What Was The Attendence At The D.C. TEA Party?
Posted on September 12, 2009
There are lots of figures being thrown around. The Daily Mail estimates around two million
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Demonstrators waved U.S. flags and held signs reading “Go Green Recycle Congress” and “I’m Not Your ATM.” Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of “judgment day” – Election Day 2010.
ABC News estimates 60k-70k. CBS News says “tens of thousands.” After seeing stories earlier in the day at CNN point to about a 100k, their current story mentions no number at all. MSDNC has the funniest story
Thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
The line of protesters completely filled Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. People were chanting “enough, enough” and “We the People.” Others yelled “You lie, you lie!” and “Pelosi has to go,” referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
Takes a bit more than simple “thousands.” Furthermore, the vast news organization of NBC had to get their info from DHS and EMA? Do they no longer have a bureau in D.C.?
Anyhow, the best estimate comes from Tabitha Hale, who Tweets (via Michelle Malkin)
Okay people. The 2 mil # was an estim from ABC. The 1.2 mil came from Metro police. 1.5 mil from Parks & Rec. There’s no official count yet.
Expect the Credentialed Media to poo poo the final numbers come Sunday, despite the number most certainly kicking the butt of those who came to see Barry’s Coronation. Oh, and remember, Barry ran away to Minneapolis today. So much for listening to opposing viewpoints.
This is what our astroturfed protests look like
Here’s what their grassroots demonstrations look like
If you check out all the pictures around the ‘net (links at Memeorandum and Instapundit are good places to start.)
Hot Air asks the same question.
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I was there and I would go w/ the 1.5M….I have attended many of the anti-war protests to counter them and when I was a lib in the 90’s I did the million mom march :hangs head in shame: and this was larger by a million because the million mom’s march was not a million…..seriously forgive me on being a liberal in the 90’s I am a 9-12-2001 Conservative
I was there and I would say that most reports have it right at about 60,000 to 70,000.
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1.5 to 2 million is correct.
See the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sjvc6baor8&feature=player_embedded
…not to mention countless photos.
On another related point…
During the night (I just couldn’t sleep) I was reading and posting on the (don’t laugh, damnit!) Washington Post site regarding this event for awhile, until I noticed that the Leftists posting there didn’t have a single argument, and instead were just flinging epithets like:
KKKers
John Birchers
Old White Folks
Crackers
etc. etc. etc.
And I suddenly realized that – while it’s not pissing in the wind to post there – the only sensible response to the Left (whether the Antique Media, Leftist posters, whomever) is to
point out what a bunch of sad sacks and losers these people are,
to mindlessly attack Democrats, Republicans, Independents and Libertarians – in short, plain and simple English – to attack all Americans.
They are isolating themselves even more.
I wonder how long it will take abc, msnbc, and all the other mainstream media that they are alienating themselves from their audience and revealing just how biased they are.
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Anyhow, the best estimate comes from Tabitha Hale, who Tweets (via Michelle Malkin)
Okay people. The 2 mil # was an estim from ABC.
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No it wasn’t, it was a lie that came from the organizers who invented it.
Either way, the numbers are ridiculous no matter who did the estimates. Obama’s inauguration had only 1.8 million. When people were renting out their houses for several times the rate it costs to book a hotel. When the national guard was deployed just to cope with the logistics.
I don’t have to ask you to if you think this came even close to half the number of people who attended that. You don’t, because nobody does.
Let’s remember that the hotel bookings and such were much higher for the inauguration than the tea party because the tea party people didn’t get free tickets and have their way paid by celebrities and politicians. Most of the tea partiers (such as my family and cousins from 10 hours away) rented buses for the day and never spent a night in a hotel. The government didn’t deploy the national guard for two reasons: 1. they didn’t believe this many people would really show up. 2. this crowd of people is a completely different type than the hippee disrespectful type of people at the inauguration who were likely to get into brawls and leave garbage all over the place (it took days to clean up after all the lazy good for nothings left)
“Let’s remember that the hotel bookings and such were much higher for the inauguration than the tea party because…”
…one had 1.8 million attendees and the other didn’t have one sixth of that many people present.
But you are correct, one and a half million imaginary people are particularly tidy and well behaved.
Look at the photos and even the most aggravated liberal has to concede there were over 1 million people at the rally. I trust the police and parks dept estimates at 1.2 to 1.5 million. Again, liberals and the polarized mainstream media want all this to go away and will trivialize the event or just ignore it. Organizing demonstrations on Washington has always been a core signature of the left. Now we have middle class white and black Americans gathering en masse and liberals are gnashing their teeth. In their efforts to demonize and marginalize the protesters, they will sling labels like racists, rednecks, idiots etc (a la that other moron Garofalo). However, this is just indicative of their frustration and unbridled rage over the middle class FINALLY saying “Enough”. And the left can’t stop or this closet socialist in the White House run away from it.
went to the march with my wife, came down by train from philly, stayed at the Beacon Hotel friday to sunday. I am a retired philly detective and that crowd was over a million plus,, i know because we sat at the side of the street for over two hours and the people just came and came and came, we left about 2pm, after arriving at the freedom plaza at 8am, went back to the hotel and watched the festivities on TV, the crown was still coming down,,, if the politicians want to ignore us, they will be ex temporary employees next election, and the next, etc
apparently this guy did a thorough number crunching and came up with 120 thousands it takes a year just to read this post but for what it’s worth
http://deathbymedia.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/912-washington-dc-tea-party-rally-crowd-estimation/