Does Size Matter?
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
"As I rode the Metro down to the Mall yesterday, the size rumors had already begun. (Yes, even the anti-government cranks -- who said things like "when the government takes over, everything goes downhill" -- extolled the virtues of the, ahem, government-run public transportation system in D.C.) Blackberries abuzz, the first rumor I heard was that the estimated crowd was not the anticipated 100,000, but closer to 300,000.
The day wore on, indeed the crowd grew, but the size rumor grew exponentially larger. So large that the march organizer, FreedomWorks'
Matt Kibbe,
claimed onstage that ABC (which many participants accused, along with all the other networks and cable stations save Fox, of being controlled by the government) had estimated the crowd at between one and one and half million people.
Problem was, ABC never said any such thing. It [ABC] had reported 70,000, based on D.C. Fire Department estimates. Later in the day,
Michelle Malkin claimed it was two million -- even more preposterous."