On Speaking Truthiness To Power

May 2nd, 2006

The master of truthiness displays a steel set

Politics aside, I think it’s a safe bet that Stephen Colbert’s remarkable celebration of free speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner will easily become one of the most-viewed Internet clips of 2006.

And in an interesting example of citizen media springing up like mushrooms after the rain, check out this page, a thank you to Colbert that elicited 13,000 comments in its first 24 hours online.

MAY 3 UPDATE: The YouTube links posted previously have been taken down “due to copyright infringement.” They reached about a million views before they were removed. The page above has links to the video. If that fails, you know what to do, Googlers.

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