Tea Party crowd-counting: An unfine art

The foaming at the mouth Teabaggers are nothing more than a bunch of toothless rednecks.

Typical Republicans - they can't count and they can't spell.
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http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/3983339.html#cutid1

There were a bajillion people there! Everybody supports the Great Leader Glenn Beck!

TEABAGGERS LIE ABOUT THE ATTENDANCE AT THEIR ASTROTURFED "PROTEST" SATURDAY IN DC - FreedomWorks Misquotes ABC News on Tea Bagger Turnout

Whackjob Michelle Malkin is claiming 2 million turned out in Washington, D.C. today to "celebrate" the day after 9/11. The organizers, Freedom Works claimed that ABC News was estimating 1 to 1.5 MILLION turned out.

Uhhh...actually? ABC News didn't say that at all.

They said 60,000-70,000.

Oops.

According to ABC News:

"Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.
Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.
At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-attributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055

I can believe they turned out 60,000 or even 70,000 people. They probably photoshopped the crowds to make them look bigger. But deliberately misquoting ABC News? Really?

Did these Teabagger idiots really think they'd just let that one go?

They keep crowing about how "well organized" the tea baggers are. I'd say they are good at rallying a solid core of right wing whackos, after all, they have a huge anti health care lobbying group (Freedom Works organizing it for them and a fake news outlet (Faux "News") giving them free publicity in the days leading up to this. The Teabaggers are obviously to stupid to realize that they're being led around by the nose by the very same corporations who are keeping them dumb and poor. But when those numbers didn't approach what they fantasized about, they are reduced to lying about it even when there's no question that they're going to get called on it.

Maybe after 8 years of a Bush administration that was capable of getting away with murder, both figuratively AND literally, in broad daylight and under the glare of media scrutiny, the Right must think they can just do and say whatever they want and nobody will notice.

NEWSFLASH TEABAGGERS: You're liars and we notice.

Had to be a million Saturday, or they couldn't call it the "Million Moron March."

This is why the Republican party can't win elections anymore - the entire party has been taken over by an echo chamber of low IQ toothless rednecks who still haven't figured out that outside of their little cult people view them as being repulsive.

And I love how they're all claiming that they're going to win in 2012.....win with who exactly? Palin? Mittens Romney? Goober Huckleberry? Racist Joe Wilson? ha ha ha! The Teabaggers are all just as delusional as their hero Crazy Glenn Beckkk is.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/14/779699/-912-Teabaggers-in-their-own-words

Violent criminal/Teabagger brings gun to Obama health care rally in Minnesota!

Josh Hendrickson of Rogers, MN, brought two concealed handguns to President Obama's health care rally in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday. He was seen by police and questioned, but not arrested.

Hendrickson, it turns out, was convicted for assault and just released from jail a few weeks ago.
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http://www.startribune.com/local/59288822.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUT

Thanks to Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota has been a conceal-carry state since 2003, which basically requires a county sheriff to issue a permit to carry a concealed handgun, with certain exceptions.

Hendrickson has a concealed carry permit. However, according to the conceal-carry law (MN statute 624.714), the sheriff is not required to issue a permit if the person is prohibited from carrying a firearm under other Minnesota statutes, including MN statute 624.713. And that law prohibits anyone from carrying a firearm in Minnesota if they have ever been convicted of a violent crime. (Minnesota statute 624.712 defines violent crime to include all forms of assault.)

Furthermore, according to 624.713,

A person named in subdivision 1, clause (2) [i.e., has committed a violent crime], who possesses any type of firearm is guilty of a felony and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 15 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $30,000, or both.

Now here's the interesting thing: Hendrickson was stopped on the street by Minneapolis police, and by the Secret Service, and questioned, at the rally on Saturday. But he was not arrested.

So here was a guy, just out of the joint after his conviction, therefore ineligible to possess a firearm under Minnesota law, standing on the street outside a Presidential venue carrying to pistols. Thus, he is committing another felony. And, as he is standing there committing this felony, he is being questioned by the cops, who do NOT arrest him.

It's easy to think of racism as the unjust things cops do to black people. Sometimes, racism is the unjust things cops let white guys get away with.

