Blogger Alex asks if a polarized news environment may lead to what some call truthiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Does News Polarization Lead to Truthiness?] Reference
Nothing I can say or write or even copy and paste can top Mr Hitchens 'article as far as truthiness is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
Stephen Colbert coined the word truthiness to describe conservatives who rely on gut feelings as a substitute for evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Colbert's "truthiness" -- when mining for deeper laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
Alas, I fear the truth -- or rather, the "truthiness" -- is more elusive than that. From Wordnik.com. Reference
There's a co-buzzword -- "truthiness" -- which I do know, but I don't like the phenomenon of co-buzzwords. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
This is an urban legend of 9/11: it makes for a great story; it has "truthiness" -- but it just isn't true. From Wordnik.com. [Shayana Kadidal: The NSA's Favorite Urban Legend: "We Couldn't Get a FISA Warrant for Moussaoui's Computer"] Reference
His first chapter is about "truthiness" -- the sense that truth is there but truth is what truth is for me. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus Creed] Reference
Now there's "truthiness" -- "truthiness," a word invented to make fun of news commentators is making news itself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2006] Reference
Stephen Colbert coined a word - "truthiness" - to describe truth as a gut feeling, with little or no relation to fact. From Wordnik.com. [NBC Dallas-Fort Worth - Top Stories] Reference
That means he is making his mind up only on the basis of 'truthiness' - what he'd like to be true rather than what is true. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
He was a prominent exemplar of what is now known as truthiness, the art of believing something because you want it to be true. From Wordnik.com. [Smartening up "The Morons"] Reference
"truthiness" -- that crosses almost all demographic lines, and that's the egg. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The preference for magical thinking and "truthiness". From Wordnik.com. [In Letter, Top Clinton Donors Chastise Pelosi For Statements About Super-Delegates] Reference
This is the very definition of "truthiness" right here. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: Obama Has Nothing In Common With Hamas -- But The Voters Think It Should Be An Issue, Anyway] Reference
How dare Nancy add a little "truthiness" to this issue!!!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Quote Of The Day] Reference
Brown men bearing 'truthiness' unwelcome in this democracy. by. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Kall: Pinhead Anchors Bash Chavez, Give Ahmadinejad Easy Passes] Reference
So "truthiness" can overpower facts by numbers and popularity. From Wordnik.com. [There is such a thing as Information Overkill and why we need to fight Information Pollution | ultraorange.net] Reference
Isn't Franken's amendment guilty of the same sort of "truthiness"?. From Wordnik.com. [Resident trolls afraid to comment on Frankenbill???] Reference
He talks about "truthiness", and that's a thing that appeals to him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2007] Reference
This "truthiness" that you're using isn't backed up by any actual facts. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Hillary Up 8 Points In Texas Primary] Reference
From AEI and their ilk we get Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," not truth. From Wordnik.com. [Gerald Bracey: Battles Among the Policy Wonks] Reference
Well, at least he's got the "truthiness" part of being prez down just right!. From Wordnik.com. [Quote Of The Day] Reference
In 2006 the American Dialect Society named "truthiness" its word of the year. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Irony Mask] Reference
It will develop a ring of "truthiness," to use the Stephen Colbert formulation. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: The Big Lie About the FCC's Open Internet Plan (and a Dirty Little Secret)] Reference
Dropping off a link to an article about Colbert's "truthiness", sorry to be OT. From Wordnik.com. [Times People: Another Social Network for Adults] Reference
The word is "truthiness," which, if you want to get technical, isn't a word at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Truthiness Teller] Reference
As a result, the current administration and the country face a "truthiness" dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Judge H. Lee Sarokin: The "Truthiness" Dilemma] Reference
I do care about the truth factor, or as Colbert would say, the "truthiness" of the anchor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007] Reference
Like the "truthiness" Stephen Colbert, who spoke at the White House Press dinner, speaks of. From Wordnik.com. [In McClellan's Own Words...* (Excerpt from Scott McClellan's Blockbuster expose', "What Happened")] Reference
Hardluck Stories is opening up submissions for a special Stephen Colbert "truthiness" issue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-21] Reference
It seems to be based around appeals to "common sense" and what Stephen Colbert calls "truthiness". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I don't see any indication that sense or truth or even "truthiness" is getting rolled into the mix. From Wordnik.com. [No Apologies From Obama For Wes Clark's Comments] Reference
What I do think we're seeing here is this war and struggle between truth and "truthiness," and if you remember. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009] Reference
But "The Hoax" also resonates in our current media and political climate, where "truthiness" passes itself off as truth. From Wordnik.com. [Swindler's List] Reference
I seem to remember a theater critic on the New York Times who got shipped to another section for too much "truthiness" in his reviews. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Abeel: THE PLOT BEHINDTHE FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER] Reference
(LAUGHTER) ... what Stephen Colbert talked about, "truthiness," information that you want to believe is true, but may or may not be true. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009] Reference
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