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CNN Gigapixel: The Inauguration Of Donald Trump the mall was packed

Lutherf said:
Man, you have GOT to get past that Facebook comparison. Comparing a picture taken during Obama's speech to one taken 3 1/2 hours before Trump's speech is simply dishonest. It's kind of like taking a picture at midnight and claiming that it's proof the sun went out due to global warming.
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If that's the case is there an updated picture like that? I understand that the media is dishonest to do something like that. But without visual proof to contradict the facebook comparisons it just looks like desperation on the part of Trump supporters.

There aren't solid figures saying how many people were at each event and it's a good bet that there were more at Obama's inauguration but when you compare the CNN Gigapixel shot to the overhead from 2009 the crowds damned sure look comparable.
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Of course they look comparable.Its at a completely different angle than the Facebook comparisons. It would be like If you filled up the first couple of rows at a movie theater for the showing of Miss Sloane with a couple of people scattered through out other rows.And then you took the same theater from when they had a showing of a new Starwars movie..And you placed a camera on the floor a several feet from the front of the first row seats,angled it up a little and took a picture of both crowds.The result will be is that it looks like both movies were packed.While a camera several feet off the ground would revealed that Miss Sloane got curb stomped by the new Star wars movie.
 
Lutherf said:
Man, you have GOT to get past that Facebook comparison. Comparing a picture taken during Obama's speech to one taken 3 1/2 hours before Trump's speech is simply dishonest. It's kind of like taking a picture at midnight and claiming that it's proof the sun went out due to global warming.

There aren't solid figures saying how many people were at each event and it's a good bet that there were more at Obama's inauguration but when you compare the CNN Gigapixel shot to the overhead from 2009 the crowds damned sure look comparable.
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The Trump picture was taken after he was sworn in and while he was giving his speech. Anyone that watched it that day saw the huge gaps of empty areas all around. This is only important to tiny hands and his supporters for some reason. The idea that the first black president wouldn't draw a larger crowd than another white/orange one is ridiculous.
 
Lutherf said:
Man, you have GOT to get past that Facebook comparison. Comparing a picture taken during Obama's speech to one taken 3 1/2 hours before Trump's speech is simply dishonest. It's kind of like taking a picture at midnight and claiming that it's proof the sun went out due to global warming.

There aren't solid figures saying how many people were at each event and it's a good bet that there were more at Obama's inauguration but when you compare the CNN Gigapixel shot to the overhead from 2009 the crowds damned sure look comparable.
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I seem to recall an earlier post of mine stating that pictures can be deceiving, at least for determining the size of crowds. This thread certainly has brought that to light.

Once the data is collected, they return to their headquarters. Three days of work commences. First, they will measure the density of different parts of the crowd. They do this by counting heads in a specific area. “We sit there literally, head by head, going tick-tick-tick-tick-tick” with the images, he told me. “It’s painful, it’s long, but it’s far more accurate than these algorithms.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technol...l-we-know-trumps-inaugural-crowd-size/513938/
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I'm willing to wait for these more scientific and empirical methods produce a result.

While I'm willing to accept that Trump's crowds may be smaller than Obama's, fine, what I won't accept is that the crowds at the time of the inauguration and speech were as they were depicted by the first pictures posted by Applebaum at 8:20 AM. That, I'm afraid, that is a dishonest apples vs. oranges comparison, clearly, that much of a time before Trump's inauguration and speech.

I would hope that every level headed and reasonable person would admit that.
 
eohrnberger said:
I seem to recall an earlier post of mine stating that pictures can be deceiving, at least for determining the size of crowds. This thread certainly has brought that to light.



I'm willing to wait for these more scientific and empirical methods produce a result.

While I'm willing to accept that Trump's crowds may be smaller than Obama's, fine, what I won't accept is that the crowds at the time of the inauguration and speech were as they were depicted by the first pictures posted by Applebaum at 8:20 AM. That, I'm afraid, that is a dishonest apples vs. oranges comparison, clearly, that much of a time before Trump's inauguration and speech.

I would hope that every level headed and reasonable person would admit that.
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Exactly this!
 
Truckstop said:
The Trump picture was taken after he was sworn in and while he was giving his speech. Anyone that watched it that day saw the huge gaps of empty areas all around. This is only important to tiny hands and his supporters for some reason. The idea that the first black president wouldn't draw a larger crowd than another white/orange one is ridiculous.
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The Gigapixel shot is from CNN and they DEFINITELY are not Trump supporters. Like I said, maybe Obama had more people. That wouldn't surprise me in the least. My ONLY concern in this matter is that the comparison we see in the Twitter thing is ridiculously, and provably, dishonest.
 
Lutherf said:
The Gigapixel shot is from CNN and they DEFINITELY are not Trump supporters. Like I said, maybe Obama had more people. That wouldn't surprise me in the least. My ONLY concern in this matter is that the comparison we see in the Twitter thing is ridiculously, and provably, dishonest.
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no it isnt, go to the link I provided and you will see the OPO's pic is fake.
 
Lutherf said:
The Gigapixel shot is from CNN and they DEFINITELY are not Trump supporters. Like I said, maybe Obama had more people. That wouldn't surprise me in the least. My ONLY concern in this matter is that the comparison we see in the Twitter thing is ridiculously, and provably, dishonest.
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I watched it. That's what it looked like. Prove the picture was taken 3-4hrs before. It was not.

Comparison: Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s inauguration crowds | PBS NewsHour

Edit: Also if you google "time lapse of inauguration" you get a youtube video that says

[h=1]This video is restricted. It must be approved for you to view it.[/h]What does that mean any who restricts this stuff.
 
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