Preliminary Satellite estimates One Nation Rally:100,000-175,000

[librechik]

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/heres-your-enthusiasm-gap-one-nation-

Enthusiasm gap, schmenthusiasm gap. Without the benefit of months and months of advertising and promotion on Fox News Channel (in fact, I'm only aware of Ed Schultz on MSNBC doing any kind of TV promotion), the One Nation Working Together rally in Washington DC has gathered more supporters than Glenn Beck's much ballyhooed rally, which I will lovingly refer to as "Whitestock".

Preliminary satellite estimates put the crowd size at 175,000 to 200,000 at about noon EST. By the calculations of Bachman/Beck, et al., that would mean at least 1,000,000, non?

The question is whether the corporate media will keep pimping the "importance" and influence of the tea baggers and ignore the bigger numbers on the Democratic side of the aisle. Of the cable outlets, only C-Span is airing the event, so clearly this doesn't fit the narrative that MSNBC/CNN/Fox want to push.

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Dave N., reporting live: Amazing. The crowd size was clearly larger than the one at Beckapalooza, and the energy was outstanding. You can see the video I shot above.

Also amazing: The kind of camera work I saw from C-SPAN. It looked to me as if they were deliberately shooting the few empty seats that were close to the podium. These empty spaces were largely the result of the way the crowd was fenced at the Mall. But as you can see, it was a massive event.

[Hekate]

1. Excellent. It's not hard to estimate crowds if you have aerial photos.

In fact if you have aerial photos what's hard is NOT getting a good estimate.

Hekate

[pinboy3niner]

3. Oops--wrong place

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Pretty good for folks who had to pay their own way. No JP Morgan to pick up the tab.

[pinboy3niner]

4. One correction

Bachmann/Palin/Beck/Fux crowd inflationator would have translated this--were it a wingnut rally--to 4 million+. Bachmann, after all, translated CBS' scientific estimate of the Beck rally of 58,000 into 1 million, then 1.5 million. Beck was a bit less bold, with a top estimate of 650,000. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

5. LOLOL "Whitestock"...

[WCGreen]

6. Link took me to page not found....

[BrklynLiberal]

7. for some reason your link did not work. Hope this one does.

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/heres-your-enthusiasm-gap-one-nation-

[me b zola]

8. Thanks, your link works just fine

:)

[rocktivity]

10. See that little dash outside of your link?

That's why it doesn't work.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[doc03]

9. Beckaploozer rally was much bigger, link with photos

http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS202US203&q=nurnberg+rally&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=97anTL27AoS0lQfGgKHuDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQsAQwAA

[BuelahWitch]

11. I wonder if their arms ever got tired

holding them out like that?

[doc03]

12. I have a picture of myself someplace standing in Hitlers

spot at the reviewing stand in Nurnberg doing that salute.

[librechik]

13. oh yeah--when it's mandatory or else,

a lot more folken show up

[TexasObserver]

14. recommend