House rules: Nancy Pelosi, Tom DeLay and the media's double standard. (Gazette).

IT WAS HARDLY A SURPRISE THAT Republicans didn't waste any time calling Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) names once Democrats elected her House minority leader. Wesley Pruden, the editor-in-chief of The Washington Times, named her the Democrats' "new prom queen." Conservative columnist Cal Thomas referred to the Pelosi liberals as the "Fidel Castro wing of the Democratic Party." And The National Review dubbed her a "latte liberal."

What was surprising was that the mainstream media joined the party, repeatedly assigning the word "liberal" to ...