Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to hold rally in D.C.
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The Thriller
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Awesome.
I also hope that MSN reports that 6 billion people are there when only a few thousand people were there. Just like what Foxnews did. anyone else remember about a year or so ago when 100 trillion people marched Washington DC? It was reported by Glenn Beck.
I also hope that MSN reports that 6 billion people are there when only a few thousand people were there. Just like what Foxnews did. anyone else remember about a year or so ago when 100 trillion people marched Washington DC? It was reported by Glenn Beck.
Duck Rodgers
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I think it's cool, because I like both of them.
It goes both ways, that's why Beck went out of his way to make sure he had photographs from his rally last month from all angles this time around so that when ABC news comes out and says only 80,000 were there, like they did, you know not to take them seriously on any estimates in the future because it's not even in the ballpark.
It goes both ways, that's why Beck went out of his way to make sure he had photographs from his rally last month from all angles this time around so that when ABC news comes out and says only 80,000 were there, like they did, you know not to take them seriously on any estimates in the future because it's not even in the ballpark.
Ummm...that went the other way dude. CBS hired a company that specializes in crowd estimation that took aerial photos.
https://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsh...lenn-beck-rally-sparks-debate-over-crowd-size
Duck Rodgers
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Like I said, Beck paid for his own set of photos. He then got the estimates from the land authority( or whoever the hell is in charge of the National Mall) of how many people would fit in specific areas of the Mall, which were packed fully at his rally, and drew his conclusions from that. Johnny's Airplane Estimate service is clearly off, or else Obama only had about 200,000 show up to his inauguration in '09 by their estimates when comparing photos.
But, who cares, right? I mean, Beck is a phony douche, right?
Duck Rodgers
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Beck's only problem is that he doesn't go far enough.
NAOS
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How can you say that, and also claim to like Stew Beef and Colbert?
Duck Rodgers
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I don't really watch any of the three honestly, but I've read one of Colbert's books, two of Beck's, and catch pieces of all three on Youtube from time to time and just have positive impressions of all them. I even found somebody I like on MSNBC recently, Dylan Ratigan.
The Thriller
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I've seen more people at Football games. So that's not very impressive. 70-80 thousand people were there? They'd get double that at a Britney Spears concert.
Anyway, since I'm in a stir-the-pot mood, anyone notice one particular thing that everyone in those pictures has in common? I'll give you a hint... Anyone seen BYU's Basketball team?
The article is very specific that the Parks Service no longer provides estimates after the Million Man March. If he claimed to have an estimate from them he's either lying or it's an unofficial estimate from an individual who works for the Parks Service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March#Crowd_size_controversy
As far as I can tell the sole exception was that Dan Bana offered an estimate of 1.8 million for the Obama inauguration. It's unclear if that was an official estimate or not.
This article, https://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/...te-crowd-size-glenn-becks-or-otherwi/19613962 , indicates one Parks official (unnamed) gave an unoffical estimate of 300,000. It makes no mention of aerial photographs being used in the process and points out that's the exact number listed on the permit request by Beck (so he may merely have been stating the expected number as his unofficial estimate).
Do you have any evidence that Beck paid for his own set of aerial photos and had those photos estimated? Or any evidence that AirPhotosLive made an erroneous estimate of the Obama inauguration? Or are you just pulling arguments from your ***?
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NAOS
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I'm still having an impossibly hard time believing that you both UNDERSTAND what each of these guys is doing and STILL GENUINELY LIKE all three. I know you claim to not be too familiar with them, but please tell me how this is possible.
Entertainment is entertainment, right?
Stewart and Colbert are hacks
This means it working.
