Still Campaigning For Us
This time, the media, who The Anchoress reports are saying that “More than 1,000” or “Crowds” showed up in Cedarburg, WI for the McCain-Palin appearance. Except that there were more there — a great, great many more. Althouse and her commenters report.
Headless Blogger, I was there, too! We arrived just before 10 and gave up on the line as it was easily a half-mile long, maybe more. However, we hung around an intersection a block or so from the rally site, and managed to see the motorcade go by.
and
We walked for blocks and blocks trying to try to find the end of the line, yet as far as we walked, we could only see blocks of people stretching before us. The line curved all the way around the downtown Cedarburg area; it was easily over half a mile long but I couldn’t see the end, so who knows? Could have been a mile.
There’s a slideshow of pictures here. It sure looks like a whole lot more than 1,000 or “crowds” to me.
The Anchoress:
The thing is, the press can play this game all they want. All they do is destroy their own credibility; they don’t change those numbers. Lying about facts does not change the facts.
In fact, all the press is managing to do at this point, besides destroying themselves and hurting their candidate, is to really piss off the audience they need in order to continue to work and sell ads for, you know, revenue.
Forget revenue. They piss people off and we get their votes. And they’ll never figure it out.
Just how many “more than 1000 people” were there? - UPDATED | The Anchoress:
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September 6, 2008, 10:51 pm