To put Saturday's Teabagathon in perspective...

[EarlG]

Approximate number of people at DC teabag rally on 9/12/09 according to the DC Fire Department: 60,000 - 70,000

Absolute unique visitors to democraticunderground.com on 9/12/09 according to Google Analytics: 117,794

Just sayin'.

[malaise]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

DU forever!!

[babylonsister]

2. Wow! Would unique be first-time visitors? nt

[EarlG]

3. No...

It just means individual visitors.

[onlyadream]

48. Wait a minute...

For my website, when I view the stats, "unique visitor" means that the IP address has not been at the site for that month (to date). Maybe for the DU host it's different but I think they all operate pretty much the same way.

[dogday]

56. Unique visitors refer to unique IP numbers, which don't count

twice. Say the same person hit your site twice a day. Only one unique hit would be registered for that day....

[POAS]

61. Unless your ISP uses "dynamic" IP which

would assign a different IP at each new connection to the internet.

[dogday]

67. That would be a unique IP number each time

and would fall into unique visitors stats.

[POAS]

69. Yes it would but

it would still be a repeat actual user and not a unique visitor, it would be a repeat visitor under a unique IP.

Many here are probably on dial up or using multiple computers during the day so unique hits would not translate into unique visitors.

[Cha]

37. No, Earl meant

us

[Happyhippychick]

4. "teabagathon" is a good one. I also like "nut-suck-athon"

Or am I being unladylike

[pattmarty]

9. Actually, I think you are being too "ladylike". Here's a couple I'll...............

..............just throw out there; motherfuckers, shitbags, Nazis, fascists, whores, I could go on all day.

[Lost-in-FL]

5. Teabagathon.

HA!

[nc4bo]

22. Teabaggery.

You're bad

[cascadiance]

60. How about teabaggots or tea bag of trix!

.. and maybe the latter a blend of trix with fruit loops!

[LaydeeBug]

6. the DC fire dept is notoriously right wing, I'd say they doubled it.

I'm just sayin'.

[rpannier]

66. Every organization that has given a number in attendance has set it around

60 K

Some use aerial photos, some use statistics based on area that was covered, etc

[Altoid_Cyclist]

7. Damn!

You had me thinking that I'm unique before dropping the hammer and finding out that I was just one of the nearly 120,000 INFORMED people that prefer to let their brain do the talking. Of course, they don't need brains at the Teagags, hate tells them what to think.

[onehandle]

8. Yeah, but the DU visitors were a bunch of commies.

Teabaggers are real Americans who enjoy getting slapped by someone's scrotum.

No comparison.

[cali]

10. well, what you're missing with that comparison is that

it's the perception that matters. The baggers and their supporters are having some success at portraying the protest as far larger than it really was.

[lpbk2713]

11. DU went through a lot of pizza yesterday.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

12. And we'd not been organizing for weeks to get that number, too!

Great perspective!

[Bluenorthwest]

13. 70,000 attended an Obama campaign speech in Portland Oregon

Just a speech, not a national bus 'em in event.

[dccrossman]

47. I think this is a better comparison

Those are people that got out of their homes and went to a location to be a part of something. I was one of the 117k that came to DU that day, but I just did my Saturday thing. I wasn't out part of a spectacle that the 299 million other people in the US could see.

Though I did help raise money for the special needs kids baseball team my daughter plays on... =)

Peace!

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Aha!

And a few of them were teabaggers! LOL

[TexasObserver]

15. Recommend

[zoff]

16. And no Glen BecKKK ...

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Teabag = Scumbag

Count the porta potties because they don't go anywhere without their free lunch.

[Turborama]

18. Soreloserpalooza!

Courtesy of shawmut

[tomm2thumbs]

35. +1 !!!!!!!

[Initech]

19. This is classic. I think we secured our win in 2010 yesterday.

The teabaggers really showed their absolute stupidity yesterday. I wonder what the ratings on CNN were?

[JDPriestly]

20. And no pro-public option demonstrations? Hmmm!!!

Looks like a set-up to me. Why aren't we pro-public-option people more actively demonstrating? This is so fishy.

And, how large were the peace demonstrations in the first couple of years around the Iraq War? How large was the demonstration opposing Bush's inauguration?

[zeemike]

25. i agree...it sounds like a set up.

And perhaps it is that good cop bad cop thing again...allow the right to make a big scene and then the left will get more donations to stop them.
Perhaps that is too cynical for some but reality is some times a hard pill to swallow.

[Lifelong Protester]

26. Well, 15,000+ did demonstrate yesterday, PRO health reform

they were in Minneapolis at the Target Center, listening to President Obama....only a few protesters outside...

