That's the coward's way out." Instead, it's a primer on what to believe about American families, religion, sports, homosexuality (well, not American homosexuality - liberal homosexuality), immigration and many other aspects of our great country. As he explains so effectively in his introduction, this book is "not just some collection of reasoned arguments supported by facts. I Am America (And So Can You!) is full of it. Truthiness, "truth that comes from the gut, not books." "Today," as Colbert explains in his new book, "Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable channels, the Internet blogs, and the Hollywood celebritocracy, out there spewing 'facts' like so many locusts descending on America's crop of ripe, tender values." There's a word for Colbert's sort of truth, and Colbert invented it: Others, Stephen Colbert for one, suggest - nay, declaim - that facts themselves dangerously undermine the truth, especially the American Truth. Some argue that truth is knowledge based on data and facts. What is truth? Does it come from inside us or from the known world? Perhaps it's the smirk that's missing in Stephen Colbert's I Am America.
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