"Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support." -Stephen Colbert

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Yep..

Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2006:
1. 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)

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