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Thursday, April 24, 2014

More ‘Pinocchios’ for the Koch Brothers, Please

By DAVID FIRESTONE, NYT
April 24, 2014, 2:14 pm

The health care ads being run by Americans for Prosperity — one of the many frantically waving arms of the Koch brothers — are a gift to fact checkers everywhere. Because they deliberately twist the truth to persuade people to “stop supporting Obamacare,” they have become a machine for producing “Pinocchios,” the mendacity rating system used by Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post.

In today’s installment, Mr. Kessler gave two Pinocchios (out of four) to three A.F.P. ads that went up this week. He dinged the ad below for falsely claiming that health insurance premiums are up by 90 percent in New Hampshire.

And he criticized this series of ads for suggesting that hundreds of thousands of people in Michigan and Colorado lost their insurance because of the Affordable Care Act, without pointing out that many of those policies were later extended or renewed.

Those Pinocchios are fine as far as they go. But since this is an editorial-page blog, we can go a little further than Mr. Kessler and toss many more long noses at the Koch ads. (Does this dial go to 11?)

(More here.)

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