'Balls unbusted': Salman Rushdie credits George Bush with coining 'truthiness'

“Everyone rushes in the same direction, and there is very little effort to establish truth,” said novelist Salman Rushdie in an interview with Vulture.com. “There’s a lot of what George Bush referred to as truthiness in social media.”

Plenty noted that Rushdie had rushed into an untruth, which he readily admitted.

@sternbergh OH HELL NO

— Carrie Byalick (@carriebyalick) May 6, 2014

@sternbergh 🙁 🙁 🙁

— Eva Holland (@evaholland) May 6, 2014

.@sternbergh So true. Kind of breaks my heart too. My bad memory and my mistake. Apologies to Stephen Colbert.

— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) May 6, 2014

Rushdie’s interviewer offered to take the heat for the mixup.

@SalmanRushdie @sternbergh godamnit no it's my fault; I should have caught it & busted your balls Rushdie

— Jessica Pressler (@jpressler) May 6, 2014

.@jpressler @sternbergh This is also true but relieved to still have balls unbusted.

— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) May 6, 2014