Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Okay, Clearly the compromise here on the debate microphones is Trump gets to keep the mics muted, but his mic has to be muted for the entire debate. Problem solved. We'll get back to the debate and why Trump's transparent attempt to back out of it again seems to have surprised the political media industrial complex again. But first, that rare day when the polling really is startling, the full Reichstag fire level propaganda site Red State may have commissioned certainly got first access to a pole showing Kamala Harris leading Trump fifty two to forty five among likely voters seven points fifty to forty six among registered voters. That is outside the margin of error according to the head of the firm, the firm which is so right wing that the polster's pinned tweet is about how in two thousand and eleven he predicted that Trump would become president someday. The polling was completed Saturday, and the piece at Red State is so filled with caveats that it's just this side of the Polster self flagellating and yet Harris, with everything going in her favor, is still not pulling away from Trump, writes Doug Kaplan, who try as he might, cannot escape his own numbers. She is on an incredible winning streak right now. They also did favorability scores. They claim Harris is at fifty to fifty and Trump is only eleven points underwater. The biggest factor, writes Kaplan, strategies helping Harris is how she has neutralized the immigration issue. In both polls, immigration was the fourth most important issue, or rather only ten percent told us it was their number one. I think you have the gist of this. Now he keeps telling the fascists what the numbers actually say, then he offers them excuses for those numbers. There is even a vaguely worded detail about what impact the RFK Junior endorsement will have on Trump's numbers going forward, which is kind of weird because their poll was in the field Friday, when Kennedy accepted Trump's bribe, and Saturday, the day after he endorsed him. Kaplan claims his poll shows twenty percent of likely voters were more likely to vote for Trump based on a Kennedy endorsement, which could mean anything, because a he already endorsed him, and b. Kaplan is not saying twenty percent of undecided voters are saying this, just twenty percent of all voters, which would include people who were already likely to vote for Trump, in which conceivably could consist only of people who were already likely to vote for Trump. Also on polling, the weekly update from Morning Consult has shown no convention bump for Harris, or maybe just a continuation of all the previous bumps. It is unchanged same as last week Harris forty eight, Trump forty four, but remarkably there are signs of a Tim Walls bump. His favorability in Morning Consult was at thirty nine percent and plus three before the convention. It is at forty two percent and now plus six after it. The poles continue to be so uniformly bad for Trump, even the cooked ones are bad for Trump that today the Trump campaign begins rolling out TV ads for him on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and a few others on cable. In West Palm Beach, Florida. It is hard to tell if the campaign is seeing more of those hints that we saw last week that Harris really is kind of moving towards being competitive in Florida, Or if this ad buy is just to calm their candidate down at Mari Lago as he continues to act as if he's been suffering a mini stroke once an average of every eight hours and twenty seven minutes, or so, hey, look on the bright side. Maybe it's both. While we are here in polling land Echelon, the only Polster is ever to complain when I complimented their work has Trump ahead nationally forty nine forty eight tip a less red meat Republican polster has Harris ahead in Michigan by two, but it has Alyssa Slotkin ahead in Michigan by ten in the Senate race. The Republican dark money group Read Eagle commissioned to poll in which claims Trump is ahead in Pennsylvania by one. The Washington Post average of swing state poles has her ahead in Pennsylvania by two. Also, that's a head in Michigan by one in the Washington Post average, ahead in Wisconsin by three, trailing by one in Arizona and North Carolina, trailing by two in Nevada, trailing by three in Georgia. In each of those states. The Post average of polls shows in the five weeks since the president stepped out of the race, a swing to Harris of between two point eight points and three point nine points. Again, these are from an average of the polls in the swing states, not just a Washington