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Mike

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Can anyone detect the bias here? :lol:

Estimates Vary Of Glenn Beck Rally Attendance
indyposted.com ^ | 8/29/2010 | Rudi Stettner



Estimating attendance at political rallies and demonstrations is a notoriously imprecise science. Glenn Beck’s “Restore America” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial has been variously estimated from 87,000 by the Huffington Post, 300,000 by NBC News and the New York Times and 500,000 by rally organizers. Sky News concurred with rally organizers in estimating attendance at 500,000.

A counter rally led by Al Sharpton was estimated to have drawn several hundred people.
 

Larrry

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I even heard reports talking about "the controversial protest" I wouldn't call it being controversial if you want to restore America. But then I am not a socialist that wants to CHANGE America into something in direct contradiction to what it was founded on.


National Mall Spotless After 300K Strong Glenn Beck Rally…

Compare that to the supposed Mother Earth-loving libs, who left behind 100 tons of trash after Obama’s inauguration
 

Steve

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we waited awhile after the event for the crowd to clear so we could leave,

there was one bottle that was discarded by a guy with spiked hair, and a gum wrapper.. was because a person walking behind them picked it up an left it at a trash bin..

the bins were overflowing... all ten of them.. yep.. that's all, we counted five on our side.. so we doubled the number... :?

the parking areas were all closed off... buses were not allowed to drop off anywhere near the event,..

and the park police had at least thirty horses in trailers,.. in 90 degree heat..


agitators with vulgar signs walked thru and threw insults .. Must have been Angusbored with his sidekick shamapooie, over all they were mostly just ignored... (kinda like on here)

but other then a few folk who passed out from the heat.. I did not see any trouble...

as for the count???
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many in the crowd sat under the trees or on the lawns outside of this picture...
Some late arrivals found the public entrances to the Mall had closed due to the massive crowd. thousands of people listened from Constitution Avenue.
 
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Anonymous

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this only shows the power of mass media not beck.

Someone once said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Though Beck talks of God and stopping injustice, he advocates the hazardous and bloody neocon foreign policies that have killed countless innocents, made America more hated around the world, and further weakened our national security. Indeed, Glenn Beck’s establishment backed rise as a “patriot leader” is simply plan B for shepherding the patriot movement back to the fake left/right machine, and channeling public outrage at Obama’s actions as President into a form that can be manipulated and controlled…the same way Obama did for liberals who opposed the actions of George W. Bush.

Manipulating the people of a country that have been the victims of psyops over and over again, and who are looking for leaders to believe in, is not only self-serving, but mean. Because Beck has the showmanship and organizational backing to pull off his deception he has decided to take his thirty pieces of silver and proudly display them as “Godly”.

Some are falling for it. Many others are not.

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The only accidentally true statement Glenn Beck uttered during his speech at the rally is something he said when talking about World War 2 and the memorial in DC– “You cannot coexist with evil”.
 

Steve

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shaumei said:
this only shows the power of mass media not beck.

Someone once said, “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Though Beck talks of God and stopping injustice, he advocates the hazardous and bloody neocon foreign policies that have killed countless innocents, made America more hated around the world, and further weakened our national security. Indeed, Glenn Beck’s establishment backed rise as a “patriot leader” is simply plan B for shepherding the patriot movement back to the fake left/right machine, and channeling public outrage at Obama’s actions as President into a form that can be manipulated and controlled…the same way Obama did for liberals who opposed the actions of George W. Bush.

Manipulating the people of a country that have been the victims of psyops over and over again, and who are looking for leaders to believe in, is not only self-serving, but mean. Because Beck has the showmanship and organizational backing to pull off his deception he has decided to take his thirty pieces of silver and proudly display them as “Godly”.

Some are falling for it. Many others are not.

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The only accidentally true statement Glenn Beck uttered during his speech at the rally is something he said when talking about World War 2 and the memorial in DC– “You cannot coexist with evil”.

interesting plagiarized comment "By Andrew Steele"
 

hopalong

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Hey Stevie-Wonder if you don't think about me and ignore me ,why mention me...Hugs buttercup!

All this Gay talk gets me hot & bothered ,Putzs
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We knew you were into that lifestyle twinkle toes
 

Tam

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Bullhauler said:
When are conservatives extremely liberal??? When they are estimating the attendance of a Glenn Beck rally.

Glenn Beck Rally: Restoring Honor, Annoying Lefties–UPDATED
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Aug 28 2010 Filed under Featured, Media Bias, Politics.
Lots of people, hundreds of thousands of them showed up for the Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial. The bitter clingers keep showing up.

The lefties’ response? How dare they! Racists! Hitler!

In other words, same old same old.

It’s heartening to see folks keep turning out. It’s also enjoyable seeing the Democrats–still running the world by the way–frothing at the mouth impotently. Just as a reminder: They own the White House, Congress, most of the judicial system and nearly 100% of the press and they act like helpless turtles trying to right themselves.

