MSNBC: "Tens of thousands join Stewart, Colbert at 'sanity' rally" (per orders from Central Command)

[Stinky The Clown]

"Tens of Thousands"

And MSNBC has people AT THE RALLY. They were a part of it. They were there. They know how big the crowd was. Their headline today is technically accurate. It is also, clearly, INTENTIONALLY dismissive, intended to downplay the numbers that showed up.

MSNBC tries to play the left leaning foil to Fox. That's their new schtick. But they are worse than Fox. They're sneaky in their right wing slant. They wear a costume. If they were an actual news organization, instead of Entertainment Tonight for political junkies, they'd be reporting the fucking FACTS. Like the crowd size.

"Tens of Thousands" my ass.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39925382/ns/politics-more_politics/

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. 750,000 at an anti war march in Jan of 07

and MSNBC said the same thing. CNN said hundreds.

[dogday]

13. I remember that. Watched it on c-span. It took many hours

for everyone to walk by Faux News...

[malaise]

2. Hack Gregory said 200,000 on MTP n/t

[RagAss]

3. I'm surprised he did say that.

[City Lights]

4. Wow. I'm shocked he reported that number.

:wow:

I figured he would toe the corporate line and stick with "tens of thousands."

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

5. Dozens Attend Sanity Rally

Approximately 20833 dozens, but it's still a truthful headline I guess.

Gawd, for-profit media sucks.

[RC]

9. You are missing 4 people

I heard it was 250,000 people.

[spooky3]

6. "More than one person attended" is technically accurate.

[Billy Burnett]

7. A rally where attendees outnumber the porta potties.

[progressoid]

8. Make that more than twenty tens of thousands

fuckin lazy media.

[LiberalEsto]

10. Good catch, Stinky

They're behaving like good little corporate slaves.

catch my analysis of the Washington Post coverage at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9427138

[Uzybone]

11. I cant say they are worse that FOX, they are not, but they are whores too

they lie and spin and withhold facts just like the others do.

[kevinbgoode]

12. The media is just pi*sed off. . .

because for the last couple of years, all we have heard from are teabaggers - and the media has pretended that the teabaggers were essentially representing all Americans. There were, in their mantra, few other people with opinions in this country but the teabaggers, and so they decided that is all we are going to hear about. Suddenly, they see a rally many times larger than the teabagger festival, and they don't have a good narrative to explain how it is possible. . .

[Stinky The Clown]

14. They're not pissed. They're not happy, either. They're just doing what their owners tell them to do

And that includes MSNBC.

edit to add: MSNBC: Worse than Fox because they're sneaky about it.

[HipChick]

15. Looks about 10...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/5129901590/sizes/z/in/photostream/