Post poll. The other news here. The Wisconsin Supreme Court says Jill Stein can say on the ballot there, so the Kremlin is happy, and Tulsey Gabbard has endorsed Trump, so justifiably panicky trumpists can now pretend Gabbard as a Democrat or a Liberal. What I must mention I am not seeing yet and really want to see, is actual concrete results about whether or not the Kennedy endorsement is playing at all in the polling. I mean that four percent or so has to go somewhere, and the state and national polling to this point has been utterly contradictory. In many swing states Kennedy had been hurting Trump, but nationally it seemed as if he was taking away somewhere around two and a half points from each of them. There were other states in which it appeared he was hurting Harris. I really want to see poles in which Kennedy's supporters are asked about the dead Central Park cub and the dead dog, and now the dead whale, and the story his daughter tells of him driving to cut off the head of that dead whale where a chain saw and strapping it to the roof of their car from a five hour drive home, and how quoting her whale juice would pour into the windows of the car. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us. By the way, those quotes were in naturally Town and Country magazine, which is leading this month's issue with how to make your hands look younger. Don't pick up a goddamned whalehead. That's one way anyway. I guess until we have some Kennedy specific polling, he will simply remain Trump's cross to bear, Trump's cross to bear this thing on. Hello. Trump is back trying to back out of the presidential debate, and he's not even doing it well, and the American political media is, as always astonished. As soon as Harris replaced Biden, Trump claimed all debate agreements were off. Now he is enraged because she wants the mics always open, not muted, not because he objects to the mics not being muted, but just because she wants it. Let me summarize this. Trump is trying to back out of the debate. He is hoping to be able to back out and blame her. He did this exact same thing with Biden too, starting late last year. He is using as an excuse now an objection to something he agrees with. What is Harris doing? Harris bluntly is effing with him, and rather successfully. The Harris team has already proven to be the most successful anti Trump entity in this fertile field of effing with him and the media. They are making noises like sea lions over this. Like all this started yesterday morning. In fact, it started at ten pm Eastern Sunday night. But of course ninety nine out of one hundred political reporters take the weekends off and the other one only sticks around until the Sunday shows are over, and then it's hot and cold running mimosas for the rest of the day. Trump posted, I watched ABC fake news this morning, and you know it's really fake news because he capitalized it both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl's ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton, who was fantastic, and their so called panel of Trump haters, And I ask why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris on that network? Will panelist Donald Brazil give the questions to the Marxist candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala's best friend who heads up ABC do? Likewise? Where is little George Slopadopoulos hanging out now? Will he be involved? They've got a lot of questions to answer. Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBCCBS and even CNN stay tuned? Many strokes so Monday morning. The Harris camp then says it agreed to fulfill the second half of the Biden Trump debate schedule that Trump agreed to, but when they did that, they insisted that the debate rules were still up for debate. And then hours later Harris communications guru Brian Fallon disclaimer we used to be in that fantasy football league together said quote. We have told ABC and the other network seeking to host a possible October debate that we believe both candidates Mike's should be live throughout the full broadcast. We suspect Trump's team has not even told their boss about this dispute because it would be too embarrassing to admit. They don't think he can handle himself against Vice President Harris without the benefit of a mute button. As I find myself asking so often here so recently, is it loll or is it lowell? Wait, there's more lolling. Trump on his way yesterday to using Arlington National Cemetery as a political prop where he stood in front of soldier's graves and smiled and gave a thumbs up. Trump he didn't actually care about this.

Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Okay, Clearly the compromise here on the debate microphones is Trump gets to keep the mics muted, but his mic has to be muted for the entire debate. Problem solved. We'll get back to the debate and why Trump's transparent attempt to back out of it again seems to have surprised the political media industrial complex again. But first, that rare day when the polling really is startling, the full Reichstag fire level propaganda site Red State may have commissioned certainly got first access to a pole showing Kamala Harris leading Trump fifty two to forty five among likely voters seven points fifty to forty six among registered voters. That is outside the margin of error according to the head of the firm, the firm which is so right wing that the polster's pinned tweet is about how in two thousand and eleven he predicted that Trump would become president someday. The polling was completed Saturday, and the piece at Red State is so filled with caveats that it's just this side of the Polster self flagellating and yet Harris, with everything going in her favor, is still not pulling away from Trump, writes Doug Kaplan, who try as he might, cannot escape his own numbers. She is on an incredible winning streak right now. They also did favorability scores. They claim Harris is at fifty to fifty and Trump is only eleven points underwater. The biggest factor, writes Kaplan, strategies helping Harris is how she has neutralized the immigration issue. In both polls, immigration was the fourth most important issue, or rather only ten percent told us it was their number one. I think you have the gist of this. Now he keeps telling the fascists what the numbers actually say, then he offers them excuses for those numbers. There is even a vaguely worded detail about what impact the RFK Junior endorsement will have on Trump's numbers going forward, which is kind of weird because their poll was in the field Friday, when Kennedy accepted Trump's bribe, and Saturday, the day after he endorsed him. Kaplan claims his poll shows twenty percent of likely voters were more likely to vote for Trump based on a Kennedy endorsement, which could mean anything, because a he already endorsed him, and b. Kaplan is not saying twenty percent of undecided voters are saying this, just twenty percent of all voters, which would include people who were already likely to vote for Trump, in which conceivably could consist only of people who were already likely to vote for Trump. Also on polling, the weekly update from Morning Consult has shown no convention bump for Harris, or maybe just a continuation of all the previous bumps. It is unchanged same as last week Harris forty eight, Trump forty four, but remarkably there are signs of a Tim Walls bump. His favorability in Morning Consult was at thirty nine percent and plus three before the convention. It is at forty two percent and now plus six after it. The poles continue to be so uniformly bad for Trump, even the cooked ones are bad for Trump that today the Trump campaign begins rolling out TV ads for him on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and a few others on cable. In West Palm Beach, Florida. It is hard to tell if the campaign is seeing more of those hints that we saw last week that Harris really is kind of moving towards being competitive in Florida, Or if this ad buy is just to calm their candidate down at Mari Lago as he continues to act as if he's been suffering a mini stroke once an average of every eight hours and twenty seven minutes, or so, hey, look on the bright side. Maybe it's both. While we are here in polling land Echelon, the only Polster is ever to complain when I complimented their work has Trump ahead nationally forty nine forty eight tip a less red meat Republican polster has Harris ahead in Michigan by two, but it has Alyssa Slotkin ahead in Michigan by ten in the Senate race. The Republican dark money group Read Eagle commissioned to poll in which claims Trump is ahead in Pennsylvania by one. The Washington Post average of swing state poles has her ahead in Pennsylvania by two. Also, that's a head in Michigan by one in the Washington Post average, ahead in Wisconsin by three, trailing by one in Arizona and North Carolina, trailing by two in Nevada, trailing by three in Georgia. In each of those states. The Post average of polls shows in the five weeks since the president stepped out of the race, a swing to Harris of between two point eight points and three point nine points. Again, these are from an average of the polls in the swing states, not just a Washington Post poll. The other news here. The Wisconsin Supreme Court says Jill Stein can say on the ballot there, so the Kremlin is happy, and Tulsey Gabbard has endorsed Trump, so justifiably panicky trumpists can now pretend Gabbard as a Democrat or a Liberal. What I must mention I am not seeing yet and really want to see, is actual concrete results about whether or not the Kennedy endorsement is playing at all in the polling. I mean that four percent or so has to go somewhere, and the state and national polling to this point has been utterly contradictory. In many swing states Kennedy had been hurting Trump, but nationally it seemed as if he was taking away somewhere around two and a half points from each of them. There were other states in which it appeared he was hurting Harris. I really want to see poles in which Kennedy's supporters are asked about the dead Central Park cub and the dead dog, and now the dead whale, and the story his daughter tells of him driving to cut off the head of that dead whale where a chain saw and strapping it to the roof of their car from a five hour drive home, and how quoting her whale juice would pour into the windows of the car. