ABC News chucks Malkin and FreedomWorks right under a bus

[dave123williams]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/protest-crowd-size-estimate-falsely-attributed-abc-news/story?id=8558055

"Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.

Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.

At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as "tens of thousands."

Brendan Steinhauser, spokesman for FreedomWorks, said he did not know why Kibbe cited ABC News as a source.

As a result of Kibbe's erroneous attribution, several bloggers and commenters repeated the misinformation."


The Conservative capacity for self-delusion is fairly amazing. It must be nice and warm there, under their little denial blanket.

I think they apparently are deliberately refusing to understand that they....lost, and that they lost big-time in November.

Well, the good news is that they're burning to the ground.

[grantcart]

1. lol great

[yurbud]

2. I remember righties denying million man march was anywhere near that but...

that was at least in the hundreds of thousands.

[yurbud]

3. I wonder if there's a clip of Malkin saying Million Man March numbers were inflated...

[Arugula Latte]

4. ...

[SpiralHawk]

5. America is sick and tired of Republicon lies

If any republicon does ever tell the truth, who in their right mind would 'believe' them (other than a confirmed Kool-Aid drinker)?