I'm surprised that the Teabaggers can't see that outside of themselves, people see them as a bunch of repulsive thugs, which makes even more people turned off by the Republican party than they might have been before.

This is why I only get my news from 3 sources - PBS, BBC and the Swamp. Quote me.

Ah those Tea-Bladders! Always with the mavericky exaggerations.
(Watch out Troll Buster! The secret Tri-lateral commission is ready to pounce again!)

Swamp at large: Check it out.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/i_believe_ill_dust_my_broom.html

Anyone that wants to join the fun, by all means, do so.

I am sure these numbers are exagerated. When they had a Tea Party in New Lenox, IL, they stated the crowd was 10,000 but it looked more like a 1,000.

Seriously, who cares? The only good coming out of this story is the comedy of watching a bunch of Swamp libs get their panties in a bunch. Again. And how did professor El-Baz become an "expert" in crowd estimation? Is that like a course I can take at a community college?

LOSERS!

And how did professor El-Baz become an "expert" in crowd estimation? Is that like a course I can take at a community college?

Posted by: Herbie H. | September 15, 2009 4:41 PM

Dr. El-Baz is a well respected researcher who specializes in analyzing remote sensing technology information. The methods he uses for determining crowd sizes are based on methods he developed to count sand dunes in satellite photographs of the earth.

http://www.crdf.org/profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc_id=699543

I know you right wingers hate science, and think that anyone who has gotten more than a community college degree is an over educated elitist, but it really is sad how proud you all are of your ignorance.

Geez, HH, we're all laughing at it.

Ben, you misjudge me. I actually love sand dunes.

I find it humorous that a recurring theme in your collective rants is the stupidity of the conservatives, yet you have managed to exhibit your own ignorance, in that you are unable to differentiate between to, too and two, a basic lesson. Oh, now I suppose that makes me a racist, too! Additionally, I think the 1200 physicians who had their own rally, the myriad business owners in attendance would, and I, a magna cum laude graduate of Catholic University of America definitely do, take exception to being called "low IQ toothless rednecks." Is this the best you can come up with to engage in a 'civil dialogue?' Your vitriolic responses to the march, specifically, and to those of us who disagree with you, generally, are oh, so telling. Like a small child who doesn't get their way, they throw a tantrum. To quote from some of your more erudite responses, "WAA, WAA, WAA!"

Posted by: mlw | September 15, 2009 11:54 PM
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Well, you've proven you can use big words but you have not given me a reason to vote Republican. I guess that's because your ideology has proven to be a failure during the 6 years of control of White House, Senate and House of Reps. The Republican philosophy drove America into a ditch.

What the Hey? Ever note that the Tea Bags are all white?? Its the lunatic fringe of the Republican party, neo nazis, neo cons, right wing nuts, racists, and dumb rednecks that don't understand that they have been brainwashed!!! whiteagle38

I guess these rants are yet more evidence of the left's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. They can't seem to come up with a VALID response to attacks on BO and the rest of the left, so they resort to petty namecalling. Pathetic.

I guess I must be a racist. Oh wait, I'm of Hispanic descent.

I guess I must be stupid. Oh wait, there's that PhD from Maryland and the tenured position at a Research One university.

From my perch here in the Ivory Tower I see thousands of students who were instrumental in electing BO. They have NO CLUE about what is going on in the world. Many of them can't name their Senators; virtually none can name their Representative. They have NO IDEA what has happened in the US over the past few years, other than what they learn from a grossly biased media.

Man those tea baggers are crazy. Our country will be so much better off when we are saddled with 9 trillion in debt, why cant these toothless rednecks see that.

I have done my own study based on devised methodology and calculation which you can find here:

http://deathbymedia.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/912-washington-dc-tea-party-rally-crowd-estimation/

It's backed by evidence (pictures and clips) and determining the boundaries of the protesters and calculation of final tally derived from the density of the crowd at each given block. My calculus puts the figures around 130k up to 160k.

WOW! The old adage "Ignorance is Bliss" must be true, judging from this uninformed, vitriolic site.

ROTFLOL at the posts here.