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Little Green Footballs tracks crowd estimates at this weekend’s Motherpalooza in Washington. Numbers seem a little inflated. In fact, AP’s Jennifer Kerr found them so great as to be beyond her ability to calculate:
In the crowd: young activists, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest.
Jeff Goldstein dissects another Kerr report here. If numbers are below expectations, maybe it’s because disoriented protesters have wandered away to protest things they don’t mean to protest:
The left-wing Working Assets sent protesters last Wednesday to heckle conservatives at their weekly meeting in downtown Washington at the offices of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). But they arrived too early and ended up heckling environmentalists and other workers starting their day.
The people actually heckled were employees of the League of Conservation Voters and many other organizations housed in the building along with ATR. “We did what made sense to us, given people’s work schedules,” Working Assets spokesman Andrew Boyd told this column.
They have work schedules?
The media is quite obsessed with this “1st time protester” schtick. I’m sure there are some newbies out there, but the people who tell the breathless, incapable-of-using-google reporters they are never turn out to be.
And if the protester’s ranks truly are filled with first timers, does this mean that half of the dipshits who protested the last few times have come to realize deposing a tyrant and planting the seeds of democracy is a good idea?
Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 2005 09 25 at 08:10 AM • permalinkUncountable? That’s because she ran out of fingers and toes.
Funny, when the anti-American Culture and Values putzes put on a demonstration in D. C. of any size, you always get a specific and enormous crows overestimate. Otherwise, you get arithmetic vagueness.
Another sign that nobody showed up except the board of Galloway&Sheehan; Traitors International is that TV covered it not at all; except C-Span, which no one watches, and C-Span showed no footage of the crowd, just the speakers. Even Loopy Farakahn did better than that with his ‘million fools march” that attracted 252,611.3 (a specific enough estimate typical of the of the MSM in cases of this kind.)If, when she says uncountable, she means I don’t want to count them because I’m embarrassed at the lack of interest, then sure. Uncountable works for me.
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 09 25 at 09:01 AM • permalinkThe Age is famous for its “crowd estimates”.
Never, to my knowledge in the past 20 years, has an Age
editor organised a serious effort to count a political crowd. Typically, the story runs,
“The crowd, estimated at 150,000 by organisers and more than 70,000 by police spokespersons…” From then on, the highest stated figure is taken as the actual figure in all subsequent AGe reporting. I do not believe the police make serious efforts to count crowds for the press’s benefit - why should they? If The Age were a serious newspaper, it would assign sufficient reporters and photographers to the job of a crowd-count, and in news reports, state The Age’s estimate and how it was arrived at.
As for the Sydney press, remember the stories of “500,000 march for reconciliation across the Bridge” a couple of years ago? Who generated that superb figure, and how?
And while I’m at it, guess who the Sunday Age’s Letters editor selected to lead the page this morning? The famous Marilyn Shepherd of Kensington SA:. To quote, “John Howard said, ‘Turn them away’, ‘Lock up the children, they might be terrorists’...”
rant rant hate hate. The Letters Editor is Bob Hawkins. Anyone know anything about him?(The name of The Age weekday letters editor is, I believe, concealed from the public- i could not find it in a search of http://www.about.theage.com.au. Why this protective anonymity?)Both the weekday AGe and Sunday Age letters page are the most-left-poisonous sections of the whole paper, thanks to relentless selection of Howard-hating, Bush-hating letters. What accountability do Bob Hawkins and the anonymous weekday letters editor have in terms of selecting letters? Could they just possibly be running their own leftist agendas?Organizers estimate the attendance as up to six billion people. So yes, six billion people showed up (in two church busses). Although they were uncountable.
What’s so hard to understand people. Everyone, EVERYONE (credit to Iowahawk for this word, royalty check following) is against the war. Even people on other planets that have not as yet received a radio transmission from Earth are against the war.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 25 at 10:02 AM • permalinkThe Mar Rovians have turned against us? Is that were they sent you after you botched Operation Kyoto Protocol?
Look that shovel thing…where you are suppose to be stealing Australia one wheel barrow of dirt at a time?
You’re digging your OWN grave-mon frere.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 09 25 at 10:22 AM • permalinkI DON’T botch anything!
I have wee little setbacks. The Japanese weather machine was tricky. Would you believe it didn’t have English labels on it? We’re in the 21st century and the Japs aren’t using English yet? Well, that’s not my fault.
The lake thing went fine. The Russian lake is sitting in Richard McEnroe’s back yard. He wanted a swimming pool, he was getting annoyed about his neighbors complaining about his Jack Russell terrorists barking at midnight, so I solved his problem. Maybe not the way he wanted being that he lives on an island now. But still, mission essentially accomplished.
The Missouri lake was, um, not me. (looks around quickly)
The shovel thing, well he can shovel it. (Please don’t tell him I said that). I’m way too important for such a low level assignment. Personally, I say give it to Iowahawk. The man who can do no wrong, let him figure it out.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 25 at 10:39 AM • permalinkThe Toronto Star has the headline “100,000 attend anti-war rally” above a picture of a few people scattered here and there.
There are more people in Washington on a long weekend, then were at this protest.Posted by Torontosteve on 2005 09 25 at 10:46 AM • permalinkWell, the protestors might have work schedules, if you consider that their idea of “work” really means long bull sessions at the local Starbucks.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 25 at 10:49 AM • permalinkThe New York Times has produced irrefutable proof that no one showed up at the Galloway-Sheehan funeral in D.C. The NYT’s front page this morning had nary a comment on the pathetic event. If anyone had showed, the NYT would have blasted the fact on its front page together with its usual claim that Sheehan has not only given New Yorkers hope, but the entire D.C. area and, very soon, will do the same for occupied New Orleans.
Richard McEnroe rummages through his desk for the “So you’ve been assigned to Gaza” tourist guide he was supposed to give wronwright…
So “Cindy’s People” = “Jerry’s Kids”, the only difference being Jerry’s Kids can’t help it…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 25 at 04:20 PM • permalinkOh, and on the Wronwright Scale (we keep a chart in the Evil Overlord Headquarters) the Battle of Kursk was a wee setback for the Germans(actually a 6.9 on the scale).
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 25 at 05:14 PM • permalinkPercypup, I think you would find that the letters The Age publishes are fairly representative politically of what they receive. It is the leftie’s paper and provides a forum for retired school teachers, obsessed Adelaide activists, Malcolm Fraser-loving Libs and other dipsticks who wouldn’t attract an audience elsewhere. More rational folk are generally too busy to be risking a time-waste on a letter to the editor.
The only picture of this momentous event that showed up in my local rag was of Cindy Sheehan latched like a goofy horndog onto Jesse Jackson’s back, hugging the stuffings out of him. He had the good grace to look embarrassed. To my mind, it was the epitome of what the
liberalprogressiveleftmoonbat movement has become.
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These people are weapons-grade stupid. If we could bottle this and use it on our enemies, all wars would be over without firing a shot.