Right in the Gut
“Now
folks, years ago I gave you ‘truthiness,’ — ignoring what the facts say and
going with what feels right in your gut. Well, you know what happens when you
put a bunch of those guts together? What happens is you turn ‘truthiness’ into
‘truthinews.’ Cable news networks have only one obligation. Their obligation is
to report whatever the American people already think.”
—Stephen Colbert, idiot-savant, “The Word—Truthinews,” The Colbert Report, 2013
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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