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2006-12-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by .com 2006-12-09 00:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's not a word. It's a joke.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-09 01:02|| 2006-12-09 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Lol. Truthiness means something very different to me and, I believe, others as well...

Why does liberalism's much beloved 'infinite shades of gray' spring to mind?

I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas

Doesn't this statement essentially disinclude Colbert from all known reality?

I'll close by quoting Homer:

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!

What? Like you were expecting something from "The Illiad"?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-09 01:29|| 2006-12-09 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 xylophone, the only word in the German language containing a Y. But then I am horribly addicted to fact-based agendas and using German computer keyboards drove me nuts.

Funny comment, Zenster.

Posted by phil_b 2006-12-09 02:36|| 2006-12-09 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 xylophone, the only word in the German language containing a Y.

Nitpick: Xylitol

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-09 03:36|| 2006-12-09 03:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Colbert is a satirist. He's not advocating for "truthiness" (yes, I refuse to treat it as a real word), he's observing that more and more Americans are more interested in asserting their own "truthy" version of an issue than learning the objective reality. Karl Rove's "secret numbers" that showed the 2006 election would go well or the 2004 election polls that supposedly looked so good for Kerry (although that may have been an honest reading of inaccurate data) are examples.

Of course, his examples are conservatives who won't accept the "truth" of global warming, evolution, failure in Iraq, etc., etc. That's a different issue, but the larger point is worth discussing.

Posted by Thinese Slugum3677 2006-12-09 07:09|| 2006-12-09 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 truth that comes from the gut, not books.

sending up..take offs..parodies are Colbert's shtick.

in the main his target are Repub pols, Hollywood, and religious fundamentalists... [seems to me anyway]

He'd be alot funnier if he'd also spoof Democraps and all the little rat bastard traitors infesting media and academia; but then he'd be sending himself up.

take that Colbert!

:-)

Posted by RD 2006-12-09 08:49|| 2006-12-09 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Ratz, I thought Rosebud was going to do a last minute darkhorse.

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-09 09:15|| 2006-12-09 09:15|| Front Page Top

#8 "Reach out with your feelings, Luke."

Posted by James">James 2006-12-09 11:03|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-12-09 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Truthiness was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as truth that comes from the gut, not books.

He may define it that way, but that isn't how he uses it, either the day he introduced the term or since. He uses it exactly as we do, for something that feels like it ought to be true from a particular worldview, but isn't. This is the man who was shocked to discover, after joining The Daily Show, that he's a stereotypical liberal; before that he hadn't been aware he had any political opinions at all.

We'll go for taqiyya again next year, .com. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-09 11:31|| 2006-12-09 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 He may define it that way, but that isn't how he uses it, either the day he introduced the term or since.

I was telling my boyfriend that, on righty blogs, "truthiness" was something that sounded true, or that someone thought ought to be true, but wasn't.

And then I realized that was the same as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

I'm no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas

I'm pretty sure that was meant as a joke.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-12-09 14:00|| 2006-12-09 14:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Smells like macaca to me.

Posted by wxjames 2006-12-09 18:17|| 2006-12-09 18:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Truthiness was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as truth that comes from the gut, not books.

"And we well know that 'truth' has a liberal bias ...."

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2006-12-09 20:31|| 2006-12-09 20:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Jeez. What about "ubuntu"? I mean, Clinton said it, Tutu used it in a book...

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-09 21:03|| 2006-12-09 21:03|| Front Page Top

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