Huge Tidbit Regarding Obama's "Rock Star, Show" Sized Crowd Sunday..

It resembled a show sized crowd because it WAS ONE! Most people were actually drawn there just for that, a free rock show preceding Obama making his appearance that was "ooohed and aaaahhed" all over the MSM and internet as if they were all drawn there by the Messiah himself Obama and his mystique...hogwash.

Particularly after Drudge ran the deceiving aerial shot that I remarked looked just like a Hitler era Nazi rally if indeed that many people actually came out to see nothing more than a politician, even Obama shown below.

I knew something was wrong or missing with that "picture and story"...here's the full story not reported by ANY SINGLE MSM news outlet besides Obama's website trumpeting the story and photo, not one.

Free Concert by Popular Band Preceded Obama’s Big Rally |

NewsBusters.org: "From CNN to the New York Times, the media hyped Barack Obama's Portland, Oregon rally on Sunday, some comparing him to a rock star.

Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare, 45-minute free concert by actual rock stars The Decemberists. The Portland-based band has drawn rave reviews from Rolling Stone magazine, which gave their 2005 album Picaresque four and a half stars (out of five), and another four and a half stars for 2007's The Crane Wife.

How many of the people showed up to hear Obama, and how many to hear the band?

Here's how the local paper The Oregonian, which estimated the crowd at 72,000, reported the rally"

"Obama was the biggest star at Sunday's gathering -- though a popular Portland band, The Decemberists, provided the warmup act. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, many in the crowd said Waterfront Park was simply the place to be."

CNN headlined its 10 p.m. segment on May 18 with "Barack Obama: Achieving Rock Star Status in Oregon."

The New York Times, which ran a color photo of the crowd, estimated the throng at 75,000, noting that it was "the largest crowd of his campaign so far." There was no mention of The Decemberists, and the Times described the weather as "an unseasonably hot day."

Indie rock Web sites were abuzz with news of the impending concert, which was also announced on the Obama campaign's Web site.

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