Hey, "Truthiness" was mentioned in this article in New York magazine:

At about 3:30 on the day of the first taping, during a rehearsal, Colbert stopped and beckoned to his writers. He'd decided they needed a better word. "It's not stupid enough," he said. "We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth--the truth we want to exist." Then he had an idea: "Truthiness." He now displays, on a bookshelf in his office, a sampler embroidered with TRUTHINESS inside a gold frame.

And while that's super-exciting, you must know that the above photo is TOTALLY Photoshopped! I sent it out with my enewsletter and it seems like people think it's real! Oh no. I thought I had made it pretty obvious, with my very limited Photoshop skills -- I mean, he can't hold that up with his finger. Anyway, it's not real!! (Though the mention in the article is completely real, and very exciting!) And, of course, Stephen himself is VERY real! ;) In fact, the Photoshopped photo is the very embodiment of truthiness, if you think about it! Ha!

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THIS JUST IN: Merriam-Webster announces TRUTHINESS as word of the year for 2006, stating "either the vast majority of you out there in the Merriam-Webster online community are big fans of The Colbert Report, or Time Magazine was right on target when it honored the show's host Stephen Colbert earlier this year as one of the most influential people of 2006. By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, our visitors have awarded top honors to TRUTHINESS." GO, STEPHEN!!