American Free Press: 120,000 at DC 912 March

StreetWisePundit Gets the Numbers Right!

As I highlighted earlier this week, there is no way 1 million people attended the 912 DC march as so many have claimed.  By simply comparing the Metrorail ridership numbers of the 912 march to other large gatherings, it is obvious that the numbers were way overblown. It is refreshing to see someone report realistic figures.

This, by the way, is the number I wagered on in the StreetWisePundit poll. I seek the truth, rather than following the crowd.

Mainstream Downplays Massive D.C. Tea Party Crowd

By Peter Papaheraklis

Easily 100,000 protesters showed up for the “Tea Party” demonstration at the National Mall on in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 12. Fed up with President Obama’s left-leaning policies, huge budget deficits, and overall bankrupting of this country, throngs of angry patriots made their sentiments

felt as they cheered speakers like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.).

Tens of thousands of yellow flags bearing the “Do Not Tread On Me” snake flooded the Mall, sending a clear message it’s time for a revolution. Hundreds of signs and countless thousands of American flags, some upside down to indicate a nation in distress, filled the air. Tea Party attendees want their country back from the crooks who are bankrupting the nation and are slowly stealing every right we have.

The huge turnout surprised most people including the organizers, who had anticipated 25,000 to 50,000 protesters. An unofficial estimate of the crowd size, based upon a formula the U.S. Park Service uses to estimate crowd sizes on the Mall, places the crowd at between 120,000 and 200,000 people.

One of the speakers announced that ABC News had just said that there were 1.5 million protesters at the rally. Although that estimate seemed on the high side, the mainstream papers reported the following day that only “tens of thousands” of protesters were there. Of course that could mean as many as 90,000, which would still be a low estimate. But it seems more likely that the mainstream media is deliberately trivializing the number of people who attended the event.

The crowd was loud. The crowd was angry. The mainstream media and the establishment that they represent should be getting a bit nervous about this. Not since the massive anti-war protests of the 1960s have we seen consistently large protests by American citizens.via Tea Party 183.