It'll stick with the 80% of the populace who only scan the headlines at the checkout counter.
Why is Reagan's cabinet still referred to as the most corrupt ever? Because Richard Allen accepted a $75 watch from the Japanese?
Even if the NYT wrote a retraction (and didn't bury it, as they usually do), the damage has been done. So it's win-win.
Despite all the lies, distortions and attacks by liberals and their media whores against President Bush, his policies, and his administration in the last 4 1/2 years, the most savage attacks were in 2004, he was re-elected by the largest number of votes ever cast for a President.
Please do not fall into the fatal mistake that liberals have been committing for some many decades which is to consider the public as stupid or ignorant.