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What is the term for "artificial sincerity" coined by Stephen Colbert?

Asked by HarryWeener (33points) April 23rd, 2010

He uses it to describe the way journalists try to make a mundane topic sound exciting.

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Flaky fakey fluff .

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ucme's avatar

Doing an Oprah?

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Are you thinking of Truthiness?

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rebbel's avatar

Slightly lying.

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Truthiness is it.

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HarryWeener's avatar

holy crap, that was fast. “truthiness” may be it. what i’m looking for is a term i heard colbert use during an interview on cnn. he defined it as “fake sincerity”. making something mundane seem important. for some reason i think it was more of a stoic adjective. ive been trying to find it on youtube, but to no avail.

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