What the AP means when it says “150″

Here is video proof of what I wrote in my previous post:

The Associated Press is full of crap.

Note that in this footage the camera cannot show both the beginning and the end of the demonstration. Even at this height, the demo was too long to be caught in one frame. Also note that all the crowd that appears around the 00:20 mark is different from the crowd that appears at the 1:10 mark, since the first crowd had two giant Palestinian flags spread on top of it and the second group doesn’t. These are two ends of the demonstrations, not the same crowd pictured again.

I was at the front of the march when we turned on 58th street. I stopped on the sidewalk to chat with police and to examine the crowd. It took the back of the demo some 20-30 minutes to get to the corner of 58th after the front had reached it.

The crowd really was massive.

I spoke to Karen Matthews (the AP writer who wrote their story) today, who claimed there were only dozens when she left. Apparently she left before the rally started, and she didn’t expect that the numbers would grow. This is quite remarkable incompetence, even by the standards of the American media.

Now the AP have stopped talking to me or anyone calling them, and seem to have decided to ignore this.

Please continue to call them on +1-212-621-1670, email them on info@ap.org and email Karen Matthews at kmatthews@ap.org

At the very least, we have an obligation to make their next few days miserable with phone calls and emails so they think twice before pulling off such a hoax again.

Below the fold are some pictures of the demonstration, all taken by Noel Winkler:

20,000 =150 (if they’re pro-Palestine)

By now, anyone who has followed the Israeli genocide on Palestinians will be accustomed to the absurd reality that the life of a Palestinian is worth about 100th to 1000th the life of an Israeli, depending on the news outfit. “Respectable” media outlets like the Guardian and the BBC will give every one hundred dead Palestinians the same space they give to one dead Israeli, whereas crappy propaganda outfits like the NY Post, Israeli Foreign Ministry, NY Times and CNN will give every 1000 Palestinians the same space they give one Israeli. This has been normalized.

But today, this racist arithmetic was taken to absurd levels by the morons who work for the Associated Press who decided that it also applies to demonstrators in New York.

I was part of a demonstration today that had thousands and thousands of people show up and protest the Israeli mass-murder of Palestinians.

I personally spoke to the chief policeman at the demo and asked him for a crowd estimate. He said 20,000 was a reasonable estimate, though he would not confirm that this would be the police’s final and official estimate. Since he is the one who will be issuing the crowd estimate, it’s safe to assume his estimate would’ve definitely exceeded 15,000. It certainly could not go as low, as… I don’t know… 150.

So imagine my surprise when I come home, turn on my computer, and find this article by the cretins who work for the AP, claiming that there were 150 people in the demonstration.

Karen Matthews is at best an illiterate and innumerate moron who would be unqualified to hold a job counting the number of brain cells she has.

I have called the geniuses at AP all night to try to get them to change this article, and it’s pretty amazing how they’ve managed to not change it.

Please email Karen Matthews on kmatthews@ap.org

And call AP on 212-621-1670, 347-322-9736 and 212-621-1993 and tell them exactly what you feel about how their morals are perfectly proportional to their arithmetic skills.