{"id":12626,"date":"2010-03-21T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/confirmation-20000-at-tea-party-protest-at-capitol-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2010-03-21T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T11:17:00","slug":"confirmation-20000-at-tea-party-protest-at-capitol-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/confirmation-20000-at-tea-party-protest-at-capitol-in-washington.php","title":{"rendered":"CONFIRMATION: &quot;20,000&quot; at Tea Party protest at Capitol in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S6YGnwXiqDI\/AAAAAAAAKiU\/dSwwem7iTa0\/s1600-h\/capitol_hill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1a6ae_capitol_hill.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Three Capitol Hill officers confirm count<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>The big media this morning, is almost entirely ignoring the size of the Tea Party protest crowds at the Capitol yesterday.  But one outlet lets it slip, though buried down in their story.  <\/p><p>Reporter Salena Zito with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/s_672740.html\">Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/a> has this report, 17 paragraphs down, (notably not the headline of the story), in an article \"Tea Party heard as D.C. focus of Protest\":<\/p><blockquote><p>Capitol Hill Police do not officially comment on crowd sizes. Yet three officers at separate vantage points estimated the rally's attendance more than 20,000, based on the number of people that typically can fill the lawn.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Michele Bachmann while speaking to the rally estimated \"25,000.\" Later, Fox News reported \"thousands.\" <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/20\/2234578.aspx\">MSNBC<\/a> reported \"between 1,500 to 2,000 Tea Party protesters.\"<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/1a6ae_7828681836623105417-3433866556495764429?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Capitol Hill officers confirm countFrom Eric Dondero:The big media this morning, is almost entirely ignoring the size of the Tea Party protest crowds at the Capitol yesterday. But one outlet lets it slip, though buried down in their story. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/confirmation-20000-at-tea-party-protest-at-capitol-in-washington.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}