There is a reason why conservatives find it deeply hypocritical for liberals to call for an end to First Amendment rights for some corporations but not others. If an oil company wants to spend money advocating against punitive taxation of their industry, it is the end of democracy as we know it. But if The Washington Post, also a corporation, wants to spend millions distributing attacks on Republican presidential candidates, that is A-OK.

The Post continued their long and well established history of shoddy attacks on Republicans today (how many stories did they do on Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s college thesis?), releasing an artfully timed hit piece on Mitt Romney about an alleged high school prank that happened almost 50 years ago. The story opens: