{"id":2349,"date":"2013-04-19T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/04\/19\/misleading-infographic-of-day\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:41","slug":"misleading-infographic-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Infographic Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13711,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.demandaction.org\\\/S649&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/everytown.org\\\/#!\\\/S649&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13710,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424127887323309604578432832764057060.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424127887323309604578432832764057060.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nNormally, I like infographics. Used correctly, they convey a lot of useful information in an understandable format. However, they can be misused.<\/p>\n<p>An example of infographic misuse is shown below. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demandaction.org\/S649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It comes from Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s Illegal Mayors and their Demand Action project. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What the infographic doesn&#8217;t tell you is that Harry Reid (D-NV) set the bar at 60 votes for any amendment to S. 649 to forestall any efforts at a filibuster. It was part of the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill and to accelerate the discussion. Otherwise, there would have been 30 hours of debate and Harry Reid didn&#8217;t want the details of Manchin-Toomey subjected to that much sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, their argument that five senators representing four states which comprise 1.4% of the US population is specious. You could make the equally valid argument that the six senators from three states &#8211; Vermont, Rhode Island, and Delaware &#8211; put Manchin-Toomey over the 50 vote mark. These three states, by the way, represent a mere 0.8% of the US population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323309604578432832764057060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jame Taranto of the Wall Street Journal in his Best of the Web Today column<\/a> calls these efforts &#8220;a thuggish majoritarian rhetoric&#8221;. It helps put this infographic &#8211; which is nothing but authoritarian propaganda &#8211; into perspective.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/How_Senate_Blocked_Background_Checks-361x1024.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/How_Senate_Blocked_Background_Checks-361x1024.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I like infographics. Used correctly, they convey a lot of useful information in an understandable format. However, they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3124,3125,186,3126,1454],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authoritarianism","tag-demand-action-to-prevent-gun-violence","tag-infographics","tag-james-taranto","tag-maig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}