Hilarious Horseshit: Wingnuts Need No Reality in their Crowd Estimates

From Ben Dimero of Media Matters: Eric Boehlert's latest column tracks the lie that 2 million protesters showed up at the 9/12 protests this weekend. All in all, it is a perfect microcosm of the way the conservative blogosphere functions. Facts? Who needs 'em. Boehlert: Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie The exaggerations about crowd size certainly aren't restricted to the blogosphere-- Citing a university he can't remember, Beck now claims 1.7 million attended 9-12 protests Beck, Limbaugh run wild with estimates on size of 9/12 protests Interviewing Malkin, Dobbs claims number of 9-12 protesters in Washington "reached well over a million" If you need anything, feel free to get in touch. Thanks. - Ben Full Column: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200909140039 Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie September 14, 2009 7:19 pm ET - by Eric Boehlert Blame it on a tweet. It turns out that's what kicked off the right-wing blogosphere's comically inept misinformation campaign last weekend to try to swell the size of Saturday's anti-Obama protest in the nation's capital, to jack the crowd size up to the wildly inflated -- and erroneous -- number of 2 million people. Nice try. According to estimates provided by the Washington, D.C., fire department, Malkin and friends were only off by 1,930,000 people. In other words, Malkin, citing fictitious press... more...