Math Is Hard: GOP Over-Inflates Audience Participation At Bachman's Teabaggery
By Nicole Belle Friday Nov 06, 2009 8:00am
See that picture? That looks like a million people to G. Gordon Liddy's producer:
(T)oday’s anti-health care reform rally has been much more sparsely attended (than the 9/12 protests, but) that hasn’t stopped conservatives from inflating the numbers again. On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show (Thursday), producer Franklin Raff, who was on the ground at the rally, told guest host Joseph Farah that the crowd is “just as big or bigger than” the 9/12 rally, which Raff estimated “at about a million.”
Uh yup. Rep. Eric Cantor dialed the number down, though not entirely into factual territory:
(S)hortly after addressing the crowd, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) actually blamed Democrats for the hateful images on display. In an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, Cantor suggested that the signs were the mere result of "frustration" over the democratically elected majority's "extreme policies." Mitchell pushed him to say whether he's "comfortable with those attacks against the President of the United States," but Cantor quickly changed the subject:
CANTOR: Listen, I don't think we should engage in personal attacks. But I think, and what I take the message from the gathering of tens of thousands of people on the steps of the Capitol today, and the elections on Tuesday, is the fact that, you know what, we need some balance here in Washington.
You know what, Cantor? You and the rest of your willfully ignorant and fear mongering party (and that includes your mouthpieces at Fox News) own every one of those sickening, disgusting, inexcusable signs, not Democrats.
The Politico, treading gracelessly between their GOP advocacy position and whatever journalistic integrity they still imagine themselves to have put the number at 10,000. Actually, according to reality-based sources, the number was around 3,000 - 4,000.
There's a joke I could make on how sad it must be for their wives when they must continually overinflate numbers, but I think their massive overcompensation speaks for itself.
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there's at LEAST 10 brazilian teabaggers there!
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Don't hold being bad at math against him. There are so many bigger things that can be held against him. Like his denial of reality, for example. For trying to pretend that winning two governor's elections means anything of import. For not acknowledging that his party has become a joke among ALL thinking people.
that idiot has SOOO much on his mind right now...
I like that.
Shoes or underware? I don't get it.
it was the shoes!
Ok, now you have to help me up from the floor XD
they don't know math and have livable incomes. If they had to live off my SS income they would have to learn some.
More of this kind of math:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WxHL8LqY4E
Lou Reed-- "Busload of Faith"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2fhcVfq9Q
...why wouldn't I want to give the GOP another chance to teabag our economy?
I'm straight, dude...
ysbadden I totally snorted my cereal through my nose. You owe me a new keyboard
from the 'Thug healthcare plan...
Before reading down to the experts who estimated even fewer. More and more, these folks appear divorced from reality -- and good math skills!
My family has more people at reunions.
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Now that's what I'd call a captive audience. ;)
Thank you Meester Reemshot!
I wrote a short story where Eric Cantor is pistolwhipped to within an inch of his life, and thrown into a pit of wild hungry boars who shred him to pieces while an overhead TV plays surveillance camera footage of his daughter having sex with various members of Motley Crue.
I blame Cantor for my writing it. If he weren't such a partisan tool, I would've had better things to do with my time.
Artificially conceived or adopted?
A girly man.
bring shame to Motley Crue like that?
What about Slade, or some other long forgotten crappy band?
Gudby T' Jane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFKZNo-mmpg
Certainly better than crap that they spawned, such as Ratt...
LOL!
would have been my first pick for faux metal bands.
*However, I would never advocate the abuse or rape of a girl or woman.
n/t
The ones that go are getting paid to go, or are donating so that others can go. There are no unemployed teabags. It is a job for a political action committee. Really nothing to see here except more minimum wage jobs going away as we watch.
...Saddam Hussein's statue came down.
that there was even 200 people there for the statue destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23rZ_GYoR6Q
"There's a joke I could make on how sad it must be for their wives when they must continually overinflate numbers, but I think their massive overcompensation speaks for itself"
Spit my tea laughing!!!
"The Politico, treading gracelessly between their GOP advocacy position and whatever journalistic integrity they still imagine themselves to have "
Nailed IT!
