It’s entirely possible that O’Reilly is inflating the money numbers. It’s also likely that a good chunk of those money numbers are grosses that would go to the various arenas and not to the coffers of O’Reilly or Pence’s childish former spokesman. (They get some part of the take at the door plus the parking and a percentage of the concessions) I’ll also note that most of the higher-end tickets for the lower and closer seating did not sell, so they wound up letting many of the people in the cheap seats move to the lower ones so it wouldn’t look totally empty below. (In other words, they couldn’t have packed everyone up front if they’d wanted to, as those were the most expensive seats, and there weren’t enough people willing to pay those prices.)

The delay in coming out was attributed by O’Reilly to Secret Service concerns about “how many people there were and how large the crowd was”. That to me is a pretty bald lie. If anything, I’d say that Pence’s childish former spokesman was having a tantrum backstage about this being a repeat of Tulsa.

They’ll do the remaining dates in Texas and insist that they’ve “packed ’em in” when in fact this has been a humiliation.

Thanks, Kevin.
It’s comforting to know that O’Reilly actually told the truth while committing the sin of omission. They grossed less than half what they should have had the place been packed. He “forgot” to add that wee, little, tiny detail.
Countdown starting on when (not if) Grumpy Trumpy pulls out of the tour.

Based on the photos and on O’Reilly’s desperate attempt to paper over them with a revenue claim, I would estimate that the FLA Live rally was about 40% full. The arena can accommodate 20K and was clearly less than half full. O’Reilly spent Monday screaming that the FLA Live rally grossed around 2 million dollars.

The base price for tickets to these cash grabs/rallies average about $200, and they remain there for the remaining rallies in Texas. Assuming that about 8K people showed up (and that’s a high estimate), that would mean a ticket gross of 1.6 million. Add in about 20 of the “VIP” tickets at 7K each (allowing each angry Right Winger a special “meet & greet” with O’Reilly and Pence’s childish former spokesman and a chance to get their photo with the two guys) and the number gets up to about 1.75M. Let’s also assume the attendees spent an average of $50 on parking and concessions – that adds another 400K, which would take the total up to 2.15M.

In other words, O’Reilly actually confirmed that they had a low turnout but was hoping that angry Right Wing audiences wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

The reality is that, just like the 2020 rallies, these rallies are sadly not that well-attended. And the people attending them are clearly older white angry Right Wingers who have remained fans of both O’Reilly and the Pence White House, no matter what.

I’ll note that O’Reilly’s intention here is consistent with his repeated attempts to get attention as an “elder spokesman” in spite of his lack of scholarly credibility. It’s also consistent with his attempt to elevate Pence’s childish former spokesman to “important historical figure” rather than “biggest embarrassment and disgrace to American history since Nixon”. O’Reilly has spent most of 2021 attempting to trash Biden and portray him as senile and/or evil, and simultaneously has attempted to promote his milkshake buddy as the greatest thing since sliced bread.

So….what, if anything, has the fox sewage plant said today in reference to meadow’s document release??

Brilliant! My faith in everyday Americans is slowly being restored. Right now, one of the top trending subjects on Twitter is Fox “News”. Yep – just like that, quote-marks and all :)

I expected to see larger areas of empty seats as at Tulsa but people do seem to be spread out, not packed up front as they’d been at Tulsa. Methinks the organisers asked them to do that, to avoid revealing embarrassingly massive areas of empty seats.

It’s not quite as empty as the first reports implied, but, whoa boy, imagine what it would have looked like if the hadn’t reduced the ticket price to $3 a seat on the day!

Can’t wait for the inside scoop on why Trump and O’Bully didn’t actually take the stage until over an hour after the advertised start time. Behind the scenes temper tantrums? Or an emergency last minute diaper change?

The poor old magats were probably hanging out for their metamucil-laced hot chocolate by the time they finally got back to their rest homes!