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truthiness hurts @ Salon.com

http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/01/colbert/

Again Salon.com comes through for me. This is a won­der­ful piece that is spot on. The only brave jour­nal­ist so far to see the per­for­mance and speak to it truthfully.

excerpt:

In the late 1960s, the Sit­u­a­tion­ists in France called such ironic mock­ery “détourne­ment,” a word that roughly trans­lates to “abduc­tion” or “embez­zle­ment.” It was con­sid­ered a rev­o­lu­tion­ary act, help­ing to chan­nel the frus­tra­tion of the Paris stu­dent riots of 1968. They co-opted and altered famous paint­ings, news­pa­pers, books and doc­u­men­tary films, seek­ing sub­ver­sive ideas in the found objects of pop­u­lar cul­ture. “Pla­gia­rism is nec­es­sary,” wrote Guy Debord, the famed Sit­u­a­tion­ist, refer­ring to his strat­egy of mock­ery and semi­otic inver­sion. “Progress demands it. Stay­ing close to an author’s phras­ing, pla­gia­rism exploits his expres­sions, erases false ideas, replaces them with cor­rect ideas.”

By Michael Scherer