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Counting the size of a crowd at a protest is a fool's game. No matter what you come up with, you'll be attacked. Because of that, Washington D.C. police no longer offer crowd-size estimates to the media. Over the weekend I heard a Montgomery TV station (the only one with a news department that I do NOT work for) intro its coverage of the tea-bag protests in the Capitol by saying "millions" of people attended. That was larger than any figure I had heard all day, so I wondered where it may have come from. Seems bloggers had been blasting the media for under reporting the crowd size, which they claimed was two-million...and they offered an aerial photo as proof:

The problem is...it's an old photo, not a photo of the tea party protests this past weekend, which was considerably smaller. The PolticFact.com website has the full story about the wrong photo being used.