Thursday, January 26, 2006

Truthiness

The Onion's AV Club has a great interview up with Stephen Colbert (he's not in character).

Here's a highlight...
"[There is an] idea that authoritarian is better than authority. Because authoritarian means there's only one authority, and that authority has got to be the President, has got to be the government, and has got to be his allies. What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press. They call the press "liberal," they call the press "biased," not necessarily because it is or because they have problems with the facts of the left—or even because of the bias for the left, because it's hard not to be biased in some way, everyone is always going to enter their editorial opinion—but because a press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government—it's like the existence of another authority. So that's another part of truthiness. Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true'..."


See Stephen in action- here.

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