Kochs' Obamacare Ad Is Both False and Profound

Americans for Prosperity, the small-government group financed by Charles and David Koch, is running an ad campaign about Obamacare. You're not going to believe this, but they stretched the truth a bit.

Rating the accuracy of political ads is a mug's game -- not because those campaigns are full of untruths and half-truths, which they tend to be, but because it's highly uncertain that truthfulness is even an aspiration. As the philosopher Harry Frankfurt has explained, the goal of the form isn't deceiving your audience about what's true and false, so much as making the distinction so confusing as to be irrelevant.