Tornado Alley (PROG)

[dickmilde]

"They only got a permit for 300,000 so how did the other 200,000 sneak in? "

That's easy for double-wide crazy crackers

The attendence was even estimated at 500,000 before the event started.

"As far as I can tell, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of people tomorrow," Kibbe said. "I can make this prediction because it's not my event and so I don't have to be held accountable." Kibbe went on to predict that there would be 400,000 to 500,000 people in attendance -- as many as, if not more than, the number of people estimated to have attended Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream Speech."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/08/freedomworks-ceo-expect-400000.html

Then it was estimated at 500,000 during the event:
"Glenn Beck kicked off Monday's radio show by thanking the many attendees at Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial — at least 500,000 by his count.

Even though Beck is still tabulating a crowd estimate, it can be expected to be significantly higher than the number CBS News reported over the weekend: 87,000.

Unlike CBS, most news organizations balked at getting that specific (or hiring professionals to make a head count). Some media outlets played it safe with "tens of thousands," a count that's indisputable. Others went with "hundreds of thousands." Perhaps the only thing the media agreed on — including this reporter on hand — is that a very large number of people assembled to hear Beck speak.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100830/cm_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-rally-sparks-debate-over-crowd-size

BTW... The CBS estimate doesn't count... It was paid for by a FOX News competitor... CBS.