I haven’t been paying much attention since the New York Times op-ed columnists began their slide into irrelevance behind the TimesSelect subscription wall, but I wasn’t surprised to learn that Frank Rich has been up to his old tricks:

Those who charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves. It’s one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree with the decision to go to war in Iraq and to blame Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney for the decision. It’s another for Mr. Rich to accuse our elected leaders of misleading the country while the columnist himself goes about misleading readers of The New York Times.

The New York Sun editorial goes on to note several misleading statements in Rich’s most recent column. What can you expect? The man can’t even say the word “Republican.”