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us. By the way, those quotes were in naturally Town and Country magazine, which is leading this month's issue with how to make your hands look younger. Don't pick up a goddamned whalehead. That's one way anyway. I guess until we have some Kennedy specific polling, he will simply remain Trump's cross to bear, Trump's cross to bear this thing on. Hello. Trump is back trying to back out of the presidential debate, and he's not even doing it well, and the American political media is, as always astonished. As soon as Harris replaced Biden, Trump claimed all debate agreements were off. Now he is enraged because she wants the mics always open, not muted, not because he objects to the mics not being muted, but just because she wants it. Let me summarize this. Trump is trying to back out of the debate. He is hoping to be able to back out and blame her. He did this exact same thing with Biden too, starting late last year. He is using as an excuse now an objection to something he agrees with. What is Harris doing? Harris bluntly is effing with him, and rather successfully. The Harris team has already proven to be the most successful anti Trump entity in this fertile field of effing with him and the media. They are making noises like sea lions over this. Like all this started yesterday morning. In fact, it started at ten pm Eastern Sunday night. But of course ninety nine out of one hundred political reporters take the weekends off and the other one only sticks around until the Sunday shows are over, and then it's hot and cold running mimosas for the rest of the day. Trump posted, I watched ABC fake news this morning, and you know it's really fake news because he capitalized it both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl's ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton, who was fantastic, and their so called panel of Trump haters, And I ask why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris on that network? Will panelist Donald Brazil give the questions to the Marxist candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala's best friend who heads up ABC do? Likewise? Where is little George Slopadopoulos hanging out now? Will he be involved? They've got a lot of questions to answer. Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBCCBS and even CNN stay tuned? Many strokes so Monday morning. The Harris camp then says it agreed to fulfill the second half of the Biden Trump debate schedule that Trump agreed to, but when they did that, they insisted that the debate rules were still up for debate. And then hours later Harris communications guru Brian Fallon disclaimer we used to be in that fantasy football league together said quote. We have told ABC and the other network seeking to host a possible October debate that we believe both candidates Mike's should be live throughout the full broadcast. We suspect Trump's team has not even told their boss about this dispute because it would be too embarrassing to admit. They don't think he can handle himself against Vice President Harris without the benefit of a mute button. As I find myself asking so often here so recently, is it loll or is it lowell? Wait, there's more lolling. Trump on his way yesterday to using Arlington National Cemetery as a political prop where he stood in front of soldier's graves and smiled and gave a thumbs up. Trump he didn't actually care about this.

Would you want the microphones mute it in the debate whenever you're out speaking? We agree to the same rules. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have it probably on. But the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case it was muted. I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine, and asked Biden how it worked out. It was fine, and I think it should be the same. We agreed to the same rules, same rules, the same specifications, and I think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying to change it. The truth is they're trying to get out of it because she doesn't want a debate. She's not a good debater, she's not a smart person. She doesn't want a debate.

Would you want the microphones mute it in the debate whenever you're out speaking? We agree to the same rules. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have it probably on. But the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case it was muted. I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine, and asked Biden how it worked out. It was fine, and I think it should be the same. We agreed to the same rules, same rules, the same specifications, and I think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying to change it. The truth is they're trying to get out of it because she doesn't want a debate. She's not a good debater, she's not a smart person. She doesn't want a debate.

