{"id":40556,"date":"2013-12-16T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40556"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:38:34","slug":"gun-control-pr-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40556","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control PR Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tiny network of astroturf gun-grabber groups that&#8217;ve been trying to gut the Second Amendment in Minnesota is &#8220;Moms Demand Action&#8221;. \u00a0 They are run by the rather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35341\">overwrought-sounding Jane Kay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, their main contribution to the anti-human-rights effort has been to make Heather Martens and &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN sound almost reasonable. \u00a0Oh, yeah &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39052\">generate Twitter spam for legislators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Joyce Foundation has been spending big liberal-plutocrat bucks trying to get Minnesotans (outside of white, upper-middle-class Carlton grads in Crocus Hill and Kenwood) to take them seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And so apparently they have a new PR angle &#8211; something to put a jaunty face on what had to be as humiliating a year for Moms Want Action as for all the rest of Minnesota&#8217;s anti-rights crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; new branding! \u00a0They rolled it out last week! \u00a0Here it is!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=40557\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40557\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40557\" title=\"MomsDemandAction\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MomsDemandAction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MomsDemandAction.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MomsDemandAction-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/MomsDemandAction-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Rob D of GOCRA on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When your group name already sounds like an x:rated website, circulating an image of a woman disrobing could be considered a marketing fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right? \u00a0Like, do you need a credit card to use their website?<\/p>\n<p>I worry sometimes that the anti-rights movement is floating people like Jane Kay and Heather Martens and groups like Moms Want Action! to lull pro-civil-rights Real Americans into a false sense of intellectual, rhetorical and political superiority.<\/p>\n<p>Whether by design or not, I gotta admit &#8211; it&#8217;s working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the tiny network of astroturf gun-grabber groups that&#8217;ve been trying to gut the Second Amendment in Minnesota is &#8220;Moms Demand Action&#8221;. \u00a0 They are run by the rather overwrought-sounding Jane Kay. So far, their main contribution to the anti-human-rights effort has been to make Heather Martens and &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN sound almost reasonable. \u00a0Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,22],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-40556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-victim-disarmament","tag-moms-want-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49749,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions\/49749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}