Michelle Malkin and the Anatomy of the 2 Million Protester Lie

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by Eric Boehlert

Blame it on a tweet.

It turns out that’s what kicked off the right-wing blogosphere’s comically inept misinformation campaign last weekend to try to swell the size of Saturday’s anti-Obama protest in the nation’s capital, to jack the crowd size up to the wildly inflated — and erroneous — number of 2 million people.

Nice try.

According to estimates provided by the Washington, D.C., fire department, Malkin and friends were only…