That is a Fuckload of people at the Sanity/Fear rally. Updated with Pics!

[onehandle]

Rec this up for the freepbaggers to see!

The crowd reaches way towards the Washington Monument and way to the sides.

Might be bigger than the Beck rally.

No reflecting pool in the middle. Think about that.







The wave:

[Lugnut]

1. Holy wow!

What a fine party!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Somewhere the beckster is crying

[malaise]

10. Bwaaaaaaaah hahahahahahaha

:rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

14. Yes, he is....

[Kurovski]

38. Crying pays his bills.

Aint it just amazing.

The Sarah Bernhardt of fearsters.

[krispos42]

76. That statement is true several times a day, every day.

:-)

[OneGrassRoot]

3. One reason I love DU....

Words like "fuckload" in a subject line.

:applause:

:hi:

[gateley]

6. Haha! I didn't even notice that -- but I SO agree! nt

[Kind of Blue]

20. +1000 for the apt description!

:applause: :fistbump:

[mazzarro]

47. +100%

[OrangeGrapes]

101. I doubt I would have saw that...

if you had not pointed it out.

[laughingliberal]

103. +1 nt

[gateley]

4. K&R -- These give me chills! nt

[d_b]

5. 150,000?

I think the Mythbusters guys have their numbers wrong.

[gateley]

8. You think there are more? How many would you estimate? Looks like an Obama rally!

[d_b]

13. Maybe 250 to 300?

Those pics remind of the inauguration.

[FailureToCommunicate]

89. The Inaugural was a lot colder! Maybe not as funny though.

Hope crowds didn't have to wait in freezing tunnels wondering WTF was going on...

[siligut]

27. A comedian on stage said 150,000

Sorry, don't know his name, but he and another guy came on after the Roots played.

[Cetacea]

34. He'd be wrong.

[siligut]

36. Found an estimate, National Parks Service says, 300,000

http://www.mediaite.com/online/how-many-people-are-at-the-jon-stewarts-rally-to-restore-sanity/

Thus far, the big question following yesterday’s event appears to be how many people attended. Answer from the ground: a lot. Interestingly CBS is estimating the crowd at 87,000. NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000. Based solely on my perspective from the ground and the fact I was in Washington for the Inauguration I would err on the side of NBC and the National Parks. But the discrepancy begs the question: how do you lose 200,000 people?

[Cetacea]

46. Thanks. That seems more accurate based on the pics.

[sce56]

68. CBS said the same for Beck's 87K? Guess they are treating the two as the same with blinders on!

Here is the one in LA-Hollywood

[hyphenate]

78. I would say Beck got a lot less than Jon

You have to remember who is attending each rally. Beck's followers would therefore resemble the same audience that posts to FR, NOT to DU. As this is the case to a greater degree, you have to imagine a fuckload of older, fatter, WASPs whose personal girth is that of a Macy Day's parade balloon at a Beck rally, while a Jon Stewart audience is lean, green, and far more intelligent. We don't have morons hanging tea bags off hats, or purple bandaids on our cheeks.

[AnnieBW]

80. I would say about 300K

Based on seeing other photos of rallies in the DC news, I'd say that 300K was about right. To put it in perspective, there were 1.2 MILLION at the Obama Inauguration. And it was only the second-most-attended thing on the Mall. I forget what the largest was, but I think it was the MLK rally back in the '60's.

[Laurab]

92. That IS from the Beck rally - that's why it says "yesterday's event" nt

[Beartracks]

108. How do you lose 200,000?

Umm... Start a war in the Middle east??

:shrug:

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[trayfoot]

7. Seriously, are they standing in the Reflecting Pool?????>?

[whoneedstickets]

16. wrong orientation, Not from Lincoln mem to Wash monument...

..but from Capitol to Monument. Where all the Museums are. No pool--all grass. LOTS of people!

[Parker CA]

9. Whoa! Where's the pool? Drained for winter? Place is absolutely jammed!

[alphafemale]

33. The pool is on the other side of the Washington Monument

Between the Lincoln and Washington Memorial

[TalkingDog]

96. You mean the Martha Washington Monument?

think about it...

