Estimates of the crowd

  Who really cares about who had more people than the other crowd. Whoever shows, shows. That's the reality. And comparing rally crowd size takes on a "Na na nee boo boo" quality. But they always do it, even though some rallies had 1) free bus rides  2) were underwritten by certain organizations  3) were promoted by the President of the United States  4) had unions pushing them to attend, complete with box lunches, etc  5) had famous rock stars perform   6) we could go on  but here goes over at Pajamas Media:

The Beck rally covered roughly 2.4 million square feet and by AirPhotosLive’s own photographs large parts of that area were packed as densely as any overhead picture of Stewart/Colbert.  The Stewart/Colbert rally had, at most, about 6/10th the space — 1.62 million square feet vs. 2.4 million.  For it to have had that many people, they would have had to be packed about 6.7 times more densely than the densest parts of the Beck crowd.

Not a chance. Not even if they were packed in olive oil.

  Meh. Who cares. It wasn't funny, is all I know.