Counting Crowds

Counting Crowds

Regardless of what you think of either Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin, I'm getting tired of the MSM's complete inability to report accurately on crowds drawn to any event they approve or disapprove of. They're somewhat past the point of last year's ridiculous attempt to describe huge Tea Party events as drawing "dozens" or "hundreds" of attendees -- when they deigned to admit the events were occurring at all -- but they've still got a pretty heavy thumb on the scale.

Here's a picture of today's Washington rally, reported by the AP as drawing a crowd of "tens of thousands." How many people would the AP say were in that crowd if it were an anti-Beck or anti-Palin rally? The Washington Post claimed 1.8 million people attended the Obama inauguration. Here is a site that tried to compare those estimates with attendance at the 9-12-09 Tea Party rally, including crowd photography and aerial shots. Was the 9-12-09 Tea Party a crowd of a million, a few hundred thousand, or "up to 30,000"? Depends whether you ask the MSM or people willing to try to do an honest count.

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