Sean Hannity: "The actual number of antiwar protesters is 50,000"

[YouthInAsia]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. And thats because he was THERE, right?? H was standing right next to ME, chest to chest with HALF A MILLION OTHER PEOPLE. RIGHT???? RIGHT????!!!!! What a dumbass. He could have at least picked a SEMI-believable number. Does this look like 50,000 people to you??




HEY HANNITY.....**T ME!

[noahmijo]

1. Okay so let's say you're right and how many bushbots were there?

NO MATTER HOW YOU SPIN IT YOUR CULT IS IN THE MINORITY PUNK

[JimmyJazz]

6. There were fewer than 100 (I'm being generous) The number was

probably barely 50. How many people can line a city block single file? That's how many counter protesters were there.

[SteppingRazor]

2. Where's he get that from? Did he name a source?

Even the police (who are famously conservative about these things) unofficially put the number at 150,000.

[YouthInAsia]

3. He got it from a reliable source...HE PULLED IT OUTTA HIS ASS

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. Just like Reagan "doubling" government revenue

Which was actually an about 50% increase, which becomes 14.7% after correcting for inflation.

[helderheid]

4. Like Will Pitt said, I'll trust C-Span!

:eyes:

Late Blog
By William Rivers Pitt

Saturday 24 September 2005 10:42 PM

C-SPAN is reporting the crowd size at five hundred thousand. I trust their numbers.

http://blog.pdamerica.org

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. reminds me of that old jewish dad talking to his son.

(insert heavily jewish accent here)

"$100? you dare ask me for $95? Do you have any idea what you can buy for $90? If you only knew how long it took me to earn my first $85 when I walked to work through the heat and the sun and the snow and the rain. $80 is a lot of many, and that is some chutzpah you have asking for $75. So, my son why don't you tell me how you are going to waste $65 dollars of my hard earned money, on something that you will probably regret after you realize the full worth of $60 dollars. Just ask your mother how much $55 dollars means today and why $50 dollars is so much money."


"So, my son, tell your old man. What were you going to do with the $35 dollars you asked for? Tell you what I'll do, I'll lend you $5 and let you pay me back in three, not two weeks."

[samdogmom]

5. Pictures are worth 1000 words. Show the photo. Who will believe

Mr. Hannity now? LIAR.

[JimmyJazz]

8. and be sure to point out the street on the right hand side of the photo

which is also full with anti-war protesters.

[NervousRex]

7. I think there were more peeps there....

but, give some info about that pic, it looks like 50k or less to anyone who's been to a pro sporting event, was this early on?...there are many more in the street, out of the frame?.......are there better pics of the WHOLE crowd?.

[Sparkman]

19. 50K would occupy 1/2 of a circle around 378 ft diameter, see my post #17

I do some simple math in post #17.
A football field is 100 yards = 300 ft long, the circle alone is WAY longer that a football field.
2 people in a square yard and 50,000 would occupy 1/2 a circle 378 feet in diameter.
That circle is WAY more than 378 feet, AND the crow spills out along the walk/road drawfing those in the circle.

[titoresque]

10. The LIARS math:

When 100,000+ show up SAY 50,000
When 50,000+ show up SAY 10,000
When 10,000+ show up SAY "A couple thousand"
When "a couple thousand" show up SAY "hundreds"
When "hundreds" show up SAY "dozens"
When "dozens" show up SAY "a gathering"

we know you all can't spell or do simple math.....but please...the pictures don't lie!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[helderheid]

15. in this case off 100x

[Sparkman]

18. 50,000 is 1/10th of 500,000. ONLY off by factor of TEN.

[helderheid]

24. eegads am I red

:blush:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. The Human Chin plays the Good German.

Do as you're told Sean, and lie, lie, lie.

"Whatever you say Karl."

[Bluzmann57]

11. Do these people think we have no recording devices?

Now I am not a great judge of crowds, but it sure looks like more than 50,000 people to me in the photo. As they say, the camera doesn't lie. Hannity must be on oxycontin. Or just a complete dumbass. One note, thanks for listening to that crap so the rest of us don't have to. It makes me ill.

[YouthInAsia]

27. well today I simply HAD to. I KNEW they were gonna lie about the

actual numbers and they DID. They also took the audio of the most "outlandish" sppeakers and played them like they were the main focus of the protest. I knew they'd do that too. They're so easy to predict.

[YouthInAsia]

28. well today I simply HAD to. I KNEW they were gonna lie about the

actual numbers and they DID. They also took the audio of the most "outlandish" sppeakers and played them like they were the main focus of the protest. I knew they'd do that too. They're so easy to predict.

