Looks like Stewarts rally makes Becks look like a get together.

[HUGGY]

Not sure if its been posted on the thread already mostly because I don't have time to go through all the damn insulting back and forth but here is a aerial view of the two rallies. No doubt Stewart got an impressive turnout that dwarfed the pathetic Shulzt rally, but its a little hard to ignore your eyesOP;
Please explain to me how "insanity rally" was bigger than the "honor rally"?

You are an idiot and a liar. Your pic of Becks rally is a fake. It's not Becks Rally. Attendance was 87,000 for Beck over 250,000 for Stewart.

Go Fuck Yourself Skippy!

How is that pic fake? Evidence please.
And to address the attendace figures: The same company tallied both the rallies and beleive it or not that picture is real. Whats disturbing is how a they can look at a picture that emcompases twice the size and say that there is 60% less people than a picture that shows half the area. They are either telling the truth about Stewarts rally and lying about Becks or they are lying about both.

Even MSNBC admitted that there were atleast 300,000 at Becks rally. MSNBC DUDE!!! Most media outlets went with the 300K figure. Then you have CBS come out with the 87K figure

Go spread your lies on a fascist board. Fake republicans are worthless scum.

 

[HUGGY]

It looks like the Stewart and Colbert message blew right past Huggy..............................

You think I'm a liberal or a democrat? What I am is a pissed off republican. I am thoroughly done with asshats like you and the guy with the fake pic shitting on the good names of Eisenhower and Goldwater. My only interest is calling out the liars and scum that claim to be members of my party. No likey..tough shit. Stop being a piece of shit and calling youself a republican. A republican is honest. You are not. Therefore you aren't a republican. I don't know what you are..maybe a theif for stealing the name of my party.

I'm still waiting on how that pic was fake........ Can you provide a link to where it says that pic is fake????

Go away. You are a liar. Real republicans don't need to lie. You are a fake and an imposter.

 

[liebuster]

Go away. You are a liar. Real republicans don't need to lie. You are a fake and an imposter.

Go spread your lies on a fascist board. Fake republicans are worthless scum.

Ohh Huggy poo. Are you mad because you can't come up with a single piece of evidence to dispute that picture?

Ok lets change topics. How am I a facist? and I'm not a republican for the record.

 

[marksinvirginia]

What did Stewart draw.... a couple of hundred people? ROTFLMAO. And that upstages Beck's one million plus? You are a fucking nut case.

~Mark

 

[newpolitics]

You are an idiot and a liar. Your pic of Becks rally is a fake. It's not Becks Rally. Attendance was 87,000 for Beck over 250,000 for Stewart.

Go Fuck Yourself Skippy!

How is that pic fake? Evidence please.
And to address the attendace figures: The same company tallied both the rallies and beleive it or not that picture is real. Whats disturbing is how a they can look at a picture that emcompases twice the size and say that there is 60% less people than a picture that shows half the area. They are either telling the truth about Stewarts rally and lying about Becks or they are lying about both.

Even MSNBC admitted that there were atleast 300,000 at Becks rally. MSNBC DUDE!!! Most media outlets went with the 300K figure. Then you have CBS come out with the 87K figure

Go spread your lies on a fascist board. Fake republicans are worthless scum.

The camera angle on the picture of Stewarts rally is lower and is only a partial shot of the crowd, which makes it somewhat of an optical illusion, when comparing crowd size to Beck's rally, which is a shot of the entire rally, and it is also taken from a higher angle, and from farther away.

 

[chanel]

Is Barack a Keynesian?

"NO NO NO - he was born in Hawaii!"

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[chanel]

 

[judyd]

The crowds at Metro for this event were more than double the beck rally. In fact, they were the most riders since 1991:

"The crowds on Saturday exceeded both the predictions of the rally organizers and the expectations of Metro, resulting in more crowded trains and longer lines at stations," Metro Board chair Peter Benjamin tells WTOP.

In fact, Metro set its all time rail ridership record this past Saturday when 825,437 trips were taken. That broke a 19-year-old record, when 786,358 trips were taken on trains for the June 1991 Desert Storm Rally.

Average ridership for a Saturday on Metrorail is about 350,000 trips.

Metro experiences insane crowds for 'Sanity' rally - wtop.com

 

[California Girl]

Oh, good grief. I love the way so many on this board argue over shit that is:

1. of no consequence
2. is unprovable since the academics who actually used to scientifically calculate (and no, that isn't using an aerial photograph) to give an accurate and official estimate no longer give those numbers out. They haven't since the Million Man March.

Are any of you actually interested in the point of the rallies? Interestingly, both Beck and the Stewart/Colbert had very similar messages..

Pissing contests might be entertaining for y'all but, at the end of the day, y'all are pretty fucking stupid for arguing over size. Haven't any of you learned that it's not what you got but how you use it that matters?

 

[judyd]

Oh, good grief. I love the way so many on this board argue over shit that is:

1. of no consequence
2. is unprovable since the academics who actually used to scientifically calculate (and no, that isn't using an aerial photograph) to give an accurate and official estimate no longer give those numbers out. They haven't since the Million Man March.

Are any of you actually interested in the point of the rallies? Interestingly, both Beck and the Stewart/Colbert had very similar messages..

Pissing contests might be entertaining for y'all but, at the end of the day, y'all are pretty fucking stupid for arguing over size. Haven't any of you learned that it's not what you got but how you use it that matters?

What? I thought the Metro statistic was interesting. The most ridership since another rally in 1991. Maybe it's just interesting to me since I'm an ex-Washingtonian and was there for many events that drew huge crowds. This number was certainly impressive.

