{"id":2802,"date":"2008-09-21T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/truthiness-triumphant.html"},"modified":"2008-09-21T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T23:27:00","slug":"truthiness-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/09\/truthiness-triumphant.html","title":{"rendered":"Truthiness triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> Well, hearty congratulations to MCPF Stephen Colbert<\/a>, for his victory tonight at the Emmy Awards. <\/p>\n

Stephen (and a few of his helper elves) won the award for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program. <\/p>\n

(Couldn’t those dunderheads at the Emmys tell that Stephen’s show is a News And Public Affairs program?) <\/p>\n

Also of note: my current obsession, Mad Men<\/a>, won Outstanding Drama. And Fr. Gill’s father, Tom Hanks, won for producing that little show on John Adams on HBO.<\/p>\n

Photo: by Reuters<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, hearty congratulations to MCPF Stephen Colbert, for his victory tonight at the Emmy Awards. Stephen (and a few of his helper elves) won the award for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program. (Couldn’t those dunderheads at the Emmys tell that Stephen’s show is a News And Public Affairs program?) 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