Who is lying? State run media or the international press?

In some reluctant reporting by state run media outlets, ABC new became indignant that it had been cited as a source proclaiming that the size of the protest in Washington DC on Saturday reached somewhere between 1 and 2 million people.

ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size

ABC News Reported D.C. Rally Size in Tens of Thousands, Not 1M to 1.5M as Activist Said.

They really went out of their way to diminsh the numbers. Howerver, across the pond, the international media was also reporting numbers in the range of more than one million.

A million march to US Capitol to protest against 'Obama the socialist'

State run media outlets have been complicit with the administrations effort to down play and out right ignore the protests and opposition of workaday middle Americans to the administrations plans for Health Care Reform. In advance of the weekend protest White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, when asked, stated the administration was "unaware" of plans for a protest. Good thing Joe Wilson was not present, or once again he would not have been able to prevent blurting out "Liar!" once again.

If you watched the NBC news special where they had special access to the White House you saw them boast about how they carefully monitor the big 3 cable news outlets. You know they watch Fox News, so how could they possibly think it believable that the administration had no idea about the planned protest? Are they really that out of touch?

And in an even more overt attempt to claim probable deniability the president left Washington to give a stump speech on Health Care Reform.

I wonder if he saw the huge crowd of the estimated one million people from his window seat on the Marine One helicopter that shuttled him from and back to the white house that day?