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R

:thumbsup:

[devilgrrl]

12. Eat that Glenn Beck!!!!!

[Emillereid]

15. I've been to many a demonstration on that mall and it's

DEFINITELY MORE than 150,000. Much, much more!!! Look at how packed the people are -- little or no empty space between them. Way more than Beck's!

[KoKo]

88. I had hoped they underestimated.... Since they are Media People they know how it works...

and I agree with you...way more than 150,000. You could do a graph of the mall all the way back to Wa. Monument and do a body scan per person. Park Service could do it...Mathematician could do it.

We will see how it's reported in the NYT/WaPo Tomorrow Morning and the rest of the Media particularly the RW C-Span on their "Morning (Idiot) Journal."

[ohheckyeah]

17. Isn't the guy on right now

Father Guido Sarducci? It's been a long time since I've seen him!

[onehandle]

18. That's him. Delivering the benediction. He's great. nt

[kath]

40. I first tuned in when he was on stage - have loved Father Guido Sarducci for years!

Anyone remember when he used to do the "find the Pope in the pizza" thing?

[oldtime dfl_er]

87. I know!

was thrilled to see the fella.

[Bitwit1234]

19. Guessing fox won't show any pictures and say about 10 or

15,000 thousand. I bet that's what they say. Anyway it is going to be a heck of a lot lower than their Becks show. They will lie their butt off.

[nxylas]

44. Sorry, but I just had to hold my nose and look

The article on their website is mostly pushing the "They say it's not political, but why does it come just before the midterms when Rupert Murdoch is supposed to be restored to his rightful place as God-Emperor?" line. When they do get around to quoting a figure, they say 60,000 (a figure taken from Comedy Central's park permit rather than an actual estimate of attendance).

[Kind of Blue]

21. Wow! Thank you and KnR.

[emulatorloo]

22. WOW - thanks for posting these.

[golddigger]

23. Wow! Suck on that Teabaggers!

[Turborama]

24. K&R Awesome shots! Which stream are you getting them from?

Mine is really bad quality compared to yours.

Thanks a lot for posting.

:kick:

[onehandle]

26. I just did screen caps of the rally live feed, cropped them in Photoshop.

http://www.comedycentral.com/dcrallylive

[Turborama]

32. I'm getting a bad signal from that stream

Must be my crappy satellite connection.

Thanks again for posting these great shots. :fistbump:

:kick:

[BrklynLiberal]

25. Makes my heart sing....

[BrklynLiberal]

28. Aerial shot of the location during the March for Women's Rights..in 04.

Only a million people there that day..and virtually no media coverage at all...

[wovenpaint]

59. Yep, I can attest to that

I was there for that great day-these photos today look like 100's of thousands to me!
Oh,oh-time for the downplaying...

[Control-Z]

67. Me too!

I was there too. And today's rally looks pretty dang big even after having been at the March for Women's Lives. Definitely 100's of thousands. I really wish I could have attended. I am so jealous!!

[Warren DeMontague]

77. Yeah, I was there, too. I heard estimates at 1.2 Million- it was PACKED

and the media did everything it could to blow it off. The prevailing attitude was petulance, that how dare all these little people with their little concerns try to wrest control of the narrative; (which seemed to consist of how much the NASCAR Voter loved Bush)

[westerebus]

81. Know why?

As the fellow next to me said, Sure, I like Bush, did they run out a Bud-Lite already??

[Enthusiast]

111. That says all we need to know

about the state of the U.S. media.

[golddigger]

29. I'm freakin crying. I wanted to be one of those Fuckload

of people there.

[Lifelong Protester]

37. Me too! I'm cryin' to think there are that many SANE people

I'm happy to see the big crowds,that's for sure.

[AnnieBW]

72. I live in the DC area, and I'm not there

I've got an upper respiratory infection going on. Talk about spreading fear! When Colbert's poem mentioned "the person coughing on your neck may have an infection", that would have been moi.

[Lochloosa]

30. WoW

[DFW]

31. What a crowd, what a crowd!

Makes the Beckbagger "rally" look like a bridge game that is missing South.

