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Fakiness
The definition. Fakiness is honesty and truth masquerading as fake news or comedy. It is the antidote to truthiness.
 "Truthiness" is an invention of Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central. The following Colbert quotes come from Wikipedia although I took poetic license in re-ordering same:
Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. Consider Harriet Miers. If you 'think' about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination's absurd. But the president didn't say he 'thought' about his selection. He said this:
(video clip of President Bush:) 'I know her heart.'
Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?
Thus, truthiness is about how one arrives at one's identification of truth. One who rationally weighs the pertinent facts to ascertain an hypothesis of truth commits anti-truthiness. Truthiness is truth devoid of fact or reason. Truthiness derives from faith, not reason. It is religion masquerading as science, faith masquerading as reason.
At it's core, "fakiness" unmasks "truthiness".
JJR
12-2-2007
FWIW, this is my attempt at the beautiful art of fakiness.
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