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This was just said on Reliable Sources. He is serious.
Jane Hall is going on about how Beck is not a reverend and hitting him for it.
They are crying Fox news, Fox news… as if that is all one needs to say.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Update: Hotair and memeorandum catch up
After a year or more of the left trying to first dismiss the tea parties as AstroTurf, then as irreverent, then not as big as they claim, then finally as violent racist and all of them failing miserably, Sharpton came up with a brilliant idea.
By holding a competing rally who’s primary mission was to declare the other rally evil and divisive, Sharpton was able to give the left something else to cover. To create an equivalence.
You can not find coverage of the Restoring Honor Rally without seeing coverage of Sharpton, (this post for example). The blogs on the left, some of who might not normally want to give him the time of day are forced to do so, because the alternative is to deal with Beck and the numbers he produced.
Sharpton saw this opportunity and jumped at it and the liberals with no alternatives must elevate him for his aggrandizement and profit.
Ironic isn’t it, Sharpton’s actions are the ultimate expression of capitalism, abetted by those who reject it.
On the way home from Funspot on Tuesday we passed by the Route 104 Diner were we saw a vast collection of classic cars. That’s were I met and talked to Dave:
apparently this is held every Tuesday night in Meredith NH so come on down. My photos of the cars present follow:
The Park service estimated 250,000 at the Beck event so naturally CBS news needs a different figure:
An estimated 87,000 people attended a rally organized by talk-radio host and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.
CBS specifically commissioned a group for an estimate, that’s interesting. I wonder if they generated an estimate for Sharpton’s march?
memorandum thread here.
If you want to know why the major networks are hemorrhaging viewers, you now know.
And you also know why Charles Johnson is also hemorrhaging page views
Update: NBC via the NYT of all places does better:
Officials do not make crowd estimates because they are unreliable and can be controversial, but event organizers put the number of attendees at 500,000; NBC News said it was closer to 300,000, but by any measure it was a large turnout. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.
So NBC’s estimate is more than triple CBS. No more morning joe for Charles and company. And what about Sharpton:
Across town, several hundred people packed a football field at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School to stage a rally commemorating Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
In fairness to Sharpton on CSPAN it looked like they easily made 1000 to me so that number sounds kinda low.
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