The Facts Machine

"And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide"

Saturday, January 18, 2003

DC:


SF:


(you're in there somewhere, I love you!)

And -- no surprise here -- the assholes at Faux News are the first to, um, misunderestimate the crowd:
U.S. Capitol Police estimated 30,000 marched through the streets Saturday afternoon, part of a much larger crowd that packed the east end of the National Mall and spilled on to the Capitol grounds.
If it was just 30,000, then I'm the Cookie Monster. What's worse, they describe the crowd in SF as being "in the thousands". Riiight. Try somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000. Remember, San Francisco is like a foreign country to those Faux-holes.

More Faux annoyances? They back up their misunderestimation of the crowd with a very strategically unflattering photo of the crowd:



For more, check this out from Oliver Willis.

But hey, at least one respected president was present at the demonstrations:



UPDATE: Via Eschaton:
District police officials suggested then that about 100,000 attended, and although some organizers agreed, they have since put the number closer to 200,000. This time, they said, the turnout was 500,000. Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said he would not provide an estimate, but said it was bigger than October's. "It's one of the biggest ones we've had, certainly in recent times," he said.

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