No comment - just a statistical verification:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3741706.shtml
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news...025032119.html
Two well-known facts from social and psychological sciences:
The lies being told first are what will be believed the longest by the public. Even if later lies are no lies, but the truth.
The probability that a lie is believed is the higher the more often it is repeated.