Lies shoot around the media in about 10 minutes

But the truth apparently takes just over two weeks.

This was the secret to the Bush/Cheney style of fucking you over leadership.

In a remarkable example of how bad information can travel far and wide, dozens of media outlets around the world have said Umar Abdulmutallab was traveling on a one-way ticket to Detroit when he allegedly tried to blow up Flight 253, even though that has never been substantiated and appears to be flat wrong.