Washington Post says it all; Glenn Beck rally draws "thousands"

[DainBramaged]

:fistbump:


Fools. Thousands, not tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands , thousands, LOLOL.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/08/28/GA2010082800047.html?sid=ST2010082704942



GREAT pictures of the 'thousands'!

[Fumesucker]

1. That was an awfully monochromatic set of images..

All white, I looked fairly closely and didn't see a single non-Caucasian face.

[DainBramaged]

3. I was laughing so hard I was crying, so I didn't notice, Beck failed at failing

[spinbaby]

6. It's downright funny

A few old white people with lawn chairs.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

23. Oh - it just hit me

It's a tailgate party!

[Saphire]

19. me either.

[corkhead]

2. those pics were actually taken Friday during setup.

I am curious to see pics taken during the actual event

[DainBramaged]

5. You are missing the point entirely, aren't you?

The

HEADLINE

is the point, jesus christ on a stick.

[corkhead]

28. I got your point except for your "GREAT pictures of the 'thousands'!"

implied that the pictures were from today's uber-rally. I thought that was what I was getting until I read the captions of the photos.

no need for our side to stoop to Faux Nooze's level with misleading comments.

back-atcha with your stick

[Name removed]

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[renate]

7. from what I've read here, those people who spent the night there should be PISSED

"Pissed" being their default mood, but still.

I suppose it might have been somewhat fun for them to hang out with all the other like-minded haters--like Woodstock, only with bitterness and fear--but would it have been worth sleeping there?

[Whisp]

4. I almost feel sorry for those fools...

what a bunch of morans to follow that Beckerhead, *shakes head.

and the moronic press will make this seem like some big fucking deal.

what a joke. a miserable not funny joke.

[Subdivisions]

8. Aerial view:

[DainBramaged]

9. View of the real deal, circa 2009

Are we suppossed to be impressed?

[Subdivisions]

11. I was there. That was an inauguration, not a rally. There's a difference. n/t

[DainBramaged]

13. Are we supposed to be impressed at the turnout today?

More people turned out to protest lack of immigration reform last summer than showed up today and the rally got ZERO coverage.


The point was the headline, how hard is it to understand that?

[Subdivisions]

17. Not impressed. Concerned. Concerned that thay can generate such an

audience in the first place while our message languishes, never even getting off the ground, much less climging the steps of a Washington memorial.

[qazplm]

25. It's good news

we want the tea party to be somewhat strong to divide the republican party. Let them get out there and run third party candidates and scare off moderates by winning primaries.

[HughBeaumont]

14. That was with 8 degree wind chill, BTW. It took me 14 minutes to get movement back.

Easy to get 100,000 on an 80+ degree day to an event that's been publicized for months on the MSM.

Not really sure what Beck's message was. Lots of 'baggers left a little disappointed that no Red Meat was thrown. Think Beckistan is trying to put a smiley face on the Tea Klux Klan to gain sponsorship back? I think their movement will be kind of splintered after today's event.

[DainBramaged]

15. I do NOT understand why people on DU are obsessed with making sure WE know how many actually turned

out to the Restoring White to America rally.

[Subdivisions]

16. Because they are getting their message out while our message languishes.

I realize we are challenged by the lack of media coverage. But, by God, we need to take our message to the fucking cameras. If they won't come to us, we need to invade the studios of the major networks. How is a couple security guards going to stop several thousand of us from accessing the studios of the Fox News Party?

WE NEED TO BECOME THE STORY!

[nc4bo]

20. Any one have an idea of how many people were bussed in by Koch? nt

[Iwillnevergiveup]

22. Just a guess...

most of them???

LOVE that picture - Watch it, sucka!

:rofl:

[EC]

10. Is there a link that proves this is from Beck's

prayer-a-thon?


That's not today...there is no big banner of the Memorial in front of the Memorial...

[Subdivisions]

12. Yep...

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Glenn-Beck-host-Lincoln-Memorial-rally/ss/events/us/082610beckrally/im:/100828/480/urn_publicid_ap_org_fe35cc139c514e8885c1cf10a6200d8e/#photoViewer=/100828/480/urn_publicid_ap_org_fe35cc139c514e8885c1cf10a6200d8e

[SnakeEyes]

18. There is only "thousands" in that pic

Looks like way more people.

[LostinVA]

21. The NY Times is saying "tens of thousands," not "hundreds of thousands"

And, the NYT isn't a Pinko paper.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

24. Just LOOK At All Those Poor, Oppressed White People!

My heart goes out to them. It really does. They're clearly struggling to make it in America and need a leader like Glenn Beck to lead them out of the darkness and into the light. How can I tell? Why, just the fact that they've been able to take time off work to make it to this little rally, some of them traveling great distances (which means even more time off of work), and the disposable income to do it (traveling requires expenses for food, gas, hotel rooms, amenities, etc.), and were able to somehow scrape together their pennies to pay for it, all to make their voices heard by the powers that be who have been ignoring them for oh so long. Oh, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free! It REALLY brings a tear to my eye.

[AspenRose]

26. Still too many, if you ask me.

WAY too many.

[notadmblnd]

27. Damn! And I was hoping that beck would whip em up into such a fury

that they would take out their guns and shoot each other.:mad:

[notadmblnd]

29. I don't think there were that many. I think those are mostly empty chairs

Especially, the areas that look like small groups of solid red or blue.

[uncle ray]

31. good way to pad the numbers.

a chair takes up about 4 times the space a person standing does, so an empty chair plus one standing teabagger equals five rally attendees to the aerial camera.

i bet each freeper brought at least two chairs.

[BlueJazz]

32. I still don't have the slightest idea what the hell they are talking about.

I feel like I'm watching someone in an open field with absolutely NOTHING around for 20 miles and they are shouting "I want one of those" "I want one of those"

[AnnieBW]

33. The lower part of the Mall was covered, BUT

They were all spread out to make it look like there were more of them than there were. I noticed that on CNN.