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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100830/cm_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-rally-sparks-debate-over-crowd-size

its how some people report the news these days...like clowns playing "telephone" (the repeat game)

 

"Republicans were all about Prof. Steve Doig when he low-balled the crowd size at President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009.

 

Now, the shoe is on the other foot. Bachmann keeps insisting that at least 1 million people attended Glenn Beck's Restoring America rally last Saturday. But Doig, a University of Arizona professor who estimates crowd sizes from photos, pegged that number at about 80,000 people.

 

Doig used AirPhotosLive.com pictures, published in an article by CBS, to make his call. He didn't see 1 million people. He saw big patches of green grass on the Washington Monument grounds, and picnic blankets where self-described patriots should have been.

 

Conservative bloggers called the number laughable. Doig in turn called Michele Bachmann's 1 million person estimate laughable. Everyone seemed to be having a good laugh, especially after Bachmann decided to let it ride on the Laura Ingraham show and upped her ante to 1.6 million.

 

The professor was alright with the Right when he put the crowd size at Obama's inauguration at 800,000. But now that Beck is down in the count, they're dismissing his science as blatant lies from the Left."

 

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2010/09/professor_who_l.php

 

80k people is pretty lame for a rally advertised 24/7 on the most watched cable news channel.

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In other words...

 

"Why would I give myself another chance to fuck up on national television?"

 

It's not like public speaking is part of the governor's job description or anything LOL.

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Brewer's Arizona, as described in national television appearances with friendly Fox hosts, is an ultraviolent, post-apocalyptic Road Warrior hellscape, with bloody human heads littering the unforgiving desert and drug cartels kidnapping thousands of Phoenix-area children to act as mules. She told Fox News viewers just how bad things had gotten, with "the crime, the drugs, the kidnapping, the extortion, beheadings, and the fact that people can't feel safe in their communities."--from This Week in Crazy

 

Who is her communications manager anyway--Fairweather?

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