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:

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(hat tip: Allahpundit)

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:

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  1. #805241
    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:43 pm, MarcoPolo said:

    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:00 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    And it’s also why I voted for John McCain.

    Correction: It’s why I DIDN’T vote for John McCain.

    LOL! My mouth dropped open when I read that first version! Don’t you hate it when that happens? :)

  2. #805243
    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:51 pm, Rob said:

    “I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”

    -David Axelrod

    I am sorry, but I am sick and tired of being called names and put down by the liberals….

    In my opinion, David Axelrod = SOCIALIST BASTARD!

  3. #805244
    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:57 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    axelrod = deaf dumb and blind….

    trim his mustache a bit and he could almost pass for hitler…

  4. #805248
    On September 13th, 2009 at 8:28 pm, atheling said:

    Found this video of a small kerfuffle with ACORN frauds selling Gadsden flags at the Protest! After they were discovered for who they were, they were chased out of the Mall.

    I guess we better beware of who we purchase from at future protests, so that we’re not inadvertently filling ACORN’s coffers.

  5. #805252
    On September 13th, 2009 at 8:55 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    And right on time. Axelrod tells us we are wrong and most of Americans agree with Obama.

    “White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the protesters, part of the “tea party” movement, do not represent the views of the broader public when it comes to health care reform.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/13/axelrod-says-tea-party-protesters-wrong/

  6. #805253
    On September 13th, 2009 at 9:27 pm, no2pcbs1 said:

    axelgrease like all liberals live in denial, for him to even state the majority of Americans agree with zero, proves how much lying is easier to accept. as it was so eloquently stated in a movie, axelgrease can’t handle the truth.

  7. #805254
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:02 pm, 24Klady said:

    Dear Mr. David Axelrod,
    Regaring your comment that the tea party movement does not represent the views of the broader public I would ask you to support your claim. We respectfully await your answer.

    Thank you,
    American Patriot

  8. #805255
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:03 pm, Flyoverman said:

    “White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the protesters, part of the “tea party” movement, do not represent the views of the broader public when it comes to health care reform.”

    What elese can he or anyone else in the White House say at this point?

    As Karl Rove pointed out they are aiming their comments at the Congress, trying to convince them what they are seeing is not all that bad.

    That’s why keeping the heat on your Congressman is key.

  9. #805256
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:04 pm, 24Klady said:

    Nails close to an inch long.
    Things to do: manicure nails

    My #805254 S/B – regarding, not regaring.

  10. #805258
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:16 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:32 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Stupendous non-sequitor. Your credibility with me just crashed to zero. You are a Republican noseholder, either in disguise or in denial.

    See 805235 for my correction, duh.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

    That’s a relief. Your pre-corrected comment made no sense to me at all.

  11. #805260
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:20 pm, ironman said:

    “I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”

    -David Axelrod

    Given the hardcore elitist holier-than-thou mentality of these Marxist jerks,I honestly believe they would still hold to these statements even if 99.99% of the population held an uprising and stormed the gates carrying torches and pitchforks with guillotines waiting in the distance.

  12. #805261
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:20 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On September 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pm, purplepeep said:

    Your church has a Worship Team kind of thing, Stranger?

    Yes.

  13. #805262
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:25 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    rob
    I am sorry, but I am sick and tired of being called names and put down by the liberals….

    That is what scum such as Axelrod do-attack, call names, go for the personal-all hoping we will get hurt and shy away. We see it on this blog most everyday. They dream of the day their Security Services can really quiet us.

    So we tell the Axelrods, Emmanuels and such: Bring it on punk-We have not yet started to fight (I think that was Robert Stack). These sharks smell blood-they think and hope this is the time they finally get all the power they crave.

    Ain’t gonna happen–they can dish it out but can they take it? It is up to us to find out. And when our friends tell us to lower our voice and be civil:

    Been there
    Tried that
    Didn’t work
    OUR TURN

  14. #805266
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    I actually read a comment by some libtard elsewhere today. The thread was about the low turnout at the 9/13 pro-Obamacare rally today. The clown commented that the turnout at the “virtual march”, whatever that was, was substantial. A virtual march? LOL!

  15. #805267
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:45 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On September 13th, 2009 at 7:51 pm, Rob said:

    I am sorry, but I am sick and tired of being called names and put down by the liberals….

    I’m sick and tired of it too – and I’m not going to apologize for what I consider to be righteous anger at what they’re doing to this country.

