Bill Kristol is now trying to protect us from false advertising, deconstructing MoveOn’s anti-John McCain television commerrcial, Not Alex in his recent New York Times op-ed, “Someone Else’s Alex”. It takes one to know one. After all, this is the guy who not only managed a major account in one of the largest and most effective fraudulent marketing programs in recent history,  The Selling of the Iraq War, but is also very familiar with the notion of sending other people’s kids to fight in wars.

In any case, the article is really silly. Kristol does a lot of nit picking as he bashes a television commercial that seems to be doing to McCain what Daisy had done to Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election campaign. Is Kristol now going to try to convince us that No!, our love life won’t improve if we purchase all those cars, deodorants toothpastes that they are selling us on all those television commercials?