Sunday, October 3, 2010

C-SPAN Uses 8/28 Crowd Shot for ‘One Nation’ Promo

Posted on October 2, 2010 at 8:29pm by Meredith Jessup Meredith Jessup

In promoting its coverage of Saturday’s “One Nation” rally in Washington, D.C., C-SPAN’s website offered visitors a peak at what the rally looked like on the ground along the National Mall:



But, as Gateway Pundit points out, the image they use to advertise the “One Nation Working Together” rally is actually a cropped Reuters photo taken on August 28 during the “Restoring Honor” rally hosted by Glenn Beck, seen here:


The truth is that the turnout for today’s “One Nation” rally was a fraction of the size of 8/28′s crowd, and most walked away before today’s program was over.
Before the “One Nation” program even ended, I snapped this photo looking westward down on the Mall–you can see an artist in the middle of a performance on the JumboTron on the left with the Lincoln Memorial in the background:


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