I'm scratching my head here. Maybe you guys can help me figure this out - because if you can't, then Politico is simply lying - which wouldn't be a surprise, but something like this would officially place them in the same category as Michelle Malkin.
From Politico writer, Jonathon Allen's article, "Tea Partiers Descend on Capitol Hill", which I refuse to link to (it's on their main page) - it still reads, as of 8:30pm:
The Tea Party holds no seat in Congress, but at least 10,000 of the party’s members descended on Capitol Hill Thursday to rally against a Democratic-written health care overhaul.
Huh?
See, because the Capitol police estimated the crowd at between 3,000 to 4,000.
Per First Read:
The crowd, per Russert, is so far about 3,000 to 3,500, according to Capitol Police estimates.
*** UPDATE *** Three Capitol Hill police officers all guessed that the crowd numbered at about 4,000.
...and there hasn't been a single report that's estimated the crowd to have been even close to "at least 10,000" - anywhere.
Please send Allen some e-mails and tell him to back up his crowd estimate with a legitimate source in the article - and if he can't - to replace it with the official estimate:
http://www.politico.com/...