More than 1 million show up for Washington Tea Party UPDATE: Pics and Video added
UPDATE: Here’s the raw video. It won’t win anything at Cannes, but hey, it’s at least worth what you paid for it!
UPDATE:
Pictures are up! They are on our Flickr page. Click the pic to go there. When you get there and click the first pic, just above it in the middle you will see a magnifying glass. You can blow these up to their full glorious size. It was amazing being among that many red-blooded Americans.
206PM. You all catching the hip hop on stage now? The support for this cause is way beyond the labels they want to put on us. Check the streams below if you don’t have a TV around.
110PM. Crowd estimated 2 be 1.5 million by DC police. Obama inauguration was est. at 1.0 to 1.5 mil. Over 450 buses brought folks. 200 additional events going on now in 45 states.
106PM. ABC News reporting on television “two million people,” yet the website reads “Thousands March.”
1239PM. Interesting comparison. CNN stream is of the stage, and Fox News (below) is of the crowd.
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Wow – that ABC News number was 1) misquoted and 2) already widely debunked. Maybe you should step outside the teabag once in a while? Here’s ABC’s report on how they were misquoted;
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-attributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055
Every report – that is, every report not written by a breathless con blogger – I’ve seen since puts the number from 50K to at best 100K. Nothing to sneeze at, but still nowhere near 2 million. And a commenter at TPM who was there said it best:
“However, it was an angry group with a real sense of absolute entitlement. Something not focused on by many. This sense of entitlement that they deserve to be the dominant deciders and that it’s being taken away.”
What kills me is that they are doing the right thing (marching Washington) but for misguided reasons. They think the enemy is Obama and the Big Bad “guvmint”. It’s not the government that blew up and crashed our economy, or denies people treatment until after they’ve died (i.e. the REAL Death Panels).
But it’s unfortunately a group of people hopelessly prone to influence by these Decepti-cons and sophistry artists that simultaneously keep their trust and attention by appealing to their prejudice (does Obama, or any liberal for that matter, not have red blood?) and then feed them falsehoods with which they jump and run (e.g. most of the town hall healthcare discussions this summer – Obama compared to Hitler? Have any of these people ever picked up a history book or even seen a WWII movie for cripes sakes?). Most of them tragically are just unwitting employees of Big Corporations (or knowingly so, in the case of the Astroturfers) who have in many cases been laid off by those corporations. If there were a Devil, he would indeed be smiling at this rally.
It will be an endless cycle of cutting off noses to spite faces until enough people in this country wake up and finally get our government leaders out of big business’s pocket. That’s really the only solution. When’s that March on Washington going to be??
In response to another comment. See in context »And the numbers I’ve been getting put it at somewhere around 25,000. I’m sure its up for some interpretation, but I haven’t heard any credible source put it anywhere near what Dupray is indicating.
In response to another comment. See in context »Mr. Dupray, it seems, is a bit factually challenged in general. Take a look at my back and forth with him on his other post where he insists of making claims that are easily debunked by facts.
I suspect he is just trying to build a following by being controversial to get more credible people to react. Still, i prefer controversy based on opinion rather than falsely stating information as fact. We tend to do much better than that here at True/Slant.
Joe- I did a little checking. It turns out that misinformation is Dupray’s “thing”. take a look at my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/hogdaddee/gG5Ksk/commentary
To be fair, we should consider the source of the accusation. But when you read the story, you get a pretty good sense of what Dupray is all about.
I’m a little surprised. While we have lots of good, conservative writers here, they all put forth their own ideas and that’s what makes it informative and interesting. This is, apparently, not Dupray’s M.O. Oh well.
In response to another comment. See in context »Arrogance is a very unflattering trait.
In response to another comment. See in context »The U.K. Daily Mail reports up to 2 million, one of the organizers was told 1.2 million by Metro Police 1.5 million by the National Park Service.
The funny thing is that lefties continue to delude themselves into thinking that the townhalls were astroturfed with phony outrage and, therefore simply cannot believe that there were even 20,000, let alone 2 million Americans that could so vocally oppose Obama.
The reason it is so hard for the left to imagine these things are real is that they are the Astroturf masters who for years have hired rent-a-mobs and they can’t believe that a backlash like we have witnessed over the past month could be real. But conservatives, by definition, are not professional protesters or agitators, so you know when you see this kind of turnout, whatever the official number ends up being, you can rest assured that something unprecedented is brewing. And it won’t be good for the Democrats.
In response to another comment. See in context »[...] Dupray, who writes for the blog Patriot Room and we’re happy to have recently had join us, wrote: Crowd estimated 2 be 1.5 million by DC [...]
Lots of people voted against Obama but they don’t all think he is a nazi socialist and spew hate. Where were these people in the last administration when there were many constitutional abuses and the deficient grew and didn’t even include war costs. This movement seems to have little to do with actual issues or solutions but rather is centered on Obama.
The health care legislstion is being driven by congress and until lately the President has been out of the fray yet the anger centers on him. Even John McCain wanted something to be done about the problem and now we are debating the issue. But this movement is such a mishmash of opposition to the legitimacy of the Obama Presidency to the legitimacy of the federal government over the states. They hate Tarp which was initiated by Republicans who feared world wide economic collapse, so dire that the democrats fell right in line. So what to make of the right taking up these positions? Are you and other commentators like Beck proposing to absorb the libertarian ideas. Beck is a libertarian so is this what you and other conservatives striving to support?
Although I do believe that Ron Paul is no doubt the right’s best hope he has lots of positions that would made a normal republican squirm.
However if this a genuine movement this democrat welcomes it and hopes to hear more from the Don’t Thread On Me crowd and a coherent argument for their ideas.
By the way what in the world did you mean by the phrase red blooded American? Do I have to hate Obama and democrats and liberals to be honored with the patriotic red blooded label? I would remind you that plenty of red blooded liberals and democrats and supporters of Obama have shed their red blood for America. Don’t cheapen your arguments with school yard insults.
Look, if you don’t think just the health care bill alone constitutes a massive loss of individual freedom and liberty, then we will never agree on issues, which is why there are two parties. Obama is a statist, who believes that government knows best and must control as many facets of people’s lives as possible. Individual liberty and freedom, by definition, mean that people makes their own choices how to live their lives and spend their money. It is the antithesis of Obama’s political philosophy.
In response to another comment. See in context »You can dismiss the 9/12 rally and the townhalls as a bunch of wingnuts, but don’t be surprised if those folks are representative of millions more who think the same thing and vote the Democrats out of office next year. If that happens, I suspect you would still deny that Obama and the Democrat leadership were too far out of the mainstream of the American people. But you would be wrong about that. Polls have shown for a long time that the independents are fleeing the Democrats like the place is on fire.
Conservatives rarely protest, so when they do, the mere fact they are there should tell you something. Whether you are listening is up to you.