If FOX NEWS reported 2 million people in DC for the inauguration, [View All]

[NYC_SKP]

Well, that's good enough for me! :rofl:

The DC mayor's office said 1.8 million, the Park Service does not dispute that number:

"Authorities for years have been wary of estimating crowd sizes for events on the Mall, but numbers poured forth yesterday -- including from D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's office. In radio interviews, Fenty (D) cited the 1.8 million figure, which eclipses the 1.2 million official tally from the 1965 inauguration of Lyndon Johnson."

"The 1.8 was communicated out to the mayor's office and other agencies," she said.
The National Park Service, which has been barred from making estimates since its count of 400,000 at the 1995 Million Man March drew the threat of a lawsuit, issued a statement yesterday saying it would "not contest" the 1.8 million estimate. "We do firmly believe that the crowd that was there was the biggest crowd ever, and I think that's what people are most interested in," Park Service spokesman David Barna said. "We don't have anything that suggests there was ever a bigger crowd."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103884_pf.html

You may have heard that LOTS of folks trying to lowball the number, or say nothing, but I found this on FOX of all places:

With 2 million people in Washington for President Obama's historic inauguration Tuesday, who had the best seat in the house? Perhaps the most scenic vantage was from high in the air -- extremely high.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/21/satellite-imagery-shows-inauguration-space/

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