70,000 or 1.7 million - eh - what's the difference?

Glenn Beck has constructed a very well compensated career out of public dissembling so it's no surprise he would go on his network and push even more bombastic lies about his self-created importance.

Beck was on Fox this morning claiming that some mysterious, unnamed "University" who are purportedly experts at calculating body space (sic) (ROFLMAO - I know -- you can't make this shit up -- unless you are Gleen Beck) estimated 1.7 million people attended the teabagger hate fest in the nation's capital this past Saturday.

The Washington D.C. fire department gave an initial estimate of 60 - 70 thousand. Other media outlets have been reluctant to give an official head count number (mainly out of fear of the right-wing screeching that would result), but they all seem to be of the consensus that the turnout was in the "tens of thousands" range, which incidentally, any honest, self-respecting, grass-roots political organization would be proud to boast of. Nonetheless, the truth wasn't good enough for Beck and Friends.

The lying about the crowd size truly is nothing more than the right-wing leadership and their zombie followers desperately trying to stave off a very simple truth being known about their movement -- which basically is that it's nowhere near as popular as they've made it out to be and it's actually more of a corporate manufactured and sponsored astro-turf movement than a true grass roots citizen movement.

It's actually kind of pathetic when you think about it. They are behaving just like attention starved children who have no compunction about resorting to outright lies in order to get someone to acknowledge their annoying, albeit noisy, temper tantrums and it reflects directly on the credibility of their leaders and organizations as a whole.





**UPDATE**: Apparently the desperation level of the right wingers is so high that they began circulating on the web a 12 year old aerial photo of a Washington, D.C. Promise Keepers event that had attracted nearly a million people. They are attempting to pass it off as being a photo from this past weekend's event.

Now there's dishonesty you can count on!


----k