--C-SPAN filmed the event. There were definitely more than
>"thousands" or "tens of thousands" there. The main stream >media
is LYING.
Freedomworks (the organizer) is going to update their estimate of
the Washington rally today: http://www.freedomworks.org/
Politifacts had this: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
"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."
Yep; here ya go; same photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/throughtheveil/2291798365
Makes it hard to believe anything you read or see on the internet.
Lynn Wigglesworth
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