BECK: I think that it doesn't matter if any newspaper published how many people were there. We had, where was it, University of Illinois, I think, did a -- you know, a spatial count and looked at the photos and said I think it was 1.7 million people there. It doesn't matter if they say there were three. The people's -- the people that are wandering the halls of Congress and the White House know exactly how many people were there.
ONE DAY LATER, Beck was on FAUX & Friends and he couldn't recall the name of the university.
I searched "US Newspapers and Wires" on LexisNexis for "University of Illinois" from 9/11/09 and didn't find any mention of the university being involved with measuring the crowd size.
1Fox News Network
September 14, 2009 Monday
SHOW: FOX ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN 10:00 PM EST
Tea Party Protests Converge on Washington, D.C.
BYLINE: Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Griff Jenkins
GUESTS: Dana Loesch, Catherine Bragg, Katy Abram, Tracy Miller
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
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How is Beck allowed to get away with this... he just says bald faced lies and there is no accountability.
Not a very good internet searcher, I guess. It took me less than 2 minutes to find it.Here's the report, read it and learn something.
Oh wait, I forgot that facts and logic don't matter much to Obama supporters.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19743935/The-Real-Number-of-Protesters-Zac-Moilanen
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