FWIW - There is a new word for the year 2006

...and here it is: truthiness.
It had to happen. Stephen Colbert ("The Colbert Report" - Comedy Central) coined the word early in the year.
I don't think I'm letting out any secrets here. "The Colbert Report" is the most hilarious send-up of the self-important, self-serving, self-aggrandizing buffoons that make up the right-wing media farm. Morons like Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Rivera, to name a few.
"Truthiness" is presented in the context of George W. Bush's mangling of the English language.
As I understand it, "Truthiness" has just enough elements of factuality (my own personal choice for word of the year for 2007; I'll formally introduce the word in my post of 1 January, 2007 to insure it's legal inclusion for word of the year considerations.) to look legitimate. That, of course has been the entire premise for the Bush '43' administration. It's everywhere throughout the administration's public statements. There's just enough appearance of legality to serve administration pronouncements to quiet critics any time they are challenged. You have only to watch Tony Snow's verbal contortions any time someone in the press corps asks a question that gives lie to the official line du jour.
Flash back to "Alice In Wonderland" as she asks questions of the Queen. The imperious Queen states, "..a word means exactly what I want it to mean..." and you have the same contorted reasoning we see in all the press briefings since this administration began. Words mean just what Dubya wants them to mean.
And that's why truthiness is the word of the year 2006. I wonder what word can describe what we are seeing in Iraq.

Today is December 9; 771 days left until the end of the Bush Administration