Thread: Whadda y'know....corporations ARE evil!

Originally Posted by chassisman

Yeah, but you had a "Sarah is a filthy whore" sign ......that makes a huge difference. :

Oh, come on, I doubt she's filthy.

Originally Posted by Speakeasy

A bit off topic, but their (Pajamas Media) guesstimate of the numbers at the rally are pretty ridiculous.


Pajamas Media So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)

It took me quite awhile of crowd pushing just to get to the Air and Space Museum coming from the direction of the Washington Monument (the Myth Busters guys took the stage right about the time I finally got to the museum). That's also backed up by this picture:


For those unfamiliar, the Air and Space museum is the building with the black glass middle directly across in that picture. The crowd clearly extends well beyond it.

From what I saw on TV I'd have to say that the size of the crowd was comparable to Beck....now, about the claim of "sanity".....

Originally Posted by lutherf

From what I saw on TV I'd have to say that the size of the crowd was comparable to Beck....now, about the claim of "sanity".....

Ever since Glenn supposedly raped and killed the young woman back in the '70s his sanity has been questioned by some.

Originally Posted by lutherf

From what I saw on TV I'd have to say that the size of the crowd was comparable to Beck....now, about the claim of "sanity".....

Yea, that seems about the best that we'll get, they were 'comparable'. I am a bit suspicious of the numbers CBS put out, though. I understand that they use an outside company to get their attendance figures, but it's a bit difficult for me to just dismiss the fact that they're owned by Viacom, the same company that owns Comedy Central. 215,000 does seem like a reasonable number for the Sanity Rally, but from the pictures I've seen of the Beck rally, 87,000 seems a bit on the low side.

Either way, the number of people that attended either rally means absolutely nothing in the end, really. People will of course think the attendance numbers are a reflection of the popularity of the message at each rally, but I think that's reading into it a bit much. People have their own reasons for attending a rally and to "support the message" is but one of many. Especially in this case, where the two rallies were quite different in purpose.

Originally Posted by wrxsti

Ever since Glenn supposedly raped and killed the young woman back in the '70s his sanity has been questioned by some.

Or when Obama was banging Larry Sinclair.

Originally Posted by lutherf

Or when Obama was banging Larry Sinclair.

Interesting - seems to be part of that conservative obsession with homosexuality...

Originally Posted by pramjockey

Interesting - seems to be part of that conservative obsession with homosexuality...

As opposed to the Democrat obsession with rape and murder?

Originally Posted by lutherf

As opposed to the Democrat obsession with rape and murder?

Touche, sir!

Wht does the left hate anyone or anything that has accumulated great wealth? It doesn't seem to matter how may lives have been positively affected by the corp of products, they focus on the wealth and hate it with every cell.

Originally Posted by chassisman

Wht does the left hate anyone or anything that has accumulated great wealth?

Yet many flock to the banners provided by rich men and lap up the pablum handed to them by millionaires.

Originally Posted by JDJarvis

Yet many flock to the banners provided by rich men and lap up the pablum handed to them by millionaires.

And?.........

Originally Posted by chassisman

Wht does the left hate anyone or anything that has accumulated great wealth? It doesn't seem to matter how may lives have been positively affected by the corp of products, they focus on the wealth and hate it with every cell.

Why does the right like making up stories about what the left hates and then repeating them ad nauseum?

From the Pajama's media link:

Pajamas Media The (Overwhelmingly White!) Stewart-Colbert Rally, From the Cheap Seats

There is a lot of good to say about the experience of being crammed in a crowd of good-natured people.

So at least they're not too overly partisan and bitter about the event being a success. However, their faith in a guy who estimates crowd size by area covered while neglecting crowd density leaves a lot to be said.

Here's the quote from the guy who did the size estimate they seem to like so much:

Pajamas Media So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)

In other words, to reach 215,000, the people would have to be packed in about two to a beach towel, over the entire polygon, including all the space occupied by those buildings.

Make your own decisions, but I don’t find that in the least plausible.

From Speakeasy's photo, that looks to be very much the case, and Speakeasy already debunks that the crowd only went 'up to' the air-and space museum.

In other words, Charlie Martin's crowd estimate fails.