On his show, The Colbert Report, he uses this word to mock the current government administration...
"Consider Harriet Miers. If you 'think' about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination's absurd. But the president didn't say he 'thought' about his selection. He said this:
Bush: 'I know her heart.'
"Notice he didn't say anything about her brain? He didn't have to. He 'feels' the truth about Harriet Miers.
"And what about Iraq? If you 'think' about it, maybe there are a few missing pieces to the rationale for war. But doesn't taking Saddam out 'feel' like the right thing?..."
I believe that Stephen Colbert has hit the nail on the head. We are in some serious trouble. Not only are we tolerant of this government of truthiness, we are seeing it in other places.
Take, for example, Yahoo! Answers. On this website, users can answer questions posted by other users. Then, the person who posted the question gets to select the best answer! Who cares about the credibility of the source? Often the answer that "feels right" is selected.
That just doesn't feel right.
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Regarding Yahoo Answers, I disagree! The true value of an answer to a question can only be assessed in context to the asker. If I could get directions from Alan Greenspan or a homeless guy to the local deli, I would surely prefer the latter. The "best" answer is the one that I personally find to be of the most value, regardless of which one might be more technically correct. So who better to pick the best answer than the asker? (But I agree with the earlier comments about Bush and the danger of trusting some personal definition of truth over the facts.)
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