Birdseye view of teabaggers in Boston:

[sufrommich]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/23147308/index.html

If that's more than 1500 people total, I'm a duck.

[WCGreen]

1. And they are surrounded by media vans....

[RamboLiberal]

2. Pic - as I said in another thread I'm not impressed

[Arkana]

5. That's not even 2K people.

And it doesn't even hold a candle to the numbers the anti-war folks put up.

[defendandprotect]

10. Can't really see . . . is each little pinhead a person ... if so 300/400 . . . ????

[City of Mills]

Looks like a sphincter

Could just be a coincidence!

[redqueen]

39. *roffle*

[EFerrari]

24. That looks like 2k to me. About what we had at Beach Impeach

which the media ignored. lol

[grantcart]

43. Where is Will Pit?

[tularetom]

3. Half of them are reporters and camera crews

The entire tea party "phenomenon" is a media wet dream.

[Sinistrous]

4. I'm sure it will be a crowd of

1,000,000+, just as soon as Fox News sets the record straight.

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. Beck said a university told him there were 55 Billion people there!

Yeah, the same Unknown University he referenced before.

[libodem]

7. Faux

radio news just reported 10,000 or more.

[sufrommich]

12. lol! nt

[Brother Buzz]

8. Did they lose a few teabaggers in the desert?

[Tesha]

20. Teabagger Charlie's still stuck riding forever on the MTA.

He got trapped by a power failure on the escalator
at the South Station T stop.

Tesha

[Brother Buzz]

31. I heard a group of teabaggers are stuck in a revolving door

They insist on turning right.

Go left and you'll be right, go right and you'll be left.

[madinmaryland]

40. A teabagger on the socialized transit system of Boston!

Too funny!

[defendandprotect]

9. Looks like 300 or 400 people to me . . . ???

[gratuitous]

11. No overhead photography, please

Teabaggers like their pictures low angle, tight focus, with as many people crowded into a 6-8 foot range as possible. You start taking the overhead view, and there's shrinkage. Sort of like the toppling of the Saddam statue. Looked real impressive from the middle of the "mob"; from a slightly higher angle? Not so much.

[sufrommich]

13. Overhead photography is a well known Alinsky tactic. nt

[Mari333]

14. MSM: nary a peep about the antiwar marches or GLBT march this yr

center right corporate news.

[okieinpain]

15. yep i'd say that's all of the american people right there. n/t.

[lpbk2713]

16. There are many stragglers standing towards the rear.

Probably mere curiosity seekers watching the freak show.

I'm sure Faux will still count them in as hard core T-baggers.

[progressoid]

17. Hell at least 400 of them are media.

What a joke.

[UTUSN]

18. GEmsRnc said it was TEN THOUSAND!1 The "reporter" said, "This many are still left AFTER the event!1"

Iow, the little group behind him was ALL that there ever was, but he was claiming that this is what was left over after most of them had left. Yeah-right.

Counting crowds ain't brain surgery. Especially in famous spaces with years/centuries of being populated, there ought to be a simple square-feet grid with corresponding estimates of dense or scattered or light crowding readily available.

It's time to go from MSNBC to MSRNC to GEmsRnc to************** : msQnc (for Quitter) or GEmsQnc!1

[Subdivisions]

19. Where's the arial shot of OUR rally? n/t

[ChoppinBroccoli]

21. I'll Go You One Better

I'll bet you a shiny new dime that that isn't even FIVE HUNDRED people. And another dime says over HALF of them were bused in from other parts of the country.

[melman]

22. I was there

There were a lot of people. I'm bad at guessing numbers but it had to be a couple thousand.

[Beaverhausen]

25. I've read there were a lot of counter protesters and they outnumbered the teabaggers

Is that correct?

[melman]

30. there were a lot

but I don't think they outnumbered the teabaggers.

[librechik]

23. i'd say maybe as many as 3500--but not much more.

it sure as hell isn't 10,000.

I'm betting the teahadists will estimate a million and a half.

[4lbs]

26. That's it? Excuse me while I *YAWN*

Ahem....

Anti-Iraq War Protestors in 2006.



Only MSNBC offered any type of M$M coverage. Even then it was kind of minimal compared to the daily Teabagging update they are doing now.

[guitar man]

27. yup

that's about right ;)

[MajorChode]

28. It's probably more than 1500....

if you count the media, but not too many more. I've seen lots more people show up for AA baseball.

[melman]

29. pics

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[Bryn]

32. Ha! Love them!

in Boston?

[Bryn]

33. Oh Hum

zzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ... can't believe tea-dirt baggers are getting so much attention. For their stupidity? The crowd looks way too small to be such a big deal for media!

Ooooops! I meant to reply to OP, not to myself. LOL

K&R for birdeye view video

[melman]

36. yep

[guitar man]

34. Great pics!

The young lady with the "I'd go gay" sign is.....really something! :blush::loveya:

[jmowreader]

35. You get the last lady's phone number?

[melman]

42. no, sadly

She was awesome. Some people were getting really freaked out by that sign and she'd just laugh and show them the other side...and then they'd really lose it! I'm not sure if I should post it since it's pretty dirty, but it was really funny.

[grantcart]

44. really dirty - somehow I think that DU can handle whatever was on the sign

welcome to DU you &*&^&%#$^%^^er!

[melman]

45. okay - here it is

[Regret My New Name]

46. I'm in love.

[HughMoran]

38. Love the anti-teabaggin' signs

nice pics

[lib2DaBone]

37. I worked as an usher at the Baseball stadium... pretty good eye for crowd size...

.. that is about 1,500-2,000 people. If it filled in in the back lines to SRO.. it would be 2,500-3,000.

[unhappycamper]

41. Nyuk, nyuk

They didn't even get the bandstand. How lame is that?????