Conservatives have been all excited about right-wing investigative journalism coming from the likes of Andrew Breitbart. They're less excited, however, when the investigative eye is trained on one of their own.

Last week, we highlighted reporting noting that the record does not necessarily support Glenn Beck's longtime claim that his mother committed suicide when he was a teenager -- in fact, there is a possibility that her death may have been an accident. We made no editorial comment about it but merely noted what had been reported.

But that was too much for some. At NewsReal, the group blog at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Kathy Shaidle was unhappy that we committed such a horrible act, going on to falsely suggest that we claimed “Glenn Beck is modeling his life and career on that of fellow Washingtonian... Kurt Cobain.” (Shaidle also asserted that “billionaire leftist” George Soros “bankrolls Media Matters.” He doesn't.)

Meanwhile, NewsBusters' Jeff Poor uncritically repeats Beck's “impassioned plea to stop looking into his past,” noting that “the McClatchy-owned The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. and the left-leaning Salon.com ran stories questioning whether or not Glenn Beck's mother, Mary Beck committed suicide. It was later propagated by the left-wing storefronts.” The “left-wing storefronts” remark links to Media Matters. Doesn't that make Poor's employer, the Media Research Center, a “right-wing storefront”?

Poor seems to be missing the point. Isn't a person's demand that the media stop looking into him a red alert that the media should be looking even more? If Beck has nothing to hide, why is he acting like he does? And why don't conservatives want anyone to know?