[highplainsdem]

35. Wow! K&R! Thanks for the pics!

[peekaloo]

39. Bet Beck is praying that Jebus takes his sight today!

:rofl:

All those radical, socialist, communist, Muslim lovin' freedom haters amassed in "their" beloved country.

[Riley18]

41. Thank you. I wish I could have been there. It makes me

cry when I see so many good real Americans.

[whathehell]

42. It looks like Woodstock, man!

[greiner3]

43. "So much poop."

[rocktivity]

45. Look the fuck at that--400K MINIMUM!!!!

:wow:
rocktivity

[nc4bo]

48. Thanks for the pics!!! Such a beautiful sight!! nt

[abelenkpe]

49. Looks like more than 300,000

to me. I grew up in DC, and we would go see the fireworks there every fourth of July. That is certainly a fuckload of people. Wish we could be there. Hope everyone had a good time. :)

[KeyserSoze87]

50. This is way bigger than any teabagger protest...

I have to say at least a quarter of a million people attended this rally. And yet, it is getting almost no media attention at all. I'm sure the "liberal" media will mention that only a couple thousand people were there.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

51. I just got back from the rally.

What a crowd. The Metro was packed like sardines.

Those pictures don't show the sides of the rally. It was so crowded you could hardly move around.

The steps of Smithsonian were like bleachers at a football game.

The side streets were packed for blocks. I got tired of inching along so i left after an hour

and a half.

One funny thing on the Metro... a Michigan fan wearing a Michigan hat and an

Ohio State fan wearing a Buckeye hat ended up pressed up against eachotherand it got a laugh and

people were taking pictures of them.

[tinrobot]

58. Yep, it was PACKED!

We were so far back, we couldn't hear a thing, but still happy to be part of it.

[davidwparker]

52. Lovely sight. n/t

[alphafemale]

53. Reminds me quite a bit of the inaugural. We were backed in much tighter for that though.

Or maybe we were just huddling for warmth. lol

[kath]

54. ANd yet the M$NBC headline is "Stewart-Colbert Rally Draws Tens of Thousands"

and the story says 60,000.
yeah. Right.

[GreenTea]

55. YES!!

(YES)!

[progressoid]

56. Michelle Bachman said, "it looks like a handful of America haters showed up"

...kidding...:evilgrin:

[HughBeaumont]

82. For real, I'm going to want to see what the nutbars say about it.

I need a good laugh.

[City Lights]

57. WOW!

:wow:

Great pics! Thanks!

[B Calm]

60. Now that's a CROWD!!!

[Drale]

61. Im going to use Glen Becks version of math

and estimate that there are about 16 billion people there.

[YOY]

62. Just got back.

Fun crowd. Very fun crowd. JAM PACKED ALL THE WAY.

Compared to the bagger protestors that come to DC I did not feal as if anyone here wanted to strangle me. The baggers at the Beck Rally? As a friend who watched them noted, you quickly learn the first rule: "Don't talk to anyone." ANGRY FREAKS.

The folks at this one? I wish I coulda talked to everyone. Great folks! NORMAL PEOPLE.

[xor]

63. Oh my, those poor poor people forced there by gunpoint...

:P

[eppur_se_muova]

105. Nah, bussed in from Mexico.

Or was it Canada? :shrug:

[sabrina 1]

64. That is a big crowd! n/t

[WCGreen]

65. Even Elizabeth Warren showed up....

[Faygo Kid]

66. Just got back. Biggest rally of my life.

I have been to huge rallies (anti-war), and sporting events (U-M stadium with 110,000), but I have never seen anything like this. It's not just the mall; every inch of the Smithsonian Museums' steps were covered. It wasn't just the Mall; we walked up 7th Street, and the road was closed and packed. Will be back with pics, but it was awesome.

I see already that the Washington Post isn't talking numbers, and haven't really seen estimates. I can't guess; have never seen anything like it. I do note the Post is downplaying it. Major papers across the nation, like the Detroit Free Press, aren't mentioning it, even though Beck was a lead story for them. Anyway, don't get your hopes up. By Sunday a.m., it will be maybe half as many as Beck in the media, even though it was actually 10 times the number.

But it was a very special day anyway. Gridlock doesn't even begin to describe it. Thanks to all from across the nation who joined us in DC today.

