I've often joked about how so many members of the GOP Noise Machine prefer to inhabit a strange type of parallel universe where they can all agree on their own set of convenient facts. Indeed, their habitat often resembles Bizarro World, where up is down, black is white, etc.

Well, if you needed any further confirmation of this mystical (mental) place exists, behold Glenn Beck on his radio show today when he longed for the good old days, like when George Bush was sitting in the Oval Office, and when the D.C. press did “not allow” the president “to get away with blatant lies.”

That's right, during the previous decade, the Beltway journalists didn't famously morph into obedient lapdogs. If you think that was the case, you're simply misremembering the past again. This is GOP World, and what Beck says goes. Period. If Beck says we've always been at war with Eastasia, than it's a fact. And if he claims that dogged and determined members of the Beltway press corps courageously checked Bush's every move, than just accept it as the truth.