[Ads-l] QOTY, incl. "clean," n.

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Thu Nov 29 18:55:24 UTC 2018


On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:50 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:25 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> "I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s
>> brain
>> can ever tell me.”
>>
>
> The apotheosis of Colbert-style truthiness, i.e., "truth that comes from
> the gut, not books."
>

Colbert noted the theft of his "anti-intellectual property."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QWBJSrVJSA

--bgz

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