Crowd size in Madison estimated at 189,000!!! ...not to brag or anything n/t

[Ellipsis]

[Drale]

1. That is more then double the population of my town

that is a lot of people.

[roguevalley]

31. that is almost one third of my state

[Scuba]

43. It's 360 times the population of my town (gloat, gloat).

[blaze]

2. Go Wisconsin!!!! nt

[Boswell]

3. and not a one on CNN...

or ABC or NBC or CBS, FAUX is expected bu the others need a few slaps upside the head

[SoCalDem]

10. Why would they cover that old thing... It's so "last week"..

They are too busy showing the same footage they have shown since the quake..over and over and over, and of course it gives them another opportunity to dust off the footage of Dr Sanjay at the "shake lab"


and of course it would not be a weekend if we did not have "Crime Solving 101..Really Old Crimes" and "Steve Shivs Stan" and "Lockup, Lookout, Lockdown, Hoe-Down at Holman"..

[Divernan]

25. Off topic: Love your picture of cats & pigeon(?) seagull(?)

Caption: Kiss my feathered butt!

[AllyCat]

41. Hey, they had a trailer in Madison today parked next to the Faux trailer with a sign

on the back that said, "CNN not Fox"

Of course, they aren't lying if they don't actually report anything, right?

[tsuki]

17. They are enjoying their week-ends and 40 work-week, all fought for

and won by union "thugs".

[malaise]

34. Tut Tut

CNN gave us all of 10 seconds :evilgrin:

[Marr]

36. But you get 100 Teabaggers in one spot, and it's covered everywhere.

It's not surprising to see corporate news exhibit such an amazing corporate slant, I suppose-- but it is galling.

[Rex]

4. Good thing it is our side and not the Tea Baggers.

At 189k the M$M would be falling out of their chairs and declaring a new day for America!!!!

[loudsue]

5. So true. We need to call & write every member of congress and tell them we want the Fairness

Doctrine restored. Of course, they won't do it, but at least we need to let them know that WE KNOW that the corporate media is NOTHING in this country but propaganda.

[Scuba]

44. Bingo.

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. There may not be that many tea baggers TOTAL!

[Rex]

19. I think they might number in the thousands, maybe 10 thousand at most.

But BOY does the M$M just loves them some Teabaggers! Makes them out to be 100 times larger than normal...now why is that?

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. They have the same corporate masters?

OOPS! Did I say that out loud? :rofl:

[myrna minx]

6. Thank god none of the M$M is covering this.

:eyes: Now bring in 20 baggers and it's breathless breaking news.

[suffragette]

7. K&R

[Ellipsis]

8. Live crowd view

http://www.channel3000.com/localvideo/index.html?v=live


This view is from the East Washington side 6:00 o'clock on the square from State St. where the stage is set up would be 1:00 o'clock... this is unbelievable.

[pscot]

9. I just checked CNN, CNBC and FAUX

and apparently this is not happening.

[slay]

12. If it was tea-party bullshit it would be on EVERY channel

our news media is non-functional at this point. It's fucking pathetic! They are as owned as the republican party is.

[Matariki]

21. If it was just 50 teabaggers it would be - AND they'd be saying it means a mandate to compromise.

[slay]

15. On the bright side - MSNBC is showing how the daylight savings time change can affect you!!1!

wow what fucking news! Not a DAMN thing about Wisconsin AT ALL. Like it doesn't even exist! I think this is part of why Keith left IMO.

[pscot]

24. And how pot makes you psychotic.

Duh. Mus'be true. I sorit on the Tv.

[sabrina 1]

27. Try some of the ME news stations, or maybe Russian/English TV

or the BBC?

Aside from the fact that our media is a propaganda machine for Big Business, it is the WEEKEND! What are you thinking, they all go home on the weekend, to recoup from the hard work of sitting behind their desks reading the memos.

Last night when I saw the news about Japan's Nuclear Plant, I turned on MSNBC and I got 'Lockup', then I tried CNN around midnight I think, and there was a repeat of the Piers Morgan show about Japan, but now old news already.

Then I went to RT (we actually get Russian/English TV on Time Warner) and they were covering the story live. I used Al Jazeera online also to get updates.

We don't have a news media, we have Corporate Advertising Propaganda Machine. And they don't work on weekends most of the time.

[bullwinkle428]

11. 189 tea-baggers would get more coverage from the MSM.

