Tag: Tea Baggers
Obligatory Crowd Inflation Numbers Begin After Tea Party Rally
78,000 — 96,000
— CBS News estimates of crowd size at Mormon Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally in Washington on Aug. 28, based on work commissioned by CBS from AirPhotosLive. The company uses photos taken from tethered balloons shot at the peak of the crowd, which are then broken into 2-D and 3-D grids, and the individuals counted.
Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands
— Figure quoted by NBC Nightly News
More than 100,000
— ABCNews.com
Crowd Attending Beck Rally Estimated at Over 500,000
— FOX News headline
As low as 300,000 and as big as 650,000
— Glenn Beck on FOX News Sunday
“We’re not going to let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today – because we were witnesses.”
— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
— CBS News estimates of crowd size at Mormon Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally in Washington on Aug. 28, based on work commissioned by CBS from AirPhotosLive. The company uses photos taken from tethered balloons shot at the peak of the crowd, which are then broken into 2-D and 3-D grids, and the individuals counted.
Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands
— Figure quoted by NBC Nightly News
More than 100,000
— ABCNews.com
Crowd Attending Beck Rally Estimated at Over 500,000
— FOX News headline
As low as 300,000 and as big as 650,000
— Glenn Beck on FOX News Sunday
“We’re not going to let anyone get away with saying there were less than a million here today – because we were witnesses.”
— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
Verbatim
This is obviously scaring white people. What they have done is essentially try to put off-limits any parts of the city where these main tea partiers believe you might be able to encounter, dare I say, black people.
–– Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson on MSNBC, describing a post by tea bagger Bruce Majors, which Majors said was intended as informational to participants in Glenn Beck’s “Million Moron” rally. The post listed subway lines and neighborhoods to avoid (diverse ones), and warned that most cab drivers are Arab or African. It also included a map showing the “safe” areas, which were mainly around the Washington Mall. City leaders countered that millions of tourists visit happily every year, and that Majors is out of touch with the times, since many of the areas he said to avoid are the hippest and trendiest.
Martin Luther King is the Farthest Thing from Glenn Beck’s Mind
It was not my intention to select 8-28 because of the Martin Luther King tie. It is the day he made that speech. I had no idea until I announced it.
— Glenn Beck, talk radio and FOX News personality, stating the obvious. No one doubts that the date of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was outside Beck’s frame of reference when he planned his “Restoring Honor” tea bagger rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial, site of King’s world-changing speech.
Verbatim
The votes today have been tallied and I accept the voters’ decision…No one could have anticipated the entrance of a multimillionaire with a questionable past who shattered campaign spending records and spent more in four months than has ever been spent in a primary race here in Florida. While I was disappointed with the negative tone of the race, I couldn’t be more proud of our campaign and our supporters for fighting back against false and misleading advertising…
— Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, conceding victory in the Republican primary for the governor’s seat, but not endorsing former opponent tea bagger Rick Scott, despite attempts by Florida Republicans to claim unity after the slugfest.
Recap of Republican Disinformation Points on Manhattan Islamic Center, Courtesy of Florida Governor Candidate
Disgraced HCA Columbia Healthcare CEO Rick Scott (who was forced to resign rather than face criminal charges in the nation’s largest Medicaid fraud case, resulting in a $1.7 billion fine) sums up all the Republican lies about the Islamic Center in New York in one TV spot, going FOX News one better by tying construction of the facility to health care reform. Why Scott, who is running for governor of Florida — a state which will have little if any say in the issue — would chose this as a campaign platform is unclear.
