A few readers complained about our display of a couple presidential politics stories this past weekend.

On Saturday, we ran a 6-inch story “Alaska investigator finds Palin abused her power” on Page A20. A reader who said he favors Obama thought…

An article in the Christian Science Monitor  reports that media truth squads are hard at work trying to gauge the accuracy of the presidential candidates’ campaigns claims.

To show how difficult that challenge is the article notes that:

“A recent Gallup poll…

A CENTRIST sent us a link to a NewsBuster posting by Ken Shepherd that wonders if Barack Obama’s Sept. 9 “lipstick on a pig” comment was inspired by R.J. Matson’s Sept. 5 editorial cartoon.

Matson’s cartoon — which appeared on the Opinion page…

Of all the issues in this presidential campaign, who would have thought putting “lipstick on a pig” would emerge as the latest battleground?

Slate.com has an interesting article on the origins and meaning of “lipstick on a pig.” It finds a 1926…

There’s an interesting give-and-take going on between many in the media and the GOP about examining the record of Sarah Palin. Even as  journalists report on Palin,  they also seem to feel the need to rationalize doing so.

The New York…

“Palin pledges to shake up D.C.” is the lead headline on the top story in today’s Post-Dispatch.  “Making history” is the second headline and the third: “First woman on GOP ticket throws quick jabs at Obama.”

Slate.com’s  synopsis of major national papers indicates…