And the reviews for Boston are in . . . .

[no_hypocrisy]

Bergen Record
http://www.northjersey.com/news/041410_Palin_rallies_tea_partiers_in_Boston_with_anti-tax_message.html

Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/04/sarah_palin_to_1.html

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041400378.html?hpid%3Dmoreheadlines&sub=AR

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/14/tea.party.rally/index.html?hpt=Sbin

[EFerrari]

1. The media is counting the counter protesters with the baggers.

That's how they're getting 5k. This is the same way they report on demonstrations in Venezuela. lol

[sharp_stick]

2. The reason they get 5.000 IMO

is they all simply repeat the story written by an AP reporter than doesn't even put his/her name on the thing. After awhile there will be people referencing stories that reference the single AP report and everyone will take it as the truth.

The AP has become an abomination, most local news outlets don't even do their own reporting anymore, they simply copy the AP, pay the fee and pretend to be relevant.

[EFerrari]

4. That's another possibility, definitely. I was going on Will's report

that said there were many more counter protesters at the baggery.

[sharp_stick]

6. That could well be

how the AP guy/gal got the number. Then again with the AP these days they may have just glanced at a webcam pic from their hotel room and pulled the number out of their ass so they could get the "story" in with time to spare for the locals to download.

[UTUSN]

3. GEmsRnc said it was TEN THOUSAND!1 The "reporter" said, "This many are still left AFTER the event!1"

Iow, the little group behind him was ALL that there ever was, but he was claiming that this is what was left over after most of them had left. Yeah-right.

Counting crowds ain't brain surgery. Especially in famous spaces with years/centuries of being populated, there ought to be a simple square-feet grid with corresponding estimates of dense or scattered or light crowding readily available.

It's time to go from MSNBC to MSRNC to GEmsRnc to************** : msQnc (for Quitter) or GEmsQnc!1

[EFerrari]

5. I bet they don't say the event only went 1.5 hrs, not three

or that nobody could hear Failin. :evilgrin: