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Salman Rushdie credits George Bush with coining ‘truthiness’

http://twitter.com/#!/sternbergh/status/463494886247768065 “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. http://twitter.com/#!/evaholland/status/463511060259958784 http://twitter.com/#!/SalmanRushdie/status/463513409720705024 Rushdie’s interviewer offered to take the heat for the mixup. http://twitter.com/#!/SalmanRushdie/status/463515528963694593   Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/05/06/balls-unbusted-salman-rushdie-credits-george-bush-with-coining-truthiness/

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