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808:'Truthiness' is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue." However, despite winning Word of the Year, the word does not appear in the 2006 edition of the Merriam-Webster English Dictionary. In response to this omission, during "The Wørd" segment on December 12, 2006, Colbert issued a new page 1344 for the tenth edition of the Merriam Webster dictionary that featured "truthiness". To make room for the definition of "truthiness", including a portrait of Colbert, the definition for the word "try" was removed with Colbert stating "Sorry, try. Maybe you should have tried harder." He also sarcastically told viewers to "not" download the new page and "not" glue it in the new dictionary in libraries and schools. 3430: 655: 2682: 174:, both of which indicate it as rare or dialectal, and to be defined more straightforwardly as "truthfulness, faithfulness". Responding to claims by Michael Adams that the word already existed with a different meaning, Colbert, presumably exploiting his definition of the word, said, "Truthiness is a word I pulled right out of my 266:
I was thinking of the idea of passion and emotion and certainty over information. And what you feel in your gut, as I said in the first Wørd we did, which was sort of a thesis statement of the whole show – however long it lasts – is that sentence, that one word, that's more important to, I think, the
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It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the President because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't
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on October 17, 2005, after deciding the originally scripted word – "truth" – was not absolutely ridiculous enough: "We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist", he explained. He introduced his definition in the first segment of the
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information. In particular, in 2012, a study examining truthiness was published by a group of students from three universities in the paper "Nonprobative photographs (or words) inflate truthiness". The experiments showed that people are more likely to believe a claim is true regardless of evidence
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and their surrogates keep repeating the same lies over and over not just to smear their opponents and not just to mask their own record. Their larger aim is to construct a bogus alternative reality so relentless it can overwhelm any haphazard journalistic stabs at puncturing it." Rich also noted,
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online magazine asked its readers to nominate suggestions of things to be included on a poster which would represent important events in the 2000s (decade), divided into five different categories: "People", "Words", "News", "Objects" and "Culture". Suggestions were sent in and a panel of five
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record). Rich emphasized the extent to which the word had quickly become a cultural fixture, writing, "The mock Comedy Central pundit Stephen Colbert's slinging of the word 'truthiness' caught on instantaneously last year precisely because we live in the age of truthiness."
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reported a few days later that its coverage of Colbert at the dinner drew "possibly its highest one-day traffic total ever", and published a letter to the editor asserting that "Colbert brought truth wrapped in truthiness". On the same weekend,
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seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?
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are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word'. Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true. Or what did or didn't happen."
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refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. As Stephen Colbert put it, "I don't trust books. They're all fact, no
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used "truthiness" to describe Colbert's criticism of Bush, in an article published the same day titled "Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner – President Not Amused?"
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version of the term, "Veritasiness". For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the eagle on the operation's seal.
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used the term seven times, with credit to Colbert, in a column titled "Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito", to discuss Republican portrayals of several issues (including the
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by discussing truthiness and predicting it would be included in dictionaries in the next year or two. His prediction seemed to be on track when, the next day, the
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also reported on truthiness, prompting Colbert to respond by saying: "You know what was missing from that piece? Me. Stephen Colbert. But I'm not surprised.
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as being "to envelop the entire presidential race in a thick fog of truthiness", Rich explained that the campaign was based on truthiness because "McCain,
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for his views on "the 'truthiness' imbroglio that's tearing our country apart", Colbert elaborated on the critique he intended to convey with the word:
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independent experts shortened each category to what they saw as the 20 most important. The selection in the "Words" category included "Truthiness".
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because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion.
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reported on Rich's use of "truthiness" in his column, saying he "tackled the growing trend to 'truthiness,' as opposed to truth, in the U.S."
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and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse. He particularly applied it to U.S. President
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again discussed "truthiness" in its issue of December 25, 2005, this time as one of nine words that had captured the year's
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second-tier state university". The 2008 List of Banished Words restored "truthiness" to formal usage, in response to the
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called Colbert's after-dinner speech a "cultural primary" and christened it the "defining moment" of the United States'
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Usage of "truthiness" continued to proliferate in media, politics, and public consciousness. On January 5, 2006,
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and others also reported on the event. Six months later, in a column titled "Throw The Truthiness Bums Out",
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column stating that many Trump supporters did not believe his "wildest promises" but supported him anyway.
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After Colbert's introduction of truthiness, it quickly became widely used and recognized. Six days after,
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Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I
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There is a growing amount of research on how the truthiness of a claim is inflated by the accompanying
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Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word
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the top television buzzword of 2006, and another term Colbert coined with reference to truthiness,
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public at large, and not just the people who provide it in prime-time cable, than information.
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in 2003. Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including
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who probably drew the most attention in 2005 was only playing one on TV: Stephen Colbert".
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on October 17, 2005. By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of
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to task for the error, pointing out, ironically, that "trustiness" is "not even a word".
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feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.
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Quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than actual truth
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episode, saying: "Now I'm sure some of the 'word police', the 'wordinistas' over at
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when a decorative photograph or irrelevant verbosity appears alongside the claim.
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The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding
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announced that "truthiness" was its 2005 Word of the Year, and the website of the
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Within a few months of its introduction by Colbert, truthiness was discussed in
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on July 18, 2016, using the neologism "Trumpiness" regarding statements made by
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Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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It was also used September 23, 2008 by CNN's American Morning by John Roberts.
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A church sign stating, "Truthiness and Consequences", taken March 10, 2007, in
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In its issue of October 25, 2005, eight days after the premiere episode of the
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In its 16th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted
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is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the
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was created from a revision of this article dated 17 October 2007
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announced that "truthiness" was selected as its 2006 Word of the Year on
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misreported the word as "trustiness". In its November 1, 2005 issue, the
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or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to
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called him on several falsehoods, including his endlessly repeated
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titled "The Truthiness Teller", recounting the career of the word
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Media censorship and disinformation during the Gezi Park protests
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reported that the "blistering comedy 'tribute' to President Bush
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Rethinking Psychology: Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience
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Howard, Gloria D.; Phillian, William M. (May 3, 2006).
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as one of nine words that captured the spirit of 2005.
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already had a history in literature and appears in the
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After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
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announced that "truthiness" was selected as its 2005
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for Alaska. Behar used the word 'lies' to his face."
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in this meaning as the subject of a segment called "
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appeal to emotion
George W. Bush
nomination
Harriet Miers
Supreme Court
decision to invade Iraq
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Word of the Year
American Dialect Society
Merriam-Webster
Benjamin Zimmer
Oxford English Dictionary
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The Century Dictionary
keister
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Dr. Stephen T. Colbert

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