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Here’s some raw footage I shot from the top of the Washington Monument during Saturday’s Glenn Beck rally. Note how the tourist next to me mocks the all-too-predictable media downplaying of the crowd, joking that there are probably “1,800 people there.”
I have no scientific way of estimating crowd sizes, but I have been to dozens of University of Tennessee football games, which always draw in excess of 100,000 fans, and this crowd was much larger than any I’ve seen at Neyland Stadium. Which means the CBS News estimate of 87,000 and other media accounts claiming “tens of thousands” do seem very low.
In any case, since there seems to be an ongoing debate about the numbers, I figured I’d put my footage out there and let others draw their own conclusions.
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For what it’s worth – this is the source of the CBS News estimate:
http://stevedoig.com/archives/250
…which seems under load at the moment.
Comment by Braktalk August 30, 2010 @ 3:43 pm