Colbert interview on WOTY

[Benjamin Zimmer]

Stephen Colbert (the real guy, not the TV persona) was recently
interviewed by San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman as part
of the Chronicle's City Arts & Lectures program. It's available in
podcast form here:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=5

Part 3 is of particular interest:

http://www.streamload.com/sfgate/chroncast/Goodman-Colbert-Part3.mp3

About halfway through Colbert talks about the honor of having
"truthiness" named WOTY (he's clearly done his research-- he reeled
off a few of the past winners). He goes on to say how ecstatic he was
that the AP didn't mention him, since his character was in need of a
persecution complex a la Bill O'Reilly.


--Ben Zimmer

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