 

[California Girl]

Oh, good grief. I love the way so many on this board argue over shit that is:

1. of no consequence
2. is unprovable since the academics who actually used to scientifically calculate (and no, that isn't using an aerial photograph) to give an accurate and official estimate no longer give those numbers out. They haven't since the Million Man March.

Are any of you actually interested in the point of the rallies? Interestingly, both Beck and the Stewart/Colbert had very similar messages..

Pissing contests might be entertaining for y'all but, at the end of the day, y'all are pretty fucking stupid for arguing over size. Haven't any of you learned that it's not what you got but how you use it that matters?

What? I thought the Metro statistic was interesting. The most ridership since another rally in 1991. Maybe it's just interesting to me since I'm an ex-Washingtonian and was there for many events that drew huge crowds. This number was certainly impressive.

I tend to rely on scientific evidence. You may feel differently. It is of little consequence. Also, I prefer to consider the actual message of each rally, rather than who showed up to what. There are other factors to consider.... Such as Beck's rally being on a work day, whereas the Stewart/Colbert was on a weekend - they should get a bigger crowd at a weekend. Fact is, both crowds were about the same size - according to academics who do this shit for a living. I'm not gonna argue the toss over a few thousand either way. It serves no purpose.

 

[HUGGY]

Go away. You are a liar. Real republicans don't need to lie. You are a fake and an imposter.

Go spread your lies on a fascist board. Fake republicans are worthless scum.

Ohh Huggy poo. Are you mad because you can't come up with a single piece of evidence to dispute that picture?

Ok lets change topics. How am I a facist? and I'm not a republican for the record.

Like I stated ..I'm not really sure what you are. You support Beck. You are willing to post lies on his behalf. Beck is a supporter of the NeoGOPers and fascism via Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. Now don't get stupid on me and try to obviscate the meaning of fascism. I'm old school. I don't subscribe to NeoGOPernewspeak. Fascism was coined by Benito Mussilini. It has nothing to do with the racist aspect to Hitlers Nazis(gassing jews) but alot to with The National Socialist Party. It is a melding of a select corporate influence and government to the exclusion of the people. An example of this in todays world would be the Supreme court decisions to allow corporations to be legally considered "a person" with the right of free speach and unlimited donations to pacs. Giving Fox and friends the legal right to lie is also a very fascist decision. These decisions are a direct result of allowing a fascist like John Roberts on the Supreme court. The reduction of the Exxon Valdez oil spill judgement to less than a tenth of the original settlement also comes to mind..another "gift" by Roberts. I could go on and on with examples of true fascism. I dare suspect you support every example I offered on the fascist side of the argument. That would make you a fascist.

 

[judyd]

Oh, good grief. I love the way so many on this board argue over shit that is:

1. of no consequence
2. is unprovable since the academics who actually used to scientifically calculate (and no, that isn't using an aerial photograph) to give an accurate and official estimate no longer give those numbers out. They haven't since the Million Man March.

Are any of you actually interested in the point of the rallies? Interestingly, both Beck and the Stewart/Colbert had very similar messages..

Pissing contests might be entertaining for y'all but, at the end of the day, y'all are pretty fucking stupid for arguing over size. Haven't any of you learned that it's not what you got but how you use it that matters?

What? I thought the Metro statistic was interesting. The most ridership since another rally in 1991. Maybe it's just interesting to me since I'm an ex-Washingtonian and was there for many events that drew huge crowds. This number was certainly impressive.

I tend to rely on scientific evidence. You may feel differently. It is of little consequence. Also, I prefer to consider the actual message of each rally, rather than who showed up to what. There are other factors to consider.... Such as Beck's rally being on a work day, whereas the Stewart/Colbert was on a weekend - they should get a bigger crowd at a weekend. Fact is, both crowds were about the same size - according to academics who do this shit for a living. I'm not gonna argue the toss over a few thousand either way. It serves no purpose.

Glenn Beck's was on a Saturday--August 28

 

[G_Benlin]

I attended the "Restore Honor" rally out of curiosity. I have no way of knowing how to calculate attendance. It was massive, though I can tell you that. If I have to compare it to going to Giants Stadium which holds around 80,000 people my gut feeling is that there were significantly more people there. I disagree with the original poster about political t-shirts, though. There were almost no signs. That is true. Maybe a dozen. But there were many Gadsen flags and Gadsen flag shirts and I think we have to admit those people were showing support for the Tea Party and not simply history buffs. And there were plenty of people in Tea Party shirts from their local Tea Party chapters. Why am I so sure about this? Because I work for a t-shirt company so I always look at everyone's t-shirt. The Restore America rally was very respectful, there was not a political message from the speakers, definitely more of a restore America to greatness message.

And since this is a discussion of attendance not content my concern with some of the attendance numbers for the Stewart rally, I question the discussion of public transportation ridership, I have to believe there were other events going on in Washington for Halloween weekend that affected ridership besides the Restore Sanity rally. Plus, and let's be honest with each other. The Stewart rally seems like it would be "more fun" to stop by. Meaning if people were having a day out in DC they might consider stopping by the Stewart rally when people probably wouldn't drop by the Glenn Beck rally. Just my 2 cents.

 

[marksinvirginia]

And all of those millions at the Stewart Rally stayed home on election day. ROTFLMAO!

 

[Foxfyre]

I am satisfied that the crowd was a good size but not astounding considering that it was entertainment. Based on reporters' interviews with a large number of attendees, it was reported tonight that 1% of those responding to the reporters' questions intended to vote Republican in the election. That makes it a really REALLY leftwing crowd even if the 1% is a little off.

And it was mostly a DC crowd who probably did vote Democrat if they voted. After listening in to some of those interviews, some of the folks didn't strike me as the type who would take the trouble to vote.

At any rate it was fun and it is over. And it didn't make a whits bit of difference in how people voted any more than any of the other autumn rallies made a difference.