Massive crowds, missing MSM; Update: More photos added
The same Obamedia cultists in American newsrooms who didn’t miss an opportunity to tout The One’s ability to draw massive crowds are AWOL when it comes to showing America the massive crowds turning out for McCain-Palin. (Nothing on the front page of the WaPo website; no crowd shots included in the WaPo “Day in Photos” gallery. And, of course, zippo on the front page of the NYT website.)
Reader Norman Bercasio attended the big rally in Fairfax, VA today and has posted a beautiful gallery of pics here. A small taste to give you an idea of the rocking scene:
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More: Reader VT e-mails…
I am just writing to say that I was at the McCain – Palin Rally in NoVA today, and I think the pictures on your site don’t really do the crowd size justice. I was there and it honestly seemed like there were more than 23,000 people there.
I took shuttles from the mall to the site and we were told that the shuttles were moving 800 people to the site every fifteen minutes. They started running at 7:45 AM and continued to run until after the event had started.
The buses dropped people off at the end of the security line which was consistently between 2 and three people wide, and stretched along the side of the nearby roads for nearly a mile. (The line actually went down Lee Highway and then wound through the nearby neighborhood)..I heard some people never even made it into the park.
The pictures don’t really do the attendance justice. The crowd did reach all the way back to Lee Highway from the stage. I’ve attached a couple of pictures, which again don’t do the crowd size justice, but I believe show a more accurate picture of what the rally was like. BTW, the pictures are of only those people who stood behind me, and I did not make it past the first set of metal fences that surrounded the stage.
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Byron York reports more on the scene you won’t see on the front pages:
If you’ve been to Barack Obama’s big public rallies, you know it’s not unusual to see lines of people stretched for block after block after block — seemingly mile after mile after mile — waiting to get in. That hasn’t usually been the case with John McCain’s rallies. Until now.
When McCain and running mate Sarah Palin appeared this morning at Van Dyck Park, in the city of Fairfax, Virginia, the people spilled out of the natural amphitheater, over the sides, out the back, and nearly all the way to the Old Lee Highway. The rally had originally been scheduled for Fairfax High School, but some school board members objected. With controversy brewing, the McCain campaign moved the event to the park. It was a good idea; the high school facility could handle 6,500 people, which would have been a huge crowd in pre-Palin days. But today, the school wouldn’t have been nearly big enough. After the rally, McCain officials told me 23,000 people had been there. Even if that estimate was a little high, it was still McCain’s biggest rally ever — and that, at mid-morning, on a weekday.
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And they didn’t need a rock band to pull them in!
I would love to see them pull an obama and hold a rally right after a Toby Kieth or Garth concert .
They’re not German, so it doesn’t matter…
The MSM is scared. I bet they start cherry-picking Obama video to get rid of the stammering, too. That will be TOUGH!
Meanwhile, out on the stump Joe Biden finds a guy mowing his lawn…
“Hi, can i give you a copy of my purloined speech?”
“No thanks, maybe the guy next door is home”
That crowd is about the same size one would be for a varsity football game. Come on.
The wave is coming Barack.
For real talent and integrity, no Bon Jovi or Springsteen needed to attract attention. They’re reserved for the talentless ones (read: democrats)
THe crowd was estimated to be 23,000
You meant to say 10 rock bands didn’t you?
Virginia polls (beware polls!) are trending more towards McCain-Palin lately.
90% are there for Palin. That’s great. Now McAmnesty needs to dump his amnesty plan and he wins 50 states.
Or free beer and food!
Just think what the size of the crowds would be if McCain supported the FairTax.
Another example of the inability of the MSM to accurate portray the REAL sentiment of the American People.
Keep digging, MSM. The hole goes a lot deeper…
Those aren’t crowds of REAL people. They’re just the spawn of the EVIL Republican machine.
/sarcasm off
Here is a better veiw of the crowd
And they say that selecting Palin did nothing to stir up the base. Silly Dems.
more false outrage. here’s a photo of the mccain/palin rally today in the nyt’s photos of the day:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/09/10/nytfrontpage/20080910POD_8.html
Yeah right, that really gives you a taste for the crowd.
/sarcasm
Thanks, William. WOW.
The Straight Talk Express seems to be succeeding in every way. Bring it on!
Well, AlohaGuy, I have always said that Obama’s speeches sound better in their original German.
Liberal Fascism.
This is truly amazing. I am completely smitten by this woman and her story, both personal and her career of reforming government. I never thought this would happen to me, as cynical as I’ve grown about politics in our country the last few years, but I LOVE Sarah!
This has gone beyond just the issues she has stood for that I agree with. I LOVE her now, in a favorite-teacher sort of way. It’s become very personal with me since the foamy-mouthed jackals in our media have tried their best to destroy her and her lovely family. Scumbags, all of them.
