Size Matters: Glenn Beck Rally Draws Widely Varying Crowd Estimates

The elections of NOV 2010 and 2012 scare me. So many people don't know the history of this country and are making decisions based on what talk show hosts on tv and radio are saying and taking it as the truth. The USA in NOT a Chritian country and a LOT of people have their US History wrong! We did NOT become a Christian country based on the Piligrims. They were Separtist who did NOT like the teachings of the Church of England and were threatened with jail if they did not go to Sunday services at the C of E. They were even arrested when they tried to flee England and go to Holland were there was more freedom of religion. We became the USA and fought the American Revolution to do so. It all started with being taxed on everting imported/exported and not having representation in the House of Parliament. That was denied by the King of England! The Boston Tea Party dumped tea into Boston Harbor as a protest of the taxes being placed on us and not having representation in Parliament.

hendwey You are apparently very well versed in history. I'm impressed. Please elaborate for all of us on how things were going in every other country during those years you mentioned. Wait... let me guess. This country has led the way to freedom, from its very inception; nobody has come close. Thank you for educating us.

I think that tourists from around the world made up at least 98000 and perhaps 2000 were there to see the beckster, It has become crystal clear to me that FOX is now a political group and not a news source for fair and balanced news as they proclaim. Just imagine the outrage of FOX if Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz had sponsered a rally for MSNBC and talked about it every day. The crew at FOX would have been outraged and would have somehow blamed Obama for a socialist takeover of the airwaves. After all they blame him for everything else in the world. Next will be that he is responsible for the worst hurricane season in decades.

So what does it matter how many attended? One above photo would suggest 200,000 at least. Others at ground level depicted many under the trees and shade, only to add to make perhaps 300,000. Again, it doesn't matter. What matters is that so many people came for certain inspiration that has not been offered from anywhere else. This IS an important time for us all. Glenn Beck has brought forward for us all to consider for our future. In my view none of us has to be religious to receive the message theme of that day (I am agnostic). As Glenn remarked: we need to believe in ourselves and our desired direction in life. (Think I am paraphrasing here.) For anyone to think that this event took anything away from the MLK gathering: It only augmented! In my view: the Lincoln Memorial event was quiet and with people listening. Digesting. What a wonderful thing! ps: I like the idea of moderation with not allowing barking of some individuals. Good move!

The liberal propagandists were warning minorities to stay away from the event because, "it could be very dangerous". I saw numerous minority people there.They were perfectly welcome and were having a good time. The liberal media has no shame...or honesty and integrity either for that matter...

So when was our country so honorable? A hundred years ago? Black people had no rights, women had no rights, no child labor laws, etc. The good old days huh? Only in the past 50 years has everybody in the United States had equal rights. We've been a country for 234 years for people who don't know. Of that 234 years, the first 150 or so only white men had total rights and freedom. This is a great country to live in, but to say we have been a free and honorable country the whole time is ignorant and naive.

So now we are down to arguing about the size of crowds? It was a lot of people. Who cares how many were there? Why do they care?

Just look at the inauguration photos of Obama and Bush (or any other gathering where numbers are provided, and compare those crowds to this gathering. If one does this simply comparison, it is clear the crowd was somewhere around that 500,000 number.

I am proud of Glen Beck, he is a patriot. Glen does give you the info to check out his talking points, they do check out. I'll bet he would not fight you if you wanted to see his birth cert long form. This country needs to have honor restored real bad. Know who your enemys are, this is important in the days ahead.

IT WAS SOME 'SOUTHERN' RIGHT WING GOP SENATOR IN 1953 WHO CHANGED THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE!