AUDIO- G. Gordon Liddy’s producer: Around ‘a million’ attended Tea Bagger rally

By GottaLaff

This is hilariously pathetic:

On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show today, producer Franklin Raff, who was on the ground at the rally, told guest host Joseph Farah that the crowd is “just as big or bigger than” the 9/12 rally, which Raff estimated “at about a million.”

Here's an aerial photo of today's Million Anti-Semite March... and yes, Corporate ScumBaggers, there are these newfangled things called "photos" that document events in pictures:

Capitol Hill police told NBC’s Luke Russert that the crowd was about 4,000. At around 2 PM eastern time, Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) posted an aerial picture of the crowd on her TwitPic page, clearly showing a crowd far, far smaller than “a million”.

Busted.

Wardrobe Barbie Doesn’t Draw Tens of Thousands

By GottaLaff

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Those wacky media types. They just can't seem to get it right:

Last night at a social event here in Washington, a national political reporter said that Palin had attracted huge crowds in the tens of thousands during the campaign. Other reporters nodded in agreement.

I spent a few days traveling with Palin last week. In a half-dozen stops, she never attracted a crowd in the tens-of thousands-category. At one rally in Florida, she didn’t even come close to filling the venue’s 5,333-person capacity. The crowds were boisterous, even raucous, but amounted to never more than a few thousand to 10,000 — max.

A recent Kimberly Strassel column in the Wall Street Journal similarly claimed a huge crowd at a Palin rally in Cape Girardeau, Mo., last week:

Wending my way through the traffic and crowds around the Palin event in this small river city on Thursday morning, I began to wonder if the whole state hadn’t shown up. Walking the cold half-hour from the nearest parking space, I passed mobs of disappointed voters who had already been turned away for lack of space. Inside the city’s Show Me Center, thousands of roaring, stomping, sign-waving Palin fans were practically hanging from the rafters. It felt like, well . . . an Obama rally.

I just checked the crowd count with the local paper. There were 7,000 people in attendance. Another 1,800 had been turned away at the door.

That is not even close to Sen. Barack Obama’s most recent rally in Missouri, where he attracted 100,000 people in St. Louis. Obama attracted 90,000 people at his final campaign rally in Manassas, Va.

Could Palin one day attract these kinds of crowds? Who knows. But for now, she doesn’t.

The overstatement of the numbers amounts to bad reporting and conveying subtle bias. If there is an obvious disregard for accuracy, then we need better journalists.

And yes, I realize I just stated the obvious.

Empty Space At Gramm-pa McCain's Rally In Ohio: Cricket, cricket

By GottaLaff

The sound of silence:

In Kettering, Ohio....

Notice how the empty seats are behind the camera riser.

Maybe they were all early voting?

Sent in by a reader...

Maybe they were all out reading about the Ted Stevens conviction?

H/t: Bucky

New Mexico-- Obama: 45,000, Gramm-pa McCain: 1,000

By GottaLaff

Albuquerque, New Mexico:

A fire marshall puts the crowd at at least 45,000, many times that at McCain's roughly 1,000-person event a couple of miles away this morning.

If it's down to Pennsylvania, Gramm-pa may want to think twice

By GottaLaff

Video is of Barack Obama discussing his economic plan in Florida, saying McCain's "leaves a lot to be desired.".

At a rally in the blue-collar Philadelphia suburb of Bensalem on Tuesday morning, fewer than 500 people showed up. The tiny turnout inside the hangar-sized Technology Creativity Manufacturing center underscored the apparent lack of enthusiasm that dogs McCain. Local GOP offices had promoted the rally, and some in the crowd said they had heard about it on TV news.

The event provided a sharp contrast to a pair of Obama's weekend rallies in Missouri, attended by 75,000 and 100,000 people.

This is the state Gramm-pa is targeting now. It's his last hope, according to everything I've seen and heard. The L.A. Times' headline for the piece is:

McCain's push may not budge Pennsylvania
The Republican's campaign is struggling to win the blue state to offset potential losses of former red states.

Good luck with that.

Gramm-pa McCain draws crowd.... of 15

By GottaLaff

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Shrinkage:

Sen. John McCain stopped in Columbia on Monday afternoon. [...]

A crowd of about 15 people assembled outside the airport's fence to see him descend from the plane. [...]

Florence Phillips was dropping off her daughter at the airport when another of her daughters, Cheryl Daubin, told her McCain was landing. [...]

Phillips, who also saw John F. Kennedy at the Joplin Airport in 1962, said she was upset at the small size of the crowd gathered to see McCain.

McCain campaign volunteer Jane Stuart agreed. In 2000, when then-Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush visited the airport there was a much larger crowd, Stuart said.

Fif-freakin'-teen. I had more people in the delivery room when my twins were born.

H/t: AMERICABlog

Gramm-pa McCain's Campaign Exaggerates Crowd Size

By GottaLaff

They say if a man has small crowds then he has a small... following:

WVEC-TV: "The Virginia Beach Fire Marshal's office estimated the size of the crowd to be 12,000. A McCain campaign spokeswoman claimed the crowd size was 25,000, but the Convention Center's capacity is only 16,000.

And if a man has to lie about size, well, let's just call him a man with shortcomings and leave it at that..

Poor John Sidney McCain: No Palin, no audience

By GottaLaff

I've always maintained, this is the Palin/McCain ticket:

If there were any doubts that the sidekick was stealing the show, they were put to rest when Sarah Palin took off for Alaska with a wave from the tarmac by John McCain.

His crowds suddenly dwindled. The exuberant cheering heard day after day during two weeks of joint appearances went away. And the Republican presidential candidate's schedule began to resemble the lightness of May instead of the full throttle of September. [...]

Without Palin later in the day, McCain went to a diner in Philadelphia.

He held a discussion on economic woes there with half a dozen businesswomen. A large crowd backing Democratic rival Barack Obama gathered in the indoor marketplace where the Down Home Diner is located, and yelled "Obama, Obama" so loudly that McCain and his guests at times had to lean far over the table to hear each other speak.

Pathetic. His voters are actually voting for his running mate. And his running mate is a bumbling neophyte. Some ticket.