re: #123 Killgore Trout

Meh. I was just looking through Politifact and thinking about the discussion of today’s dueling ads from Obama Obama and Mitt. Politifact certainly doesn’t get everything right every time but most reasonable well informed people can understand why they came to their conclusions. It’s a decent and honest site. However, the partisans only seem concerned with factual accuracy when checking the other side not their own. I don’t like that but it’s just the way it goes.
I think the smarter discussion would be about how effective the ads may be. These ads are aimed at low information voters who are swayed by things like ads seen on TV. They are the reason our elections can be bought by whoever has the most money or the cleverest advertising campaign. The purpose is to fool the rubes. These ads aren’t factual and shouldn’t be treated as such by serious people on either end of the spectrum.

Aren’t politifact the same people who gave the “lie of the year” award to something that was true,?