Apparently someone assaulted Rupert Murdoch just as the hearing before Parliament was taking a break. TV cameras cut away before it could be seen what was happening. Reuters news wire reports: “Man threw white plate with foam on Rupert Murdoch’s face, Rupert’s wife hit him back.”
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Parliament exposes Rupert Murdoch as conveniently oblivious to the operations of News Corp.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) giving Mitt Romney a run for his money in the latest national poll of the GOP primary race.
Rupert Murdoch: “This is the most humble day of my life.”
Parliament grills Rupert Murdoch over the phone hacking scandal beginning at 9:30 ET. Watch.
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Brian Beutler cuts through the all incremental developments in the debt ceiling talks to give us the big picture on where things are headed and why.
We’ve got a primer for you in advance of Parliament’s grilling today of the Murdochs, father and son. Fascinating stuff.
George Packer on the respective positions of President Obama and the GOP in the debt talks: “Responsibility without conviction is weak, but it is sane. Conviction without responsibility, in the current incarnation of the Republican Party, is raving mad.”