Guess The Crowd Size: Bird's Eye View Of Boston Teahad Rally

[Turborama]

Run time: 01:29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJXXNVhEKLQ   Posted on YouTube: April 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: WCVBtv Views on YouTube: 7342   Posted on DU: April 15, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 3364

 
An aerial view of the crowds gathered on Boston Common for Wednesday's Teahad rally.

I'm not very good at guessing crowd sizes but this looks pretty small to me, anyone care to take a guess?

[Ian David]

1. Keep in mind that the anti-TeaKlan was intermingling freely with the TeaKlan.

And I'd say there were about as many of us as there were of them.

I went to the Anti-TeaKlan rally today! (dial-up warning)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8149650

I'd say that looks like maybe 2,000 people.

[happygoluckytoyou]

26. TEABAGGERS ? COUNT THE BROWN TEETH AND DIVIDE BY TWO ! ! !

[obreaslan]

2. 2.5 Million!!!!!11!!!1

:rofl:

[belpejic]

3. A couple thousand, max.

Looks like a minor league baseball game-sized crowd. Or a Marlins, Pirates or Nationals game (apologies to Miami, Pittsburgh and DC...).

[juxtaposed]

4. billions and billions

[Swagman]

8. and even more billions

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lame54]

9. Tea-zillions

[tomm2thumbs]

27. you can't use that word, they own the word tea - you'll have to just say brew-zillions

sorry, but the law is on their side - not -
they love Federal law in that way

hahahaha

[bulloney]

21. Maybe even Brazilians!

[Ian David]

5. THIS rally was BIGGER

My photos from the Boston Health Care Rally today (dial-up warning)
Topic started by Ian David on Sep-07-09 10:23 PM (14 replies)
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1,000 rally for health care reform on Boston Common
Topic started by Ian David on Sep-07-09 11:12 PM (7 replies)
Last modified by leftinportland on Sep-08-09 09:00 AM
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[FailureToCommunicate]

16. Thanks for your 'man on the street' reporting, Ian.

[daggahead]

6. Do these people even understand what the 1773 Boston Tea Party was about?

Seriously ... I think they believe it was ONLY about taxes.

[Ian David]

10. The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s

The Real Boston Tea Party was Against the Wal-Mart of the 1770s

CNBC Correspondent Rick Santelli called for a “Chicago Tea Party” on Feb 19th in protesting President Obama’s plan to help homeowners in trouble. Santelli’s call was answered by the right-wing group Freedomworks, which funds campaigns promoting big business interests, and is the opposite of what the real Boston Tea Party was. FreedomWorks was funded in 2004 by Dick Army (former Republican House Majority leader & lobbyist); consolidated Citizens for a Sound Economy, funded by the Koch family; and Empower America, a lobbying firm, that had fought against healthcare and minimum-wage efforts while hailing deregulation.

Anti-tax "tea party" organizers are delivering one million tea bags to a Washington, D.C., park Wednesday morning – to promote protests across the country by people they say are fed up with high taxes and excess spending.

The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge corporate tax cuts for the British East India Company, the largest trans-national corporation then in existence. This corporate tax cut threatened to decimate small Colonial businesses by helping the BEIC pull a Wal-Mart against small entrepreneurial tea shops, and individuals began a revolt that kicked-off a series of events that ended in the creation of The United States of America.

They covered their faces, massed in the streets, and destroyed the property of a giant global corporation. Declaring an end to global trade run by the East India Company that was destroying local economies, this small, masked minority started a revolution with an act of rebellion later called the Boston Tea Party.

More:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2009/04/real-boston-tea-party-was-against-wal-mart-1770s


See also:

The New Confederacy: Tea Bag Revolution
http://linecrosser21.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-confederacy-tea-bag-revolution.html

Sons of the Confederacy Claim Tea Party Movement as Kindred Spirit
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/04/sons-of-the-confederacy-claim-tea-party-movement-as-kindred-spirit.php

OPINION: The Tea Party Is Channeling The Confederacy
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/opinion-the-tea-party-is-channeling-the-confederacy/

[daggahead]

17. Indeed.

Thom did a really nice job of explaining this on his show yesterday.

[border_town]

7. Palin should be kissing

the ass of the "lame street media. Most of them were drastically over stating the amt of people to 10's of thousands. The local media outlets had it right, maybe 1,000.

