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ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size — ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said. — Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration's health care agenda and government spending …
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Daily Mail:
Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama's spending in ‘tea-party’ demonstration — Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Tea Party Patriotism — I wouldn't want to tell you that the majority of the people I saw at this morning's tea party were such hard-core patriots that they felt the need to walk around waving flags of treason and slavery: — Still it did strike me as noteworthy that your basic tea party crowd …
Think Progress:
Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March — This morning on ABC's Good Morning America, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) embraced the protesters at today's 9/12 March in Washington, DC, saying that he was “glad they're here to take back their country.” He characterized the attendees as nonpartisan …
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Michelle Malkin:
Yes, the picture is real, nutroots — I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here — is somehow “fake.”
Matt Welch / Reason:
Quick Impressions of the D.C. 9/12 Protest — I just came back from spending four-plus hours with the Don't-Tread-On-Me crowd at our nation's capitol. Expect a full Reason.tv report later, but my snap impressions: — * Big crowd. Do not believe any description that says “thousands.”
Michelle Malkin:
Celebrating the 9/12 rallies; Turnout estimated at 2 million; Update: How many? ; FreedomWorks in error — Scroll for updates... Twitpic via Brooks Bayne — Twitpic via Prisminc — I can't make it to Washington DC today for the national 9/12 march, but I'm with all the marchers in spirit.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:HEADLINE: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest …
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:Thousands March to US Capitol to Protest Spending
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Stephen Green / Pajamas Media:They Will Be Heard [UPDATED PRETTY CONSTANTLY]
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Mark J. Konkol / Chicago Sun Times:
Key Blagojevich adviser Christopher Kelly dead — The man federal prosecutors pressured to cooperate in the corruption probe of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich died of an apparent aspirin overdose on Saturday, law enforcement sources said. — Christopher Kelly, 51, of Burr Ridge …
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Boy, Oh, Boy — The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. — Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men's club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn't.
Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Tire Tariff — The president imposes a 35 percent tariff on car tires imported from China. — With all 40 of the eyes of G20 finance ministers riveted on the questions of bankers' bonuses and exit strategies when they met in London, the issue of creeping protectionism seems to have been ignored …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
More Reason From the Right — Or: why I am not a tea-partier: — The kid holding it, according to the reader who took this picture, was maybe 16. Obama is a communist and a fascist and a traitor! Then this: — The above protestor is comparing an attempt to privately ensure millions …
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CNN:
Rep. Kline to Obama: ‘start from scratch’ on health care — WASHINGTON (CNN)—Congressman John Kline urged President Obama to take the proposed health care bill off the table Saturday and “start from scratch,” if he wants a bill passed anytime soon. — “There are things we can agree on …
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