King Rally Aerial View
Crowd of over 200,000 gathered on Washington Monument (rear) mall for March on Wash. for Jobs & Freedom, during which Martin Luther King delivered "I have a dream" speech. Location: Washington, DC, US Date taken: August 28, 1963 Photographer: Paul Schutzer -- LIFE: Freedom March - Hosted by Google
RAY SUAREZ: Well, Haynes, The New York Times the next morning, the headline was "200,000 March for Civil Rights in Orderly Washington Rally. President Sees Gain for Negro." -- PBS Online NewsHour: A "Dream" Remembered -- Aug. 28, 2003
King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters.... -- I Have a Dream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The March on Washington took place in Washington, D.C., and was attended by 250,000 people. -- Martin Luther King Speeches — Infoplease.com
Beck Rally Aerial View
"Glenn Beck Rally Attracts Estimated 87,000 CBS News" HT: Dan Friedman who notes "Open field filled with people on the left was over grown with trees and not available to people in 1963."
What can one say??
MSM = Habitual Liars.
QED
Posted by: Good Ole Charlie at August 29, 2010 10:41 AMTake a look at the "houses"? on the left side of the MLK picture. They aren't there in recent photo and appear to be filled with trees and people as well.
Posted by: Stew at August 29, 2010 10:45 AMIs Beck running for President?
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-glenn-beck-running-for-president.html
We are looking at one photo from the Washington Monument toward the Lincoln Memorial, and vice versa with the MLK gathering, too.
Posted by: Jewel at August 29, 2010 11:02 AMI tried to compare images of the Million Man March, but the results at Google images were difficult to use. Small. Some are fuzzy, and many with badly superimposed images of Calypso Louie on them. What a freaking joke. There may have been a mega turnout, but the pics look like some kind of weird third world tabloid published them. Maybe the mothership lacks proper camera lenses.
Thanks for this nicely compared post of the two images, MLK and yesterday's rally.
What can you say about media portrayals of Beck's rally as "tens of thousands?" Technically correct, but eerily, weirdly propagandist in their intent. I heard that filling from the LM to the WW II is 100,000, and the side area is another 100,000. Beyond that, you have to increase your estimate. My opinion is that it was 250,000 plus whatever. That is huge.
Also, because of the wired age we live in, the social media viewership is significant.
This crowd actually outdid Obama's inaguration crowd.
conservatives don't count.
and libs can't count.
Posted by: reliapundit at August 29, 2010 4:06 PM@KCK: What can you say about such transparently "nuanced" language from the the geese at the MSM?
These folks are sharper than marbles, and they have IQ's that number in the multiple dozens.
They can't fool anyone who doesn't want very badly to be fooled.
JWM
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