How I missed the 2 million man teabagging flash mob today
Sep/092
I appearently missed the largest flashmob in American history today and it took place just a few blocks from my house. Michelle Malkin and the redstaters have been abuzz about how there were more than two million people marching on Washington today, (that would make it bigger than even the inauguration) but all anyone who wasn’t a right-winger saw today was 30,000 to 60,000 right-wingers bussed in from around the country.
Here’s what the organizers themselves told us to expect. Dick Armey told the right-wing Newsmax that they’re generating hundreds of responses in interest to the 9/12 March. The tea party patriots told us that they were expecting as many as one million to turn out andthat they had permits for a one million man march on Washington.
After reading breathlessly on the twitter feeds of several right-wingers that millions of people were decending on the capitol. Michelle Malkin on her blog estimated two million people. I went up to take pictures of crazy signs of which there were many, many, many, many samples.
Now there were real people at the rally. At certain points organizers for different county Republican parties would use a bullhorn to try to round up their members back to the busses for the trip back to Pennsylvania and Virginia. But, one would think that after six months of organizing by Fox news and local Republican parties the 9/12 protests could get more than thirty to sixty thousand people to come out to DC, afterall there’s appearently a groundswell of anger at the President. If nothing else there’s got to be more than 30,000 Republicans who live around the DC area.
I wanted to provide some perspective about the difference betweent thirty thousand people and one million people. For reference the teabaggers were mostly in front of the Capitol and around the Capitol’s reflecting pool. For anyone not familiar with DC they were to the directly to the east of 3rd street in Washington, DC.
For reference I crossed 3rd street and took a picture facing west from the Capitol at the Washington monumnet similar to some of the crowd shots we’d seen after the inauguration. Here’s the difference between the teabaggers protest today vs. President Obama’s inaguration crowd which included anywhere from 1 million to 1.5 million people. So, what happened to all that grassroot anger?