Trump will swing back to the ABC stuff, or why won't she go on Fox stuff? Presently depend upon it he wants out. If he does debate, we will be doing another live podcast after it. I'm not making any firm plans for that night, but as I said at the start, he wants a muted mike. He gets a muted mike for the entire debate. I'm not sure how this is physically possible at this point, but as evidenced by the mishandling of the microphone story, the American political media is still getting worse. Gary Tuckman has been with CNN so long we almost overlapped in the New York bureau. I left in nineteen eighty four. He got there in nineteen ninety. It is hard to believe they will let him continue, at least continue in a prominent role after this scandal over the quote undecided unquote focus group that he did. If you have not heard this, Gary Tuckman conducted a panel after Harris's acceptance speech at the Convention. The panel was in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Of eight avowedly undecided voters. Having heard her speak, six of the eight immediately said they were now ready to vote for her, the seventh was still undecided. The eighth said he was also now ready to vote for Trump. He's a man named Bryant Rosado, and after some pressing, he has claimed that not only did he go into the focus group intending to vote for Trump, but that he told CNN and in fact told Gary Tuckman personally, that he was intending to vote for Trump. Tuckman, he says, approached him at a friend at a restaurant and asked who they were voting for, and they told him, quoting Rosato. Crazy part is that CNN invited me knowing I was a Trump supporter. Then they said it'll be voters that are undecided, not Democrats. They told me to keep an open mind and to give Kamala a chance after the speech, since she's the new candidate after Biden. So I did hashtag Trump CNN, which in the last two years has probably spent wasted seventy five percent of the remaining credibility its originals and near originals like me built for it four decades ago, certainly did not help with a statement to the Midas Network, which pursued this story doggedly and thoroughly, doggedly and thoroughly, in other words, exactly the way CNN did not pursue this story. Quoting the anonymous CNN spokesperson, mistakes included when building the panel of voters who haven't decided on a candidate, all participants made it clear that they indeed hadn't made a final determination. This particular individual, who said he had supported Donald Trump in the past, expressed to us that after President Biden dropped out of the race, his mind became open and he hadn't make a final decision on a candidate hadn't make In this context, it is kind of hard to believe that CNN actually fired Chris Solisa rather than making him, you know, president of CNN worldwide. At six am yesterday, Axios reminded the political world, and I'll give them this, they are good at reminders that Vice President Harris's campaign had committed to at least one sit down interview before the end of this month. End of this month is Saturday, This is August. Next month will be September. The next major holiday is Labor Day, quoting Axios Vice President Harris's strategy for the seventy one day spread has built partly around try to outwork former President Trump. Axios is Sophia Chi writes whyat matters. Harris is packing her campaign schedule this week, starting with a bus tour in southern Georgia. She'll also sit for her first interview as a presidential candidate. I'll just say that again. She'll also sit for her first interview as a presidential candidate. They committed to it, they just haven't said where yet. Six hours after that, your boy, Solissa umbraged, quoting It's been thirty six days since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Kamla Harris emerged as the nominee. She's conducted zero press conferences and zero sit down media interviews. She has taken less than fifteen total questions from the media in any format.

Trump will swing back to the ABC stuff, or why won't she go on Fox stuff? Presently depend upon it he wants out. If he does debate, we will be doing another live podcast after it. I'm not making any firm plans for that night, but as I said at the start, he wants a muted mike. He gets a muted mike for the entire debate. I'm not sure how this is physically possible at this point, but as evidenced by the mishandling of the microphone story, the American political media is still getting worse. Gary Tuckman has been with CNN so long we almost overlapped in the New York bureau. I left in nineteen eighty four. He got there in nineteen ninety. It is hard to believe they will let him continue, at least continue in a prominent role after this scandal over the quote undecided unquote focus group that he did. If you have not heard this, Gary Tuckman conducted a panel after Harris's acceptance speech at the Convention. The panel was in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Of eight avowedly undecided voters. Having heard her speak, six of the eight immediately said they were now ready to vote for her, the seventh was still undecided. The eighth said he was also now ready to vote for Trump. He's a man named Bryant Rosado, and after some pressing, he has claimed that not only did he go into the focus group intending to vote for Trump, but that he told CNN and in fact told Gary Tuckman personally, that he was intending to vote for Trump. Tuckman, he says, approached him at a friend at a restaurant and asked who they were voting for, and they told him, quoting Rosato. Crazy part is that