{"id":14317,"date":"2009-09-12T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14317"},"modified":"2009-11-12T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T14:23:42","slug":"the-tea-party-rally-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14317","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party Rally in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll start off with an apology. I couldn’t get on the internet to save my life at the rally today. The only thing I can figure is that there were so many cell phones, I kept getting bumped off. I spent more time trying to get online than I did taking pictures.<\/p>\n

I’m not even going to guess how many people were there – I’ll leave that to the experts, but according to concretebob, the Park Service made them start the march an hour and a half early because there were too many people in Freedom Plaza. Two hours later, the police ended the march and several thousand more people streamed in on the sidewalks.<\/p>\n

You tell me how many were there;<\/p>\n

Here’s the video I took from Freedom Plaza to the Capital of the march route at about 10:30. I took it from my bicycle so you might hear me cuss a bit when folks wouldn’t get out of my way. I haven’t seen it yet, so I don’t know how it turned out;<\/p>\n

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And some photos;
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This is my favorite sign;<\/p>\n

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From the West Lawn of the Capitol looking back west;<\/p>\n

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It was MILF City;<\/p>\n

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The LaRouche crowd was there, too, so if the media tells you there was nazi imagery, you know where it came from. LaRouche is a perennial Democrat presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

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I caught Uncle Jimbo doing a “Free Fly” on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n

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The cops were pretty bored. I guess they were more of a tourist attraction than keepers of law and order today;<\/p>\n

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As always, more pictures are at my Flickr Photostream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, this is the most people I’ve ever seen in DC. The biggest crowd I ever saw was for Ronald Reagan’s funeral. They estimated the crowd at 800,000 then – this one was way bigger. I heard estimates of a million and a half people – but like I said, I won’t make a guess. I do know it’s bigger than any ANSWER rally – so if we use ANSWER math, I figure there were about 50,000,000 people. <\/p>\n

And a shout out to Tankerbabe, Uncle Jimbo, DefendUSA (and the cutest kids in the world), Yankeemom and concretebob for keeping me company. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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