The Obama “Truth Team” was giddy to get this tweet out when the Des Moines Register ran an editorial critical of Mourdock in the Indiana Senate race:

But once the DMR decided to endorse Romney over the president, their tone changed. Slightly:

Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, complained that the paper’s endorsement “didn’t seem to be based at all in reality.”
I guess it depends on what your definition of “reality” is:
“It was a little surprising to read that editorial, because it didn’t seem to be based at all in reality — not just in the president’s record, but in Mitt Romney’s record,” Cutter said. “It says that he’d reach across the aisle, which he’d do the exact opposite. It’s the exact opposite of what he did in Massachusetts.”

Maybe Team Obama can explain the reality of how the editors of the DMR get it so, so right with one race, but are not to be believed when it comes to their opinion of the president.