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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.)
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.
