governor? some media dilemmas to ponder. hank williams jr. s offensive comments about president obama. should monday night football have given the singer the boot? those wall street protests now spreading across the country. has the press been too slow to recognize their importance? plus, the passing of steve jobs. the visionary who was so brilliant at manipulating a news business that served as his cheering section. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. back in may, i wrote a newsweek headline, is sarah palin over? it seemed there was no way the fox commentator was going to mount a white house campaign. it was just as clear when reporters were chasing the bus trips she took over the summer. but the press somehow kept up the pretense until this week when palin pulled the plug with a statement and a radio interview, not like chris christie, at a news conference. to tell you the truth, i made my announcement today in the format that i did because that wa
halfway around the world, thousands of michael jackson fans are attending a tribute concert in wales today. the pop icon s three children are attending it also. several of jackson s siblings are performing. it comes as jackson s physician stands trial for involuntary manslaughter in the singer s death. for the first time this week, we heard dr. conrad murray s interview with detectives. everything happened very quickly. just about the time i was gone and i came back. so i started immediately to perform cpr and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. testimony in the trial resumes on monday. a dramatic rescue at sea. a small plane ran out of gas while flying from monterey, california, to hawaii. the pilot notified the coast guard they was in trouble about five miles from show. a rescue team coached him how to safely land the plane right there on its body. a rescue chopper pulled the pilot to safety. archbishop desmond tutu is celebrating his 80th birthday with a lot of laughter,
protestant denonnation in the world is a cult. i think he s a good moral man but those of us who are good followers of christ should prefer a competent christian to a competent nonchristian like mitt romney. well, reverend jeffress leaves a huge baptist church and we should note that he also supports romney s rival, rick perry, for president. bill bennett today joined the debate, linking the minister s comments about romney and mormonism to bigotry and questioning the pastor s political wisdom. and i would say to pastor jeffress, you stepped on and obscured the words of perry and santorum and cain and bachmann and everyone else who has spoken here. you did rick perry no good, sir, in what you had to say. after romney it was perry s turn. he called for a truce in this debate but did address the speaker who would follow him and who has criticized his faith in the past. poisonous language does not advance our cause. it s never softened our heart or changed a single mind.
he also served at a.l. west xhixer. he died at the age of 82. new york mayor michael bloomberg sharply criticizing occupy wall street. he said the protest over high unemployment and corporate greed could destroy jobs in lower manhattan. national correspondent susan candiotti in new york following this movement. saturdays have seen the most activity. what s going on? reporter: that s right. well, now there is additional activity by way of a second location, because now occupy wall street has set up a second base of operations about two miles north of where they were before. that park is still full with protestors near wall street, but now they re in a historic park called washington square park up in the 1800s. it is home to street performers and street artists and chess players and people who just like to hang out on a beautiful day like this. on this day at this hour there is a rally that just started by occupy wall street. unlike the other location, they are not g
who will fill the shoes and be the product visionary. steve jobs could understand what consumers want before they wanted all these products. who will step in and be able to sort of create the next iphone or the next ipad? that s the own question here. i don t think anybody can answer that, kyra. i think a lot of people are asking that question. i understand there are some special services for employees today. we don t know when they re going to occur, what we know is that when steve jobs died ceo tim cook put out a statement and said at some point there will be a celebration of steve jobs life for apple employees who can attend. we know that, of course, steve jobs was a very private person, despite his public percsona. funeral details were not released to the public and we re not aware of any planned services for his friends or for his family. i m sure those details will eventually come out and, also, kyra, it s believed that really is only his true inner circle was awar