    It must be nice to be omniscient like Axelrod, to be able to state with such surety that all of us are wrong. /sarc.

  16. #805268
    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:49 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On September 13th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    I actually read a comment…elsewhere today…about the low turnout at the 9/13 pro-Obamacare rally today…[and] that the turnout at the “virtual march”…was substantial…

    What on earth (or any other planet) is a “virtual march”? :roll:

  17. #805274
    On September 13th, 2009 at 11:08 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    For Axelrod and Obama to continue their path of brazen lying is serving only to cement our gains. Who do they think they are fooling? Does anyone not know at least one person who went to the rally in DC yesterday? You can’t fight this kind of broad-based grassroots networking with centralized propaganda. They are only speaking to the record, not to the ears and hearts of American voters.

    And I don’t believe for one second that they don’t know it. They just don’t know what else to do that their sponsors would accept. Where they were once just slick professional liars, having been taken by surprise, they have now become brazen amateurish liars. Flat-footed, they stick to their story.

    And it’s not just the Dems. Both parties are in panic mode right now. Believe it. We are winning.

  18. #805276
    On September 13th, 2009 at 11:12 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Could the odds of having a those swine Mexican flu riots have doubled this week-end? Something about military exercises for flu riots just reeks of fascism to me. Sick people rioting? Really?

  19. #805302
    On September 14th, 2009 at 12:04 am, rugger said:

    xler8bmw:

    I don’t doubt that they were overwhelmed. 500,000 people would certainly overwhelm a police force that was expecting 50,000. And until someone shows a link to a report of the capital police saying 2 million then it is clear that the 2 million number is simply a wishful fantasy.

    And as another poster pointed out you cant use the picture Michelle used to compare the crowd numbers from the mall and Penn. Ave. Pennsylvania Ave is much narrower than the mall. I lived in that are of DC for 4 years and the width of the areas is different.

    The day was a huge success, but throwing around absurd numbers like 2 million based on the “secret sources” of an anonymous poster is absurd.

  20. #805313
    On September 14th, 2009 at 12:22 am, rightwingrocker said:

    LOL! My mouth dropped open when I read that first version! Don’t you hate it when that happens? :)

    Yeah … ME of all people saying I voted for McCain when I was so vocally anti-McCain!

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  21. #805315
    On September 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am, rightwingrocker said:

    That’s a relief. Your pre-corrected comment made no sense to me at all.

    It’s ok man.

    I actually do that all the time … comment as I’m reading through the thread. Did you notice that your comment was the next one after my correction??

    HAHAHAHA

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  22. #805370
    On September 14th, 2009 at 5:55 am, Lockstein13 said:
  23. #805463
    On September 14th, 2009 at 9:30 am, md1964 said:

    I was there…and in the March up Penn Ave, I was probably in the first 5000 people, and when we got to the Mall, it was already packed.. all these people in this pic added to an already full Mall area.

  24. #805469
    On September 14th, 2009 at 9:36 am, sonofdy said:

    Couldn’t go, was at army training all weekend.

    Has LGM made his comment about how few there were at the protests yet?

  25. #805535
    On September 14th, 2009 at 10:32 am, spaceycakes said:

    Hey–where is lgm & his calculations for the crowd size?

  26. #805568
    On September 14th, 2009 at 11:03 am, DBNinKY said:

    Hey–where is lgm & his calculations for the crowd size?

    Low battery – discharged fuel cell? (Keeping it GREEN!)

  27. #805623
    On September 14th, 2009 at 11:38 am, spaceycakes said:

    I thought maybe someone set fire to his wooden bicycle.

  28. #805759
    On September 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    Where’s neocon527 with his expansive list of how the media covered ALL the team parties across America? I attended the Tea Party in Castle Rock, CO, and we stood out there for almost 3 hours in the freezing rain. There were almost 1,000 people there. No press was there from any paper.

  29. #805795
    On September 14th, 2009 at 2:15 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    “I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”

    -David Axelrod

    Translation:

    “Lobbyists will make me rich – those annoying citizens only pay my salary.”

  30. #805801
    On September 14th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, spaceycakes said:

    “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”

    translation:

    I don’t care if it’s the entire nation on the mall protesting, and just me on the inside. What you think means nothing to me.

  31. #825763
    On October 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    I WAS THERE, 1.5 MILLION, MINIMUM.

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