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What's in a number?Just how many people did come to
Washington?
I didn't follow the 9-12 meeting in Washington
D.C. Obviously I wasn't going to be
there.
Now I've heard all sorts of things about how many people were actually there. Originally I heard 2 million, but that number vanished pretty quick (apparently it started with ABC and Michelle Malkin). And there have been some valid criticisms of the photos shown. Apparently the capital police said 1.2 million. But the exact numbers aren't the interesting bit to me. Imagine if a couple of years ago, sixty thousand people had gathered in Washington to protest something that Bush had done. How many stories do you think would have been on the evening news? How many pages would the New York Times give to the protests? How many times would we have been told that each person at the protests represented X number back home, and we should take the grass roots protest seriously? Well, guess what. Something very unusual is going on here. And the reactions of the press tell me more than I need to know. 
Posted: Mon - September 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM
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