So, How Much Sanity Was There in D.C. Yesterday? (Updated)
The photo you provided is the same photo Charlie Martin used, but a bit lower. The back of the photo clearly shows low density, so even if we accounted for all those people, if we pushed the people up to the front to make it as dense as the rest of the rally, it would still take up as much space as Charlie Martin claims. I applaud the fact that you are the first person to actually provide a photo to counter this one, and not just call BS without giving any counter photo. The fact is, though, that Glenn Beck’s rally was just as dense as Stewart’s (okay, maybe a bit less dense), meaning that if the 8/28 rally took up more space, then chances are there were more people.
And if AirPhotosLive.com is soooo credible, then why doesn’t any other news source use them? Only CBS uses them, and both estimates are wild outliers. And since I have never heard of them before CBS using them, it is very unlikely they are a very credible source. I trust my eyeballs more, and the 8/28 rally took up nearly twice as much space as the 10/30 rally, so the 8/28 rally is obviously the larger rally.
