Truthiness will not die

[Dave Wilton]

Just heard on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Chris Crawford of "Congressional
Quarterly" talking, at point was Bush's use of the term "terrorist
surveillance" as a label for warrantless domestic wiretapping:

"It usually works. That's why they do it. I went back twenty years in this
book looking at examples of how politicians do this. Media has done plenty
wrong, we know that. Less discussed is how politicians aggravate that, use
that, to turn the public, distract the public from the things they don't
want us talking about.  President Bush in that press conference showed what
Stephen Colbert showed [sic] a lot of truthiness, I think, heh heh. I think
we need a new word, liarishness."

(Crawford has also appeared as a guest on Colbert's show.)

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net
  http://www.wilton.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf
> Of Alan Baragona
> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:12 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Truthiness will not die
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> By contrast, on MS-NBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann,
> Maureen Dowd got
> it right, saying "it was fantastic to see Oprah stand up for truth, as
> opposed to truthiness."
>
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11060546/
>
> Alan Baragona
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