Salman Rushdie credits George Bush with coining ‘truthiness’

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“Everyone rushes in the same direction, and there is very little effort to establish truth,” said novelist Salman Rushdie in an interview with Vulture.com. “There’s a lot of what George Bush referred to as truthiness in social media.”

Plenty noted that Rushdie had rushed into an untruth, which he readily admitted.

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Rushdie’s interviewer offered to take the heat for the mixup.

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Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/05/06/balls-unbusted-salman-rushdie-credits-george-bush-with-coining-truthiness/

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