Cheat Sheet - The Gospel According to Bill O’Reilly

Today: Senate Ends Debate on Spending Bill , Washington Presidential Library Opens , Italian Pasta Man Sorry for Anti-Gay Remarks September 27, 2013 THE GOOD BOOK 1. The Gospel According to Bill O'Reilly Jesus was killed because of taxes. That's more or less the message of Bill O'Reilly's new book. Christianity professor Candida Moss on what else the Fox host gets wrong—and what he leaves out. Read it at The Daily Beast CLOTURE 2. Senate Ends Debate on Spending Bill After a bipartisan cloture vote ended debate on a bill to continue funding the government, the Senate immediately voted along party lines to strip the bill's provisions to defund Obamacare and secure a laundry list of Republican pet projects. After the 54-44 vote, the bill returns to the House, from whence it came. The bill would temporarily increase the government's debt limit ahead of the October 1 deadline. Read it at The Washington Post Finally 3. Washington Presidential Library Opens Franklin Delano Roosevelt has one, Lyndon Johnson has one, Jimmy Carter has one, and George W. Bush just got his this year. Now, 200 years after his death, the United States' very first president finally has his own presidential library. The $106 million library building sits on George Washington's historic Mount Vernon compound, near Alexandria, Virginia, and is filled with Washington's personal books, manuscripts and other artifacts, such as his first copy of the Acts of Congress complete with handwritten notes. "I wouldn't say we, as an institution, would be thought of as a place of serious scholarship around the founding era and Washington," said Mount Vernon's president. "I think now, if we do this correctly, we will be."  Read it at The Washington Post PENNE-NCE 4. Italian Pasta Man Sorry for Anti-Gay Remarks "I apologize if my words generated misunderstandings or arguments, or if they offended the sensibilities of some people," said Barilla chairman Guido Barilla. Not, "if" Barilla, "that." Blowback has been swift for the pasta maker after he was heard telling a radio show that while he respects the gays, he likes "traditional families" and would never use gay families in commercials. He also said that he supported gay marriage but not adoption, and said if gay people or sympathizers don't want to eat his pasta because of his message, then he's not bothered. People took him up on his offer and talk of a boycott has quickly spread on Twitter and Facebook. Read it at The Daily Beast FIRE THEM ALL 5. Hersh: Bin Laden Raid Fabricated Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh lambasted fellow journalists as timid water-carriers, more interested serving higher ups than seeking out truth, in an interview with the Guardian. The 76-year-old, best known for his reporting on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, railed against journalists he says are too soft on Obama. One of the stories he complains that no one is questioning: the Navy Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," Hersh said. He suggested the only fix for the broken profession is firings all around. Newspapers should get rid of 90 percent of "chicken-shit editors," he said, and as for TV, he would, "close down the news bureaus of the networks and let's start all over, tabula rasa." Read it at The Guardian FEEL THE HEAT U.N. Releases Climate Change Report Read the eight key findings here. STEP ONE U.S., Iran Hold Nuclear Talks Highest-level meeting since 1979. HORRIFYING Toxicologists Investigate Flesh-Eating Drug Two people hospitalized. Race to the Top In Campaigns, Female Donors Lag Despite increase in women politicians. MUST-SEE TV 'Homeland' Is Back on Sunday Catch up on what you missed. ROLLING STONE The Wisdom of Miley Cyrus CNBC You Know You're Super Rich When... Your Tango Flash Mobs, Disney Montages & More of the Best Proposals Ever GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. The 'Average Face' of Women in the World What do women from Sweden or Japan or Ethiopia really look like? FaceResearch.org just published results of an experiment in which psychologists combined countenances from around the world to approximate the 'average face' of each country. Takeaway: They're all beautiful. More Videos End Days for the GOP by Michael Tomasky Niki Lauda on the Crash That Nearly Killed Him by Marlow Stern Is Pippa Badly Dressed? by Tom Sykes

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