Truthiness. A word, coined by Stephen Colbert on the very first episode of the ‘Colbert Report’, is now Merriam-Webster’s 2006 Word of the Year. The words definition can loosely be described as ‘Believing what you feel is true, even if it does not necessarily agree with the facts’. For the few of you out there that may not know, Stephen Colbert is an on-air personality who is a satire of right-wing political pundits. His attitude is very neo-conservative and he seems to agree with everything that our current president says and does. However, to understand the comedy, you have to see the sarcasm. It is clear that his personality is a very good attempt at making fun of people with these beliefs. In fact, at the white house correspondents dinner of 2006, Colbert accused President Bush of ‘thinking with his gut’ as opposed to his head. This is why the word ‘truthiness’ was such a great invention for his character. It describes all political pundits, whether Democrat or Republican. None of them think with their heads. They believe what the party leaders tell them is true and they feed it to the general public without a second thought. And that’s this year’s word. Truthiness.