When will the press accept that the White House lies

Following up on Michael's post below, CNN's White House reporter, Elaine Quijano, said earlier today that a "senior administration official" disputed Nancy Pelosi's account of the meeting with Bush yesterday. That's the meeting where she told him to fire Brown at FEMA and he wanted to know "what didn't go right?"

I hate it when the press lets the White House hide behind blind quotes and anonymous sources to trash elected officials. Nancy Pelosi went on the record, right after the meeting. And, she's not backing down. Plus, who has the motive to lie? Not her.

But here's the real question: Hasn't the press figured out that those "senior administration officials" lie to them? Christ, even when he's on the record, McClellan lies. Or are the Iraq War and the Rove/Plame affair too long ago for the media to remember? Who has a history of lying? Rove's White House, not Pelosi.

Remember, this is the White House that is censoring the media in America. This is the White House that lies to the media. Stop doing their dirty work for them. Make the "senior administration official" stand in front of the cameras just like Pelosi did. And, don't keep regurgitating their lies.