Oft, evil will shall evil mar.

I am driving between meetings today and hear on NPR of David Koch's passing. Over the next couple or three hours I keep hearing him described as a conservative and as a sponsor of far-right think tanks. He was, of course, famously, a libertarian rather than a conservative.

And think-tanks were not his only philanthropy by any means.

He gave tens of millions to PBS and sat on the board of one of the flagship broadcasters, WGBH out of Boston. Most his money went towards science documentaries as far as I can tell.

In a couple of hours of broadcasting across the day, I repeatedly heard of his funding for right-wing think-tanks and have heard not a word about his funding of public television.

This unwillingness to tell the truth about a man is caught in this tweet.

David Koch's "far right" agenda, per @nytimes, included gay rights, legalization of drugs and prostitution, opposition to restrictions on immigration, opposition to the draft, and criminal justice reform. https://t.co/QZZVFdY0HT

— Jacob Sullum (@jacobsullum) August 23, 2019

Agree with him or not on any given policy stance, at least tell the truth even if it is inconvenient.

You follow the responses and you see all sorts of ignorant, childish foot stamping. The bitterness and hatefulness combined with the ignorance and untruthfulness of so many twitter commenters is repellant. Oft, evil will shall evil mar.