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Truthiness as defined by its inventor Stephen Colbert is the truth people feel not the hard facts themselves. If it feels true then it is probably truthiness.

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  • Truthiness as defined by its inventor Stephen Colbert is the truth people feel not the hard facts themselves. If it feels true then it is probably truthiness.
  • Truthiness refers to the quality by which a person knows something in their gut, instinctively, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Stephen Colbert shared this ground-breaking new word during the first episode (October 17, 2005) of his top-rated cable-TV news program, The Colbert Report, as the subject of a segment called The WØRD.
  • __TOC__ Truthiness is the reality that is intuitively known without regard to liberal ideals such as reason and logic. It is the truth that is felt deep down, in the gut. It can't be found in books, which are all facts and no heart (except for the one true book, I Am America (And So Can You!) It is absolute, and can only be infallibly known by the gut of Stephen Colbert. It can only be felt by Americans with huge brass balls and is also a word so straight that it drives men wildEpisode #535.
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  • Truthiness as defined by its inventor Stephen Colbert is the truth people feel not the hard facts themselves. If it feels true then it is probably truthiness.
  • __TOC__ Truthiness is the reality that is intuitively known without regard to liberal ideals such as reason and logic. It is the truth that is felt deep down, in the gut. It can't be found in books, which are all facts and no heart (except for the one true book, I Am America (And So Can You!) It is absolute, and can only be infallibly known by the gut of Stephen Colbert. It can only be felt by Americans with huge brass balls and is also a word so straight that it drives men wildEpisode #535. In the past decade, occurrences of truthiness have tripled in the United States. The rest of the world, sadly, lags far behind.
  • Truthiness refers to the quality by which a person knows something in their gut, instinctively, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts. Stephen Colbert shared this ground-breaking new word during the first episode (October 17, 2005) of his top-rated cable-TV news program, The Colbert Report, as the subject of a segment called The WØRD.
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