Beck/Palin rally permit approved - 300,000 expected

[RamboLiberal]

The National Park Service said Thursday that it has approved the permit for the Aug. 28 Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

Park Service spokesman Bill Line said the permit indicates that organizers expect 300,000 people to attend. Line said it is a "fixed rally" without a march. The rally will go from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The park service is processing a permit request for a counter demonstration and rally by the Rev. Al Sharpton on the same day along Independence Avenue, south of the memorial. Line said the Sharpton rally organizers list 3,000 expected attendees on their permit request.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/dc/permit-for-palin-rally-approve.html

Can I hope for a massive rainstorm that day? Or 100+ temperatures?

[FSogol]

1. Gawd help me, I have tickets to the Nationals game that day.

:-(

[madinmaryland]

17. Maybe there will be a few more "fans" in stands for the Natinals!

:hide:

[FSogol]

20. LOL, Go Natinals!

[madinmaryland]

35. Enjoy the game! If Strasberg is pitching, they will probably have ten times

the fans that head wreck will!!

[bluestateguy]

2. Did we ever finalize how many turned out for the Teabag Day on the DC Mall last fall?

There were competing claims of 20,000 to 1.2 million.

[Saphire]

3. 300K? They'll be lucky to have 3000 goobers show up.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Luv this - 'Honor' is big moneymaker for the dishonorable

Looking to right-wing-nut elitist drive-by bloviator Glenn Beck for guidance on anything remotely having to do with the concept of "honor" is like looking to the Blazing Saddles' Mongo as a role model for table manners.

This guy wouldn't grasp the meaning of "honor" if it was wrapped in a red, white and blue box and presented to him by Sgt. Alvin York, Pat Tillman and Nathan Hale.

But there he will be next week on the National Mall surrounded by his fellow tea bag travelers, sycophants and gofers promoting a cause near and dear to the Lord Haw-Haw of the FOP News Network: Glenn Beck himself.

The Father Coughlin-ultra-lite will be the ringmaster for a "Restoring Honor" rally on Aug. 28 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the exact same spot.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/honor-is-big-moneymaker-for-the-dishonorable/1116307

[liberal N proud]

5. Can you imagine 3000 morons in one place?

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. LOL!!! Brings up fond memories

[JuniperLea]

16. Gloom! Despair! And agony on me!

:rofl:

[Confusious]

19. The other 297000 couldn't find the place.

The ones that can will be the high end of the curve.

[Kalyke]

36. Actually, that was a very funny show... and I don't even like country music!

I still recognize talent, even if I don't like the genre.

Oh - and I'm Southern and don't like country music... and I'm from friggin' Tennessee!!! So much for shoe-horned stereotypes.

[mzteris]

46. born-n-raised in the south

and I LOATHE country music.

[ThomWV]

6. At no time will there be more than 10,000 people there - bet on it.

[KatyaR]

27. Doesn't matter--

they'll just use video from a different rally to show that there were millions of people there.

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[superduperfarleft]

33. Hurr durr durr. Fucking idiot. n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Will they be using soshulist public transportation?

[ThomWV]

10. I wonder how it would go over if someone burned a Confederate Flag or two at that one?

I'd bet it would start a riot if someone were to burn a Confederate Flag at their rally - same as at a Tea-baggers get-together.

By the way, one of the Cspan hosts cut a caller off the other day for calling those idiots Teabaggers, rather than Tea Party idiots I suppose. What's wrong with Teabaggers?

[keroro gunsou]

41. simple

teabags are useful. teabaggers are not. at least not THOSE teabaggers. :evilgrin:

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. What's their purpose of the rally? To offer up a who's-who of RW fruitcakes?

Only a real jerk would show up with those two losers.

I hope it rains rivers, after the temp hits 110.

edit: add word

[Bozita]

12. How many signs with fucked up grammar and spelling in a crowd of 300,000 teabaggers?

I'll bet it's almost a brazillion.

[RamboLiberal]

14. They were told to leave their signs at home

Bet the suckers don't listen. Be interesting to count the racist signs.

In a video promoting the rally on the Restoring Honor YouTube page, singer Krista Branch tells people to "leave your signs at home."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011688-503544.html

[AnArmyVeteran]

13. 3,000,000,000,000,000,000 expected!!! (source: Fox News)

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Better have 3 Porta-Potties, if that's the case.

[Bozita]

21. During the run up to the Iraq invasion, they held some rallies ...

... where the number of participants was less than the number of rented porta-potties.

[Confusious]

23. Better have twice as many port a potties as people

With the shit they'll be spewing. People could go under if they're not careful.

[Pyrzqxgl]

29. Why: most bullshit is just left on the ground.

[AnArmyVeteran]

64. I heard from a university I can't remember there will be a billion trillion people there.

[TheCowsCameHome]

68. Holy cow. How will Faux have time to interview each one of them?

That won't be easy.

[Earth_First]

18. Anyone want to counter?

I'm half serious.

A new Canon 50D and 300,000 (read: 3000) morans has the propensity to provide some excellent additions to the Tea Party Book of Gooder Grammar...

[Permanut]

24. 300,000 what?

fleas?