Having learned of her a couple of months ago, I liked her a lot and was sure she would go national, just maybe not this time around. Now, there is no denying SHE is the ONE we’ve been waiting for! HAHAHA!!! Take that, Zerobama!
I’ve felt a similar affection for our host here, Michelle Malkin. A lovely lady who’s ideas I admire, and who’s been slandered in the most unfair ways, with spittle-flecked hatred. Through it all she handles herself with dignity and strength, none of the filth sticks, further cementing her place in my heart.
Keep up the great work, Michelle! We LOVE you too!
Palin-Malkin 2012!
Lib TPOD? (Talking Point of the Day): “False Outrage” (Definition: We got caught saying what we meant.)
LOL.. gee thanks for the effort NYT..
This is a series of fake photos. There are no black Republicans. Especially standing and cheering. And excited.
Nice to see the MSM is being fair and balanced.
Michelle, you should definetly run. If you need someone to work on your campaign, I got a tip that this Rove guy is pretty good.
absent the day they taught Balanced Journalism
I think the dems have got marching orders to label everything “false outrage”
Snort! Hillarious!
Dems are VERY poor at math skills. Speaks well for the NEA controlled public education system.
I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you! Those MSM folks must have just taken a wrong turn off the interstate, or I’m sure they’d have been there.
BTW, Michelle, take a look at Michelle Obama’s speech (just saw a squib on CNN). Every time she says “When he’s President, Barack will give you …” I just cringe.
His “middle class tax cuts” are all refundable tax credits, meaning government takes from productive, taxpaying citizens and gives(inefficiently, at high cost) to non-productive, non-taxpaying citizens. Aaaaarghhh !!
Isn’t that the Obama platform in a nutshell??
So does Barack!
And free healthcare, free gas, free money (i.e., tax refunds even though you don’t pay taxes to begin with), free rent, free everything. All for doing nothing, paid for by those that actually WORK for a living.
McPalin have taken all of Obamessiah’s MoJo! Without his willing accomplices in the MSM, he’d really be sucking wind right now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Messiah dumps Obiden (in a carefully choreographed stunt) enabling him to pick Hilary, or Sibelius… something… anything to get his groove on again!
Reportedly, he’s set for a “high-level” meeting with Der Schlickmeister. I wonder if that will be part of the negotiations, asking him IF he picks Hilary, would Bill behave himself?
Yes, but “free” will cost you $5 and 4 hours of your time.
those wacky workin people..gawd luv ‘em
Darn it! They stole my glow! Wahhhhhh!!!
-Obummer
tettes, really? THAT is your rebuttal to why the crowd of 23k at the McCain / Palin rally is not on the FRONT PAGE, with the number of attendees touted just like every other Obama rally was?
There is lame, and then there’s lame. Some of the posters here sound pretty damned lame with thir not-clever-by-far comments. And, I’m not singling out tettes. There are four more who fit that description.
My point indeed, BlameAmericaLast.
Those who want to keep their entitlements will be all for that. Let’s hope that those who understand where the $$ is supposed to come from get out to vote…
And if McCain wins in november all the libs will wonder, how did that happen?????
DEE DEE DEE
Hmmmmmmmm………….Does BO’s stammering mean that he is being coached by James Carville? Or perhaps channeling Carville?
He could simply disappear, only to reappear years later on a piece of furniture in Hillary’s house…
I think you mean “bread and circuses”.
Very sickening to people who have built a small business, only to see it taxed to death. Being a C Corp., we’re double taxed as it is. Just ugly, plain ugly.
And Michelle O thinks I owe other people my money? Think again.
#43 – stop it – I’m cryin
However, they did manage to fit in a shot of what is apparently a fashion show for clowns. Must be the DNC.
Tie a string to a dollar bill and drag it through a trailer park, and you nevar know what you gonna get out thaaar!!
Nah, Obama will wake up in the shower – it was all just a bad dream!
The problem I see here is that the Democrats have convinced everyone, including corporations that they are the saviors, and government will come to your rescue. From individuals to corporations, they’ve all become conditioned to handouts. It’s happening every day. So people think that’s a good thing. Something for free.
Yeah, at what cost?
Whatever happened to Goldwater’s mantra of personal responsibility?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect
With the bradley effect plus McCains actual poll nubers, Obama is in deep trouble.
I know wikipedia…
WOW!!!! What’s Obama going to do now that Sarah is outdoing him? Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Is anyone listening to him these days besides the MSM? How will he be able to get his message of change across? The Obamas will have to cancel the White House decorating committee; Oprah and Babs will have to give up the planned state dinner invites; no Lincoln bedroom stays for Obama cronies…..booo hooo
sonofdy — I’m thinking the same thing. Everytime I hear a Gallup poll that says McCain is ahead by 10 points, you can probably add another 5 to that.
