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Obama�s Dalliance with Truthiness

by Kevin G. Welner � July 30, 2009

Stephen Colbert coined the term �truthiness� to describe the prior administration�s triumph of gut-level ideology over facts. Sadly, it appears that we can�t yet retire the term.

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Kevin Welner University of Colorado, Boulder E-mail Author KEVIN WELNER is Professor of Education and Director of the Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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