As Donuel says, "Fox viewers will only remember the 2,000 idle bus story for years to come. A formal retraction for the fictitious bus story will never appear since it was repeated by hundreds of commentators before the source of the rumor was uncovered."

You're sure as hell not going to hear a retraction from Bill O'Reilly.

I'm a bit appalled at how often this old quote seems to apply these days:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
                                                                                                                                                       —Joseph Goebbels

Don Firth