American, French journos lowball teabaggers by a factor of a hundred; only Brit scribes nail it:
WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president’s health care plan with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” and “I’m not your ATM.”The line of protesters clogged several blocks near the Capitol, according to the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Ten of thousands of protestors from across the United States descended on the nation’s capital Saturday, decrying President Barack Obama, “big government” and big spending.
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
Really?
More like lazy British journalists.
There were no where near 2 million people for this event.
Did you even bother to look at any actual photos? Perhaps compare them to the Obama inauguration which was estimated at between 1.5 to 2 million people?
I expected better from you.
Shame.
Posted by: Bucky on September 13, 2009 9:30 PMI will believe hundreds of thousands, but there's no way you're gonna fit two million people on a few blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue unless they're packed in olive oil and various preservatives for shipping. Even the hulls of slave ships never had the density that would accommodate fifty thousand in one city block.
Posted by: James Stripes on September 13, 2009 10:03 PMBucky, here's the next couplet in the jingle:
"...But, seeing what the man will do
unbribed, there's no occasion to."
Stick with the Guardian UK if you must read a major British paper. Their only ideology is that which we can believe in (which means the truth, most of the time).