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Truthiness: or why making some thoughts unthinkable makes the unthinkable thinkable

Mon, 05/18/2009 - 6:56pm — vastleft

Merriam-Webster:

Truthiness (noun)

1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)

2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)

For a brief period, when many Americans had tired of the utter mendacity of the Bush administration and its media lapdogs, Stephen Colbert's coinage — "truthiness" — gained national currency.

Nowadays, invoking that term is an uncool as singing "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Or saying "nowadays."

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Read him and weep

Mon, 09/15/2008 - 5:23pm — vastleft

The truth hurts. Really.

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Tue, 08/26/2008 - 7:56am — inna

"Psst - While You Were Gibbering, the Ruling Class Rigged the Game and Won Everything":

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