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Glen Beck Rally Size Disputed

August 30, 2010

Gary Fackler -- HispanicBusiness

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Glen Beck, Fox News comentator and conservative firebrand, ignited controversey yet again Monday, when he estimated on his radio talk show that his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington attracted a crowd of 500,000.

Crowd estimates commissioned by CBS put the crowd at 87,000, plus or minus 9,000, according to AirPhotosLive, a company that analyzes aerial photos to estimate crowd size.

CBS was the only major news network which took the extra step of commissioning an actual count.

In claiming a half-million attendees, Beck admitted he is still waiting for the actual count of attendees at the event, which took place at the Lincoln monument, on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech.

The event drew the ire of civil rights leaders such as Al Sharpton, who critized the timing of the event, claiming that the views and opinions of Beck do not reflect those of King, who championed peace and the rights of marginalized minorities of his time.



Source: HispanicBusiness


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bojack
9/4/2010 8:09:31 AM PST
I was at the "Restore America" rally in D.C headed up by Glenn Beck. I have never seen that may people all together before. Well over the 500,000 estimates. I never saw one person disrupt the event in any way. Everyone and I mean everyone I saw was smiling, saying "please" and "thank you". I felt like I must have stepped back in time to the 1950's. I felt like everone was there because their own heart told them they should. Not, Glenn Beck or anyone else. It was a crowd that was assembled beacuse of their own convictions. When the bag pipers played "Amazing Grace" the crowd was singing along with the music. Have you ever heard 500,000 plus people sing amazing grace? Neither have I until that day....... amazing!!!! May God continue to bless The United States of America.


Debba99
8/31/2010 5:59:15 PM PST
I lived in DC for four years, the crowd was well over a million. It is amazing that mainstream media can't get their facts straight but they rarely have since the 80's...ummm, since the gov't went into partnership with it funding it with taxdollars. As far as the Rally, over a million people joined hands in Peace without incident; remarkable. Beck's staff passed out much appreciated water at his expense; cleaned the grounds and tempered the growing 'anger' of The Movement of the People. Kudos to Beck and all those who put this event together. The Sharpton event that followed was full of anger and criticism, eck. They left the grounds full of trash, too. Disgusting


eman98433
8/31/2010 12:34:30 PM PST
Why anyone would listen to that FOOL I will never know


truth4u
8/31/2010 11:32:53 AM PST
Some facts for you that WERE NOT THERE and will eat up everything that the press will feed you. 1. The crowd was massive-it stretched from the Lincoln Memmorial to the Washington Monument. 2. It was not in the least bit racist.Speaker were male,female,black.white,hispanic,native american,christian,jewish,muslim--you get the picture 3 One of the spekers was Dr. Alveda King-the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 4 Albert Pujols and others were honored for their work in faith hope and charity These are but a few of the things that happened at this event-things that you won't see covered in the media.Should you care to educate yourself,the video of the event is available on the Glenn Beck Website


crc0429
8/31/2010 10:52:26 AM PST
History states that 200,000 people attended the MLK speech. This becomes the bar against which the 8/28 Beck speech is now measured. If one compares pictures side-by-side, the 8/28 speech is clearly larger. To begin with, the landscape has changed. Temporary building constructed during WW I frame the Reflecting Pool during the MLK speech, limiting the crowd area. Those buildings stretched the length of the pool. The WW II memorial has also been added, which stretched the width of the pool. So on a simple comparison, you're losing the space of the Memorial but gaining a lot of space that the temporary buildings filled. The 8/28 crowd is at least double the size of the MLK, clearly. How can you have a crowd with half the people but filling more than twice the area?


AzD
8/31/2010 9:54:53 AM PST
That's how you change peoples minds... call them racists. Works every time!


S. Texas
8/31/2010 9:39:42 AM PST
87000 fools went to see this racist, I am amazed.




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