[Mutley]

32. They're counting on no one seeing that picture or any others.

Thats where we come in. We need to email that picture to everyone we know. We need to print copies of it and leave it all over our towns. We need to send it to every media outlet we can. It is our job to get the proof out there and show the world what liars these punks are.

[damntexdem]

13. But it's 1,667 times more than Limpballs detected ...

through his Oxycontin haze.

In actuality, it was likely between 200k and 300k.

[rodeodance]

14. another stupid statement out the mouth of a another little man.

[derby378]

16. "**t Me?"

This ain't FreeRepublic, y'know.

[Sparkman]

17. 15,000 in LosAngeles, per the police. I was in L.A., small patch of the DC

imagery!!
Math: 2 persons per square yard(9 sq feet) if shoulder to shoulder.
1)50,000 people would occupy 225,000 sq ft.
2) looks like 1/2 of the circle in image occupied
3) double circle AREA 450,000 sqFt = 378 ft diameter
Conclusion A. 50K people occupy 1/2 circle 378 ft dia.
4) Circle in image is WAY over 378 ft. diameter.
5) People occupy'g outside circle, along road DWARF the number in cir.
Conclusion B. 50K is gross underestimate.
Simple math/geometry people.

[Pobeka]

22. Area of a 378 ft diameter circle is 112,200 sq ft.

Better recheck your math.

[xxqqqzme]

23. there were more than 15,000 in LA.

I've been in LA w/ 20,000 marching and Saturday was bigger than that one.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. I thought we had 50,000 in LA,

:shrug:

[Sparkman]

38. right, the POLICE admitted to 15K ! you can tripple their numbers. 2:30

pm to 4:30pm was my time line, and so under counting by me.

[leveymg]

20. Only if you assume that 350,000 of them are the Freepers who didn't

make it to the Navy Memorial.

That crowd stretches all the way back to 16th and Penn. Look at the road to the right of the park.

[WI_DEM]

21. even if that were true that is a remarkably higher number than 100 or less

who turned out at the "pro-war" rally.

[Pobeka]

26. If we go with Sparkman's estimate of 4.5 sq ft per person.

Then the ellipse, which is about 1000 ft in diameter:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Washington,+DC&spn=0.009376,0.016838&hl=en

Would have an area of (500*500)*3.1416=785,400 sq ft.

785,400 / (4.5 sq ft / person) = 174,533 persons in the ellipse if it was fully occupied.

This should give a good frame of reference how many people are in that picture.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

37. Don't forget there were also at that time

at least 3 streets wall to wall with people and the New Yorkers hadn't yet arrived! Not sure the dimensions of those blocks, but seems to me you could add them to the equation.

[Zuni]

29. I was there

I am pretty sure there were at least 250K there

[Rex]

30. I'd still take 50,000 over 500 pro-war freaks.

Did Baby Jesus mention that only 500 (that is the max) showed up for his side?

Hackworth should have punched that POS in the face!

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Looks like Mr. Hannity needs to go back to first grade

[truth2power]

34. He's insane. I was there. We figured

300,000 people at least.

[lapfog_1]

35. From this photo

it's pretty easy to calculate the people within the enclosed area.

I come up with around 235,000 (not counting the stragglers going up and down constitution avenue).

I used google planimeter to draw up an area of the ellipse, mostly
in the shape of a "peace sign". The area clearly covered by people
looks to be about 10.81 acres. That's 470,883 sq ft.

Now, assuming that EVERYONE is taking at least 2 sq feet (this crowd
could be more packed in than that, but I'm guessing the average
distance between "rows" is greater and the distance of people
standing next to each other is less. 2 sq ft can't be too far off.

That comes to about 235,000 people. Not 100,000... and not 500,000.

And certainly not 50,000.

And I'm making no allowance for the people still on the street, just
those in the ellipse and in the one area on the side between the
ellipse and the avenue.

[Sparkman]

40. Your coservative estimate is still a blast into their ammo depot....BOOOM!

ANY guestimate would reveal that 50,000 is ridiculously low, yet the repuke professionals can't even get into the ballpark. Honesty is the best policy, and we have come to expect the worst policy from the RW lying machine. Good job!

[Mr_Spock]

36. Fuck Hannity and all the fraidy cats.

[0007]

39. 53 pro war protested show up against about 5 million world

wide.

Hannity eats shit and barks cuz there ain't no moon.