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simple english. and that brings us to tonight' "word." truthiness! >> what colbert did was remarkable because he was playing a very arch character that was obviously based on fox news personalities. >> caution. you are about to enter the no-spin zone. >> this is all an act. >> you're breaking my heart. >> if you're an act, then what am i? >> with this character, he was improvising everything in realtime from an inverse point of view. >> a lot of right-wingers thought that colbert actually is a republican and he's just cheeky. >> they didn't know that it was a joke. i mean, come on. >> president bush, great president or the greatest president? >> he did that classic satire thing. i'm going to make my points through the other side.