sjdnb
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:41 PM
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Freedomworks LIES about crowd size - misuses ABC as source |
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Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:49 PM by sjdnb
And, ABC is not happy about it. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-misquoted-crowd-size/story?id=8558055Actually, ABC reported crowd size at 60-70k ... anyone surprised the right would LIE about this?
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:43 PM
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1. Why would anyone lie about size? n/t |
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:45 PM
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2. I am now envisioning humans forming a giant penis.... |
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:45 PM
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3. it appears to run about 10 rows deep |
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and there's almost no one on the street behind them.
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:50 PM
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4. The weird thing about that story is that it was Brendan Steinhauser who said it |
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Edited on Sat Sep-12-09 09:51 PM by Emit
Not Kibbe:
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Brendan Steinhauser, spokesman for FreedomWorks, said he did not know why Kibbe cited ABC News as a source.
As a result of Kibbe's erroneous attribution, several bloggers and commenters repeated the misinformation.
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I posted on this earlier in real time, watching at the CNN live link and it was clearly Brendan Steinhauser who said it. At least, that is what name he was announced as and that was noted at the bottom of the screen.
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Sat Sep-12-09 09:59 PM
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Corp Media v. Astro Turf. ABC would be happy to cite someone else's misinformation, but they hate being quoted as the source of the mis-information.
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Sat Sep-12-09 10:06 PM
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6. They did it in my town as well... |
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I was there,1500 people reported as 3000
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