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Daybreak: Murdoch Apologizes for Bibi Cartoon

Plus fact checking claims on Chuck Hagel

by
Adam Chandler
January 29, 2013
Rupert Murdoch(Salon)
Rupert Murdoch(Salon)

• News Corps baron Rupert Murdoch apologized for the “grotesque” cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Sunday Times of London, depicting the Israeli premier fashioning a wall out of Palestinian blood and bodies. [AP]

• Amid revelations over the weekend that SuperPACs were taking aim at former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense, the Associated Press has dissected some of the newer claims against Hagel. [AP/NYT]

• Jonathan Chait crushes a claim by the Washington Free Beacon that Chris Hughes, newish owner of the liberal New Republic, is purging the magazine’s masthead of its Jewish writers. [NYMag]

• Jeffrey Goldberg dispels some myths and sizes up the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in light of the recent Israeli elections. [Bloomberg]

• Actress Drew Barrymore, who once went on fifty first dates with Adam Sandler and still ended up with him at the end of the movie, talks shop about raising her daughter Jewish. [Jewcy]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.