[FarLeftFist]

11. 800-1000

[activa8tr]

12. A thousand people on the ground, maybe 1500, but Fox News

will report tens of thousands.

The number of people at a Palin rally reported on Fox News is like reporting your age in dog years, multiply by five and then add some more for the hot looking red leather jacket she wore.

[dhpgetsit]

13. Maybe 750 - 1000? nt

[Enthusiast]

14. MSNBC reported the rally

had 10,000. That's the liberal media for you folks. How many do you think were there?

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. About the same number as folks in line for EACH Port-a-Potty at Obama's Inaugural

It looks like there were almost as many vendors as Tea-beggers (sic)

Glad somebody was making a buck yesterday!

[karmkay]

18. Globe says about 6,000

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/15/palin_tea_party_express_hit_chord_in_hub/

[Ian David]

19. UPDATE: Was the Boston Tea Party crowd a disappointment?

Curious about the recent #Boston Tea Party crowd? MassBeacon.com, most unbiased MA Political blog, calls the numbers http://bit.ly/bVAaQe
http://twitter.com/davidgerzof/status/12225535186

Was the Boston Tea Party crowd a disappointment?
April 15, 2010
By Conor

<snip>

The Boston Globe this morning said there were 6,000 in attendance. The Boston Herald says 5,000. Politico says 3,000. And Tea Party leader Mark Williams unsurprisingly estimated a crowd of 10,000.

Since I assume a great majority of attendees at the event were Boston Herald readers (the paper actually got a plug from the stage apparently), I am going to use their number and say it the crowd was around 5,000.

Is that a disappointment?

As recently as Tuesday, Garrett Quinn noted on his new Boston.com blog that organizers would be happy with 10,000 (I take that to mean they were expecting more).

More:
http://massbeacon.com/2010/04/15/was-the-boston-tea-party-crowd-a-disappointment/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Massbeacon+%28MassBeacon.com%29

And remember: There were at least as many counter-protesters intermingling freely with the TeaKlan.

Not to mention at least a hundred or so vendors who may or may not have had a political agenda.



See also:

Guess The Crowd Size: Bird's Eye View Of Boston Teahad Rally
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x455511

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Lucky if there were 3,000 there including anti-Tea Party people. More news trucks than anywhere else

[NorthCarolina]

22. Clearly less than 3k. I've seen bigger crowds at the local flea market.

I find it quite telling that comments for this video have been disabled on YouTube, and embedding is not permitted.

[CLANG]

23. I'll be as generous as I possibly can

Upwards of 3500 total - 1500 anti-baggers = around 2000 teabaggers at the historic Boston Harbor. PATHETIC!

[Crowman1979]

24. With the aide of Google Maps and simple Trigonometry, I estimate this crowd at...

...7,870!

You may think that's a lot, but it isn't. Given that this event has nationwide news coverage, it's definitely a piss-poor amount. I've seen larger crowds at minor league sporting events! And they only receive air time on local AM stations occasionally.


Now do I win a prize? :D

[Capitalocracy]

34. Nope, it's clearly 2 million.

Obviously. No question. If you say anything less, you're a lamestream liberal media jerkhead.

[wisteria]

25. It looks rather small to me too, but were they still gathering at this point? n/t

[Hulk]

28. I'd guess 2,000 tops?

That's my "educated guess".

[proud patriot]

32. that's the number that popped in my head

[Plucketeer]

29. Hey! Sarah's made a cool 12Mil since she abandoned her post.

She could've promised a hundred bucks to every Teahadist that showed up. That might've brought more out than the 1,000 I see in that photo!

[demwing]

30. The YouTube image at 1280 x 760 res = 6.6" x 4"

Thats 26 square inches.

For there to be 10,000 people in that picture, there would have to be nearly 390 people in every square inch of that image.

BULLSHIT!!!

There are - on the average - a maximum of 75 people per square inch in that pic. Blow it out and count it in the heaviest sections. I'm being VERY generous.

Anyway, 75 * 26 = 1950. Round up and we can EASILY say that 2000 heads is a realistic, if not ridiculously generous estimate.

I bet 1500.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

31. I would guess that's about 2-3000

Add another zero if you're using Fox "News" math.

[Vocal Minority]

33. im guessing..

probably about 300