Colbert: "If You Clear Brush and Talk With a Texas Twang, You Are a Cowboy!" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 6:34 AM on September 6, 2007.

Stephen Colbert comes out against "Wikiscanner" because it prevents us from indulging our virtual universe fantasies.

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Stephen Colbert has a lot of fun with Wikipedia, perhaps because its worst transgressions embody the very essence of his concept of “truthiness”. The news that Wiki-Scanner has uncovered some shenanigans on the part of corporations to clean up their reputations prompts Colbert to bemoan the obstacles to that great American value: Self-Determination.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.

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unusually tough audience [Report this comment] Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Sep 6, 2007 7:16 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] why wiki can't be trusted. amends personal wiki page waits for someone to care [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Bush is not a cowboy. I've heard that he is actually AFRAID of horses. [Report this comment] Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Sep 6, 2007 9:48 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Several years ago Bush visited Mexican President Fox on his ranch in Mexico for some talks. The story goes that during the tour of Commadante Fox's ranch, a real ranch by the way unlike Crawford, Fox suggested that he and Bush go riding on his horses. Bush apparently turned ashen and balked. Handlers quickly stepped in and suggested that they retire to the house for talks. It is said that it took Bush several moments to regain his composure. Some cowboy. No, folks like him give Texans a bad name. He is a Connecticut elitist blue-blood, not a cowboy or Texan. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Bush is not a cowboy. I've heard that he is actually AFRAID of horses. Posted by: Thucy Why we need a "standard internet identity" [Report this comment] Posted by: metamind on Sep 6, 2007 10:14 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Oh my. Imagine if you could get a "standard internet identity" and only one of them from a government agency, just like a driver's license. You wouldn't need to get one, but if you got one you would be inclined to behave yourself. Your behavior on the Internet ... indeed, your very character as an individual ... could be tracked and identified in the OPEN! Put aside your fears and think of the benefits. You could have your own online currency. People could rate you on how satisfied they were with your currency. You would have an incentive to make everyone satisfied otherwise your credit rating would decline and your currency would be worthless. We could identify people who have good ideas! We could identify people with good judgment. Heck, we could probably even identify people who we wanted to represent us in Congress. They wouldn't need a dime for campaign commercials .. .they would just need to get good ratings from "people we trust and respect." Those people could be different for each of us ... we could each have a set of "trusted evaluators" who would tell us what web sites deserve our attention, which products we should buy and even which politicians we should vote for. Eventually a consensus would emerge. What are the good ideas? Who are the good leaders? Who should we vote for? This would ruin advertising .... you couldn't scam and deceive people so easily. All because some of us decided to get a Standard Internet Identity. Oh yes, I almost forgot, we could figure out who to trust on Wikipedia too. Steve Moyer http://stevemoyer.us [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: No. Posted by: Techubus » RE: Why we need a "standard internet identity" Posted by: goeswithness » how grossly naive. nm Posted by: JoshuaLudd » RE: Do we need a "standard internet identity" Posted by: gregii » WTF??? NM Posted by: gerty954 4.7 [Report this comment] Posted by: kepstein7777 on Sep 6, 2007 3:26 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Colbert is sharp. You never know exactly where he's coming from, or where he's going, but he always makes you think. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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