At no time did ABC News, or its affiliates, report a number anywhere near as large. ABCNews.com reported an approximate figure of 60,000 to 70,000 protesters, attributed to the Washington, D.C., fire department. In its reports, ABC News Radio described the crowd as “tens of thousands.” Matt Kibbe, president of the astroturfing agency known as FreedomWorks, told the teabaggers assembled in Washington that ABC News had reported crowd size as 1 million to 1.5 million people. Problem is, ABC never said that Nevertheless, right wing blogs all over the place keep repeating the 1.5 million number. But they’ve gone further than making up numbers; they’ve actually faked photos. On Twitter, a blogger by the name “coffee260” tried posting this photo as “proof” of the crowd size:













Here’s the livecam shot of that same location at 3:30 pm yesterday, when 1.5 million teabaggers were supposedly streaming through this intersection:







Why does the most Christian-y political-slash-religious movement always break the commandment about lying? And when will the mainstream media just call them what they are — lying liars who tell lies ?

H/t to Political Carnival

H/t to dinnerbell at Daily Kos



