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From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all.
Today we see that Bill O’Reilly is defending Murdoch and News Corp, while the Tea Party does big things.
Better Than Fiction
Character: Bill O’Reilly
Plot Line: Bill O’Reilly said that the phone hacking scandal is being exploited by “vicious” opponents of News Corp with an ideological agenda.
O’Reilly was speaking on his Tuesday show to Nile Gardner, a British member of the Heritage Foundation. O’Reilly noted that the scandal was a serious one and said that any guilty journalists should be prosecuted. But then, he said that the scandal was being over-hyped.
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GlobalGrind’s Global Mind
Where: Afghanistan
What Happened: Taliban spokesmen are denying reports that the insurgent group’s leader Mullah Omar is dead.
Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a text message sent to journalists on his behalf was fake and the result of a phone hack.
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Inside the Capitol
Where: Washingtion D.C.
Who: The Tea Party
What Happened: The House has passed legislation conditioning a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s borrowing cap on a tea party-backed plan to require immediate spending cuts and a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
The 234-190 vote sends the “cut, cap and balance” plan to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where it has virtually no chance of passing.
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Shame On You
Who: Joel Blanchard
Where: San Francisco
What Happened: Joel Blanchard, the 65-year-old man who started a fire while smoking meth with a blowtorch near a container of gunpowder that he had been stockpiling, was slapped with 45 days in jail on Monday, SFGate reports.
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Hero of the Day
Who: Lance Cpl. Jabari Thompson
What Happened?: A young Brooklyn man who became a Marine to be just like his dad was mortally wounded trying to save a comrade during a bloody clash in Afghanistan last week, grieving kin and the military said yesterday.
“The last thing I told him when he came home for Thanksgiving was, ‘Be safe, Jabari. I want you to come back home alive.’ And he smiled — he had a lovely smile,” recalled Njaye Shinhoster, 57, the shattered stepmom of slain Lance Cpl. Jabari Thompson, 22.
“He said he loved us and that he’d be back,” she said.
But Thompson, a machine-gunner, never recovered from the horrific wounds he sustained in combat July 13 in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, succumbing at a military hospital in Germany on Sunday.
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Numbers Game
Number: 14
Where: Washington
What Happened: Fourteen people were arrested Tuesday for allegedly mounting a cyberattack on the website of PayPal in retaliation for its suspending the accounts of WikiLeaks.
Separately, FBI agents executed more than 35 search warrants around the country in an ongoing investigation into coordinated cyberattacks against major companies and organizations.
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This Day In History
Year: 1973
What: On this day in 1973, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee dies in Los Angeles at age 32 from a brain edema possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller. During Lee’s all-too-brief career, he became a movie star in Asia and, posthumously, in America.
