DRUDGE MAKING CRAP UP ABOUT WEAK PROTEST SHOWING

Over the weekend, Drudge lied about how may people showed up to take part in the American sections of worldwide anti-war protests. In fact, as I type this he still interprets [http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3618103|this single article] as all the evidence he needs to determine that the top headline in the below screengrab is an accurate thing to say:

How do I know that he is wrong? Well, for one the headline of the article he links to is "Anti-war protesters in SLC, elsewhere lament apathy". If you actually read the article it fails to mention protests in New York or Los Angeles and only mentions protests in the US that were small. Now, I was actually at the protest in Los Angeles and I can vouch for the fact that there was a very good turnout for it. I'd guesstimate that there were a roughly 3,000 people there, if not more. ANSWERLA.org, the group behind the LA protest claims 20,000 people showed up. I'm bad at estimating crowd sizes so let's say an accurate number is someplace between 3,000 and 20,000. Not exactly a fizzle, is it? InternationalANSWER.org says in San Francisco 25,000 people protested. I can't find any numbers for NYC, but even if the ANSWER sites are overestimating, I still don't think "fizzle" is an accurate description.

This is just conservative Drudge downplaying the ever-growing unhappiness of the American people toward the Iraq war.

So, tens of thousands of Americans joining hundreds of thousands of people around the world in anti-war protests over the weekend is a smaller story than bad weather. Forget human history--check out all this snow!