| | Today: Protests Greet Merkel in Athens , Felix Baumgartner Talks Space Jump, Red Bull's 'Stratos,' Kittinger's Record, and More , 'Sesame Street' to Obama: Pull the Ad |  |   | |  |  |
October 09, 2012 | | Judgment Day Jerry Sandusky, the disgraced ex–Penn State coach, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for 45 counts of child abuse. In a tearful statement, he launched into a soliloquy about seeing himself free again playing with children, balloons, and dogs. Diane Dimond reports.
GREEK RAGE At least 40,000 demonstrators took to the streets near Parliament to protest against Angela Merkel during her visit to Greece. One small group burned a flag bearing a Nazi swastika and some protesters dressed in Nazi uniforms. Banners at rallies read "Don't Cry for Us Mrs. Merkel" and "Merkel You Are Not Welcome Here." In preparation for Merkel's trip, authorities banned protests in many parts of Athens and launched the biggest security operation since 1999, when protesters broke out over NATO airstrikes. A police spokeswoman said that 217 people have been detained and 24 have been arrested and 7,000 police officers are on standby in the capital to keep order. INSANE His 23-mile space jump was postponed on Tuesday due to high winds, but that won't stop Felix Baumgartner from his mission to become the first man to break the sound barrier in free fall. The Daily Beast talks to Baumgartner about his training, his inspiration, and how it will feel to fall more than 100,000 feet.
ON NO YOU DIDN'T Sesame Street's letters of the day are T-A-K-E I-T D-O-W-N, O-B-A-M-A. After the president's campaign used Big Bird to mock Romney in a new ad, Sesame Street asked Obama to pull the spot. In a statement on its blog, Sesame Street said that it doesn't participate in political campaigns. "We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down," the blog post read. The ad cast Romney as the only soul brave enough to fight Big Bird, an "evil genius" that was not only big and yellow, but a menace to our economy. In Like Flint Paul Ryan took an eventful campaign tour through Michigan, Sunday. First, in a tense interview with Flint's ABC News affiliate, Ryan told reporter Terry Camp that the U.S. "has a crime problem," not a gun problem, and that it's up to "charities and civic groups and churches ... to help one another make sure that they can realize the value of one another." When Camp asked, "And you can do all that by cutting taxes? With a big tax cut?" Ryan quipped, "Those are your words, not mine," promptly ending the interview. Romney's running mate presumably had more fun at a fundraiser in Rochester later that night, in which he was introduced to the crowd by Republican rocker, Kid Rock. | | 
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