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Posted by atbell on Sep-21-2009 12:52:

Protests

I found this claim on Al Jazeera but I'm a bit warry of the slant on the site.

quote:

Tens of thousands of right-wing demonstrators march on the US Capitol waving signs reading "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy" and calling Obama a "bloodsucking Muslim alien".

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/...2535246265.html

Is this right? The nubmers seem on the high side but I don't count them as so high that I out right dismis the report.

Anyone have another link confirming / denying?

Posted by Moongoose on Sep-21-2009 13:26:

If you think tens of thousands is a high number , what do you say to the faux news reported outcome of about two million

Anyway the closest thing to an official number was this

quote:
A spokesman for D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services estimated the crowd at "in excess of 75,000" people. Local and federal law enforcement authorities don't provide crowd estimates.

Source for the above : WSJOnline : LA Times : ABC News : ABC News 2

So sub 100k if you dont listen to people like Glenn Beck or Michelle Malkin.

Posted by LazFX on Sep-21-2009 15:34:

That article is dead on; btw.....

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Sep-21-2009 16:45:

Posted by LazFX on Sep-21-2009 17:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov

Now see, that is double meaning I guess to me...
I liked that show and also the group

Posted by atbell on Sep-21-2009 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Moongoose
If you think tens of thousands is a high number , what do you say to the faux news reported outcome of about two million

Anyway the closest thing to an official number was this

Source for the above : WSJOnline : LA Times : ABC News : ABC News 2

So sub 100k if you dont listen to people like Glenn Beck or Michelle Malkin.

Damn, that's a lot of motivated and moderately ignorant people.

I can't beleive they fault Obama on any of the messes that are currenty consuming the country, he hasn't been in office for a year yet!

Healthcare is broken and the world knows it. -- not Obama

The bailouts were huge but fit Keynes perscriptions, not to mention Paulson was the one who initiated them.

A real triumph of the passionate and irrational.

Well, if the resistence to Obama keeps up at least we outside of the US can point and say 'you brought it on yourself' ...

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Sep-21-2009 18:21:

http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Teabaggers

Posted by Zharen on Sep-30-2009 00:19:

quote:
-Mailing bags of tea. In practice, this makes no sense. In theory, it makes even less.

-Comparing Barack Obama to Hitler.

-Chanting "Freedom", not necessarily as a comment on their rights (that'd be silly), but as a quote from "Braveheart."

-Getting riled up that the current administration is turning the nation into Russia (our enemy from 20 years ago).

So 17ss, what kind of tea have you been mailing your representatives?