The New York Times and Washington Post articles linked too on the Drudge Report are using 10 of thousands as well.

You know how the Million Man March was actually about 200,000, the Million Mom March was 30 0or 40 moms and another 15 cross-dressers trying to pick somebody up.

The Promise Keepers never advertised anything about a million, but estimates have that at 1.2 mil. I think I’ve seen some aerial photo comparison, but I can’t recall, and it’s Saturday night and I’m not gonna look it up.

–per their 8:00 pm EST top-of-the-hour news update.The thing is, if it was *only* “tens of thousands” it would not have made the MSM news at all. The fact that its being reported at all shows the MSM is listening/watching, which is better than I can say about their response in the past.

Where I live, our Tea Party shut the town down, but the local paper, a liberal rag run by an Obamabot, took their count before anyone had gathered. They reported “over 500″ but by 1 PM, there were well over 1500. The four organizer split the area up and went around with old-fashioned clickers, which are pretty accurate.

kinda works for me too

I saw it on a TV at the coffee shop where I was, but they had the sound turned down, so I’m not sure what they were reporting. But it *was* on.

I’ve seen video of both CNN and MSNBC with reporter on the ground in the crowd. They at least didn’t go after the protesters like that one lady from CNN did on April 15th.

in an obvious attempt by Obama, Gibbs, and and MSM to try to distract attention from the activites in Washington, DC and across the nation. Their actions show (even if they won’t admit it) show they recognize they are losing.

nt

There is so much flying around in this administration and Congress that it needs to stop now before more spending, more socialism and more liberties get thrown under the bus.

I want everyone one of those Congressmen and Senators and this administration to understand that they are not our rulers, they are not our superiors, they work for us – not the other way around.

I want every government official to look at the videos, look at the pictures, listen to the audio and say “Crikeys, these millions of voters are ticked”.

…never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Let the MSM continue their dismissing of the American people while they fawn all over Obama. At present some conservative estimates are the Republicans will take between 21 and 30 seats in the house and a few in the Senate. If the Dems continue to dismiss what the country wants because they believe their own press, those net change numbers will continue to grow until they reach 1994 proportions. Now if only a Republican leader would emerge promoting a plan like Newt’s Contract with America,

by using sampling size several times too large for Obama’s joint session whine-a-thon and using registered voters rather than likely voters for all their other polls. Smagar is correct. The liberals and the MSM can ignore reality at their own peril. Come election time, they won’t know what hit them.

Agreed.

But what we, and the GOP, really need is our participation at the grass roots level within the Party to remake it into a CONSERVATIVE powerhouse. Right now, it’s at operating at half strength with about a 50-50 spit between conservatives and moderates (aka as RINOs — Republicans In Name Only).

What the GOP needs, more, is an influx of conservatives at the grass roots, precinct committeeman level. We conservatives can re-take control of the leadership of the Party, and the conservative candidates will more likely win in the Republican Party, if we will come into the Party as precinct committeemen. You say you want a revolution? Make it happen as a precinct committeeman. Now. It only takes a couple of hours of effort a month.

Erick Erickson, Martin Knight, Moe Lane, I and others have posted about this here at Redstate.

Go here for an overview of how we are trying to create that influx of conservatives in Maricopa County, Arizona where I live (and having some success), and where you’ll find links to more information on why this is so vitally important:

http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/09/02/434-new-conservative-precinct-committeemen-and-counting/

We need you in the Party as a precinct committeeman if you aren’t one already.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

Great work. Thanks for the link.

just warms my heart – what a thing of beauty these Patriots have done. I thank them all.

I had a hunch it would get better and more accurate coverage by the Brit press.

ABC? NBC? CBS? MSNBC?

I’m sorry, bub, but your opinion’s worth about what the MSM’s is. Squat.

Oh, unless you were there personally counting heads. If so, I apologize.

Malkin links to this guide: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm

And here’s the crowd: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6Y5ctiQjR7g/SqvjYzX0HiI/AAAAAAAAK0g/RM3-GKu1knw/s1600-h/_Device+Memory_home_user_pictures_IMG00035-20090912-1331.jpg

Looks like maybe 300k-400k. More than enough to be proud of without continuing to insist on repeated discredited rumors.

Here:

http://pajamasmedia.com/vodkapundit/

The number of 1 million could be plausible using his math.

N/T

Here ya go. I think that shows who the classy oones are…

then I would say I calculate that in that photo is about >300,000 people. I need to see the darn sidestreets.

since you put it that way, there is nothing we can do other than plan for reversing all of the garbage that is enacted when we can do something. Oh, and hope that this boosts some spirits. No doubt, 2010 seems a long way off doesn’t it?

