Restoring Honor Rally crowd size
edit| Crowd size estimates | |
|---|---|
View of the central corridor crowd taken from the east side of | |
| Source | Crowd estimate |
| ABC News | More than 100,000[1] |
| Associated Press | Tens of thousands[2] |
| CBS News / AirPhotosLive.com |
87,000 ± 9,000[3] |
| McClatchy Newspapers | Hundreds of thousands[4] |
| MSNBC | Tens of thousands[5] |
| NBC News | 300,000[6] |
| NBC Nightly News | Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands[7] |
| New York Post | 300,000[8] |
| Sky News | Around 500,000[9] |
| The Daily Telegraph | Several hundred thousand[10] |
| Washington Examiner | Well into six figures[11] |
The crowd packed nearly a mile of the National Mall,[12] but the issue of how many attended is "hotly contested."[13][14] The New York Daily News said the answer to the question of how many attended "depend[s] dramatically on who you ask," and that controversies over crowd estimates of recent large political events had drawn almost as much attention as the events themselves.[15] The National Park Service no longer makes its estimates public because of previous controversies, including the threat of a lawsuit in 1995 by the organizers of the Million Man March over an alleged under count.[16][17]
Prior to the rally Beck had expected 100,000 to attend.[18] At the rally he joked that "I have just gotten word from the media that there is over a thousand people here today."[19] Later on during the rally, Beck said he heard the crowd was between 300,000 and 500,000 and said, "if that's coming from the media, God only knows how many."[20] The day after the rally he said the crowd size was "on the low end, 300,000, and it may be as high as 650,000. But there were hundreds of thousands."[21]
CBS News commissioned AirPhotosLive to produce what CBS called the only scientific estimates of the crowds size. AirPhotosLive gave an estimate of 87,000 attending, with a margin of error of 9,000.[3]
Brian Williams from NBC News said NBC had estimated a crowd of 300,000.[6] NBC News reporter Domenico Montanaro tweeted that an unnamed official at the top of the Lincoln Memorial said 300,000–325,000 were present.[22] NBC Nightly News said there were "tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands."[7] The Associated Press said the crowd was in the "tens of thousands".[2] Sky News said "around 500,000".[9] The Washington Examiner said "photographic comparisons to past events suggested a crowd well into six figures."[11] The New York Post reported "an overflow crowd of 300,000".[8] The Daily Telegraph said "several hundred thousand" were there.[10] ABC News said the rally "attracted more than 100,000 people."[1] McClatchy Newspapers said "hundreds of thousands".[4]
Some media outlets declined to give any estimate, with the New York Times simply calling the crowd "enormous" and NPR saying "there was no way to get an accurate count on the Tea Party faithful, or the throngs at large. But it was a massive turnout."[23] FOX News referred to a "strong" turnout and "huge crowds."[24]
References
edit- ^ a b Khan, Huma (2010-08-28). "Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally Draws Thousands". ABC News. Retrieved 2010-11-01.
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Elliott, Philip (August 29, 2010). "Beck: Help us restore traditional American values". Associated Press. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
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- ^ a b "Huge throng crowds National Mall for Glenn Beck rally". Mcclatchydc.com. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
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10:38am, EDT. "Scenes from the National Mall". Firstread.msnbc.msn.com. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
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- ^ a b "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast". MSNBC. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ a b Perone, Tim (2010-08-29). "Beck and call". NY Post. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ a b "Right Wing Rally 'To Restore US Honour'". News.sky.com. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ a b Gardiner, Nile (2010-08-29). "Glenn Beck makes history: Washington rally shows power of conservatism in America". London: Blogs.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
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12:36 EDT (2010-08-28). "Beck rally calls for conservative values". Washingtonexaminer.com. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
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- ^ "Glenn Beck rally attendance: calculating how many really showed up". CSMonitor.com. 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ Calderone, Michael. "Glenn Beck rally sparks debate over crowd size". News.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ Hartenstein, Meena (August 29, 2010). "Crowd estimates at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally depend dramatically on who you ask". Daily News. New York.
- ^ "Transcript of "The Art and Artifice of Counting Crowds" (September 3, 2010)". On The Media. 2010-09-03. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ "How big was the crowd at the Glenn Beck rally?". The Washington Post.
- ^ Gardner, Amy (August 26, 2010). "Glenn Beck rally will be a measure of the tea party's strength". The Washington Post.
- ^ "Crowd estimates at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally depend dramatically on who you ask". Nydailynews.com. 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ "Glenn Beck rally drew a crowd. But how big?". Politico.com. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ With: Chris Wallace. "Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics | Fox News Sunday Transcript 8/29/2010". Foxnews.com. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ "Twitter / Domenico Montanaro: There won't be official #s". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2010-10-27.
- ^ "At Glenn Beck Rally, Signs Of Negativity". Npr.org. 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2010-12-15.
- ^ "Turnout Strong as Beck Rallies Americans to Restore 'Honor' to the Nation". Foxnews.com. 2010-04-07. Retrieved 2010-12-15.