Aerial view of the Tea Baggers in Searchlight, NV

[Emit]

Video here: http://www.lvrj.com/

Article says 'perhaps 10,000 strong.'

No permalink, it's just on the first page

[napi21]

1. I don't iknow hto judge the size of a crowd, but it didn't look like

near 10,000 to me!

[Emit]

4. delete

on edit that couldn't be right :shrug:

I'm gonna find the quote

[DLnyc]

8. About 300 people can fit in 300 square feet.

Think of an elevator 4 feet by 6 feet. That's 24 square feet. 24 people in that elevator is pretty goddamned crowded. So 300 people in 300 square feet is kind of an absolute maximum, I would say.

However, the area in the picture looks to be a lot more than 300 square feet. 300 square feet would be a bit under 18 feet by 18 feet or like an over-sized living room.

Suggestion: count the cars.

Personally I don't care that much to count how many wackos come out to hoot and holler and act like idiots.

[Emit]

9. Yeah, I figured that out after I posted but this article said " 300-square-foot lot "

~snip~

Organizers expect 5,000 to 10,000 people, sending out a breathless statement urging the media to feature aerial coverage of the event and arrival of bus caravans of supporters.

The 300-square-foot lot seems much too small to accommodate a crowd of that size. The rickety mining town is home to fewer than 1,000 people.

~snip~

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/mar/26/tea-party-time-reids-town/

[hatrack]

10. Don't they mean 300 foot square?

Substantial difference there . . .

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

45. Have you SEEN these teabaggers?

No way they fit one per square foot.

:rofl:

[rsmith6621]

Maybe 1000 TOPS

not 10K by a long shot...

[rsmith6621]

25. Maybe 1000 TOPS

not 10K by a long shot...

[cynatnite]

2. Where is this aerial view? n/t

[Emit]

5. The video at the link - in the beginning of the video - helicopter view n/t

[cynatnite]

7. Oh, okay. Thanks. n/t

[Yeahyeah]

3. Looks like something big took a crap on the desert floor.

All splattery-like.

The governor of Nevada showed up?To be with 8,000 nuts?What a loser.

A parade for a dead rat could draw more than 8,000.

[Webster Green]

6. Looks like 2 or 3 thousand to me.

I'm no expert, but I don't think they had 5,000, and surely not 10,000.

[Roland99]

11. That's 5,000-6,000...tops. And did anyone catch this Terrorist Party member quote:

"We're hoping that this is a government of the people, by the people and for the people and not for the government and not for individuals."


Uh...hey dumbfuck? Who the hell do you think makes up "the people" anyway???

[Emit]

16. I did, lol

:shakeshead:

[14thColony]

50. Help me with this one...

I seem to recall another political ideology that made a sharp distinction between 'the people' and the individual, and held that the will of the people trumped any needs or rights of the individual. Now which ideology was that...

Scary that this very idea is indeed yet another of the pillars of state fascism. Are they getting this crap out of Mein Kampf or will people pre-disposed towards authoritarianism just create fascism instinctively even if they've never heard of it?

[ChicagoSuz219]

12. Did you notice the buses?

I'd bet a lot of people were from out-of-town... not actual constituents.

[Roland99]

14. Searchlight is only about 1,000 people and I'd bet about 90% of them avoided this debacle.

[Emit]

18. "...a bit like staging a press conference in your opponent's childhood bedroom."

"It feels like a violation, a bit like staging a press conference in your opponent's childhood bedroom."

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/03/long-days-journey-searchlight

[Roland99]

19. Thanks...left my comment!

[Emit]

22. Just seemed to fit

right in there! :hi:

[Roland99]

13. "I'd rather have anarchy than democracy"

:silly: :crazy:

[Kutjara]

15. Looks like the kind of crowd that gathers for a...

...Denny's early bird special up the street from my house. About the same age group, too. And the same aura of "fuck you, I've got mine" entitlement.

[rufus dog]

17. Great pick up

So a typical outdoor concert facility holds 15 to 20k. That looks like the first three sections of an amphitheater, or about 4 of 5k.

[Jade Fox]

20. The Gov. of Nevada was there??

Just how dumb can the Republicans get?! Associating with these violent logic-and-plan-free racist nuts is no way to rebuild their party.

This could be a dangerous sentiment, but I love these Teabagger kooks. They are insuring the future irrelevancy of the GOP.

