Fox News Estimates Jon Stewart's Crowd at Seven People

"Our total count includes Stewart, [Stephen] Colbert, and what appear to be a few of their friends and relatives," said Fox anchor Shepard Smith. "This has to be a smaller crowd than they were expecting."
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) -- The Fox News Channel reported today that the turnout for Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" was underwhelming at best, with Fox sources estimating the total turnout at seven people.

"Our total count includes Stewart, [Stephen] Colbert, and what appear to be a few of their friends and relatives," said Fox anchor Shepard Smith. "This has to be a smaller crowd than they were expecting."

But immediately after Fox broadcast what it described as "live coverage" of the rally showing a nearly-deserted National Mall, viewers began to point out irregularities in the images being shown.

First of all, one viewer noticed that the live coverage of the rally was actually being broadcast a full twelve hours before the rally began. Continue reading here.

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