:banghead:

[tsuki]

18. And have. nt

[Enthusiast]

47. Exactly nt

[Fuzz]

20. And their porto potties.

[Marr]

37. How do they explain that to themselves, I wonder?

Is it just one of that facts they refuse to acknowledge? Anyone who is paying attention at all would have to see that a truly enormous left wing demonstration gets less attention from corporate news outlets than a tiny Teabagger demonstration does. And they still go on about the "liberal media".

[Hannah Bell]

14. on wisconsin! some good news today.

[Jim__]

16. Great news! - n/'t

[Matariki]

22. That's fantastic - and yet I still wonder what it will take to get them to pay attention.

And to do the will of the people.

[Matariki]

23. Lack of media coverage isn't neglect or shabby journalism - it's complicity.

Truthfully, it's something we need to address and deal with.

I honestly think the Republicans are unconcerned with the recalls because they are counting on nearly unlimited funding to run constant tv ads to hypnotize the population.

[slay]

28. +1 -- It's like a cover-up

it's like a cover-up. i'm really shocked that around 200,000 people can rally in a capital city in this country and every fucking so called news outlet in this country is REFUSING to cover it. And that this is part of a month long battle?!?! How the hell is this not news?!?! :mad: :grr:

I'm emailing MSNBC to ask them why they are refusing to cover this. It's been planned all week! It's not like it's a spur of the moment gathering. You are so right this was a conscious decision by the media to NOT cover this. :grr: :mad:

[butterfly77]

29. Just did....

and now on to CNN I just saw it on fox for a few minutes,they were talking to a republiCON senator who is trying to claim they have more people who are supporting them.

This senator claims to be outraged that the protestors are supporting the 14.. Fox is doing aerial shots are they afraid to hit the ground and why do they always have the shots the other stations don't have in every situation they always get the coverage up close..

[Ellipsis]

30. Micahel Moore stating thre are more people in Madison then currently watching CNN.

just sayin'...

[Obamanaut]

32. And a crowd estimate of 4000 was questioned not too long ago, in

another venue

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=567887#568929

Why is 189,000 easier to accept than 4,000?

[Blue Owl]

33. all the teagag rallies combined didn't add up to this number

:kick:

[Iris]

35. brag on, Ellipsis! It gives us all hope.

[logosoco]

38. shameless kick and i say hell yes lets brag

I am in Madison now, spent 4 hours at the capitol (with my daughter, sister and niece and 10s of thousands of other folks!)
It is so big and t beautiful, the msm is doing a diservice to the american public by not showing more about it.this is what democracy looks like!

[Ellipsis]

39. Center for media and democracy says between 100,000 and 250,000

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/03/9944/live-reporting-wisconsin-protests

4:37 p.m. - The Wisconsin Department of Administration, at 3:00 p.m., estimates the crowd size to be 68,000. CMD's reporters think the number of protesters is somewhere between 100,000 - 250,000.


Wendall Potter is where I got the number from originally.

[Ellipsis]

40. Per: Michael Moore perhaps the largest labor demonstration in US history!

MMFlint: JUST IN: Madison rally may be largest labor demo in U.S. history. http://mmflint.me/h96AZK Watch live now: www.michaelmoore.com #MadNation

[eowyn_of_rohan]

46. Very exciting to read the live reports from the rally!

3:50 p.m. - Mary Bottari reports: The crowd at today's rally is much bigger than it was 2 weeks ago when the numbers reached 125,000 plus making this is the largest labor protest in recent history.

4:15 p.m. - Steve Horn reporting:
250,000 protesters (Steve's estimate) -- people crowded on all four sides of the the Capitol. A true sea of people.
...

Quite an afterglow today...this surpassed all our expectations. It was monumental!

[pacalo]

42. It looked more than 100,000 to me! I love Wisconsinites!

Btw, I clicked on your "Fightin' Bob" link & read the excellent John Nichols' historical article about Bob La Follette. :thumbsup:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

45. We were estimating about 200,000 !

Other news sources are reporting "close to 100,000"..."over 80,000" BS!! And people were coming and going all day, too ! 100,000-250k is quite a swing and I believe the number was toward the upper end --never seen anything like it in Madison!

:toast: :bounce:

[Lefta Dissenter]

48. yeah,

I knew it seemed a little crowded down there :D

[Le Taz Hot]

49. That is wonderful!!!!

Great going, you guys!!!!! K & R

[PeaceNikki]

50. DoA estimates 25 protesters at Capitol yesterday and that they did $75 million in damage