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| 2009-09-12 |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #11 Take a look at the pictures in the article linked here. Daily Mail (U.K.) says up to 2 million were there. Even if "up to 2" = "1" it's a LOT. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-12 22:39 |
| #10 Well, I'm glad we caught it and can correct it here / now. Thanks for alerting us IG-88 .... it took me a while to track down the facts on this one. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-12 22:26 |
| #9 sorry, there are two dead giveaways now that I look at the photo again. First, there was no green space anywhere near the Capitol. Second, there was only one stage on the Mall, and it was down by the Smithsonian Metro stop. |
| Posted by: IG-88 2009-09-12 22:24 |
| #8 Ok, there now are multiple reports that this photo is from years ago. Sigh. OP, I'm confused by your comment. The shadows suggest the sun is in the southwest since the long Mall axis runs from East (the Capitol) to West (the Monument). And that would mean the photo was taken in the afternoon, no?? |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-12 22:17 |
| #7 From the shadows, I'd say it's about 9:30-10 in the morning. I was at a Beach Boys concert on the Mall in 1980, when the crowd was estimated at 500,000. There are at LEAST twice as many people there in this photo, and perhaps as many as five times as many. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-09-12 21:57 |
| #6 Yeah, me too since it was linked during the tweets today. The original is no longer on Twitpic now & there's no explanation for its removal. Could be server hits, could be timeout, could be it was pulled. I dunno. You can check out Instapundit for some other, less panoramic views. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-12 21:52 |
| #5 If that picture isn't from today lotp, I'm going to be slightly pissed. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-09-12 21:30 |
| #4 Via Instapundit: "Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending" At the perfesser says, "Why is the British press more honest in its reporting on this stuff than the American press? (Yes, it's a rhetorical question.) Sorry I couldn't be there - had to work. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-12 20:22 |
| #3 I don't know if that was from today. It was never that sunny, and when I left at 2:00 there definitely weren't that many people on the Mall. |
| Posted by: IG-88 2009-09-12 20:12 |
| #2 Glorious!!!!!! |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2009-09-12 19:16 |
| #1 Here's those people: |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-09-12 17:30 |