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China's state media called ousted politician Bo Xilai arrogant and a liar for his robust defense at his landmark trial, the country's highest profile court case since the Gang of Four was dethroned in the 1970s and put in the dock, Reuters reported. 

Bo's trial in the eastern city of Jinan entered the second day on Friday. On Thursday, Bo, the former Communist Party chief of the Chongqing region, said he was framed in bribery charges against him and had admitted to them under psychological pressure during interrogation.

He called one witness who provided evidence against him a "mad dog" and said written testimony from his wife Gu Kailai was "laughable."

Bo's attitude towards witnesses is "swollen with arrogance", said the Guangming Daily, a newspaper run by the Communist Party that also called him "scheming, domineering and duplicitous".

"Previously, Bo Xilai would use lies to carve out his own greedy dreams, and today in court, he still denies the guilt that he has pleaded," the newspaper said. "He's still carrying his lies."