What we’re reading on Monday

Richard Land and the Richard Land Live! staff are reading the following articles today…

• What That McCain Article Didn’t Say - NY Times editorial by Clark Hoyt

“A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years his junior and expect readers to focus on anything other than what most of them did. And if a newspaper is going to suggest an improper sexual affair, whether editors think that is the central point or not, it owes readers more proof than The Times was able to provide. The stakes are just too big.” - Clark Hoyt: Public Editor, NYT

• Is there democracy in the Democratic Party? - by Richard Land for Beliefnet.com

“These superdelegates—disproportionately middle-aged (that’s being charitable), white, and male—are free to vote their “consciences,” without regard to what throngs of Democratic primary or caucus voters in their districts or states may have done.” - Richard Land

• Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis, Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community - at Politico.com
• Peggy Noonan analyzes Obama speeches at WSJ.com