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Monday, September 14, 2009
Posted by: Kevin McCullough at 9:49 AM
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A few dozen...

It seems that there is a bit of real "controversy" from the political left over just how many people DID in fact show up, parade down Pennsylvania avenue, and spill out onto the national mall and the side streets (pictured above) for the 9.12 project/March On Washington.

And for the record, the picture above was shot by a friend who works for a Washington based group CWA, who was able to get on top of the local building and capture this shot as the day wore on. The view you are looking at is a SIDE STREET, it is not the main view coming down the National Mall.

THIS IS:
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That pic was taken by our very own Faith Ammen, on the steps of the Capitol building looking back down the mall towards the reflecting pool/Washington monument. This was the view we had when speaking from the podium.

What is not pictured here, no accounted for in the top picture above, are the tens of thousands more that are under or behind the tree lines that run the length of the mall.

One little liar at MSNBC by the name of David Schuster said that all these people equaled no more than 50,000 people at most. (Doing the math, that is like GIANT stadium here in New York--the old one not the new one, at only 2/3's capacity. Yet Giant stadium wouldn't even be able to contain even a third of the people in the top pic above.)

But that doesn't account for even half the people that were on that street alone, because Michelle Malkin captured this screen grab from the "Livestream" stream of the goings on:

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Also, feel free to take a look at this helpful guide produced by USAToday in conjunction with the occasion of the Obama inauguration. From the looks of it, 1.2 million gets you to the Washington monument (not passed it). We had callers calling the show Saturday night explaining that they had only been able to "hear" our speeches, not see them, as they were on the other side of the Washington monument on the mall.

Scientists had the number at 2 million.

Parks and Rec had the number at 1.5 million.

Metro Police said 1.2.

The Daily Mail says 1 million.

ABC news now claims they never said the number that was originally attributed to them, so fine I will take ABC news' word for it. BUT now ABC is stating 70,000?

You look at the pics, then the guide... then you tell me who you think is closer.







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