Stephen Colbert on Truthiness vs. Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Tv6LdLDVGZM
AMAZINGLY relevant to scambusting. Most believers have truthiness, not truth.
Re: Stephen Colbert on Truthiness vs. Truth
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kschang
AMAZINGLY relevant to scambusting. Most believers have truthiness, not truth.
And the function of fraudsters and MLM recruiters (is there really a difference) is to take perfectly good messages, bastardize them, put them out of context, then present them to their victims/potential recruits as the "truth" when, in fact, they're "truthiness"