'Tea Party' Photo showing crowd is a fake

**BadDog40** · 09-14-2009, 05:59 PM

Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed National Mall. But the picture is years old.

Politifact asked Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, if the rally was big enough to fill that space. Piringer said no -- and moreover, the picture can't be from 2009.

"It was an impressive crowd," he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd "only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street," he said.
Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.
There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_286082.html

**ChChoda** · 09-14-2009, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by BadDog40

Tea Party protesters trying to tout the size of their march on Washington last weekend have been passing around a photo of a packed National Mall. But the picture is years old.

Politifact asked Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, if the rally was big enough to fill that space. Piringer said no -- and moreover, the picture can't be from 2009.

"It was an impressive crowd," he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol the crowd "only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street," he said.
Yet the photo showed the crowd sprawling far beyond that to the Washington Monument, which is bordered by 15th and and 17th Streets.
There's another big problem with the photograph: it doesn't include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth St. and Independence Ave. that opened on Sept. 14, 2004. (Looking at the photograph, the building should be in the upper right hand corner of the National Mall, next to the Air and Space Museum.) That means the picture was taken before the museum opened exactly five years ago. So clearly the photo doesn't show the "tea party" crowd from the Sept. 12 protest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_286082.html

So how many were there, by your own research based estimation? And who are these "bloggers" spreading misinformation? Are you one? Does it make the debunking easier? Clearly, it would.

**NoDrama** · 09-14-2009, 09:36 PM

I looked at over 500 images of the DC tea party and did not find this pic you show them displaying. How far did you have to dig to find this pic? How many blogs used this Pic? Any major news sources use the picture? Got any proof that someone other than some lonely blogger used this?

The Huffington post isn't left leaning at all, not at all!

**BadDog40** · 09-14-2009, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by NoDrama

I looked at over 500 images of the DC tea party and did not find this pic you show them displaying. How far did you have to dig to find this pic? How many blogs used this Pic? Any major news sources use the picture? Got any proof that someone other than some lonely blogger used this?

The Huffington post isn't left leaning at all, not at all!

I didnt have to look far at all, its all over the news Schleprock.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=...65015261e448ad

**Solcyn26** · 09-14-2009, 11:14 PM

i fell really bad for these ppl...they dont even realize there being used as proxy...i saw many web reports interviewing protesters and i use the word lightly..and these poor ppl had no real idea of the issues only the bullshit being rammed down there throat by ppl that know better...and to make it even worse the corporations and insurance companies have convinced them that there on there side...amazing

when will poor ppl stand up and realize we are all in the same boat

theres no black or white,country or city ppl,north and south..ect.
only rich and poor and trust when i tell u rich ppl do not give a fuck what your issues are they just lie to line up bodies for there cause

healthcare will pass luckily for the protesters it will b there for them too

**JustAnotherFriedDay** · 09-15-2009, 02:00 AM

Average American's posted videos of it on youtube.

Or are you going to go as far as to say that they doctored those up?

**JustAnotherFriedDay** · 09-15-2009, 02:02 AM

No winning with liberals. Here's a tip, drop the party, become an independent. The people who are most happy in this world are independents.

**JustAnotherFriedDay** · 09-15-2009, 02:06 AM

Originally Posted by Solcyn26

i fell really bad for these ppl...they dont even realize there being used as proxy...i saw many web reports interviewing protesters and i use the word lightly..and these poor ppl had no real idea of the issues only the bullshit being rammed down there throat by ppl that know better...and to make it even worse the corporations and insurance companies have convinced them that there on there side...amazing

when will poor ppl stand up and realize we are all in the same boat

theres no black or white,country or city ppl,north and south..ect.
only rich and poor and trust when i tell u rich ppl do not give a fuck what your issues are they just lie to line up bodies for there cause

healthcare will pass luckily for the protesters it will b there for them too

The CBO has stated that this Obamacare will cost American's 1.6 trilllion dollars over the next 10 years, and even more over the next 20.

I don't give a fuck about healthcare, IT IS ALREADY THE BEST IN THE WORLD.

I care about my money, which is time, which is freedom.

Increased taxes = loss of freedom. get it?

**Mcgician** · 09-15-2009, 02:11 AM

Originally Posted by JustAnotherFriedDay

No winning with liberals. Here's a tip, drop the party, become an independent. The people who are most happy in this world are independents.

And the least represented. People need to wake up to the fact that their freedoms are being stripped/stolen from them every day Obama is in office. Except, of course for those that don't work, don't have legal citizenship, or own their own business. Fuck Obama, and his cohorts! By very definition, they're communists. They're the only ones that don't know it because they're too stupid to know it, or in denial.

**BadDog40** · 09-15-2009, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by Mcgician

And the least represented. People need to wake up to the fact that their freedoms are being stripped/stolen from them every day Obama is in office.

Name one fucking freedom you've been stripped of since Obama has been in office. Bush wiped the Constitution with his ass by running illegal wiretaps, The Patriot Act, stripping away the right to an Attorney, law enforcement officers can bust into your home when you're not there, riffle through your belongings, plant a recording device on your computer, and leave without notifying you, the government can now access records of your large financial transactions, such as buying a house, all in the name of terrorism.

Where were these fucking tea party jerkoffs then? Where were you?