In his last column, Frank Rich did something remarkable, he called someone a liar:

All of this was already going on when Mr. Bush said just before the election that “absolutely, we’re winning” and that “Al Qaeda is on the run.” What’s changed in the few months since his lie is that even more American troops are tied down in Iraq, that even more lethal weapons are being used against them, that even more of the coalition of the unwilling are fleeing, and that even more Americans are tuning out both the administration and the war they voted down in November to savor a referendum that at least offers tangible results, “American Idol.”

In today's semi-mea culpa from John Harris of Politico, he is afraid to say the L word about Republicans on the "slow bleed," while explaining that is precisely what happened:

With a mixture of pride and remorse, I have a confession: I am the author of the Democratic Party's "slow-bleed strategy" for ending the war in Iraq. . . . "Slow bleed" is my phrase. Murtha had nothing to do with it. . . . Republicans['] . . . willingness to wrest words from context -- and to attribute the phrase to Democrats even though it was not theirs -- was demagogic on the part of Republican operatives.

No Mr. Harris, it was lies on the part of Republican operatives. And your refusal to correctly report them as lies is another bit of bad journalism from you. That it is done by every other reporter in Washington does not make it right.

You are "dissembling" when you refuse to accurately describe lies as lies. Shame on you.