[Emit]

21. Well, in the case of our NV Gov, I do not know which is worse ~

him associating with them, or them associating with him. Me thinks it's a wash, lol.

[spanone]

30. they ARE the republican party....the violent wing

[opihimoimoi]

23. Est Crowd size: Supporters 25%....Sound People, etc, Staff: 70% Media 5%

[Emit]

26. With the way the media covered this event

your estimates are likely not that far off!

[opihimoimoi]

46. Net crowd count = 240 people...LOL....and Phalin was kinda Strident

[Emit]

24. Here's another view

http://www.lvrj.com/multimedia/Tea-Party-Express-Rally-89325947.html

Caption in the slideshow says est'd 8K

Fox will will have it at a million by sunrise tomorrow, :)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. Maybe 3-5 thousand at most

[JackRiddler]

41. Great stuff.

Chemtrails! How do you blame that one on Obama or Democrats? It's supposed to be the beloved military doing it for decades, no? But never mind, I'm looking for logic here. As another sign says: JESUS IS GOD.

[Emit]

49. lol!, Yeah, I saw the Chemtrails photo, too, lol.

:shakesheadagain:

[progressoid]

42. Pathetic

But the media sure hyped it up. :puke:

[peekaloo]

27. Are you sure that's not a casting call for the sequel to 'Tremors'?

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[Bluenorthwest]

28. The Slabs set

Less than 5 direct highway hours from Searchlight NV, the Slabs is an abandoned military base in the CA desert that is populated all winter by 'snowbirds' in RVs, who camp there for free. It is a large, ongoing community. The Slabs probably were source of many of the Republican protesters in Searchlight.

[texastoast]

29. No way is it 10,000

Not a chance. More like 3,000. Liars.

[madokie]

31. You can't pack 10,000 people in that many vehicles

Wonder what those who walked in done with the crosses they were bearing

[Ysabel]

37. ah i see this has been noted already lol...

[Raschel]

32. Small and old crowd. Many of the vehicles are RV's, so it looks like more vehicles.

Looks like a small county fair.

[Enthusiast]

34. No way is it 10,000!

More like 1500.....maybe.

[lunatica]

35. Count the RVs and multiply by two or at most three people in each one

Most likely two people in each RV because they look like retired people. I would say just glancing at it that there were maybe 200 RVs there. That means there are 400 to 600 people there. Not even equal to the population of Searchlight. Or let's assume there are 4 or 5 people per RV. That means there are at most 1000 people. With that one aerial shot it would be easy to figure out.

[Ysabel]

38. yep that's what i did...

and then posted before reading the entire thread as well / glad others have pointed this out...

[Ysabel]

36. 95 evil clowns (per car) crammed themselves into 80 or so vehicles...

to attend the circus...

- um yeah sure...

[bamacrat]

39. Gotta love all those RVs. People just drove their home right up to Sarah Palin.

[JackRiddler]

40. Looks like about 8000.

Could be as few as 3000, however.

EDIT: Better pics in 24, looks closer to 3K there.

The lot covers an area comparable to a sports arena and looks crowded. The resolution is terrible and it's hard to make out objects to get an idea of scale: what are those structures? You can't tell what's a trailer and what's a car, so it's not a useful shot.

And either way? Millions of people really do follow the teabag creed.

Obama was routinely drawing 50 to 100 thousand during the campaign.

What disturbs me right now is that there aren't larger rallies everywhere of the many millions more who want an end to war, the real health care reform, power to unionize, just wages for work, etc.

Why did we surrender initiative to this pack?

[Enrique]

43. by the time we got to Conservative Woodstock

we were perhaps a hundredth of a million strong...

[olegramps]

44. The earth took a crap and this is what it looks like.

[NYC Liberal]

47. Yawn. 10,000 my ass:

Let's see them get those kinds of crowd sizes.

[Emit]

52. That was massive!

I recall when I first saw that photo. Now, that's a crowd!

[NYC Liberal]

53. It gets better. The Freepers tried to PROVE the photos were fake:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7509832

The "inconsistent" dark area was the shadow of the Gateway Arch. :rofl:

[Emit]

54. omg!

That is hilarious! Just too funny. :shakingheadyetagain: Thanks for the laugh! :hi: That thread is a riot.

[Initech]

48. There's no way there are 10,000 there.

I've been to concerts that are 60,000+ and there's no way that crowd can match that size.

[Subdivisions]

51. Where are the aerial imags of OUR event? n/t