Bush's War on "Facts"

Even the linguists think Bush has launched a War on Facts. From USA Today:

A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.
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"The national argument right now is, one, who's got the truth and, two, who's got the facts," he said. "Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we're not going make much progress."

Maybe someone should tell the traditional media that it's historically been their job to put the two back together, huh? I'll hold my breath on that one...