So how many people showed up at Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) Capitol Tea Party? According to its right-wing supporters, it was anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 — to one million!
“Estimates are anywhere between 20 and 45,000 people had assembled,” Bachmann boasted on Sean Hannity’s TV show last night.
On Greta Van Susteren’s show, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) said: “I’m a bad estimate at crowds, but tens of thousands. I’ve heard 25 to 50,000.”
On G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, his producer Franklin Raff said that the crowd was “just as big or bigger” than the 9/12 Tea Party march, which he had previously estimated to be about a million.
NBC’s Luke Russert got an estimate of 3,000-3,500 people, from a Capitol policeman. As Think Progress points out, a photo posted by rally supporter Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) showed that the crowd did not even take up the full area of the Capitol building’s lawn, and could not have been more than a few thousand people.
