Long in the Truthiness

"In a nightly feature called 'The Word,' [Stephen Colbert] introduced that night's entry: 'truthiness.' Contemptuously acknowledging those who deny the word's existence, Colbert excoriated the 'wordinistas over at Webster's' and dismissed dictionaries and reference books as élitist. A couple of weeks ago, he went after black holes: 'I'm going on the record as being against this swirling vortex of nothingness ... Let me tell you something, black hole. You may have swallowed a hundred million suns, but now you're dealing with America.' Pointing his finger at the camera, Colbert made one more rhetorical flourish: 'Black hole at the center of the galaxy? You're on notice.'"

From "The Spinoff Zone," by Nancy Franklin, in The New Yorker, November 28, 2005, p. 184.