"Hundreds and hundreds" of people at Kerry/Clinton rally??? WTF????

[LynnTheDem]

WTF is WRONG with these CNN IDIOTS????!!!

PHILLIPS: We've heard that line plenty of times out of the mouth of John Kerry. Eight days and counting, and he pulls out the biggest gun yet. Former President Bill Clinton joining him at this rally live in Philadelphia. Hundreds and hundreds of people lining the street.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/25/lol.03.html

Clinton's health scare - an emergency quadruple bypass followed a diagnosis of dangerously blocked arteries - has invested an element of drama to these appearances. A Philadelphia Fire Department spokesman estimated the crowd between 80,000 and 100,000. If this number is accurate, it would be among the largest crowds Clinton ever addressed in the United States, although he has appeared before larger assemblages overseas.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041026/REPOSITORY/410260364/1013/NEWS03

[Jacobin]

1. Kind of like the 'hundreds' of protesters before Iraq invasion

There were over ten million, but they were shunted aside in the race to disaster.

[LynnTheDem]

2. And all rethuglicans have dicks 10" or more

Because this:

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is 5 inches.

[KlatooBNikto]

5. Are these people trained to ignore the obvious? Or has an edict

been issued by Rove through the management of these news corporations to see things their way or else? Whatever it is, they are beginning to resemble more and more the robot drones of TASS in the late unlamented Soviet Union.

[leftchick]

3. looks like a hundred thousand easy to me....

[LSK]

4. maybe he means he shook hands with hundreds of people

after his speech.

[aden_nak]

6. A thousand hundreds are still "hundreds and hundreds".

[HFishbine]

7. No, I think that's accurate

"Hundreds, and hundreds lining the street," and tens of thousands in the streets.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. A good article here

Jill Porter | Clinton proves to be tonic for Kerry at rally

By Jill Porter

STATE SEN. Vince Fumo said it first:

"The last person who spoke to a crowd like this was the pope when he said Mass over there," Fumo giddily noted from the podium overlooking thousands of supporters who turned out for yesterday's John Kerry rally.

Indeed, the pontiff's 1979 visit and the 1980 World Series parade were, in my memory, the only other times so many people in this city poured into the city streets for a common cause.

The pope, the Phillies - and yesterday, the Democratic Pied Piper.

But if Bill Clinton was good at energizing the thousands of troops at the rally, John Kerry was - incredibly - better.



http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/election2004/10015780.htm

[Patiod]

9. Local conservative papers are lying as well

The Delaware County Daily Times, a conservative rag, said the rally drew "upwards of 30,000". Later editions inched the number up to 80,000

The San Jose Mercury News was closer to getting it right:
"The noontime crowd stood shoulder-to-shoulder a quarter-mile deep, spanning Love Park in the heart of downtown as local officials onstage pulled no punches in setting the tone."

Or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"...a rhythmically swaying crowd estimated by city officials at more than 100,000 filled blocks of the downtown area against the backdrop of City Hall."