Today in celebrity journalism

A straight-forward look at what some of the biggest stars in the U.S. news media have been discussing:

David Broder: Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are very serious men and their speeches on torture and Gitmo were splendid. Both should be applauded for not wanting any investigation of torture and Gitmo.

Ross Douthat: “American women are wealthier, healthier and better educated than they were 30 years ago” So why are they so incredibly unhappy?

Jake Tapper: Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court means that Democrats have a big opening to play the race card, while Republican insiders say the GOP will be “sensitive” out of fear of losing Hispanic, women voters.

George Will: “Like conventional liberals, [Sotomayor] embraces identity politics, including the idea of categorical representation: A person is what his or her race, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference is, and members of a particular category can be represented — understood, empathized with — only by persons of the same identity.”

Britt Hume: “That is why the symbol of justice is of a lady balancing scales, but wearing a blindfold. Once sensitivity to the parties and worry about the consequences come into play, the blindfold is off and the law is vulnerable to being not upheld but adjusted to achieve the desired result.”

Joe Klein: Everyone is making a big deal about North Korea and its nukes. It’s really not that big of a deal and we can’t do anything about it anyway.

–WKW