:)
Each teabagger may have been carrying another teabagger on his shoulders. We wouldn't be able to tell from that photo. Any of you freedom haters think of that?
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I love to dance!
they are going to spill a bucket of partriot blood all
over Bachmann's head. Make sure you have left the building before she glares the doors locked.
I knew I'd seen her typical expression before!!
insane abusive parental unit type. Does she have daughters? If so, I'd be watching out for them...
nothing on her wikipedia page about daughters but she does have a son in the Peace Corps. Kind of reminds me of that Ab Fab skit when Edie couldn't understand why Saffron wasn't rebelling cause she was so straight-laced and Saffron thought that WAS rebelling.
"no wire hangers" type abusive? Yea, I can see something like that.
that her son, in essence, was a fine young man. Bless that poor boy.
It'll be a big one...music by AC/DC...
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They could have the secret Teabagger's other ball.
Sorry, I misread it.
I thought it said FECES. not faces.
The other secret dance is "Guy Fawlking," as pointed out by Colbert last night.
Yeah...maybe their carrying them in their pouches. Or perhaps they are disguised as trees...wearing all that camo don'tcha know.
women in attendance. That's how they get the numbers.
It's clearly a million if you count all those at home who couldn't make it and could only be there telepathically, or the voices that inhabit Glenn Beck's head, or the teabaggers who had to be at their Medicare-paid doctor's office for their di-betes checkup. See, that's a million right there!
I do wonder if TA Griff's producer was there
incitingcovering the "protest"?Griff Jenkins was there. One of the Billionaires for Wealthfare caught a picture of him on his iPhone.
The resolution is pretty crappy, or I would have included it in the post.
... They overestimate their fellowship, and underestimate the age of the EARTH!(1:07) √ Go figure? :-/
Thank you Nicole ♥
I guess everyone here has seen the disgusting "Holocaust" sign from yesterday's rally:
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comme...
Sadly,I live in Cantor's district.
I learned yesterday that Cantor sits on the board of trustees of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. They might not appreciate a trustee speaking at a rally that exploits the Holocaust for cheap political purposes,especially when he refused to distance himself from the crazier signs. If we can get the museum to attack Cantor for this,it would cause him some local embarrassment. Heck,maybe it would be enough to get dems to mount a (serious)challenge to Cantor in '10.
I posted about this on Kos yesterday,I'm trying to get the word out to as many people as I can. If you know any one in Virginia,please forward the info below,thanks!:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/5/801055/-Cantor-sits-on-Board-of-Trustees-for-Virginia-Holocaust-Museum!-Send-them-the-Dachau-photo!
I live in Eric Cantor's district. I believe he has no shame and would do anything to gain political power. Calls & e-mails from dems & leftists have no effect on him.
However,Cantor sits on the board of trustees for the Virginia Holocaust Museum,located in Richmond!:
http://www.va-holocaust.com/...
I imagine they would be none too pleased to learn that Cantor spoke at a rally comparing Health Care Reform to Dachau.
So I call upon all Kossacks(especially Virginia Kossacks) to call or e-mail the Virginia Holocaust museum and ask them how they feel about one of their board members attending a rally that compares Health Care to the Holocaust.
Here's their contact info:
Virginia Holocaust Museum
2000 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23223
804.257.5400
www.va-holocaust.com
E-mail:
Jay M Ipson,President and Executive Director
jipson@va-holocaust.com
Leigh Weedon: Assistant to Executive Director
lweedon@va-holocaust.com
Here's the message I sent to the museum:
Hello everyone,
I have lived in Richmond for many years and have visited the Virginia Holocaust Museum many times,since it was in its original location. I saw something on the news earlier that I found shocking,this sign:
http://www.rumproast.com/...
I've attached a photo from today's anti-Health Care Rally Washington,DC. The sign equates the Health Care bill in Congress to the Nazi atrocities in the Dachau Death camp. I have always believed that exploiting the holocaust for political purposes is beyond the pale. This "Dachau" sign is no exception.
What I find disturbing is that our own Rep. Eric Cantor,a trustee of the Holocaust Museum attended and spoke at this rally. It is possible that he was not aware of this sign,as there were many signs in the crowd. When asked about some of the ugly signs on MSNBC,he changed the subject,watch that here:
http://www.youtube.com/...
