BTPers spread false photo to boost turnout numbers

This past September 12 was a pivotal day in the sore loser Tea Party saga. It was then - 11 days ago - that the BTPers conducted their huge kick-ass march on Washington.

While they claim the recent right-wing complain-a-thon drew over 1,000,000 participants, it attracted at most 70,000 - despite being heavily promoted nationwide.

To bolster their inflated turnout figures, the LOSEianners spread a photo showing people filling the National Mall wall-to-wall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol.

The photo itself is real. But it wasn't of the Tea Party.

Whatever it's a photo of, it has to be of an event that took place at least 5 years ago. That's because the picture doesn't feature the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened along the National Mall in 2004.

In fact, fire officials say there were only enough participants at the Tea Party to fill the Capitol grounds.

But guess whose fault it is that the wingnutosphere circulated a 5-year-old photo and claimed it was of the Tea Party? Wingnuts claim the whole flap is a conspiracy by the big, mean libs to discredit them. Seriously, they say that.

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/14/912-tea-party-photo-false_n_286082.html)