Steven Den Beste has a different sort of blond joke here.

If you’re looking for a more run-of-the-mill joke, the Chronicle published a newspaper again today. . . . and Bennet Roth now informs us that anonymous aides to equally anonymous Republican ‘House Leaders’ think that putting DeLay back in as Majority Leader might not be a good idea, what with the ‘Black Jack’ scandals being sure to make him look bad. (How it isn’t going to make other Republican — and Democrat — leaders look just as bad is a mystery he doesn’t explain.)

Well, thanks Chronicle. Seeing as most political pundits I pay attention to were of the opinion that DeLay wasn’t getting his job back before the news broke, truly, this was front page news again. On the bright side, considering the quality sourcing (almost as good as your average CIA leak), the Chronicle is being nothing if not consistant with today’s press standards. Or as Instapundit put it the other day:

If bloggers had made these kinds of mistakes, Big-Media folks would be pointing them out as evidence that the blogosphere can’t be trusted. But where were all those editors, filters, and fact-checkers?

Personally, I think they were out having lunch with Cindy Sheehan and Ronnie Earle.

The Houston Chronicle… all the rumors fit to print.