The 9/12 Rally's Winning Sign

Thanks to Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

I saw the above sign and one similar to it, but didn't have time to snap the photo.

I do wonder how many Americans are quietly and silently sick and tired of the race card as BHO's teflon coating. And at what point will the race card become the losing card to play?

Note to readers: Several more posts below on the 9/12 March on Washington. Please scroll down.

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Let's Compare The 9/12 March To BHO's Inauguration

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Comparing Tea Party 9/12/09 To Obama Inauguration Crowds

From AJ Strata:

Updates Below

I have been doing some research analyzing photos and crowd data to try and ascertain the crowd size of the 9/12/09 Tea Party protests (which I blogged on here). It seems the best, most recent reference point is President Obama’s inauguration, which was estimated at 1.8-2.0 million people. If you look at the pictures from last January’s Inauguration it looks at first glance like the Obama crowds dwarfed the Tea Party crowds.

The Tea Party Crowds did not extend back the Washington Monument (there were other events on the Mall yesterday). On the flip side, the inauguration is a controlled, seated event. It has a uniform density of people sitting in chairs spread out on the mall. Here is a map showing the areas and capacity of people for inaugurations using an aerial view of the Mall:

(H/T Moderate Middle) What is clear in the inauguration model is that people are restricted in their movements and are assigned locations with specific capacity numbers. Now look at the Tea Party Pics, especially around the reflecting pool which shows a capacity of 240,000 in the inauguration model.

These two great shots (from someone willing and able to climb a light pole) show how there is no consistent density as with the laid out seating of an inauguration. Moreover, if you look at the inauguration model, the crowd does not spill out into the streets on the side, up the hill on the sides, etc. It also doesn’t go under the trees on each side of the Mall. The Tea Party crowds were thick through all these areas.

In my opinion the crowd was over 1 million. Maybe well over 1 million. But it is hard to compare a crowd in evenly spaced seats in a much more restricted lay out to a crowd of varying density spilling out into every crevice and corner in front of the Capitol. Given the high density and greater extent of taking over the open ground I think it is very possible the unadvertised Tea Party without any big name draws competed well with the largest inauguration crowd in recent memory.

It easily surpassed the inauguration crowds of all the other Presidents in recent memory. And that is saying something.

Update: Hopefully this answers Allah Pundit’s queries.

Update: Another good picture showing how the crowds are much more compact than during inaugurations:

Note how far people expanded left and right into the trees up to the Capitol building itself. I walked this part of the crowd and it was packed.

Update: This is a great collection of photos, and notice how dense the crowd is out into the distance of each and every one. It was a huge crowd. It was a respectful crowd. It was an intense crowd. The media and liberals can only down play this by denying the gathering storm is coming.

Note: Several posts today, including my photo essays. Please scroll down.

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How Big Was The 9/12 March On Washington?

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ABC News is denying they said there were 1.5 million.

Ok.

The Washington Post is saying there were about 60-70,000.

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From Michelle Malkin:

Yes, the picture is real, nutroots

By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2009 10:51 PM

I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here— is somehow “fake.”

The claim is that the shot came from the Kennedy procession or a previous left-wing protest and that the flag at half-mast proves that it was “fake.”

Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in honor of the murder victims of the 9/11 jihadi attacks.

Guess the 9/11-was-an-inside jobbers are still that much in denial.

Unbelievable.

Yes, this is real:

And so is this:

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Shut your eyes at your own peril.

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More “fake” photos via El Marco:

And from reader Hardtorn:

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Let’s go back to the screenshot:

Reader Rosemary e-mailed a link to USAToday’s National Mall/crowd estimate schematic, which it published in January to show how the Park Service estimated inaugural crowd attendance. It’s a helpful guide:

Note from AOW: Scroll down for my photo essays.

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The 9/12 March on Washington: Photo Essay 2

Also see Photo Essay 1 one post down and this photo exclusive to THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

All photos are unedited!

Four hours before the march was scheduled to begin at 11:30, people gathered at Freedom Plaza:



Views of 14th Street as people streamed toward Freedom Plaza, the rallying point before the march down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill began:





Leaving the sidewalks feeding into Pennsylvania Avenue as we head out into Pennsylvania Avenue, the march route to the west steps of the Capitol:



Photos taken during the march:









Check out this sea of signs photographed as the march made its way along Pennsylvania Avenue:



Photos taken as we neared Capitol Hill and the surrounding area:









At the Capitol Reflecting Pool:



I especially love this photo taken on the side of the Capitol Reflecting Pool nearest the west side of Capitol Hill itself:



Taken on the north-side grassy knoll of the west side of the Capitol — where Mr. AOW and I situated ourselves:



Forget the mainstream media's reports downplaying the numbers and the significance of yesterday's march. I was there.

One protester had voted for BHO and regretted it. This protester's sign read "I voted for change, not for changing the Constitution."

And don't miss Radio Free Dar Al Harb's photo essay! One sample of the photos he has:



See the rest from Radio Free Dar Al Harb HERE

The video below doesn't show the numbers of late arrivers streaming in from side streets west of Freedom Plaza:

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The 9/12 March on Washington: Photo Essay 1

I was there at the 912 March on Washington with my husband, The Beak, my student MJB, and some blogging friends.

Folks, this event was huge! So huge, in fact, that the march had to begin at least an hour early because protesters were jamming the streets and side streets of Washington, D.C.

The mainstream media and even some in the alternative media are not recognizing the importance of the 912 March on Washington! Astroturf, not.

BEGIN PHOTO ESSAY (all photos unedited)

The following picture taken at the statuary on the west edge of the Capitol Hill Lawn doesn't show the crowd but expresses the sentiments I saw from many of the protesters:


The pictures below the fold were taken during the march itself:







At the footsteps on the west side of Capitol Hill:



A vista view looking toward the west side of Capitol Hill:



A sea of people covered the area from Capitol Hill to the Washington Monument! Furthermore, more protesters covered many of the side streets.

All worn out, Mr. AOW and I headed back to Union Station around 2:00 PM. People were still arriving from Union Station and from buses which had finally made their way through the traffic jams on all the roads feeding into our nation's capital!

ABC News estimated the numbers before everyone had arrived. The estimate is low. I know this for a fact because the estimate was announced as people were still streaming in, getting as close as they could to Capitol Hill.

I've lived in the D.C. area all my life and tell you that I've never before seen any event like this here before.

As soon as possible, I will be posting additional photos.

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