[Coexist]

70. Youre right a friend of mine couldn't even get into dc at rally time

Just got back to my hotel. I can't believe how many people were there that couldnt possibly have seen any part of it. It was freaking HUGE

[tclambert]

69. Holy crap! Did they set up enough port-a-potties for a crowd that big?

[existentialist]

71. I just hope that

all those people make it home to vote if they haven't already voted.

[B Calm]

73. Beck Heads exploding. . .

[saltpoint]

74. See -- hardly anybody showed up. The analysts over

at FOX News tried to tell us that, but we didn't listen.

[DirkGently]

75. Beautiful!

[Arugula Latte]

79. This massive gathering dwarfs Baby Man Beck's little klan meeting by a huge margin.

[jillan]

83. Lots more sane people out there than teabaggers.

[saltpoint]

84. I bet it was a great contact high to be there at that

rally today.

Great people, great weather, and a great cause.

It's probably good for at least three solid days of Beck weeping on his program.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

85. YESSSS!

SO great to see this!

!!!Thank you

:7

[BlueIdaho]

86. But where is the enthusiasm?

All I see is a sea of demoralized quitters that won't possibly bother participating in the election...

Yeah, right. :sarcasm:

[WingDinger]

90. Mine eyes have seen the glory!!!

[Trocadero]

91. k&R

[Laurab]

93. K & R Beautiful Pics! n/t

[live love laugh]

94. I just got chills seeing these pictures. People love this country. nt

[HughMoran]

95. K&R

[RoccoR5955]

97. Holy Guacamole! n/t

[RBInMaine]

98. WAY more than Beckerhead.

[many a good man]

99. Over 400K. I'll tell you why

1) Metro reported ridership of 387,000 by 3pm. Almost everyone was going to the rally. I've never seen it so packed for any huge event. Add to that the huge numbers of people bussed in and who via other means of transportation.

2) People were packed in MUCH more tightly on the Mall than usual. Higher density means normal crowd counts should be increased.

3) LOTS of people couldn't even make it to the Mall area to be counted. There were 10s of thousands milling around on the streets were they couldn't be counted. Most people couldn't hear or see because the speakers didn't go back far enough so we left.

[Hissyspit]

110. I am inclined to agree. Almost as many as the inauguration, maybe. Many more people off to sides.

At one point, I was in an interstection JAM-PACKED and got nervous and got out off the side as soon as I could. Got a little scary. It wasn't like that everywhere, but very packed.

[spooky3]

116. me too - I was trying to be mellow like the rest of the crowd but it was getting scary

[spooky3]

114. We also did that (couldn't see at all; heard parts) and a lot of people left with us.

It was also frustrating that wireless service was nonexistent due to overload, so once you were separated from others in your party, which was easy to do in the huge densely packed crowds, you couldn't reconnect, so you went elsewhere hoping to get reception and reconnect.

[AzNick]

100. Imagine if the Koch brothers had chartered buses... nt

[brewens]

102. 250,000? The wave just went by my house in Idaho! n/t

[laughingliberal]

104. K & R nt

[ooglymoogly]

106. Looking at these pictures one has to be proud to be

a liberal. These are the good people in these old United States; the folks we all have to stand up and fight for; all together.

Watching Becks Rally to restore Horror has to be the biggest wakeup call ever to anyone with an ounce of sense.

The difference in the people is both stunning a frightening.

[Hissyspit]

109. More Pics HERE!:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9426010

[lisa58]

107. I was there...it was amazing!!!!!

[onehandle]

112. HuffPo says 'Rally Attendance OBLITERATES Turnout To Glenn Beck Rally!' nt

[reggie the dog]

113. looks great

the american left out in force, i miss doing protests in the usa and this one looks bigger than i have ever seen anywhere in person

[defendandprotect]

115. Amazing -- !!! Wonderful turn out !! Thanks, Jon -- !

[Urban Prairie]

117. Tremendous turnout for the "Restoring Sanity" rally...

Wish that I could have attended, but was in spirit!!

Many of the tongue-in-cheek posters that were held up by the attendees were absolutely hilarious!!

Pearl necklaces before Teabagger swine...heh!!