The good ole RT

I know I'm supposed to be saving my letters for Robert, but I couldn't help it on this one.  They keep publishing articles on the op/ed page that are just ludicrous!  Thus the letter below:

Dear Mr. Radmacher:

Do you ever do any independent verification of things you print?  Today's article, adapted from a Washington Post blog (wow!), declared that Beck's 8/28 crowd "was also considerably smaller" than the 1963 crowd of 200,000 that attended MLK's 1963 speech, given from the same site.

The author was right about one thing:  Technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since then.  It has advanced so much that with a simple Google Image search, I found pictures of the MLK event to compare with pictures from the 8/28/10 Glenn Beck event.  Maybe you'll be surprised at what they show, and maybe you won't, but I believe anyone can see that the 8/28/10 crowd was much more than double the '63 crowd.  If you do an honest comparison of the attached, you will draw the same conclusion. 

The obvious question becomes, "Why do you print deliberate falsehoods in your paper?"  You surely know that most people don't check, but accept as fact what they read.   Did you verify that FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity provided financial support for the event? 

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then you win."  Ghandi said something like that and if it's true, I think Glenn Beck is now in the attack phase, don't you?

Marilyn Osborne-Bach