www.redstate.com/airbornegeek/2009/09/14/regarding-the-912-crowd-size/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:34:23 +0000 AirborneGeek (Diary) http://www.redstate.com/airbornegeek/?p=3 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/

]]> 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/

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