Stephen Colbert may well be my new journalistic hero. His “The Word” segment on The Colbert Report is almost always a funny and intelligent commentary on current affairs, never more so than on his first episode where he coined the word “truthiness” – or at least a new meaning for it. The American Dialect Society apparently agreed, and named truthiness their word of the year for 2005. Well, when the Associated Press ran a story on the decision, they neglected to mention Colbert. So he took a shot at them on last night’s episode, and in this AP article. The guy stays in character to skewer the AP, the war on Iraq, and the linguistic expert that the AP quoted in their first article. Great stuff.
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