Well, you know, the Messiah was a “new face, er “a new kid on the block”….so says the lying MSM.
The NYTimes photo makes McCain look like he’s on stilts! Did the photographer have to lie on his back to make sure he got NONE of the crowd in the picture?
If Obambi drops Biden and chooses a woman as a VP (especially Hillary) he is going to look every bit the gelding Jizzy Jackson wanted to make him.
It would be an admission that his campaign is in deep doo-doo, AND that he’s terrified at how Palin connects with women.
It would also be a sure sign that he has gone from being “The One” to being a “beard” for Hillary. Talk about the testicular lockbox!!!
And Jeez, the RNC and McCain could run ads of nothing but Gollum of LOTR babbling to himself all the way to Election Day, and the whole world would get the point.
The rally was originally planned at a high school gym during school hours. Didn’t work out so well once word got out.
Yep, couldn’t agree more. This is shaping up to be a repeat of the Reagan-Carter trouncing of 1980. Delicious!
Forgot to provide the link for the few thousand description.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/10/biden-hey-you-know-who-might-have-been-a-better-pick-for-vp-than-me/#comment-1407447
OMG you guys have to see this to believe it!
Idiot forgot to read the full article. Stupid Liberal.
Dropping Biden and choosing Hillary would back-fire. The most obvious difference between Hillary and Palin is that Gov. Palin lacks that certain……
Shrill Factor
Neither did Obama. Not quite the mainstream act, the Decemberists.
Once a candidate raises the bar to 75,000, well, 23K seems like much, MUCH (more than three times as much, in fact) smaller potatoes.
I don’t know if that’s intended as a backhanded compliment, but it’s spot on.
Can’t you wingnuts stick to the issues? Like how we need to get kindergarteners to familiarize themselves with vibrators?
Jocelyn? Is that you?
Waaaaah! I wish I lived in a swing state.
Got an email from an Obamabot asking me to volunteer at their new AZ headquarters. I might go down to investigate. Do you think they’d let me in wearing my purple toga?
Not until we get vibrators with alternate power sources. The expended batteries are a toxic timebomb!
Just think of the crowd if Ted Nugent had also put on a show…
Well let’s give them some true outrage. Start with William Ayers.
The question Bill O’Rielly should have asked is: “If you can sit side-by-side with a man who tried to blow up buildings and kill federal employees, thereby implying that he was just an ordinary person, then who could possibly be persona non grata?”
I would have liked to hear an answer to that question.
oops.
I would like to have heard…
sheesh.
Yep.
You got it.
As my dad (who’s still around, btw) told me 36 years ago, when McGovern was promising to give $1,000.00 to everyone:
1) Nobody owes you anything;
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2) There is no pipe coming down from the sky pouring out money for everybody.
Can someone help me with a math problem?
From what I’ve read and heard, almost 50% of workers (there’s something open to lawyerly obfuscation, conversion, and diversion right there…worker? wage earner? salaried employee? self-employed?) pay no income tax (or ?just plain no tax??) – not sure if these folks pay any social security taxes.
Anyway, BHO says he intends to reduce taxes for 95% of…??the population?, “people”?, workers?, wage earners?, etc, etc.???
Umm…how can 95% get a tax cut, if only slightly more than 50% are paying taxes in the first place?
I’m confused; so much so that my hair hurts.
(And I took courses in differential and integral calculus, and quantum physics way, way back in college.)
As Wilson Pickett says in “Land of 1,000 Dances”, “Somebody help me!”
Please!
Umm…
…obfuscation, confusion, and diversion…
Sorry, folks.
Time to go home, I’d say.
So that’s what happened. I got stuck in traffic coming home from GMU. Most of the time was spent on 123 in front of the Fairfax County/City Courts complex, which apparently wasn’t far from the park.
I saw some very perturbed FauxBama fans looking down their noses and tsk-tsking at the people coming back from the park.
If Palin would talk to the press, they’d come.
Looks like a welfare convention
Way to go, McCain/Palin. Way to go!
Who needs a welfare convention when you have community organizers? Don’t step on their toes, you meanie.
Looks like a welfare convention to you, “Ilovemycountry?”
Didn’t know there were such things as welfare conventions. How many have you attended, and which country is it you claim to love?
Hey, is that Biden in the middle of that second shot?
Must not be able to hack it anymore, has to see for himself.
I Love that last shot, Smart Conservative Lipstick wearing Women 4 McCain Palin.
