Well, not really, but if this was a Republican Teanut Corporation rally, this would be the headline trumpeted across the internet. The One Nation rally today was large, but the attendance figures spread by progressive news sites proves that they do not engage in the same type of propaganda that is a epidemic with conservative news outlets. Both sides are not the same.
Although this event did not have the corporate media advertising that Glenn Beck’s national Tea Party events did, preliminary reports based on a satellite image suggest attendance figures might be comparable, but it is too early to speculate. Beck’s latest DC Tea Party sermon gathered 87,000, although some figures in the conservative media tried to exaggerate these numbers many fold, as high as 1.6 million.
Feel free to use your own judgment here, find a good aerial photo and contrast it with how many you think would be there by comparing it to the National Park Service crowd estimate photo. Note that the crowd must be packed tight, like during the Obama inauguration and also remember there was a black history event on the mall that day.
Both sides are not the same when it comes to credibility. While the conservatives perpetually hyper-inflate attendance figures in a fairly transparent attempt at propaganda, liberals are more grounded in their estimates, and tend to have far more reliable information, the estimates for the number of people showing up at Tea Parties vs. those rallying at One Nation Working Together prove it.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/10/02/four-million-attend-one-nation-working-together-rally/
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