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HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 05:22 PM Jan 2013

Maggie and Brian continue to lie to their followers. Said followers lap it up.

Source: http://nomaniacs.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/maggie-and-brian-lie-again/

From the article: (snip)

You might have thought they would have left it there with all the media reports highlighting the approximate level of attendance, which was monitored by the French police forces, who would have been woefully inept if two times as many people had turned up than had been planned for, especially given the nature of the protest and the possibility of it turning nasty. So what do NOM now claim in a new Youtube video*

Over a MILLION people turned up to demonstrate. Yes, you heard them!! A MILLION!!

(big snip)

Here is a list of how different news agencies reported the approximate numbers;

BBC – 340,000

NBC – ‘Several hundred thousand’

Reuters UK – ‘Several hundred thousand’

ABC – 340,000

The Guardian, UK – 340,000 – Please note that any time The Guardian published any piece that might indicate the UK doesn’t want marriage equality – studies show it does – NOM have been first to splash the piece all over their FB page and blog, complete with skewed reporting of what the newspaper actually published. They have so far not referenced this figure.

Even Al Jazeera estimated the figure at approximately 340,000, and given their strong Muslim backing, and target audience, the opportunity was ripe for them to exploit the numbers to show how bad homosexuality was. Did they? Did they heck as like!


Much more at the link.

Not that "NOM lies" is any big new news, but we may as well keep up with what nastiness they're up to.
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