Official count 87,000. Glenn Beck says 500,000. Republicans claim one million.

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Conservatives bash once-respected professor for low-balling Beck crowd

Estimates of the turnout for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial last weekend have varied widely, from a low of 87,000 to a high of one million.

As a result, the already-controversial rally has sparked a secondary controversy over a report by CBS News that the organization it hired to make a scientific count from aerial photos had come up with a figure of only 87,000, plus or minus 9,000 -- a number greatly at odds with Beck's own estimate of 300,000 to 500,000.

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