Word of the Day, homies!

canard: n. 1. a deliberately misleading fabrication 2. a. A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer. b. An aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing.

"Despite the anchorman's pleas, experts insisted that TV journalist Dan Rather's political expose was based on papers tainted by a canard."

Side note: Canard has an interesting etymology, it is a French word for duck, believed to be based on the French idiom "Vendre un canard à moitié," otherwise known as, "to half-sell a duck," or to swindle.