Join your local committee and volunteer.

There were multiple organization passing out information about what to do AFTER the tea party ended. I struck up a conversation with a number of people and gave them my variant of Cold Warrior’s Precinct Captain talk. They looked thoughtful about it. They especially perked up when I mentioned that it is typical for 2/3 of the precinct captain’s positions to be open, which is a great window of opportunity for them to influence the decisions.

For what it is worth, from the stage at the event they announced we had 1.5 million people there, and that it was based on DC police estimates. I couldn’t quite gauge it, because when I was in DC for the Promise Keepers event several years back, it was specifically on the mall, not in front of the capital. For this event they were speaking from the capital steps and the densest concentration of people was in that area. But the gathering clearly stretched to the other end of the mall. While I wouldn’t use “packed like sardines” as a descriptor, it was reasonably tightly packed. One of the reasons for that is that as a result of some of the problems they had at large events, they’ve changed policies about crowd handling. Not sure if it is at regular intervals or only when they notice the crowd packing getting too tight they have a siren equipped vehicle slowly roll through the crowd to loosen up the packing. They did this 3 or 4 times while I was there.

a hard nosed idealogue who is blinded by his early brainwashing and by his 20 years in Wright’s church, The guy has had it all his own way all of his life. Obama will go down with his cadre of WH communist Tsars. Although Obama is a master at reading a teleprompter and a schemer to boot, he is in the wrong country for his political beliefs. The guy is desperate to use the Perfect Storm to dump on us with the aid of Pelosi.

It’s the Bluedog Dems who had better take note and any limp wristed RINO’s who might feel inclined to prop up the ONE for the sake of his Presidency.

There is a change a coming and today proved that we are not going to be bullied by the Marxist in the WH any more, Today a line was drawn in the sand, ignore it at your peril, Conservatism and traditional American ideals will always win out in the long run.

Let’s not forget the hundreds of protests being held simultaneously around the country. DC wasn’t the only protest. They’ll try to dismiss it as not a threat, but if they actually believe that it will only make it that much easier to defeat them.

hard to tell if you are going to turn up a troll. Given your name, I am 50% confident that you are a troll, please post a reply and let me know what you think the crowd size was, so I can get a little satisfaction in watching you blip in to the trolldom. Thanks.

“Approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, according to the Washington DC Fire Department.” Link

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tea-party-protesters-march-washington/story?id=8557120

I did a copy paste from that article when it first showed and I believe it was

“Approximately 600,000 to 700,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, according to the National Park Service.” Or at least what I copy pasted, maybe my copy paste is broken, no way to prove anything. 175 Comments is too hot to touch for me.

Though I too was blasted and accused of possibly being a troll for my first comment.:) I dunno if you read the whole thread – before you commented there was a guy being very argumentative about the size of the crowd – so that may have influenced your reception.

And DTOM actually seems to be quite nice!

A troll is someone who disagrees with the aims and sentiments expressed at Redstate and is just here to cause problems….

I did give you a 50% chance of being a troll; therefore, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. We get a lot of trolls that come around and just want to post one or two liners to just stir up trouble. A day like yesterday is usually a high density day of troll activity. They’re others that will come here and pretend to be a conservative or Republican just to post some ridiculous material to make Redstate look bad, they’re called Mobys. If you’re a one and out commenter that is able to squeek ridiculing comments by for a long period of time, I call them slow-ballers. Anyway, maybe I shouldn’t have allowed my language to “coarsen” at the end of my reply to you.

Whoops. The above link is for Los Angeles metro. I should know better as I live in the Washington, DC area.

Go to www.wmata.com

it’s bothered to comment on.

Geez I like that sound.

“Stop trying to make yourselves feel good.”

ROTF

Think about it.

for the “Dream” speech. Even then it was just dueling lies about how many showed up at anything. MLK had maybe 1-200K. Most of the anti-war rallies did about the same. The Million man march did maybe ten percent of that.

And unlike you, child of modern government schools, I remember the Dream really first person, though I wasn’t there nor did I hear it on the radio like so many liberals like to brag about having heard it – it wasn’t broadcast.

has a diary, too? Good, more ammo for our moderators.

Well, since Neil like GPS coordinates…

MM updated her site saying the 2mill number attributed to ABC was incorrect.
BTW… There’s a link to USAToday site that show how to estimate crowd sizes on the Mall.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm

Metro station it was packed ahead all the way up to the Capitol. Slow, slow moving and there were loads of people pouring from the side streets, especially as we neared the capital. In fact we were startled by the crowd we actually joined up with. We were on the Penn. Ave. route and tons of people were already ahead and all around us. I remember thinking, where did all these people come from?