PJ Media

The density for Glenn Beck’s rally is more or less uniform. There are some spacing in the green field to the left and wild spacing in the back (which was actually cut off from the photo). The photograph you showed me has the packed crowd occupying the same amount of space as what Charlie Martin has estimated. Thus, your little photo still doesn’t disprove his estimates. There were some people toward the back on the walkways. Why they weren’t more bunched together is beyond me, but he even accounted for those people by including the buildings surrounding the rally (a normal rectangle is much easier to calculate the area than a rectangle with some parts jutting out)

And if AirPhotosLive.Com is a part of CBS, then I fail to see how it is trustworthy. It will obviously have it’s employer’s interests at heart. And that’s supported by the fact that they say 87,000 people attended, which is about 2.5 times less than the next lowest estimate, and their number of how many attended Jon Stewart’s rally (forgot the actual numbers but they were huge) is almost twice as high as the next estimate. Those kind of outliers
really make me question their methodology. The photo you’ve given us shows the crowd taking up just as much space as Charlie Martin shown in his little map to get his estimate, and it turns out that Glenn Beck’s rally took up nearly twice as much space. Show me a photo that disproves, not reinforces, my arguement.