I doubt it would surprise anyone here that the media would go to their best lengths to over-estimate the number of people at Obama's inauguration. But just how far? Try a million people.
ASU journalism professor Stephen Doig took it to the satellite image to get an accurate count of the crowd. His tally, after even accounting for those still in route to the event: 800,000. Now let's look at how the working Obamalists portrayed that to the public.
Baltimore Sun: "Inaugural crowd is estimated at close to 2 million"
Boston Globe: " The National Park Service says it will rely on a media report that says 1.8 million people attended President Obama's inauguration."
MSNBC: "Oh, and some guy named Barack Obama. Along with millions of regular folk, celebrities swarmed to DC to celebrate the Inauguration." (from the same page: "Could Inauguration Crowd Reach 4 Million?")
LA Times: "Crowds surged in previously unseen numbers today for the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, making it seem increasingly likely that the gathering would reach the record-setting mark of 2 million."
Here's where it gets good.
Washington Post: "the official estimate released by the District yesterday is 1.8 million, a figure that would make the gathering the largest ever on the Mall."
Backstory on that "official estimate released by the District" that the Washington Post is writing about.
AP: "Park service spokesman David Barna said the agency did not conduct its own count. Instead, it will use a Washington Post account that said 1.8 million people gathered on the U.S. Capitol grounds, National Mall and parade route, he said."
And that is especially interesting because if you follow the jump on the Washington Post story you'll find this nugget of info: "The Washington Post's analysis of the image concluded that about 1 million people were on the Mall." And the first page of the article mentions the parade route "was supposed to accommodate 300,000 people at its height". Fuzzy math, a journalist staple.
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No, it's accurate
January 22, 2009 - 03:44 ET by DoktorFrankenThere were 800,000 people and one million ghosts. They were registered by ACORN and decided to show up at the coronation.
1.8 million.
That's great Dok, Acorn
January 22, 2009 - 08:19 ET by JerryThat's great Dok, Acorn did the estimates... lol. And apparently the Dallas Cowboys were all in attendance, as well as many Disney characters.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
You nailed it! This guy at
January 22, 2009 - 17:38 ET by GrannyGrump42You nailed it!
This guy at work was holding up a newspaper with a picture of The Mall, and gushing that the crowd could be seen from space.
So can parking garages and bicycles. Has he never been to Google Earth?
And if the crowd WAS that big, all it proves is how many idiots we have who think they elected Santa Claus. "And now I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage or filling my gas tank!"
I estimate that half of that number were FAUX-JOURNOS ...
January 22, 2009 - 06:01 ET by Jayke... and HOLLYWIERDS. I live only 20 miles from Capitol Hill and the local media was HYPING this event ad nauseum. I predict that the POLITICAL AGENDA of our PROPAGANDIST MEDIA will not allow this report to spread.
It would have been over a
January 22, 2009 - 08:24 ET by JerryIt would have been over a million, but the horde of journalists sent to Wassilla for the "Destroy Sarah Palin" offensive, got snowed in due to Global Warming Climate Change Crisis and could not get to the corronation in time.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Jerry
January 22, 2009 - 09:12 ET by DoktorFrankenLots of ironic co-inky dinks there.
In the weeks before the
January 22, 2009 - 06:57 ET by motherbeltIn the weeks before the event, they predicted
a possible 4 million
I guess even their "esti-math" couldn't stretch it that much.
This report also says that TV viewership was higher for Reagan in 1985 than for Obama. (h/t Drudge)
Funny, the papers don't mention that.
Yes, yes, yes!!! Let's not forget the weeks before
January 22, 2009 - 07:32 ET by BourbeauLet's not forget how they ran the expected numbers up to 5 million coming to DC; lets not forget the potential cell phone debacle in the making; lets not forget the porto potty disaster awaiting those million on the mall; and then what?
Geese; hotel rooms were available; people could take pics without too much difficulty; they could even go potty when they had to. And now the MSM is downplaying the throngs, refusing to budge on the million number cause they absolutely don't want to go lower than the infamous Million Man March of years ago.
Oh please; all this meant was, alot of people either didn't go to work, or had no work to go to.
MB, I predict that as his
January 22, 2009 - 08:38 ET by JerryMB, I predict that as his majesty's legend grows, so will the estimates. The MSM knows, that if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes fact in most people's minds. This will become "The Day The Earth Stood Still", as half the country descended upon Washington, DC and the rest of the world watched the grand corronation.
I read where Will Smith wants to be the actor to portray Obama in a movie about his life. I thought he had already done that.... "I Am Legend".
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any
President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
No one will ever change the 2 million estimate. They can't . . .
January 22, 2009 - 07:56 ET by CKA in Red State USA. . . because Obama must always be presented as being better than, doing more than, accomplishing more than, drawing larger crowds than, etc., former President Bush or any other human being to have ever held office as head of state, anywhere, in the past or forseeable future.
Get used to it.
The advocacy/adversary media will not change. Have they ever admitted they were wrong? Have they ever revised anything, based on any outside criticism?
