July 25, 2008
Obama Camp Fudged Berlin Turnout Numbers?
Hmmm.
"Obama Addresses 200,000 in Berlin" -- thus ran the AP headline the day after Barack Obama's much-hyped speech in front of Berlin's Siegessäule or "Victory Column." This 200,000 figure has quickly become the standard estimate of the crowd for Obama's speech in both the American and the German media: so standard indeed that it is for the most part not even treated as an estimate.Interesting, with photo. Not terribly important (typical O! campaigning), much like the entire "foreign policy masterstroke" photo-op circus Baracky thinks is "shoring up" his "credentials."The estimates given by German public television ZDF actually during the event, however, were as little as one-tenth of that number.
ht: Michelle
By Good Lt. at July 25, 2008 02:09 PM | | l digg this
