Beck's bust? Will media covering 9/12 rally note huge turnout predictions?

So, that Glenn Beck publicity stunt CNN plans to cover? Starting to look like it might be falling apart.

A few weeks ago, FreedomWorks suggested “hundreds of thousands” of people would attend the rally. Organizers said it could be “the largest gathering of fiscal conservatives ever.” More excited organizers predicted millions of attendees.

Millions!

But now, with the big day just hours away, organizers are frantically trying to lower expectations. Politico's Glenn Thrush reports:

Adam Brandon, the press guy for Beck rally organizer FreedomWorks, tells my colleague Alex Isenstadt he expects the crowd to be in the 20-30,000 range.

30,000? Down from predictions of “hundreds of thousands” -- and even millions?

If tomorrow's crowds really are as small as Brandon is now predicting, those CNN reports better involve frequent use of the word “flop.”