80 millions protest against the regime in Syria

So how many people are protesting against the regime?  Well, it depends who you ask.  The Saudi, Qatari, and Western media are having a field day consuming whatever the media of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood are feeding them.  The lies and fabrications of the Muslim Brotherhood (echoed in the Saudi, Qatari, and Western media) have only helped the regime, as one irate Syrian just told me.  They basically have facilitated the propaganda of the regime.  The exaggeration of the numbers (which I had seen in Lebanon when Saudi and Western media were wildly exaggerating the numbers of pro-March 14 demonstrations, while totally ignoring the massive pro-Hizbullah demonstrations in the country).  So the lies and fabrications and one-sided view of Western media is not new to me.  But this has gone to crazy extreme.  Yesterday, I mentioned the Hama protests: I said that I saw that they were big, but I have seen massive pro-regime demonstrations.  In the New York Times (in the article by Shadid today) and in other media they say: regime TV showed big demonstrations.  No, dear.  It is not only on Syrian TV that scenes of protests are shown.  They are shown on NBN TV and New TV among other media.  NBN and New TV send correspondents to Syria.  As-Safir and Al-Akhbr have correspondents who cover Syria.  Today, shadid cited this source for demonstrations:  "On successive Fridays, crowds have grown bigger, surpassing 10,000 last week, diplomats say."  I mean, diplomats say?  Would that kind of documentation be accepted if this was about Israel or pro-Palestinian rallies?  Of course, not. I will be giving out awards to the wildest exaggerations in covering anti-regime protests in Syria.  And the award today goes to the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Qabas: it claims that those who demonstrated yesterday were not really 400,000 but 4 million.  I kid you not.  But what is amusing is that if you protest against the exaggerations and fabrications by media linked to Syrian Muslim Brotherhood one is accused of sympathy with the regime.   A reader from Syria tells me that the figure of 400,000 in Hama yesterday was credible: he tells me that people people came from neighboring villages around Hama.  That is possible.  But hey: if in doubt, you may always ask Bernard-Henri Lévy.  He has his pulse on the Arab youth.