"You have redefined gridlock in Washington, D.C.," Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told the crowd gathered in front of the Capitol on Saturday for a rally that was part Tea Party and part Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project. The reference was to the highways around the nation's capital, which Blackburn said she'd heard had been closed due to the 1.5 million people who'd come out for the demonstration.
Crowd size estimates like the one Blackburn gave were flying around all day on Saturday. Some said they heard 1.2 million, others 1.6 million; conservative blogger Michelle Malkin said in one post that ABC News had estimated the attendance at 2 million.
Malkin was wrong -- ABC had never reported anything like that. In her own way, Blackburn was wrong, too. So were all the others. They weren't even in the ballpark, which most news outlets estimated in the tens of thousands and D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services said, unofficially, was somewhere between 60,000 and 75,000 people.
That first screenshot above is of ABC News' Yunji di Nies' Twitter page, in which she refutes the eternally-shrieking Malkin's bogus claims.
The second is from D.C.'s Fire and Emergency Medical Services.
And the third is from Malkin's own blog, where she blames her lies on event organizers and Astroturf-masters Freedomworks.
(As usual, nice "fact-checking," Ms. Goebbels.)
If you're looking for truth and accuracy from Michelle Malkin or her fellow propagandists, look someplace else.
