The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.
Uh, that is definitely not true. I mean, yes, there were people on the other side of 17th St, as there is every Saturday, and many were related to the Beck group, but they were so scattered that it’d be hard to mark them as part of the “crowd”.
NBC News puts Beck rally turnout at 300,000: http://nyti.ms/9M7P2G
The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.
Uh, that is definitely not true. I mean, yes, there were people on the other side of 17th St, as there is every Saturday, and many were related to the Beck group, but they were so scattered that it’d be hard to mark them as part of the “crowd”.