But less truthy info may yet come out in this story that will take years to unravel.

But they are not very truthy facts.

Truthy attempts to find out who's responsible for the initial message, how it has been spread and determine if the message is true.

And that's not just truthy.

They’re truthy.”

(That too-clever use of a contraction allows the line to be more truthy than true: McCain flip-flopped on embryonic-stem-cell research in 2001.)

Douglas Crockford advocates the terms "truthy" and "falsy" to describe how values of various types behave when evaluated in a logical context, especially in regard to edge cases.

Producing event TV, with its fact-fiction blend, isn't what it used to be now that any keyboard jockey - or even an ex-president - will cry foul if things aren't truthy enough.

But the consensus was that it was "truthy" at best, a slurry of his actual experiences, exaggeration for comedic effect, some good stories he'd heard from others cast into the first person, and maybe a little bunkum.