Debate rages over 'tea party' crowd size - Washington Times: "A fierce numbers battle has erupted in the aftermath of Saturday's Capitol Hill rally by 'tea party' conservatives that is not over the growth of government, the budget deficit or even the $1 trillion cost of President Obama's health care plan, but about the size of the crowd.
Most news organizations reported that the boisterous, anti-big-government rally at the West Front of the Capitol drew 'tens of thousands' of demonstrators from across the country, but some of its organizers and many who attended the event insisted that more than a million people showed up. Some put the number at closer to 2 million.
Newspaper and network television Web sites, including The Washington Times, were inundated with angry e-mails from participants who said the crowd was much larger than they reported, sometimes attributing the higher estimates to the U.S. Park Police, the Capitol Police, the Washington, D.C., fire department, the London Times, other news outlets such as ABC News, and even photographs showing a massive crowd stretching from the doorsteps of Congress down the national Mall toward the Washington Monument."
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