9/12 + Picture = Millions of attendees!

So what do you do when your rally doesn't attract as many attendees as you had hoped?

Apparently, you lie about it.


This is an image released by several conservative blogs to promote last weekend's 9/12 march on the Capitol. Trouble is, there's a building missing. The National Museum of the American Indian to be exact, built in 2004, which should be in the upper right hand corner next to the Air & Space Museum. Those damn injuns still causing trouble for true Americans.

During the rally, conservative bloggers and news outlets were reporting that the crowd size was from 1 to 2 million strong. In reality, it appears to have been in the high tens of thousands at best. This picture would support the million+ estimate. If only it were the rally in question.

Maybe it was an honest mistake. And to be fair, the number of supporters does not reflect the actual value of the ideas being expressed in the protest (although in this case they do).

Then again, maybe it was a government conspiracy to discredit the marchers. Yeah, that's the ticket.