It can be argued that framing a photo a certain way can manipulate the narrative, especially when trying to estimate crowd sizes.

But it was nothing but the facts in a series of photos posted by Brian Abel of KSHB in Kansas City, Mo. showing the turnout for Hillary Clinton at the National Baptist Convention.

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

Even photos posted an hour later did not show much difference except for shutting the lights and partitioning the large unused area.

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

Lest Abel be accused of skewing the photos, he obliged to “requested” photos of the crowd during Clinton’s speech as well.

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

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

Even when confronted about the photo perspective, Abel rebutted with facts and numbers.

@BrianAbelTV @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

Front of press constituted 10 rows. 14 seats per section, 6 sections. Less than 1,000 of the >5k setup https://t.co/C6BcyCIl9F

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

@mikayladreyer @41ActionNews pic.twitter.com/Wu6Y1avwPo

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016

And who can argue with facts and numbers?

@BrianAbelTV @41ActionNews cool-seems to better represent crowd present (though less than expected)

— (((mikayla dreyer))) (@mikayladreyer) September 8, 2016

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@ssplnews @Nottinghams1 roughly 3k

— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV @HillaryClinton boy,she sure draws a yuge criwd…said NoOneEver??????

— Nancy❤ (@hale4jesus) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV @HillaryClinton What’s with so many seats? Did they think @realDonaldTrump would show up?

— jmurray829 (@jmurray829) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV @Tamaralynn212 @HillaryClinton I’m glad there an honest reporter showing us the real pictures.

— jokeronparade (@jokeronparade) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV @mikayladreyer @41ActionNews great reporting!! Thank you fir being honest!! #maga #trumptrain follow this guy

— VoteTrump!! (@trumphillarypol) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV Thanks for showing honest pix Brian. A big risk. You are courageous.

— Ariana (@arisingz) September 9, 2016

@BrianAbelTV @HillaryClinton That hall is almost as empty as Hillary’s soul

— Lee Belieu (@LoInfoFlyover) September 9, 2016

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