Colbert Urges Viewers To Embrace 'Wikiality,' Gets Blocked By Wikipedia
During a segment on Monday’s Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert praised Wikipedia‘s “wikiality” — the “reality” that exists on the user-policed online encyclopedia — and, to prove his point, apparently edited Wiki entries, including the one for the Colbert Report, sometime during the taping of his show while urging viewers to do the same.
Via Newsvine:
Colbert goes on to declare that he doesn’t believe George Washington had slaves.
“If I want to say he didn’t that’s my right, and now, thanks to Wikipedia *taps keyboard* it’s also a fact.”
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