I've always wanted to know what the people who make these charts are thinking. They clearly have to know, in at least some of these examples, that they are playing with the numbers or the visuals. A few options I've thought about: * "Yes I know I'm lying, but everyone lies and this is just leveling the playing field against the liberal press who also does it." * "Sure these might not be exactly true, but what matters is the idea, and the idea is completely false" * "evil cackle"
A few of them aren't even really playing with the numbers, no matter how loose a definition. Changing the axis is playing with the numbers; having a pie chart that adds up to >100% is playing with the numbers. Displaying 8.6 as a higher number than 8.9 is just an outright insult to intelligence.
True, which again to me wants me to understand how they can get into that frame of mind in the first place. In my view, if you have to make such egregious lies about reality to prove your point don't you start to doubt your own faith? I would.