Yeah, watching people repeat stuff that we've got every reason to believe isn't true bothers me also. Controversy and reasonable doubt is different, but just blah, blah, Washington and the cherry tree, seems like such a waste of life. First in learning garbage and then in having to revise it with "whoops, that was faked" ... assuming the person who heard it ever did find out they were lied to.

So, empathizing muchly, anon.