LMAO!! "centurist" blog claims only 30 marchers at our protest!

[helderheid]

http://www.centristcoalition.com/blog/archives/002526.html

September 23, 2005
Warning: protest be be smaller than appears in pictures
This story about Cindy Sheehan's "protest march" in Washington particularly caught my eye. As another blog points out:

The story of Cindy Sheehan’s march on Washington DC was all over the wires today, with the usual worshiping tone, accompanied by carefully cropped photos...So this march must have been gigantic for the mainstream media to devote so much time and energy and money to covering it, right? Wrong.
The reality is that Sheehan's protest - a protest about an issue which appears to have gripped the nation, about a stupendously important question of national resources and international policy, involving potentially hundreds of thousands of lives and billons of dollars, and armed with the full influence of a sympathetic U.S. mass news media and a vast network of anti-war people - scrounged up THIRTY PEOPLE.

Getty images has a series of photographs of the march. Look at them carefully. At first glance, they appear to be action shots of a big crowd. But the more you look at them, the more they start to look as if something's amiss - as if they've been carefully edited. Here is a reuters photo of the ACTUAL size of the march.

As Confederate Yankee put it:

That's all, folks. I count 29 people. This is her entire protest party. Including Cindy.

After a carefully stage-managed vigil by liberal PR firm Fenton Communications, and a pair of 3-week long national bus tours to drum up support for her cause, "Mother Sheehan" managed to bring with her just this tiny gaggle with her to the gates of the White House.

THIRTY. A few years ago, a college friend of mine scrounged up ten more people than that for a protest march against a university policy. If anyone has a fork handy, I can point to a turkey that's done.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Good lord. Guess they never saw these

[helderheid]

2. yes, or this one

MORANS!

[charlie]

10. Different protest

Those knuckleheads are talking about a march on the 21st, not the protest on the 24th.

[KyndCulture]

11. Doncha know that was photoshopped...

it's really a picture of disneyland..

:sarcasm:

[Igel]

3. Let's see ...

The story is from Friday. But I could swear my survey of RW blogs showed this on Wednesday or before.

The big protest was on Saturday.

I'm not a big believer in non-linear time. I conclude it's a different march that they have in mind.

(However, the pictures that they showed were indeed interesting, with the associated newspaper articles also substantiating the pictures, late in the stories.)

[helderheid]

9. I see that now - thanks for pointing that out.

Guess they were too chicken to talk about Saturday's protest. Tee hee

[bryant69]

4. Oh my

Don't people even consider they might be cought in such a transperent lie.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ComerPerro]

5. Even according to the yahoo link the guy posted about "carefully

cropped photos", he proves to be a lying douchebag.

He links to picture 52, but the ones almost immediately before it clearly show at the very least a few hundred people.

[jackster]

6. I heard that it took over 4 hours for everyone to march past the WH

Wow, those 30 people must have been awfully tired afterwards!

:evilgrin:

[FM Arouet666]

7. Living in denial.

The author of the blog should have gone to DC for an eyewitness account. Sadly, for him, he would have been reporting the 30 or so people in the pro-war rally.

[alphafemale]

8. He linked to a pic from the 21st to show only 30 people at the rally.

Typical rw bullshit.

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. He gives the Internet a bad name!

This is one of those "you can't believe everything you read on the internet" so verify it. It will be interesting to see if anyone calls him out on it...maybe someone who was actually THERE! (unlike this twit).

[tanyev]

13. If Confederate Yankee would just step a little closer,

I've got a fork handy. A big, pointy fork.

[smartvoter]

14. That post was on the 23rd. Apples and oranges. nt

[displacedtexan]

15. I followed the "other blog" link to...

littlegreenfootballs, of course.

[bottomofthehill]

16. I think I know the problem

This is what happens when you send out half-literate "Morans" to do the counting for you.

I used all my fingers, toes and teeth and all I could count to was 29. There have been more than that but I ran out of things to count with.