>> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a cnn special report, "gerry-rigged, why your vote

lz, what do you -- listen, later in that report, jeanne moos said that people thought he was channelling paul lynn from the game shows in the '60s and '70s. >> who's paul lynn? >> oh, no. really? the center square request. are you kidding me? >> right. >> explain to him. >> i thought you said '60s. >> here i can explain this. one more piece of rotten behavior for rick perry. i don't get it. he gives these pathetic, low energy performances during the debates. then he comes back at the last debate and he is all angry and agitated and now he is loopy and soupy sales. so i'm not sure what is going on with rick right now but it is rather entertaining. i will tell you that much. >> do you know who soupy sales is? >> i have heard of him. >> we will give you much later a cultural reference. how about howard dean, some people are calling this his howard dean moment. saying we are going to iowa back in 2004. >> isn't that interesting? howard dean, poor guy, had one moment, one tiny 20 seconds in a speech and it killed his campaign. i don't think this will happen to rick perry here. this isn't a go

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here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: an officer hosed down protesters were pepper spray. now he's getting hosed back, peppered with ridicule for watering my hippies. >> he was like watering the garden like this. >> reporter: now he's spraying everyone from santa to jesus at the last supper. he's spraying lassie. he's spraying snoopy. he's become what's called a meme, an idea reproducing across the web, spraying another internet meme, the keyboard cat. he's spraying the beatles, he spraying to stop the flag raisers at iwo jima. his pepper spray replaces the torch on the statue of liberty. he's spraying in famous paintings, at historic moments, at national monuments and now we know why house speak are john boehner cries. he, too has been pemer sprayed. lieutenant john pike has been nicknamed pepper spray pike. want to see the super committee do something? give me ten minutes with them in a locked room with spray. the hacker group anonymous went over lieutenant pike by publicizing his phone and address. >> we are going to make you squeal. >> someone even created the pepper s

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our jeanne moos has been taking a look at some eyebrow raising ads that are way out there. take a look. >> reporter: first, russia's leader couldn't keep his shirt on. and now vladimir putin's party has a get out the vote ad that shows a couple getting it on. getting it on in the voting booth. >> the tag line is let's do this together. >> reporter: herreman institute director timothy frye says the ad smacks of desperation on the part of putin's united russia party. >> it's clearly an attempt to make united russia look hip. >> reporter: the attempt to go after the youth vote spawned putin puns like she is is putin out. they're attempting to show the macho brand brimming with te testostero testosterone. cleavage bearing women calling themselves putin's army strut their stuff much like obama girl did in 2008. ♪ i got a crush on obama >> reporter: at least obama girl didn't strip as this candidate for poland's parliament's girl in the ad did. you want more, it says, vote for sld. apparently, they didn't. the left leaning party got creamed. but the most orgasmic political ad e

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jeanne moos, cnn. go to break. >> there may be a fire on this floor. next! >> reporter: new york. >> leave it to jeanne moos. thanks very much. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. the news continues next on cnn. >>> good evening, everyone. tonight, wall street is celebrating its best day of a volatile 2011, all of the major market indexes up, more than 4%, after a global effort by major central banks to ease europe's debt crisis. will the rally last? there are many skeptics. for a day the numbers were stunning and in a good away the dow up more than 490 points, that's 4.2% for the day, back into positive territory for the year. the biggest gain for the dow in both points and percentage since march 2009. the standard and poor's 500 stock index climbed 4.3%. the nasdaq up 4.2, all after the federal reserve and a handful of other central banks announced they'd make it easier for global financial institutions to borrow dollars, which are in high demand as investors are get more skittish about the oar re. cnn's richard q

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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> hello, everyone. egypt's arab spring has become an autumn of discontent and violence and death. at least two dozen people have been killed in anti-government protests. three americans are accused of throwing molitov cocktails at those protests. we'll take you to cairo live in a few minutes. >>> and how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? america's most important arab ally. that is the kind of questions republican candidates will be asked about ten hours from now right here on cnn. >>> this is the 11th gop candidate debate so far, but the first one talking about american policy. we're talking about it with joe johns. he's at constitution hall where the debate will tapke place. what are the expectations tonight for the foreign policy debate, joe? >> well, hala, you have to start with the news of the day, and the news of the day is that the congressional super committee that was supposed to figure out all the budget problems for the next several years has failed. an

breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." but to the deepening political hot water for newt gingrich, who just days after making a dramatic jump to the top in the polls is now facing serious questions about his ties to freddie mac. specifically, why sources say he was paid more than $1 million by the company. let's bring in our own brian todd. he's been working on the story. what are you finding out? >> this new information about gingrich's compensation at freddie mac and what he did for them presents tough new questions for the candidate. newt gingrich has had some harsh words recently for pligs who dealt with troubled mortgage companies. listen to his comments as a "washington post" bloomberg debate. >> if you want to put people in jail, you ought to start with barney frank and chris dodd and let's look at the politicians who created the environment and the politicses who put this country in trouble. >> clearly you're not saying they should go to jail. >> in dodd's case, look at the country w

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here the jeanne moos. >> reporter: letter to the flag for unnecessary roughness. two former football greats go at it over an ancient grudge. emcee ron james called it -- >> a couple of september ogentl nairians duking it out. >> and from a flower piece, extended it to his rival who responded -- and perhaps swatted angelo with a flower. he used his cane to knock his glasses off. then cap decked him with a one-two punch. ironic that the new book is entitled "tell me to my face." even more ironic was the first word out of cap's mouth after the fight. >> sportsmanship. >> once knocked down, cap still didn't stop. >> i'm 74 years old. i don't walk very good with a cane and i had no balance. down i went. had i went down, he kicked me. >> reporter: see if you see it. not that mosca hasn't kicked a few guys as a wrestler after retiring from football. >> angelo king kong mosco. >> it's ridiculous it ever happened. >> reporter: the grudge goes back 48 years. it was a canadian football league championship game. then quarterback cap was mad because mosco made what was conside

breaking news, political headlines and jeanne moos all straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." a dramatic move reminiscent of the 2008 financial crisis. stock markets soar today with the dow surging almost 500 points on word of a mass international effort by the federal reserve and other central banks to rescue europe from an economic disaster with potentially desire implications for all of us. let's bring in erin burnett and richard quest to break it all down. what it means. erin, first to you. from the economic experts you're talking to, i take it this was the right move, but it was an act of desperation. >> i think that's the right way to characterize it. the markets rejoiced. that's a big jump and puts the market solidly above 12,000. that's good news. i will say this, wolf. in talking to some investors, i talked to some people at pimco, the largest bond investor in america, they said the issue here is it's down the line when you start to wonder what happens. what the fed is doing is providing money for european banks who aren't able to get d

jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ new york. >>> and it's the top of the hour. thanks for joining us here in the cnn newsroom. this morning jerry sandusky admits he horsed around but insists he's innocent. his first public comments may leave people even more sickened and more outraged. the former penn state football coach says he is not sexually attracted to young boys even though he admits to showering with them. he says it was just poor judgment. listen to sandusky in his own words with bob costas. >> in retrospect, you know, i shouldn't have showered with those kids. >> that's it? >> yeah, that's what hits me the most. >> are you a pedophile? >> no. >> are you sexually attracted to young boys, to underage boys? >> am i sexually attracted to underage boys? >> yes. >> sexually attracted, no. i enjoy young people. i love to be around them. i -- but, no, i'm not sexually attracted to young boys. >> jason carroll was at the penn state campus. he actually spoke with sandusky's lawyer. >> kyra, as you noi, i spoke to sandusky's attorney for a lengthy period of time.

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cnn's jeanne moos calls the fight. >> throw the flag. two football fanatics go at it after a years-long grudge. it started at a vancouver luncheon when former quarterback joe kapp took a flower from a centerpiece and extended it to his rival who responded -- half swatted angelo maska with a flower. maska used his cane to knock his glasses off, then cane decked him with a one-two punch. maska's new book is entitled "tell it to my face." even more ironic was the words out of kapp's mouth after the fight. once he was knocked down, kapp still didn't stop. >> i'm 74 years old and i don't even walk well with a cane. i have no balance. when i went down, he kicked me. >> maska having kicked a few guys in his days as a wrestler after retiring from football. >> king congress maska! >> but king kongmaska wasn't resting after this one. the grudge goes back 50 years after a championship game. then cane hit back after maska made what he called a dirty hit that knocked one of the maska's teammates from the game. >> i'm not gonna sit here and watch some

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