I hope you will forward this to Mr. Cantor and I hope he will condemn this use of Holocaust imagery.
Thank you,
Jaceinva
Richmond,VA
Can I use this information to do a post?
Yes,post about it, pass it far and wide!
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but, this line caught my attention:
"I have always believed that exploiting the holocaust for political purposes is beyond the pale." Isn't that what Israel and the some in the US have been doing for the last half-century?
..You'll trigger a flame-war quicker than you can say "AIPAC"!
...let's fight one battle at a time.
and how is his presence in that board of directors justified?
That sign was beyond reprehensible, the fact that idiot sits in the board of a holocaust museum pushes it into beyond the pale territory. Good grief, and I thought these cretins could not sink any lower, there they go and once again prove me that indeed I am wrong, since they can sink much much lower.
"and how is his presence in that board of directors justified?"
He's a very prominent,powerful member of the Jewish Community of Richmond.
Where is his integrity? Oh! I forgot. Most people check their integrity before they enter DC. There is a big warehouse in the suburbs where they store it until it is killed by the actions of the owner as he progresses up the ladder of power.
the G. Bush Center of "Intelligence?"
in Howard Coounty, MD.
And it just gets auctioned off when the owners fail to pay the bills for lack of interest and use.
He's circumcised?
Then a Pox on his sorry ass for allowing the use of one of humanity's darkest moments to score a cheap political point. What a bunch of degenerates... ugh.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/110...
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
A Cantor spokesman also said that signs at Thursday's Hill Tea Party showing murdered Jews at Dachau were "inappropriate."
because with these crazies, I don't count.
I don't want to be one of those people who spread them there silly Internet rumors, but, I read on one of those republican blogs somewhere this morning that the GOP and FOX news are now advocating their followers to give up their day jobs, follow Bachman and Palin instead, and collect unemployment all the while. Thereby spiking the unemployment numbers, ergo, making the President's policies seem like they are failing.
But don't quote me, it's probably just a rumor with no links to back it up I'm sure. ;)
Still, it does seem to be working huh...
> Can I use this information to do a post?
You can use mine too as needed. ;) (ROFLMAO!)
Sorry could not resist...
That said, it still wouldn't surprise me.
Keep in mind Sarah Palin's history and the "Q" word. It's probably all the rage right now in some parts.
And hey, let's face it: they've been talked into thinking good quality health care is bad for your health, and they put W in office, twice.
If quitting the day job is as close to the "End Days" as you're going to get, you might just take the advice as sound from FOX and head right down to the Unemployment Office looking for that check to pay for bus fair to the next march.
More opportunities for the rest of us. Not many, but every little bit helps in this tough economy.
oh my if they are really telling people they can leave their jobs and get unemployment then they will be in big trouble once a handful actually do it and find you can only get unemployment if you lose your job through no fault of your own (i.e. laid off or fired without fault). Loads of companies fight unemployment claims now cause they don't want to pay the taxes on it. So sad.
Morans.
The Obama administration claiming that the stimulus has created or saved 640,329 jobs.
...math lessons for everyone!
I could swear it could not have been more than 640,325.
on MSNBC or a MSM network news show posted this photo, so more of the morons who inhabit this country could get an inkling about the LIES!
they're covering the Ft. Hood tragedy....
includes all the inner voices....
although the numbers of this stunt have been inflated to the point of absurdity ("100 billion gather on capitol steps"), the sway that these astroturfers have with the political class makes it seem like these puppets do number in the 10s of millions. And a couple hundred of these corporactivists will get more attention and be taken much more seriously than millions of people that protested the policies these people champion.
a small, yet loud, confrontational, and secretly (and not so secretly) funded group, with the intent of pushing corporate-friendly legislation (in the guise of "freedom") carries more sway with the political class than the millions of people on the other side of the debate. due in large part to their corporate-media allies that hold a megaphone to the astroturfers' lips.
I could only count about a half dozen. There was the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, a drunk mouse, Alice and one or two others.
using Cantor with his beak as her croquet mallet. Alice was played by Ms. Fox (that would be Ms. Fuchs in German, appropriately enough).
100,000 anti war demonstrators are a handful of wackos.
