G. Gordon Liddy’s producer claims around ‘a million’ attended the GOP’s anti-health care reform rally

By Matt Corley

After the 9/12 march on Washington, conservatives falsely claimed that over a million people attended, when in reality the closest thing to an official count — numbers given by the Washington DC Fire Department to ABCNews.com — placed the crowd at “approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people.” Though today’s anti-health care reform rally has been much more sparsely attended, that hasn’t stopped conservatives from inflating the numbers again. 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.” Listen here:

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”:

M.C.L. Comment: I don't know why the media still covers these losers, a majority of the American public support a health-care bill with a public option yet the media go out their way to present the mega ditto-heads point of view on health care. Think about it during the early part of the Iraqi war where millions of people protested the war the media avoided covering them yet when you get a couple of thousand pasty, old, white and fat right wing monkeys throwing around their poo that's when NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN trucks go out to cover these nuts.