Comments on: The myth of the 15,000

By: Away From the Numbers « A Rather Amusing Life

Away From the Numbers « A Rather Amusing Life — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:06:40 +0000

[...] by the local CBS station to have drawn some 15,000 persons — a figure which, it was later discovered, would quite literally have been physically [...]

By: Yeahyourright

Yeahyourright — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:20:41 +0000

All of these tea baggers cost the tax payers anywhere from $50,000. to $100,000 per year. By the time you pay to educate their children in public schools and give them a housing subsidy in the form of a mortgage tax write off. Why can’t these morons pay their own way? Get out and support your self while you still know everything.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:19 +0000

Who knows how many people turned out for the first civil rights protest?
I suggest there are few to none that are posting on this site.
The “Tea Parties” are not about head counts but principles.
The press will spin this group of people just like they did with earlier social movements. It is being spun by some poster here. Lets not get lost in political jibberish. Our country and our world is changing. This Country is the last outpost…. This is a bigger issue then simply who is in power in congress at the moment.

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:24:37 +0000

I was at the rally. Your math is off. To determine the square footage of the protest with arbitrary numbers is nothing more than another attempt to coopt science for political purposes. You are grossly underestimating the size of the space that was actually used vs the size of the space that was the stated protest location.

In all honesty, it does not matter how many people were there… what matters is that a substantial group of people are upset with the direction of the country. When your grandmother goes to a protest that should be a wakeup call.

By: Anita

Anita — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:01:21 +0000

It’s a bit surprising hearing from the chief propagators of lies (mainstream media) that it is unacceptable to propagate lies as news. Maybe someone should tell them: “practice what you preach” and “stop picking the splinter out of your brother’s eye when you have a log in your own eye.”

For your information, it can be proven that it was the Associated Press (a primary news source for the mainstream media) that misreported the numbers of attendees at the Tea Party events, conveniently lowering the number – by thousands. I think the AJC, as well as the primary news outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, etc. – need to be more careful in checking their sources before reporting.

I think it is the mainstream media’s EGO that is inflated – since they like to downplay and look down their noses at grassroots movements of real Americans – rather than the numbers.

By: Sean Hannity Inflates Atlanta Tea Party Attendance | Dailycensored.com

Sean Hannity Inflates Atlanta Tea Party Attendance | Dailycensored.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:00:45 +0000

[...] the jump) that 20,000 people attended the Atlanta tea party last month. In fact, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Hannity’s and Fox News’ own estimates were 15,000 – 20,000 (so Hannity’s declaration of 20,000 [...]

By: Jeff in California

Jeff in California — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:35:49 +0000

At 6′ and 250 pounds, I take up more floor space than a good 80% of the people in any room I enter (usually more). I have broad shoulders, but that’s still only 23″ and from the front of my bigger-than-desired belly to the back of my posterior is less than 14″. As Mr. Galloway said, “mathematics don’t bend to feelings”, so let’s do some math: 23″ times 14″ is 322 sq. in. There are 144 sq. in. per square foot, so I take up 2.3 sq. ft. According to http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/181339, the average is 2 sq. ft.

I have no means of verifying the other data Mr. Galloway provided about available area, so I am going to accept them, especially these three statements:
“Zone 1 contains 32,188 square feet”
“… people were indeed shoulder-to-shoulder [in] Zone 1″
“TV trucks and staging took up at least one-third of the space [in Zone 1]”

If everyone packed into Zone 1 were my size, there would have been (32,188 * 2/3) / 2.3 = 9,330 people, significantly higher than Mr. Galloway’s estimate for total attendance.

For the remaining area, we have these statements:
“Zone 2 is 11,340 square feet”
“they weren’t [shoulder-to-shoulder] in Zone 2″

Packed full, that leaves room for another 4,930 people. If only 50% full (and this is just a guess because Mr. Galloway didn’t give an estimate), that works out to 2,165 people on top of the 9,330 people in Zone 1 for a total of 11,495.

Let’s just round that to 11,500.

Keep in mind that these calculations were based on *my* square footage. If we go with 2 sq. ft. as the average, then attendance jumps to 13,220.

Remember… it’s math, people, not politics.

By: The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar

The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:04:04 +0000

You’ll always be able to get several thousand Georgians to attend an orgy of hate and stupidity.

By: The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar

The REAL GodHatesTrash, Superstar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:49:47 +0000

Whatever.

The tea-baggers are an odd assortment of morons.

By: Blue Fielder

Blue Fielder — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:18:01 +0000

The rightard whiners can’t handle that someone isn’t telling the truth about them.

Sore losers.