Merriam-Webster gets hip. Announces “truthiness” the word of the year.
Truthiness (no need for quotation marks anymore; it’s a word now) is perfect for the times in every way. It is a fake word invented by a fake person, Stephen Colbert, the comedian whose character, Stephen Colbert, parodies cable news talk shows on his own cable show, “The Colbert Report.” …
Webster’s has now sanctioned truthiness with two definitions:
“truth that comes from the gut, not books”, and
“the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts of facts known to be true.”
At the end of his truthiness skit, Colbert says, “I know some of you may not trust your gut, yet. But, with my help, you will. The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news ‘at’ you.”
Rick McCharles 