It must have taken an awfully large broom to remove the large turd left by the biggest elephant in the room.
Journalists "shy away" from pinning the "liar label" not -- as Kurtz claims -- "on any political leader," but on the specific political leaders who currently occupy the White House. And for proof of that, Kurtz need look no further than his own newspaper, which appears to have engaged in some sort of Stalinist-like purging of history by zapping out of existence the Post's accurate detailing of the President's Press Conference admission of lying.
Some lies are more equal than others. Bush lying about Rumsfeld's departure is most equal of all. Rumsfeld blew more than Lewinsky, but that doesn't matter. The more important the matter, the less the lie matters. To understand DC, you must look at Washington from afar, with your telescope inverted. What is large than becomes properly small. What will be smaller in DC next?
