Colbert: a person exhibiting great courage. To Colbert: To inform and enlighten, to exhibit truthiness. Colberting: Causing grimaces and cringes through the clever use of words that uncover UNtruthiness
The problem with truthiness is that it says the facts are wrong, but believed right because the speaker wants them to be right. Otherwise it would just be 'truthful' or 'insightful', not 'false but perceived true.'
James Frey is truthy. To say somebody is truthy is to call them deluded and deceived.
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