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Hannity and Friends, But Not As Many Friends As It Seems

by: Curtis Abbey

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Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 13:16:17 PM CST


Michelle Bachmann and her puppeteers at Fox News have been consistently inflating crowd estimates for her Hitler's Tea Party rally last week. The rally was estimated at about 10,000 people, or .00032% of the population of this country. This is not quite the furious mandate that the Fox folks wish it were. They are trying to say that the age of Obama is over and working to make that happen. Bob Beckel called out Hannity on inflating the crowd size last week

Hannity: This is hardly a done deal. And I'm sure a lot of taxpayer money was used to brib, I'm sorry, used to buy, I'm sorry, used to entice Congressmen to vote for this bill.

Beckel: Gee you wasn't anything to get a point across their were you? First of all let me congratulate Nancy Pelosi who did a terrific job, despite being bludgeoned on this show every single night and among other things, the tea party people.

Hannity: You say that with contempt, dripping contempt

Beckel: Well first of all, I was down at that thing that you said 20,000 people, there were more people that day at the space museum that day than there was at Michelle Bachmann... let me say I'll be the first one to contribute to a Palin/Beckmann ticket, I think it'd be great for us.

Jon Stewart completely busts their act last night.

Hannity used footage from another rally to inflate his crowd size. That is shameless. These guys are really desperate.

The question one might ask, why would they try and inflate the numbers from an embarassing rally most known for the horrific pictures comparing healthcare reform to Nazi extermination of 6 million + Jews?
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Hannity and Friends, But Not As Many Friends As It Seems | 7 comments
Maybe those Fox ratings aren't real either... (4.00 / 1)

super bowl of freedom - i'm in stitches (4.00 / 1)
they couldn't even fill up a large high school football stadium with that sparse crowd. And then they use footage from the Glenn Beck 9/12 rally. oh that's good

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Did you notice what Bob Beckel said in that first clip? (4.00 / 1)
Instead of Bachmann he said Beckmann.. lol I might have to use that.
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Or we can call Beck - Bach (4.00 / 1)
but that makes me thing of Johann Sebastian Bach and this famous piece



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Brilliant diary and a Great Title! (4.00 / 1)
Did you crosspost this? OMG, it is one of your best!

Great job, Curtis, I LOVE your take here.

I like your diaries. Best. Blogger. Evah. ~ Alan Grayson on MoT

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I didn't but I will..
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