House Republicans Honor Tea Partiers and Inflate Their Numbers
October 28th, 2009, 12:32 AM EDT
Congressmen Tom Price of Georgia, Eric Cantor of Virgina, and Joe “You Lie” Wilson of Texas have introduced a resolution to “express gratitude and appreciation” to those who participated in the September 12 tea party marches, and claimed the crowd went “as high as 1,700,000 marchers.”
So, let me get this straight: The GOP wants to honor the people who ran around likening Obama to Hitler and calling him a communist and a socialist. Good move. Let’s take a look at the people Republicans want to honor, courtesy of Max Blumenthal.
There were only 1,700,000 on the mall? I thought there were a lot more than that. Looked like 3-5 million.
anonymouse Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Wasn’t this the event where the organizers produced a photo “proving” the high attendance … except the photo included buildings under construction from a couple of years ago and it turned out the picture was of another event.
50-100,000 teabagging people. No more.
anonymouse Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Oh, yeah. Millions in attendance …
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
… only at a 1997 Promise Keepers rally.
jasperjava Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Oh, yeah, those photos prove that there was AT LEAST a gazillion people there.
I hope Montana is being snarky.
jasperjava Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:57 am
At root of these ridiculously inflated numbers is the assertion by one tea-bagging pinhead speaking at the event that “ABC News reported” that there were a million and a half people. Trouble is, neither ABC News nor any of its affiliates reported such a grossly exaggerated number. The organizers LIED. And a lot of bottom-of-the-barrel ignorant conservatroids believed them.
This one-and-a-half-to-two-million-number will enter the Pantheon of conservative misinformation. You’ll keep hearing about it for years to come, despite the fact that it’s pure fantasy. After all, since when do conservatroids care anything about reality or facts?
burqa Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 1:06 am
I remember listening to Manatee that day and one of them called in and said with authority there were 1.7 million people there, as if the person had counted each one.
The Washington Post had a nice article later on counting the crowds that was pretty small, especially compared to the turnout the Beach Boys get…
October 28th, 2009 at 1:35 am
“I want the government out of E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G”
Ok, then get off my roads, take your grandchildren out of my son’s school, give back your social security, stop using that medicare, next time your house is on fire, use your own hose, when you need the police, you take care of it, that means you have no protection from theft, rape, murder, and any other help you may need from the police. And all those soldiers, protecting you and keeping you safe, here and abroad, they’re not there for you. You don’t get to utilize all the laws that protect you, and save uou from all the “bad people”. In other words, go live somewhere else.
jazmine Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Fede, that would be Utopia, we are not there yet, most likely we never will…..too much hate!!!
piffle Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 5:40 am
You just made Doug Casey stain his pant legs.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:12 am
The Daily show did a nice peice on the teapart “event”. And it really did look like Darwins waiting room
October 28th, 2009 at 9:20 am
The same type of opposition rallies happened during the Bush Admin. also During the Clinton Admin. It will keep happening no matter who is president.
October 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pm