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1) I guess I need to explain "pretends?" 2) "Truthiness" is found at all wavelengths of the political spectrum
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'''Stephen Colbert''' is a writer and actor. In his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" (pronounced cole-BEAR re-POR) he pretends to be a Bush supporter and uses this stance to poke ironic fun at the Bush administration.  I don't think he actually supports Bush, but is making fun of us.
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'''Stephen Colbert''' is a writer and actor. In his Comedy Central show, "The Colbert Report" (pronounced cole-BEAR re-POR) he falsely pretends to be a Bush supporter and uses this stance to poke ironic fun at the Bush administration.   
    
He coined the word "truthiness" to refer to the quality possessed statements which, though factually false, are repeated by supporters who feel in their hearts that they ''ought'' to be true, and regard it as quibbling to object to their falsehood; Creationists, Neo-Conservatives, Bush supporters, and many others are proponents of this style of thinking.  
 
He coined the word "truthiness" to refer to the quality possessed statements which, though factually false, are repeated by supporters who feel in their hearts that they ''ought'' to be true, and regard it as quibbling to object to their falsehood; Creationists, Neo-Conservatives, Bush supporters, and many others are proponents of this style of thinking.  
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Colbert has poked fun at Wikipedia and its apparent democratization of truth, and caused trouble for Wikipedia by suggesting that his listeners alter articles.
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Colbert has poked fun at Wikipedia and its apparent democratization of truth; he has coined the word "Wikiality" (as opposed to "reality,") and caused trouble for Wikipedia by suggesting that his listeners alter articles. In August of 2006, he encouraged users to state that the population of African elephants had tripled in the last decade. Colbert's point was that no matter how many people alter a Wikipedia page to say this, it is still not true. Wikipedia responded quickly by reverting and protecting pages.
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