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let's bring in dave zirin. thank you for your time tonight. ave, you were just about bouncing off walls bouncing through tv screens all day. give me your take on what happened and why. >> it was about as agonizing as passing a kidney stone and slightly less fun to actually sit through the end of that broadcast last night. it was so painful! it was a living, breathing explanation for why skilled union labor matters in the united states! you had unskilled untrained replacement/scab referees and the moment was far too big for them to put it mildly. they couldn't punch their way -- they absolutely cracked under the pressure and the result of which you saw on the field. an absolute embarrassment and a farce. something i believe woody allen would have called a travesty of a mockery of a travesty of a sham. >> eliot: basically like american politics. we'll put that aside for a moment. what i saw and i'm the untrained observer when it comes to the intricacies of football rules. i saw pass interference. one guy catch the ball. they missed the interferen

dave zirin, the guys are back on the field tonight, browns and ravens on thursday night football. thank you for reporting on this. >> going to cleveland though, that doesn't seem like a way to make them feel welcomed. >> you said it, i didn't. a tough way to start. >>> tigers looking to take sole position of the al central lead facing the royals. bottom of the fifth. score tied at four. miguel cabrera gets in one. deep left. what a year he's having. looks like it's going to go. wow. a little fakeout by alex gordon. plays it perfectly. takes a home run away from cabrera. look at him hold the wall. what a play. cabrera is chasing the triple crown. he needed that home run to push him even with josh hamilton. runners on the corners. johnny peralta grounds into what should have been an inning ending double play. look at the takeout slide that prevents the royals from turning two. the go-ahead run scores. and that decided the game. it's the little things, young players. tigers get it done 5-4. the white sox lost yesterday. they're alone in first place since july 24th. >>> orioles, a mon

>> as replacement refs blow a critical call, we will speak to dave zirin.ll of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. syrian rebels have bombed a military command building in damascus, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the regime of president bashar al-assad. the rebels claimed dozens of forces were killed, while the regime says several people were wounded. greek workers are holding their first general strike today. thousands of greeks are converging outside the parliament in athens. the general strike is expected to shut down many locations. meanwhile in spain, thousands of people surrounded the spanish parliament in madrid tuesday as the spanish government prepares to unveil further austerity measures. police charged against demonstrators with batons and fired rubber bullets. 35 people were arrested and 60 were injured. president obama addressed the u.n. general assembly with a heavy focus on the wave of protests that have swept muslim countries and the killing of u.s. amb

you can go to democracynow.org to see our interview with sportswriter dave zirin. in sweden, the 2012 right livelihood awards have been announced to four recipients. turkish environmental activist hayrettin karaca "for a lifetime of tireless advocacy and support for the protection and stewardship of our natural world." afghan women's activist -- a u.s. scholar gene sharp -- and to britain's campaign against arms trade -- handed out annually, the right glove awards are widely known as the alternative nobel prize. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin our show with a look at the secretive american legislative exchange council. the organization, often known as alec, brings together major corporations and state legislators to craft and vote on model bills behind closed doors. it has come under increasing scrutiny for its role in promoting stand your ground gun laws, voter suppression bills, union busting policies, and other controversial legislation. the organization's agenda has

and the sports editor for the "full court press," we have adopted him or stolen him or whatever, dave zirin intense sports weekend. >> bill: that's right. my god for people like you, right this is it right? >> it was a little much. people say the nfl was a dangerous sport with a lot of injuries, the pain i had in think thumb from switching my remote control around, i think i'm the true hero. [ laughter ] >> bill: let's start with serena williams. she is awesome beyond words, huh? >> yeah, it is interesting, you are absolutely right that her sister venus is an all-time great, but i think serena now is in rare air, where you have to start saying, it serena williams or martina navratilova. >> bill: the greatest of all time? >> that's the discussion right now. it was so stunning to me, and the contrast was really interesting, because everybody was going to crazy about the nfl and opening weekend and the grit of the national football league and some of the big comebacks, and then you have got here on the other channel there is serena williams just making history. >> bill: right on the nfl you ha

joining me, gwen moore, ari melber and brentin mock and dave zirin.us it is not over until it is over. despite these great polls, what are we looking at in the next month? >> i thought you were going to go with samuel jackson, i want the snakes off the plane and i would like the superpacs being the snakes. we could do a lot of samuel l. jackson. >> i will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who will attempt to destroy my brothers. >> a lot of you know my name is the lord when i lay my vengeance upon thee. that should be obama's slogan for the first debates. >> they don't know the second hour of nhp is a drinking game. >> congresswoman, i'm almost sad i put you at this table. >> really, i'm not ready to pop open the champagne cork for president obama, because, you know, the republicans have what i call scissergy where the sun, the moon, and the stars have all lined up in their benefit to change the game here. number one, they have citizens united where they can spend unlimited, unaccountable amounts of money. if you give me $20 don

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