[Forkboy]

22. A grammar Nazi's wet dream.

[HughBeaumont]

60. A fanny-pack salesperson's wet dream.

[David Zephyr]

25. Glen BeKKK and Sarah Palin. What's the common denominator? Both are Fox News Employees.

This "rally" is a Fox News event and it is being staged by two white people with history of making racist comments all at the Lincoln Memorial to celebrate Martin Luther King? It's about as ugly as it comes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. Who else is on the menu, and what's their "cause" this time?

[RamboLiberal]

32. Whackjob Ted Nugent

Alveda C. King niece of Martin Luther King

And who knows who else in the looney bin of Beck's and RW world.

[JNelson6563]

28. the 100,000 porta-potties will make it seem bigger

:toast:

[marmar]

30. 300,000.....Uh huh.

:eyes:

[superduperfarleft]

31. They have the constitutional right to do this. Doesn't mean they should. n/t

[Old and In the Way]

34. They're counting the counter-protesters obviously.

They'll be outnumber 10:1, but who'll be the wiser when looking at the big shot pics?

[Organic Warrior]

37. Nice sentiment Rambo

I thought we were the defenders of free speech, not the ones who drowned it or burned it. I think you have your priorities all wrong. If you don't, then maybe Beck, et al are right about some of us after all.

[tabasco]

43. You don't have a clue what free speech is.

That's because you're an idiot freeper.

[Organic Warrior]

49. Why?

Because I think that wishing floods and oppressive heat on those I might disagree with is a bad thing? Please, educate me on what your version of free speech is. I would hate to drown or bake without knowing.

[aikoaiko]

38. 300,000 -- no way. Maybe 10K at best,.

[tabasco]

39. Lay on 1,000,000 portapotties, dumbass freepers.

Don't forget the guard roster, idiots.

[malaise]

40. August 28th - the peak of hurricane season

Been a while since one headed up the Atlantic coast near those Carolinas.
I predict a complete wash out.

[NYC_SKP]

42. This would be a good time to activate the PFC's...

"Portable FEMA Camps"

Not sure we have units to "house" 300,000 of 'em, but we could just cram them in, I guess.

:evilgrin:

[Arkana]

44. I expect about 1/100 of that will show. The porta-johns will once again

outnumber the attendees.

[mzteris]

45. roflmao -

300,000? More like 300!

okay okay - MAYBE 3000. Tops. IF it's a really nice day and there's nothing else going on . . .

[mod mom]

47. anyone want to bet the FAUX attendance number will differ from the park service &

everyone else? Keep you eyes out for photoshopped versions of the Sept 2005 anti war images.

[AnnieBW]

48. We're going to a Wine Festival in Rockville that day

I'm going to need to get drunk to deal with the crazies.

[flvegan]

50. That's depressing.

No, not that there might be 300k folks getting a heaping dose of free speach. Not in the least. But that they think there are 300k dumb-as-shit fucking nonthinking zombie fucks who will come out to hear these two twits and their posse of utter fucking morons.

[Organic Warrior]

51. This is new phenomenon?

This is like a zombie den meeting. Did you miss Obama's inauguration?

[flvegan]

53. You're comparing Obama's inauguration to this?

This is a yes or no question.

[Organic Warrior]

58. Yes...

... A bunch of true believers that don't really know what they are getting.

[jillan]

52. What will be sickening is if the msm is all over this.

Why these crazies get so much attention is beyond me. Ignore them.

[deutsey]

62. "If"?

I think you mean "when". They'll be all over this like flies on shit.

[Initech]

54. Correction: 3,000 attendees, 270,000 portable toilets

[jmowreader]

55. No, you don't need to hope for those things

If organizers claim they expect 300,000 to attend, that means 3000 will show up--maybe.

There is one upside to a Beck/Palin Rally that's billed as attracting 300,000: they will have to rent enough portable toilets to service 300,000 people, and the portable toilet companies in the DC area will experience a nice little windfall. Plus...you never have to wait to go to the bathroom at one of those rallies because there's usually one toilet per attendee.

[NYC Liberal]

56. Will it be like this "Rally In Support of the Iraq War":

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

57. Needs to rain the day before the 100+ temperatures...

.

[HughBeaumont]

59. 300,000 idiots who cannot spell or think at gunpoint in super-blue D.C. Next week.

Yeah. THAT'S going to happen.

10,000 TOPS. Bank on it.

We'll know how steaming the rack of attendance bullshit will be because let's face it - it's a conservative gathering, so naturally EVERY major cable news outlet will cover every burp, grunt, fact-void statement, hyperbole, misspelled sign, talking point, Red-bait and seventy-foot flag in High Definition! You know, sort of like the OPPOSITE of what they do every time 300-500 THOUSAND of us gathered for real to protest the war.

Screen caps will be readily available. We'll just see about the Woodstockesque prediction, there.

[ThomWV]

61. Dear sweet jesus, would I like to have the Budwiser concession for that get together.

A man would become fabulously wealthy overnight.

[HughBeaumont]

63. I don't think their beer tastes run even THAT high.

[WI_DEM]

65. 300K I doubt that!

[n2doc]

66. Sorry DC- I hope you get one of those 105 degree days

Be a lot of bright red-skinned idiots then.

An no friggin way do they get anything near even 50K out of it. the RW are too lazy and uncommitted to actually put up with the inconvenience of a real rally that size.

[Roland99]

67. That's in Metric. Works out to about 723 in U.S. measurement

:)