CORRECTION: The Tea Party rally was last Saturday, not Sunday. The ABC online article must have been updated Sunday, but they failed to update the text of the article saying "... today."
So, while we don't have evidence here of the lib'rul media at work, we do see evidence of a lazy, incompetent MSM.
My original joke still stands though, in fact, it's even jokier: since the rally was on a Saturday, the organizers had no excuse whatsoever for not attracting more attendees, not even church.
BTW, here's a photo of what several million people on the Washington Mall really look like:
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Not even Al Sharpton could have inflated a protest crowd's size by 16-24 times and hoped to get away with it! These teabaggers (or at least their corporate controllers) have big brass ones, I'll give 'em that.
By the way, 60,000 to 70,000 patriots was the most that Dick Armey and FreedomWorks could summon, when our very freedom, our very capitalist system is at stake!? What gives?? It was a Sunday, so that typical reply, "Conservatives have jobs, they don't have time to protest" won't work this time. ... Oh, wait, they had to go to church, I forgot! Well, the Lord does come first. (Breakfast at Denny's comes second, and NFL comes third. But then comes teabagging!)
ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size
ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said.
September 13, 2009 ABC News
Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News.
Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally Saturday that ABC News was reporting that 1 million to 1.5 million people were in attendance.
At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as "tens of thousands."
Brendan Steinhauser, spokesman for FreedomWorks, said he did not know why Kibbe cited ABC News as a source.
As a result of Kibbe's erroneous attribution, several bloggers and commenters repeated the misinformation.
In his blog, Kibbe apologized Sunday for the mistaken attribution of the crowd-size estimated to ABC News.
"With a dead IPhone, I had been shown tweets from a number of different folks behind the stage citing the ABC estimate," he wrote. "They didn't say it. I regret misrepresenting the network, as their coverage that day was fair and honest."
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