They’re drawing crowds and the message of change and of wanting to end corruption in Washington DC. All to the good and making their opponents very nervous because they are believable in these desires because of their records that no amount of spin will change. However, they need to be able to put a voice to a message that details a vision for the future that speaks to what they intend for the future of the USA. That vision needs to be fleshed out with a detailed strategy for how they intend with the participation of the people of the United States to bring that Strategy and that vision to fruition.
Great!!
I hope after New York, they head to Alaska where Gov. Palin can show McCain what ANWR looks like so he can change his mind about drilling there.
Also, I hope they come here to Arizona where he can address the immigration problem.
I hope…..
Granite said: Can someone help me with a math problem? … BHO says he intends to reduce taxes for 95% of…??the population?, “people”?, workers?, wage earners?, etc, etc.??? Umm…how can 95% get a tax cut, if only slightly more than 50% are paying taxes in the first place?
Well, it’s just easy as pie. BO will just take even more from those who are still paying the taxes. Most recent data from the Treasury Dept. show that the top 25% of income earners pay 85% of income taxes, while the bottom 50% pay 3%. But, as he said on O’Reilly’s show, “you can afford it.” He even called it “neighborly.”
When Mike Huckabee was governor of Arkansas, he set up a voluntary tax contribution fund for all those “neighborly” folks who think they should be paying more taxes. They collected about $1,000.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/602305/posts
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/guess-who-really-pays-the-taxes
I can hardly wait for Saturday.
5 PM: Attend Carson City, NV, Gov. Palin event.
11:30 PM: Watch opening skit on SNL season debut, featuring Biden telling Barry he wants to quit and yield to Hillary.
My emailed invitation:
They do have to do something to earn their free stuff from Obama and the liberals… they have to go to the polls twice a year and pull a straight ‘D’ lever.
Who are they and why did they object?
Artbyruth, OK, the ANWR thing may change his mind, but hasn’t he already seen situation in Arizona??
On September 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm, nyk said:
The fact is, the band that opened for Obama’s Oregon rally (The Decemberists) is named after an 1825 revolt over the Imperial Russian succession (Decembrist revolt) that Meloy views as an attempted communist revolution. They also open many of their shows by playing the Soviet National Anthem…
More Obamaism info here.
Thanks for playing, nyk.
Speaking of the MSM, who wants to chip in on a bounty of $1000 to the first politician to punch in the face any MSM reporter who calls our form of government a “democracy” or any cliched variant thereof – “democracy in action” or “our great democracy.”
Terms and conditions:
1) Before the punch, the politician has to say “We live in a republic, you jackass!”
2) It has to be on live television, not a taped interview.
3) The reporter must have a shiner for at least a few hours.
4) Bonus $500 if the reporter is male and cries.
FilmLadd, I’m tempted…
If Obama and the MSM were willing to pledge allegiance to our flag, and the Republic for which it stands, then they would know that our nation is a Republic, not a Democracy.
Let Freedom Ring! If the American people turn out en masse at McCain Palin appearances they wont NEED the MSM to report their experience.
And just like the Iraq war has weakened the public trust in MSM reportage, the election of 08 ought to just about do the MSM in altogether.
“cuz the times they are a changin…..” ROFLMAO
Bear1909 out
Any bets she gets more than 3,500??
Carson City, although quite small, is only 30 miles from Reno, pop. 200,000+
From Rush Limbaugh’s site:
86% of all federal income taxes are paid by the top 25% of earners. (up from 84% in 2000)
The top 50% pay 95% of all income taxes.
The top 1% pay 39%, up 2% since 2000.
WSJ: In 1980, when the top income tax rate was 70%, the richest 1% paid only 19% of all income taxes; now with a top rate of 35%, they pay more than double that share(39%).
I don’t have to remind anyone what happened in either 1980 or 2000 that started the upward trends. Other than the obvious, those are the approximate years we started to hear about the “massive” tax cuts for the rich. Further proof that telling lies is not a new phenomenon for the Democrats.
Now, Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich, to make them pay their “fair share”. From a historical perspective it seems as if we will get the bill.
granite: Obama’s tax relief for 100 million Americans is predominantly for those who are low wage earners, or who have no reportable income, who qualify for the Earned Income Credit. They get money back from the government (you and me!) via the EIC. It is a B.S. policy and should be illegal. Why should anyone who has earned zero income, and thus has paid no income taxes, receive an income tax “refund”, or why should anyone who has paid taxes be getting back more than they paid in? Our entire tax system is a sham.
Right, I now people in Hong Kong who pay a flat tax and are able to bank $100,000 in cash without fear of being taxed. We pay more in taxed than the serfs did in the Middle Ages.
THIS IS RICH. The school board members objected because this was a political rally at a public school. Meanwhile, back at the ranch…Obambi spoke at a high school near Va. Beach. No complaints here. Nothing to see. Move along.