The media meme attacked by... Fred Barnes?

As others have noted, media and GOP spin is that Democrats elected a bunch of conservatives in order to take back the House majority, and Speaker to be Pelosi is in for some trouble when it comes to keeping them in line.

Who would've thought that Fred Barnes would stand up to destroy that meme?

But you have to give Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic campaign chief, credit for recruiting an impressive group of candidates, including a few non-liberals like Brad Ellsworth in Indiana and Heath Shuler in North Carolina. The media, however, is exaggerating the number of these unconventional Democrats. They are a handful, and the pattern of moderate and conservative Democrats when they get to Washington is to pipe down.

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