What does AFSCME bailout ad buy from Obama?

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The Washington Post and New York Times never tire of telling us how evil the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision is. It “tore down a century’s worth of law aimed at reducing the amount of corruption in our electoral system,” The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne whines. Apparently Dionne and his campaign finance zealot brethren believe Citizens United forever corrupted our previously prestine political system since now “a presidential candidacy might be kept alive largely through the generosity of a Las Vegas gambling magnate.” The horror.

But where are all the liberal cries about corruption when unions spend millions to help elect President Obama? The Wall Street Journal reports today:

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