I've long thought that liberals operate out of a delusional state, but its odd that have it confirmed so literally.

Sen. Barack Obama, the leading Democratic candidate for his party's nomination, is very fond of telling receptive audiences the story about how last May he walked right into the automotive lion's den of Detroit and told those industrialists they were going to have to shape up, change the way they do things and start making more fuel-efficient vehicles to protect our environment.

"And I have to say," the straight-talking Obama tells his chuckling followers, "that when I delivered that speech, the room got really quiet. [Laughter] Nobody clapped."

Well, in honor of Obama's return campaign visit back to Michigan this week, someone -- perhaps Republicans, perhaps someone closer to home politically -- assembled videotape of Obama's oft-told tale and spliced it side by side with videotape of that actual Detroit speech.

You'll never guess what. The room wasn't quiet at all. Obama, in fact, got a loud round of applause. And at the end of his address the camera's view of him at the podium is partially blocked because the audience of local businesspeople and automotive executives was rising to give him a standing ovation.

The L.A. Times refers to it as Obama's Bosnian Sniper incident, but its apparently a common liberal ailment this fault recollection of metaphorical Christmas Eve trips into Cambodia. Ed Driscoll notes that Robert Reich, Clinton's Secretary of Labor, similarly recalled capitalist disapproval from a reality of polite applause.

Damn that YouTube...