Oh brother [emphasis added]:

The controversy, stoked by conservative talk-radio hosts and some politicians, took White House officials by surprise, and marked a new low in the deteriorating relationship between Mr. Obama and a right wing he had pledged to work with in a postpartisan presidency.

Talk about rewriting history. Usually the media's bipartisan talking point is that Obama promised he'd end bickering between the parties; that Obama promised he'd rewire the Beltway entrenched partisan culture in a matter of days. Of course, that's a joke. What Obama did as a candidate was pledge to try to end the partisan fighting. But the press likes it better when Obama somehow guaranteed that he'd end the fighting, so they type that up instead.

But now comes along the WSJ and goes one further. Suddenly the Journal claims that Obama “pledged” to work with the “right wing.” Obama pledged to work with the same fringe radical who concocted the school speech “controversy,” and oh my, that means his relationship with the right wing is tarnished. That means his relationship with Beck and Limbaugh and Malkin has suddenly turned cold.

To paraphrase Barney Frank, on what planet do Journal reporters Jonathan Weisman and Ben Casselman live? On what planet did candidate Obama ever “pledge” to work with the right wing; with “conservative talk show hosts”? On what planet did Obama make plain his desire to have any relationship with the nut jobs on the radical right who consider him to be a communist and a Manchurian Candidate sent to destroy America?

Obama never, ever “pledged” to work with the “right wing” or with “conservative talk show hosts.” The Journal's just inventing history.