Freedomworks LIES about crowd size - misuses ABC as source

[sjdnb]

And, ABC is not happy about it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-misquoted-crowd-size/story?id=8558055

Actually, ABC reported crowd size at 60-70k ... anyone surprised the right would LIE about this?

[elocs]

1. Why would anyone lie about size? n/t

[aquart]

2. I am now envisioning humans forming a giant penis....

Yet withal a limp one.

[notadmblnd]

3. it appears to run about 10 rows deep

and there's almost no one on the street behind them.

[Emit]

4. The weird thing about that story is that it was Brendan Steinhauser who said it

Not Kibbe:

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From the OP:

Brendan Steinhauser, spokesman for FreedomWorks, said he did not know why Kibbe cited ABC News as a source.

As a result of Kibbe's erroneous attribution, several bloggers and commenters repeated the misinformation.

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I posted on this earlier in real time, watching at the CNN live link and it was clearly Brendan Steinhauser who said it. At least, that is what name he was announced as and that was noted at the bottom of the screen.

[TomCADem]

5. ROFL!

Corp Media v. Astro Turf. ABC would be happy to cite someone else's misinformation, but they hate being quoted as the source of the mis-information.

[KyleA]

6. They did it in my town as well...

I was there,1500 people reported as 3000