Truth or Wikiality

The Colbert Report continues its exploration of "truthiness" with the latest update, a segment on Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia. See video at Wikiality.

As described in the CNet News Blog, Colbert speaks, America follows: All hail Wikiality!:

Late-night TV personality Stephen Colbert claims he has no qualms with Wikipedia. "I love Wikipedia," he said during the July 31 episode of his Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report," adding that "any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight." Colbert, a comedian who masks as a Bill O'Reilly-esque blowhard on TV, found the free-for-all encyclopedia to be a perfect fit for his fact-despising, spin-loving character. "You see, any user can change any entry, and if enough other users agree with them, it becomes true," he explained, proceeding to eradicate all references to George Washington owning slaves.

Of course, this is also a description of life in America with the Bush Administration in charge.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon. --Napoleon Bonaparte

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