Fake 9/12 Rally Photos Pulled from Blogs
The St. Petersburg Times PolitiFact site figured out that the photo of the 9/12 anti-reform FreedomWorks taxpayer rally today (above), circulated by conservative bloggers and memed on Twitter, is in fact, a fake. They used a source who should know, Pete Piringer, a public affairs officer with the Washington, D.C. Fire and Emergency Department who estimated that 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up. Estimates online varied wildly from thousands to 2 million.
Politifact sealed the deal with this:
It doesn’t include the National Museum of the American Indian, a building located at the corner of Fourth Street and Independence Avenue that opened on Sept.
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