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November 10, 2011 | | SCANDAL Emotions are running high at Penn State, as Tom Bradley takes over for former head coach Joe Paterno, who was fired yesterday for doing nothing to stop Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual abuse of young boys. "Coach Paterno has meant more to me than anyone except my father," said Bradley. Penn State students seem to hold a similarly untarnished image of Paterno, rioting in protest of the coach's firing. The Daily Beast's Buzz Bissinger disagrees, saying good riddance to Paterno for his "buck-passing and unconscionable cowardice." GREEN SCREAM It looks like the Keystone pipeline may be postponed. The State Department is expected to announce that it will explore a new route for the controversial pipeline, which runs from Canada's oil sands to refineries in Texas. Reconsideration of the route could take a year or more. Environmentalists say the Obama administration should reject the pipeline, which they say will worsen climate change and increase dependence on fossil fuel, while ranchers and farmers in the region say it could threaten habitats. The pipeline's owner, TransCanada, and other proponents say it will create jobs and that the review has already been thorough GRILLING Back in the hot seat, but there most likely won't be any pies this time: James Murdoch returned to Parliament on Thursday to face questioning over the News International phone-hacking scandal. Murdoch said he had not been told of the hacking, despite earlier testimony by former News of the World editor Colin Myler and former legal chief Tom Crone. Murdoch blamed Myler and Crone for misleading the committee of M.P.s and said Crone ordered the surveillance of public figures for the News of the World. In one of the more blockbuster moments of testimony, Murdoch called M.P. Tom Watson's line of questioning "offensive," after Watson compared News International's tactics with the mafia. Since the last time Murdoch addressed Parliament, British police arrested a Sun journalist, Jamie Pyatt, and Murdoch said he could not rule out "any corporate reaction"—including closing the Sun, the sister paper of the now-defunct News of the World.
MEDIA BLITZ Rick Perry isn't letting a little "oops" bring him down. After last night's debate brainfreeze, Perry went on a media blitz, which he'll cap off on Thursday with an appearance reading David Letterman's Top 10 list. Asked earlier in the day if the gaffe would make him quit the race, Perry responded, "Oh, shoot, no. This ain't a day for quitting nothing." Perry failed to remember the third federal agency he wished to cut, despite hints from Ron Paul and incredulous questions from the moderator. "The third agency of government I would do away with—the Education, the Commerce. And let's see. I can't. The third one, I can't," Perry said. "Oops." Later he remembered it was the Energy Department.
Scary The Bering Sea superstorm has begun. The west coast of Alaska is being hammered with hurricane-force winds, large waves, and blowing snow, and the conditions are expected to continue for most of the day. There are reports of roofs being blown off houses in Nome, and a seven-foot storm surge is expected to cause coastal erosion and flooding. The National Weather Service has been unequivocal in its warnings, issuing a bulletin saying, "This will be [an] extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm of an epic magnitude rarely experienced," and urging residents to take shelter.
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