No.
I think the number was
January 22, 2009 - 14:23 ET by celatorI think the number was closer to 17 upteen billion million trillion people. I might be off a little. ;+}
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
"Ha! Scotch! It was inwented
January 22, 2009 - 17:40 ET by GrannyGrump42"Ha! Scotch! It was inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad!"
(Anybody hear the old Soviet style boasting?)
Good evening Granny
January 22, 2009 - 17:55 ET by cocodrieFriar John Cor's robe fooled the Soviets.
The dead and multiple voters fooled todays news "reporters".
Jesus Loves You
Obama is zero for 2 when it
January 22, 2009 - 08:11 ET by midnight cowboyObama is zero for 2 when it comes to DC crowd predictions. Remember back in 1995 when he was ther for the 3/10's of a million man march.
i knew this would happen ...
January 22, 2009 - 08:17 ET by pmohbuckall the MSM players jointly inflating the crowd numbers to create a consensus ... and they HAD to keep the word "million" in their estimates. the crowd doesn't look that much larger that the woodstock festival in 69 (which is often inflated to be 500,000).
wanna see a real crowd? check on the internet for photos of nassar's funeral (crowd estimated to be between 6-7 million with a funeral procession 6 miles long)
the inflated crowd numbers are just another reason to watch fox ... THE ONLY network to have objectively covered this man's journey to president with professional integrity ... they haven't degraded the man (like the MSMs did bush) and they haven't exhalted him
so that's 20 million fingers?
January 22, 2009 - 08:54 ET by mom_roxyou can double the number when you count the eyes:
Years ago the Park Service
January 22, 2009 - 09:10 ET by ricklailYears ago the Park Service did estimates for crowds in DC. Well along came the Million (?) man march and their estimates were a lot lower than Calypso Louie had imagined. After that the Park Service said they would no longer make estimates. Because Louis raised so much hell they would use the figures fron the media. This brings us to old saying, "Figures don't lie but liars figure."
Ricky Joe the Plumber
During the demos in the '70s
January 22, 2009 - 10:28 ET by StarAZBack in the day, the police always underestimated crowds...to downplay the demos. Now, it's the opposite. I believe the peace demos easily had a million a few times.
March For Life is today
January 22, 2009 - 09:50 ET by celatorSpeaking of the Old Media's compulsion to give high numbers to gatherings they support, I wonder how they will cover today's March For Life in Washington?
Will they cover it at all? Will it be on page one? Will they describe those meeting to show support for the most vunerable of all "kooks" and "radicals"?
We shall see.
Sorry to be a little off topic here, I didn't know where to put this.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
celator
January 22, 2009 - 10:23 ET by lotrBoth local and national media do their best to ignore the March for Life, which is without question the largest regular (yearly) political demonstration on the Mall, and this in spite of the fact that it is held at the height of winter.
Regarding the numbers for the inauguration, while it certainly was a lot of people (1 million is quite huge), it most certainly wasn't 2 million -- that is an exaggeration in the spirit of media sensationalism.
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Yes, they do try to ignore
January 22, 2009 - 14:21 ET by celatorYes, they do try to ignore the Right To Life March, and when they do cover it, you can sense they are gritting their teeth. Says a lot about them.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
Imagine if they covered ALL
January 22, 2009 - 17:42 ET by GrannyGrump42Imagine if they covered ALL the Marches for life -- it's to the point now where there are regional marches every year and a lot of states have marches in the capital to coincide with Roe. If we counted all of them they'd dwarf the Big O's numbers. They'd dwarf all the Lefties you could ever gather even for a Gay Whales of Gitmo rally.
Numbers Game
January 22, 2009 - 13:20 ET by noaincHussein Obama Coronation 37.8 million tv viewers
Palin/Biden debate 69.9 million viewers
LOL-I bet the satellites get shut off for the next big event...
January 22, 2009 - 14:11 ET by R D Helm...that has to do with the Dear Leader.
Either that, or his cultist's will publish the images themselves, with a whole bunch of electronically-generated human critters added in, just to be sure.
I wouldn't put anything past the Dear Leader's brainwashed cult members.
-Dave
“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.
One Million...let's compare pictures...
January 22, 2009 - 16:17 ET by vrwc13Can the Presidents ordination match these pictures?
http://throughtheveil.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/stand-in-the-gap.jpg
http://hematite.com/dragon/images/promiskeeprally.jpg
I doubt it.
Can you guess when these pictures where taken?
http://www.promisekeepers.org/about
In 1997, an estimated one million men gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for “Stand in the Gap,” marking arguably the largest gathering of Christian men in modern U.S. history.
I was there.
And now we Christain men may need to have a redo...to reclaim this country for God...
I will be in D.C. for "Stand in the Gap II".
How about you?
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The dead tree media
January 22, 2009 - 16:21 ET by UpNorthis way off. I counted everyone in that picture, and came up 789,287 people. And the guy in back with the "Vote for Pedro" t-shirt.