LMAO... Is there NO RECORD of the ABC news report the repubs 'claimed' to hear?
hahahaha this is major egg on their face. Two blogger "make up" the fact they heard it reported, and suddenly FOX News quotes them all day? If they are unable to deliver the news article they claim to have cited, they look like shit on this. ABC radio repeatedly said "tens of thousands" all day long on Sunday.
ABC News has released a news report saying it was "misquoted" on the size of the Tea Party protest that took place Saturday in Washington, DC.
The network says that, at some point during the protest, FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe -- the head of the organization that organized the demonstration -- stood before the crowd and announced that ABC News had said the crowd at the protest was between one million and 1.5 million people.
ABC said no such thing. As Josh Marshall reported at TalkingPointsMemo, the fire department estimated the crowd at 60,000 to 70,000 people -- a "respectable" size, but nowhere near the order of magnitude that ABC says Kibbe claimed.
All the same, Kibbe's claim spread like wildfire during the day. From Kibbe's mic it went to right-wing activist Tabitha Hale's Twitter account -- where, somehow, the number grew again, this time to 2 million -- and from there it made it to conservative writer Michelle Malkin's blog. Once it appeared there, there was no stopping it, and the claim was repeated at numerous --mostly right-wing -- blogs.
"Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News," ABC News reported.
"In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as 'tens of thousands,' ABC said.
