If Hillary panders in an empty convention hall, did she make a sound? Check out these pics

Brett T. | 9:14 PM on September 08, 2016

Obviously, event organizers are always going to tend to overstate attendance, and trying to estimate crowd size from photographs is a losing game: someone will always accuse the photographer of framing the picture to make the audience seem larger or smaller.

Brian Abel of KSHB in Kansas City, Mo., was willing to put his professional reputation on the line Thursday after his photos from Rev. Hillary Clinton’s sermon at the National Baptist Convention suggested that not everyone was in the mood for church on a Thursday afternoon.

LOTS of empty seats w/ half hour before @HillaryClinton expected to speak at National Baptist Convention here in KC pic.twitter.com/uVF47GGJze

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

Wow, that’s a lot of chairs. Still, give it a half-hour.

Convention hall turned out lights in un-occupied part of hall for @HillaryClinton speech, now partitioning it off pic.twitter.com/O5Az8EfiRD

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

This reporter is obviously in the tank for Donald Trump. How much is he paying you to report these lies, Brian? Why don’t you post pictures of the crowd during her speech?

Here are the requested "during speech" pics of KC convention hall pic.twitter.com/ZRGOm77xnO

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

OK then.

@41ActionNews these pics face away from majority of the crowd that was in front of the press stand…. pic.twitter.com/aOVb07NuaG

— mikayla dreyer (@mikayladreyer) September 8, 2016

Now that’s what we were saying about framing a photo. “Hi, we’re from the New York Times … can we have permission to publish your photo on the front page tomorrow?”