Of course they lie about the size of the "crowd"; this movement is built soley on lies and hate. The 1st of which is that they are "American patriots". No, they hate our American government, they hate the democracy that elected an intelligent black man. They also hate anything their corporarate ringleaders don't feed them.
So what do they think happens when they say there are 1,000,000 people and people see a photo like this and see that there are only 4,000? They really don't care about their credibility? Sure the idiot base will not care but the middle will know that these people are real assholes and liars.
of an anti-war rally. Even the ones who were there will refuse delivery of the truth.
The thing to remember about those people is that you will never change their minds. NEVER. They will be the way they are because they are programmed that way. It's the people in the middle, the people who would have voted for the woman in the NY-23 race who see this craziness and shake their heads and walk away. When the right loses these people, and they are losing 1000s every day, when the right loses these people they will not win any more elections. Jeez, they just lost a district that they have held for about 150 years! Do they think that they are going to win in districts that are Democratic?
Looks more like 400 to me..
1000 tops, from that photo.
I've seen more people show up for a keg party that was supposed to have only a few dozen people...
I counted the teeth and divided by four
You all forgot to count the invisible tea baggers, who outnumbered the visible tea baggers 50:1
Please try and get it right next time.
You forgot we outnumber you by MILLIONS:
http://www.popsci.com/content/inauguration-day
but physics is harder. So many of the concepts are counter intuitive. What the picture fails to reveal are the "virtual teabaggers" popping into and out of existence so quickly that they are undetectable by a simple camera. These virtual teabaggers make up the vast majority of the mass of such crowds. They represent the "dark wingnutter" that pervades the MSM and account for the fact that the US can elect democratic majorities in both houses and a democratic president and still be a conservative country.
and was reaping all sorts of quantum mayhem in DC that day. There were millions of teabaggers, they swear, it is just that we couldn't count them at the same time. Uncertainty being what it is...
instead of a cat then Shrodinger's thought experiment would have been well worth physically doing.
Are you saying that millions of Teabaggers are already dead?
They're just oscillating between existence and non-existence.
Yeah it’s a big spectacle for Tee Vee!!! The biggest waste of money ever -A big bread and circus show- corrupt as hell-what a scam!!! It’s a pot of gold for the greedy insurance companies and their corrupt political whores-along with other corporate scum then -manipulated by politically led ( and paid) media sources.
It’s a disgrace!!!!
Except…it’s not gonna work, scumbags.
Nobody but a fool believes this spin anymore.
Dance monkeys Dance! That's what your paid for!
when seeing anti-war crowds 20 times bigger than the tea baggers virtual rally claim the numbers to be in the thousands...
that pesky 'liberal' media.
We should never EVER forget this difference in the two photos:
http://www.popsci.com/content/inauguration-day
Shows how many DEMOCRATS want Change.
versus
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/math-h...
Shows how many REPUBLICANS want Change.
I think it would be a good idea to keep those two photos floating around again and again and again. They're powerful weapons in our argument for CHANGE IN AMERICA.
You can't really believe these ignorant, teabagging, lying morons can add do you??
I would bet those fools don't even know who paid for their transportation and provided the buses , they are the dumbest people on the planet without a doubt , right here in the good old US of A .
I hate to break this to you, but the "common folk" out in the country and down south in the Good Ole US of A have been proving to the rest of the world for some time that they are the most self-centered, inappreciative, dumbest people on the planet. Easy pickins for Rush/Beck and the corporatocracy that want to manipulate/screw them.
Why do Republicans hate math??
96,000 people attended this concert - and OBVIOUSLY WWWAAAYYY more people than was at this teadouchebaggery protest thingy.
(and WWWAAAYYY cooler people I might add!)
http://www.youtube.com/user/U2official
These idiots haven't a clue. Boehner spoke words from the Declaration of Independence, yet said they were from the Constitution(which he had in his hands, but obviously's never read). I thought the guy who said the crowd was 20k was far off.
Cantor or whoever says "10,000 strong" and nobody calls him on it, and the people listening to him will believe just because they want to. The sad case here is the media, that should "report" on Cantor's claim and "report" the facts. They seem to forget the facts most times but they sure do "report" what Eric Cantor says.
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