Politifact.com exposes the lies about the Sept 12 'march'

[Mari333]

off the charts lie-o-meter


In the competitive world of Washington protests, crowd size is often a matter of dispute. Organizers usually boast of huge crowds, while police and the news media offer much smaller estimates.

So supporters of Saturday’s “tea party” protests against President Barack Obama were quick to highlight their big turnout. To bolster countless claims on blogs and Facebook, many posted a photograph that showed a gargantuan crowd sprawling from Capitol Hill down the National Mall to the Washington Monument.

But it turns out the photo is more than 10 years old, apparently taken during a 1997 Promise Keepers rally.

On Saturday, estimates about the crowd spread quickly through the conservative blogosphere. Many writers, including author Michelle Malkin, pegged the number of people between 1 million and 2 million. Those reports were largely based on information from people in the crowd.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/14/blog-posting/blogger-claim-photo-shows-millions-tea-party-prote/

[MineralMan]

1. Lying pieces of worthless dreck...

Did they really think that a 12-year-old photo would not be debunked? Morons abound!

[Greyhound]

2. It doesn't matter, the lie is out there now and will be repeated (apparently) forever. n/t

[ljm2002]

5. Yeppers, that's how their game works...

...and they know that is what they are doing. They don't care. If they can't win on the up and up, they will win by blatantly lying.

[DeSwiss]

3. ....

K&R

[nykym]

4. Those reports were largely based on information from people in the crowd.

Sure you know how they count...
one, two, three, ten, eleventeen, thirty, thirty-one....

[windoe]

6. Another propaganda stunt by the RW

-time to call it what it is. This is not freedom of speech, freedom requires being informed and having choices. These people have no choice, having been indoctrinated and are being used to advertise for their oppressors. If they only knew.

[quiet.american]

7. One for the irony meter: A fake photo posted by "Say Anything." nt