LIZ PEEK: Obama’s Auto Bailout Was Really a Hefty Union Payoff. Ya think?

UPDATE: Timothy Reed emails: “The auto bailout was, to my mind, a newspaper bailout–the first of many to come I fear. Just buy your local rag and look at the percentage of auto space. Without GM and Chrysler related ads, already sick newspapers would have gone on the respirator the next day. Sure, the auto unions got help, but the bailout also protected many hundreds of non-union (and ad buying) dealerships. Why were union friendly bailout proponents so generous to all of those non-union businesses? Newspapers.”