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[tu_holmes]

Yes, Glenn Beck’s Rally Was Officially Bigger Than The One Nation Rally
by Glynnis MacNicol | 1:56 pm, October 3rd, 2010

Rally numbers are the new sports statistics! According to every major media outlet yesterday’s big tent One Nation rally did not manage to draw as many people to the National Mall as Glenn Beck’s 8/28 Restoring Honor rally despite the fact they had media powerhouse Ed Schultz as a featured speaker! From the New York Times:

    Noting that they began planning their rally in April, organizers said they were not responding to a march organized by Glenn Beck, which drew enormous crowds to the front of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28. But they acknowledged that their hope was to draw an even larger crowd to Saturday’s event. Significant areas of the National Mall that had been filled during Mr. Beck’s rally were empty. In a broadcast on Thursday, Mr. Beck criticized the liberals’ march, saying his supporters paid their own way to drive to Washington, while labor unions chartered hundreds of buses to ferry demonstrators to Saturday’s rally. Mr. Beck’s rally resembled a religious revival, but Saturday’s event was overwhelmingly a political and policy pep rally, although it largely avoided partisan language.

And from the AP: “Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck’s rally. But Saturday’s crowds were less dense and didn’t reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck’s rally. The National Park Service stopped providing official crowd estimates in the 1990s.”

You get the point. Beck’s rally was bigger, quite a feat considering all the so-called “communist” support the One Nation rally received! Perhaps the secret socialists are not quite as fearsome a force as some people have led the public to believe.

Another thing. Beck’s supporters may also be more tidy. Much was made following the 8/28 rally about how clean attendees had left the National Mall. So perhaps you will not be surprised to hear that yesterday’s rally goers allegedly left it a total mess. Video ‘proof’ pulled from YouTube below (I was at Beck’s rally but not at this one, so can’t confirm the difference on this point).

One more thing. A number of sites have posted galleries of the signs at yesterday’s rally (see here and here) and generally speaking they are of standard political/union fair. However, I’m pretty sure if CSPAN had caught anyone on the Mall at the 8/28 rally waving a sign equivalent to the ‘Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are racist’ sign that popped up on yesterday’s coverage we would have been reading and hearing condemning coverage about it on the MSM nearly every day since.

Other than that I guess all there is to say is over to you Jon Stewart!

http://www.mediaite.com/online/yes-glenn-becks-rally-was-officially-bigger-than-yesterdays-one-nation-rally/

Right... a report after the fact... Sorry, that's really not a report in my eyes.

[Arnold jr]

I thought this was a good one...it shows a comparison.

BTW, how could you have a report on the mess made or not made until after the fact?

[tu_holmes]

I thought this was a good one...it shows a comparison.

BTW, how could you have a report on the mess made or not made until after the fact?

I know what you're saying, but I'm just saying that it's very odd for someone to say, oh, these guys were so messy, where the conservatives were so clean when they were here.

I mean, come on.

[Arnold jr]

I know what you're saying, but I'm just saying that it's very odd for someone to say, oh, these guys were so messy, where the conservatives were so clean when they were here.

I mean, come on.

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter but I think it does show a difference in character between the two crowds. At the two rallies you definitely have two different sets of people and they disagree on a host of issues but our character and how we handle ourselves is above "issues" and politics and I think the mess left by those at this wkends rally really shows a lack of regard and respect for the U.S. I mean come on, they trashed an area that is for lack of a better word "sacred ground" to the United States.

[tu_holmes]

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter but I think it does show a difference in character between the two crowds. At the two rallies you definitely have two different sets of people and they disagree on a host of issues but our character and how we handle ourselves is above "issues" and politics and I think the mess left by those at this wkends rally really shows a lack of regard and respect for the U.S. I mean come on, they trashed an area that is for lack of a better word "sacred ground" to the United States.

No doubt... I agree completely. The mess was disgusting and I find it completely shitty by the group.

I'm just saying that we have no comparison photos from the previous rally.

That said, with no comparison, what the group did at the liberal rally was quite horrible.

[Arnold jr]

No doubt... I agree completely. The mess was disgusting and I find it completely shitty by the group.

I'm just saying that we have no comparison photos from the previous rally.

That said, with no comparison, what the group did at the liberal rally was quite horrible.

The video I posted has shots of both rallies. What both rallies looked like, the grounds, afterward, as well as shots showing the difference in crowd size.

[MCWAY]

Now, you have left-winged goofies on Huffington Post, claiming that their trash is proof that their rally was bigger than Beck's rally.

[BM OUT]

The rally was a TOTAL failure.ZERO coverage on tv no buzz at all about it,the crowd wasnt close to Becks and the speakers were a bunch of has beens like Jesse Jackson and failures like Ed Shultz.It was a failure from start to end,commies,guys,lesbians,union thugs,and socialists.The left fails again.

[Soul Crusher]

 

[tu_holmes]

So there was trash there... but someone came back and put it into piles so it was easier for them to pick up.

That's cool and all, but it's not like there wasn't trash there.

I think if anything it shows that the organizers of the Beck rally were forward thinking enough to put people on trash detail and collect the trash into the piles.

[BM OUT]

So there was trash there... but someone came back and put it into piles so it was easier for them to pick up.

That's cool and all, but it's not like there wasn't trash there.

I think if anything it shows that the organizers of the Beck rally were forward thinking enough to put people on trash detail and collect the trash into the piles.

No,at the Beck rally people knew enough to pick up the trash to leave the capitol clean.Libs dont give a flying fuck about the capitol,the country or the mess they make of it.

[Soul Crusher]

No,at the Beck rally people knew enough to pick up the trash to leave the capitol clean.Libs dont give a flying fuck about the capitol,the country or the mess they make of it.

Libs make a mess everywhere they go.  I live in an area 5-1 dem to to repub and these people are freaking pigs.  The piss on everything and live like heathens.  They are better off in the bronx zoo than in society.  At least in the zoo the mess would be contained to a cage or walled off exhibit. 

I'm serious, animals in the bronx zoo behave better than these dirty, filthy scumbags.     

[George Whorewell]

Less than half as many attended the one nation rally than the Beck rally yet there was 10x the trash afterward.

Also, notice how the New York Times tells outright lies in the article Arnold posted above.

What rally did they cover? Avoided partisan language? There are several transcripts availible online of the speech Schultz gave. The entire speech was dedicated to bashing republicans.

Bottom line-- it was a largely empty freak show of everything mainstream America hates. Further, it was a massive failure and embarassment.

Case closed.

[tu_holmes]

No,at the Beck rally people knew enough to pick up the trash to leave the capitol clean.Libs dont give a flying fuck about the capitol,the country or the mess they make of it.

That's not what the parks guy in the video said.