[TygrBright]

21. Of course, that total includes a fair number of trolls...

...there was a while there yesterday afternoon when we were workin' pretty darn hard to keep The Big Red Button working.

informatively,
Bright

[datasuspect]

23. from an advertising and traffic perspective,

trolls cannot be at all bad for DU.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. K&R

[uppityperson]

27. k&r with laughter. Thank you

[bjobotts]

28. Millions stayed away from Washington DC to protest tea baggers. You lost.

[bjobotts]

29. We took our country back...from tea baggers and their corporate masters

[bjobotts]

30. They say "we want our country back" because they can't stand losing the election

[bjobotts]

31. Over 100,000 anti war protesters showed up to protest Iraq war and barely got mentioned

[bjobotts]

32. and they didn't have Fox advertising and promoting it months in advance either. Right wing media huh

[kelliebrat]

33. K & R

[tomm2thumbs]

34. and that Oprah birthday bash - not even promoted for half a year and lookie the crowds

[MadMaddie]

36. Fantastic!!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

38. Priceless!

It really doesn't get any better than that.

"Pubic" Option and all

[proud patriot]

39. Have I told you lately ?

[AsahinaKimi]

40. SO.. ah...

I guess Glenn Beck didn't show up... Wasn't this his idea? Didn't see any news flashes of him giving speeches. Maybe he had better things to do? Isn't that kinda like organizing a Birthday party and the host doesn't show up?

[ScottLand]

41. I say more power to the teabaggers.

The more visible they are, as the last remaining Republicans embrace them, the more the thinking people in this country turn left.



Congratulations, DU!

[moonbatmax]

42. What I WANT to see

are the side-by-side shots of the Washington Mall
during the 2009-09-12 demonstrations
and Obama's inauguration.

[Subdivisions]

43. Sweeeeet! Um...how much for an ad? n/t

[Kingofalldems]

44. I swear some freepers came out of the closet yesterday

Arguing for the 1 million attendees BS.

[Ikonoklast]

45. Yeah. They said they just happened to be in DC yesterday.

"Well over a million" was what one of them said.

Riiiiight. I so believed him.

[Pangolin2]

46. It's a damn shame so many of those unique visitors were just gawkers and/or morans.

just sayin'

[Vickers]

49. Oh, the irony!

[JustAnotherGen]

50. Thanks Admin!

[Maestro]

51. Very funny but not surprising.

60,000-70,000 douchebags all in one place. Wow!

[BolivarianHero]

55. Way to go...

The rest of you Teabaggers were playing Halo 3 with 12-year-holds whose vocabulary is limited in the same way as yours: to the f-word and the n-word

[Canuckistanian]

52. But bus trips are SO inconvenient

Especially when you have to pay your own way.

I'd need some financial compensation. And someone to tell me what to write on my sign.

[DrZeeLit]

53. LOVE this post. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. (big smile on my face!)

[Historic NY]

54. I'm down with that.more people were at U of Michigan vs Notre Dame.

[TommyPaine]

57. We're in real trouble, though, when Teabaggers and Dirty Sanchezers unite

That's the day I go into hiding and don't come back.

[Alcibiades]

58. When is our rally?

I think the Teabaggers need to see what 2 million people really looks like.

Is it in the works?

[BrklynLiberal]

59. You said it all...and very well, indeed...

[BayjanDem]

62. Teabagathon, lol

Look at all those nuts...

[PaulRevere08]

63. Don't high-school football games in Texas get more than that?

Wonder if the press coverage was worth the insurance companies investment.

[WillieW]

64. That sounds about right.

[raccoon]

65. Rec'd. We love you, EarlG! nt

[Lilicat]

68. So much stupid in one place at one time

But no where NEAR a million. I know what a million looks like from being there - the March for
Women's Rights was estimated at 1.5 millon, all the marches to protest voter fraud and the Iraq War and Bush's criminality in general, and then there was Obama's inauguration...no way Saturday's Moronathon was anywhere CLOSE.

[hay rick]

70. Somebody tell CNN.

They sure devoted a lot of air time to this staged event. Either that or by a massive coincidence, the 5 minutes a day I can stomach their propaganda just happened to coincide with their coverage of the event- before, during, and after.

[Lilicat]

71. MORONATHON

I see a mangy little anklebiter dog yapping thru a megaphone held by the MSM. The sound is amplified into something it isn't, the illusion of a real movement. This is the one-third of Amurka that still thinks Junior did a great job as President. Go home, people. Read a book. Look around. See how 'socialism' benefits you and yours every blessed day of your stupid lives. Honestly, I am so fed up with people who don't THINK!