Anyway, what will be the chief side-effect of the rally? Probably the best outcome is that leftists are frustrated, outraged, and stuck. They are the few. They do not represent the silent majority’s opinion. They do not represent American values. They do not represent what made our country great. They do not believe in the resilience and strength of the individual.

And everything they hold dear–bigger government, freedom-infringing rules and regulations, the collective over the individual–runs counter to what Americans define as American. And the regular American is fighting back. And individually, that doesn’t seem like much, but when these individuals gather together again, it’s scary–if you’re a statist.

The lefties are scared. That makes them mean. And kinda boring.

same old same old, How true :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Here's a Liberal news source fooling bullhauler into thinking that Conservatives were being liberal with their estimate of crowd size. :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Steve

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hypocritexposer said:
Bullhauler said:
When are conservatives extremely liberal??? When they are estimating the attendance of a Glenn Beck rally.

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not sure the exact time stamp on the photo but I would guess at around 8:00am.

by ten the entire WW2 memorial was jammed full,
and the crowd was growing past it..
 

Tam

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Here is the link to Glenn's website with lots of pictures

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44950/
 

Steve

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Thanks Ben, and Tam..

sure wish I would have know you were there we could have met up after words..

I was at the right far corner of the reflecting pool.. and our side was just as clean, afterwords..

I'll try to get my photos up tonight..
 

Tam

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By JAMES FREEMAN
Washington, D.C.

Pundits will debate whether the crowd at Glenn Beck's Saturday rally in Washington was the largest in recent political history, but it was certainly among the most impressive.

Mr. Beck is a television host and radio broadcaster with a checkered past and a penchant for incendiary remarks. But if he's judged by the quality of people of all colors that he attracted to the Lincoln Memorial, his stock can't help but rise.

One would not be able to find a more polite crowd at a political convention, certainly not at a professional sporting event, probably not even at an opera. In fact, judging by the behavior of the attendees following the event, you'd have a tough time finding churches in which people display more patience as others make their way to the exits.

This army of well-mannered folks that marched into Washington seemed comprised mainly of people who had once marched in the U.S. Army or other military branch, or at least had a family member who had. Perhaps that's not surprising, given that the event was a fund-raiser for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides scholarships to the children of elite troops killed in the performance of their duty. The day was largely devoted to expressions of gratitude for the sacrifices of U.S. soldiers, for great men of American history like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and for God.

But it didn't end there. Dave Roever, a Vietnam veteran, offered a closing prayer in which he thanked the Lord for the president and for the Congress. Despite the unpopularity of the latter two, no booing or catcalls could be heard.

Perhaps feeling defensive about how they would be portrayed in media reports, various attendees wore t-shirts noting that they were "Not violent" or "Non-violent." For other participants, there was no need for an explicit message. Relaxed young parents felt comfortable enough to push toddlers in strollers through the crowded areas along the memorial's reflecting pool.

Not only was the rally akin to a "huge church picnic" (in one Journal reporter's description), but one had to wonder if the over-achievers in this crowd actually left the area in better shape than they found it.

After the event, walking from the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool through Constitution Gardens, this reporter scanned 360 degrees and could not see a scrap of trash anywhere. Participants and volunteers had collected all their refuse and left it piled neatly in bags around the public garbage cans. Near Constitution Avenue, I did encounter one stray piece of paper—but too old and faded to have been left that day.

Given the huge representation of military families at the event, maybe it's not surprising the grounds were left ship-shape. A principal theme of the day was that attendees should restore the country by making improvements in their own lives—be the change you wish to see in the world, as Gandhi once put it.

Most of the participants were strictly amateurs in the business of activism. For many, it was their first appearance at a public demonstration. Their strikingly mild-mannered nature might inspire even Mr. Beck to acknowledge that in a crowd estimated at 300,000, the craziest person at the event might have been the one with the microphone. While he admits that he's part entertainer and prone to over-the-top comments, his followers appear to be sincerely responding to his message that Americans need to cling to their best traditions. (Mr. Beck's program appears on the Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns this newspaper.)

The conservative Mr. Beck's ability to draw this many people to Washington may suggest enormous gains for Republicans come the fall. But the GOP shouldn't expect voters to simply hand them a congressional majority without making them earn it. If pregame chatter and off-season optimism translated into victory, the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins would meet in the Super Bowl every year.

Between Saturday's crowd in Washington and the tea partiers agitating for limited government, we may be witnessing the rebuilding of the Reagan coalition, the "fusion" of religious and economic conservatives that political theorist Frank Meyer once endorsed. Reagan always believed that the Republican Party was the natural home for this movement, but GOP leaders in Washington need to prove they are worthy of it.

Mr. Freeman is assistant editor of the Journal's editorial page.

Something to be proud of just happened in DC :clap: :nod:
 
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