Glenn's/Fox 9-12 Event not diverse and not 1.5 to 2.0 million!!!!!!

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http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/18/rick_sanchez_slams_fox_news_for_th eir_false_ad_about_tea_party_coverage.php
Rick Sanchez Slams Fox News For Their False Ad About Tea Party Coverage
Reported by Ellen - September 18, 2009
VIDEO
Fox claims that only Fox covered the 9/12 rally! Fox used CNN coverage. Nothing wrong with that. Problem is they used CNN coverage. Fox proved that CNN covered 9/12. Talk about putting your foot in your mouth.






Colbert's counter project to Beck's 9-12
March 31, 2009: The 10.31 Project
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31 -2009/the-10-31-project



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32832992/ns/us_news-life/
According to a Pew Survey, Americans distrust the news. Can't say that I blame them. Here's some 9-12 news, from multiple sources, Right, Left and in-between. They all say the same thing. Numbers were exaggerated, to the nth degree. I used "multiple sources" to avoid being accused of bias.



http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/14/blog-po sting/blogger-claim-photo-shows-millions-tea-party-prote/
With headlines that said the rally organized by the conservative group FreedomWorks drew as many as 2 million people, the photo showed a sea of protesters that stretched more than a mile from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.

"'Media' estimates range from 60,000 to 500,000 to around 2 million (yes, 2,000,000)," wrote John G. Winder for the conservative blog Cypress Times.

Fox News wrote that "tens of thousands" marched on Washington.

We spoke with Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, who said that the local government no longer provides official crowd estimates because they can become politicized. That said, on the morning of Sept. 12, Piringer unofficially told one reporter that he thought between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up.

"It was in no way an official estimate," he said.

There's another big problem with the photograph: It doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth Street and Independence Avenue that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.

Also worth noting are the cranes in front of the Natural History Museum (the second building from the lower left of the National Mall). According to Randall Kremer, the museum's director of public affairs, "The last time cranes were in front was in the 1990s when the IMAX theater was being built."

That makes the picture at least a decade old. (We'll update this item if we find out when exactly it was taken.)

The conservative bloggers who originally posted the picture have backed down.

......Pants on Fire!






http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/14/on_which_planet_was_the_tea_party_ griff_jenkins_attended_.php
On Which Planet Was The Tea Party Griff Jenkins Attended?

Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins has been caught twice gushing over the diversity of tea party protesters while standing amidst a sea of white faces.

As Beck grinned on a split screen, one of the protesters told Jenkins "I'm here to protest this tyrannical government..... Meet a few million of our friends!"

In reality, the crowd was well under one million. Fox Nation estimated it as "tens of thousands." Neither Jenkins nor Beck gave a correction.
(Maybe they don't trust Fox Nation. )





http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-att ributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055
ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said.

Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally Saturday that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.

At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as "tens of thousands."

In his blog, Kibbe apologized Sunday for the mistaken attribution of the crowd-size estimated to ABC News.





http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/size-matters-so-do-lies.html
Size Matters; So Do Lies
by Nate Silver

ABC News, citing the DC fire department, reported that between 60,000 and 70,000 people had attended the tea party rally at the Capitol. By the time this figure reached Michelle Malkin, however, it had been blown up to 2,000,000. There is a big difference, obviously, between 70,000 and 2,000,000. That's not a twofold or threefold exaggeration -- it's roughly a thirtyfold exaggeration.

Malkin, who to her credit later corrected the error, frets that it might be used to by liberals to "discredit the undeniably massive turnout". She's right to be worried -- it absolutely will be used that way. If you don't want to be discredited, then don't, as Kibbe did, tell a ridiculous (and easily disprovable) lie.

Malkin herself did not lie; she merely repeated a lie. It does not particularly call into question her character. It does, however, call into question her judgment.

I was in Washington for the inauguration, an event at which there really were almost 2 million people present -- and let me tell you, it was a Holy Mess. Hotels, charging double or treble their usual rates, were booked weeks in advance. Major stations on the Metro system were shut down for hours at a time. The National Guard was brought in. At least 3,000 people got stuck in a tunnel. Essentially the entirely of the National Mall, from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, was dotted with onlookers. Heaps of trash were left behind. The entire city was basically a warzone for a period of about 20 hours, from midnight through mid-evening.

But there are no accounts of any of those sorts of things happening yesterday. 70 thousand people, rather, is about the number that will attend the Washington Redskins' home opener next week. That's a lot of people. Washington -- actually Landover, Maryland, where FedEx Field is located -- will be inconvenienced. But it won't be shut down. Business will go on more or less as usual.






http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/09/one_view_from_the_gr ound.php
The crowd today appeared to be approximately 1/3 the size of the September 2005 ANSWER rally that police estimated to be about 150,000 people. Although the numbers were relatively small, the overall impression on the ground was that of a successful protest.

I purchased a "Don't Tread on Me" flag that I attached to my backpack and then talked to a dozen or so people who were all very excited about the turnout and expressed the belief that they represented the majority of the American public. They sounded pretty much like the target group of Nixon/Phillip's southern strategy. I received the impression that they were living in a Fox bubble and would be shocked if they do not win the day.






http://crooksandliars.com/kombiz/how-i-missed-2-million-person-teabagg ing-fl
How I missed the 2 million man teabagging flash mob today
(Take a look at the two pictures, compare and contrast.)




http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/12/912-signs/
(Pics of the signs, they are carrying.)




http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/12/781096/-DC-Tea-Party-Photo s:Racism-and-Ignorance-
(Pics)





http://www.newshounds.us/2009/09/11/griff_jenkins_boasts_about_diversi ty_of_tea_party_express_but_there_were_only_white_faces_in_the_crowd.p hp
Griff Jenkins Boasts About Diversity Of Tea Party Express But There Were Only White Faces In The Crowd

Jenkins described the crowd, with great enthusiasm, as "white, black, young, old, male, female". I don't know about you but I could not find one black face in the crowd. That matches the observations of our own Julie who went to a Tea Party Express rally in Illinois and said, "I did not see one, single person of color . . . well, except for Lloyd Marcus, who was on stage, the right-wing crooner with the checkered past I previously posted about on Newshounds.






http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/09/entitled.php
I of course wore a Health Care Reform t-shirt and an Obama cap while on my jog. Very interesting mix of people. Mostly what one would expect. Rural, Southern/plain states, white, with a great number of middle aged white men with either military crew cuts or biker tattoos. There were a very small number of blacks but interestingly absolutely no Hispanics or Asian Americans anywhere at all.





For the Record, not all Republicans are Becker's.

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1397
David Frum: GOP Surrenders To Beck's Mob Rule
(David Frum: A former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush.)


"Glenn Beck is not the first to make a pleasant living for himself by reckless defamation. We have seen his kind before in American journalism and American politics, and the good news is that their careers never last long. But the bad news is that while their careers do last, such people do terrible damage."
~~~

"We conservatives are submitting our movement to some of the most unscrupulous people in American life. This submission disgraces conservatism, discredits Republicans, and damages the country. It's beyond time for conservatives who know better to join us at NewMajority in emancipating ourselves from leadership by the most stupid, the most cynical, and the most truthless."