CNN invited me knowing I was a Trump supporter. Then they said it'll be voters that are undecided, not Democrats. They told me to keep an open mind and to give Kamala a chance after the speech, since she's the new candidate after Biden. So I did hashtag Trump CNN, which in the last two years has probably spent wasted seventy five percent of the remaining credibility its originals and near originals like me built for it four decades ago, certainly did not help with a statement to the Midas Network, which pursued this story doggedly and thoroughly, doggedly and thoroughly, in other words, exactly the way CNN did not pursue this story. Quoting the anonymous CNN spokesperson, mistakes included when building the panel of voters who haven't decided on a candidate, all participants made it clear that they indeed hadn't made a final determination. This particular individual, who said he had supported Donald Trump in the past, expressed to us that after President Biden dropped out of the race, his mind became open and he hadn't make a final decision on a candidate hadn't make In this context, it is kind of hard to believe that CNN actually fired Chris Solisa rather than making him, you know, president of CNN worldwide. At six am yesterday, Axios reminded the political world, and I'll give them this, they are good at reminders that Vice President Harris's campaign had committed to at least one sit down interview before the end of this month. End of this month is Saturday, This is August. Next month will be September. The next major holiday is Labor Day, quoting Axios Vice President Harris's strategy for the seventy one day spread has built partly around try to outwork former President Trump. Axios is Sophia Chi writes whyat matters. Harris is packing her campaign schedule this week, starting with a bus tour in southern Georgia. She'll also sit for her first interview as a presidential candidate. I'll just say that again. She'll also sit for her first interview as a presidential candidate. They committed to it, they just haven't said where yet. Six hours after that, your boy, Solissa umbraged, quoting It's been thirty six days since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Kamla Harris emerged as the nominee. She's conducted zero press conferences and zero sit down media interviews. She has taken less than fifteen total questions from the media in any format.

Unacceptable.

Unacceptable.

Twelve oh nine pm Eastern ten. I don't know which part I like best, the fact that he has either forgotten or ignored Harris's interview commitment, or the fact that he has either forgotten or ignored that when Harris has stopped for those questions. Reporters have not rushed her with policy nuance, but instead with demands for reaction to the noises that have followed what has seemed like Trump's latest mini stroke. Still none of this, not the CNN uncommitted except he's voting for Trump, nor the latest slissit's self beclowning can top with. The New York Time has now done another of its priceless guest op eds, which are designed to put the satirist New York Times pitch bot account out of business and then put the Times itself out of business. The headline of this guest op ed, Trump can win on character the content the author thanks character means Trump settling on a nickname for Harris the rest. I'll spare you its fascist bullshit. I would really reverse my opinion of The Times if just one time it printed one of these, and instead of insulting everybody's intelligence, including the fascists, the Time simply repeated the words fascist bullshit five hundred times each. I'd frame that. Then again, I'm the guy who, when he was the editor in chief of his high school newspaper, Will Bunch was my ace underclassman news reporter. We had an editorial literally pulled off the page by the headmaster of the school. Came up to the newsroom and literally pulled the thing off. The addition that was just going to the printers. Very dramatic, very impactful. But he left our offices without telling me what to put in its place, nor did he bother to check before we actually shipped it off to the printers. So I simply printed out the word censored in big black letters, and we ran it where the editorial was supposed to be. But that's me. Anyway, I've left out the one joy of this remarkable times self own, and I might add op ed author self own, the Trump can win on character. Op ed was written by Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review. And if you've been with me a while, you already know what's coming next. Rich Lowry, October third, two thousand and eight, four eight pm, National Review, the day after the vice presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Sarah Palin who is still alive? Headline projecting through the Screen by Rich Lowry. The very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of Sayah bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. I read that in the legal papers, didn't I. Palin too, projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, hey, I think she just winked at me. And her smile by the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned. It's either something you have or your don't. And man, she's got it. Now. He's writing op eds for the Times, for the systemic and possible fatal problems of the Times. All I can say is this. In that context, this from Rich Lowry was a fitting climax. Also of interest here this all new edition of Countdown. A top Trump aid complains that the Democrats had a guy on the Sunday shows who was so old he should be in a retirement home. Guess who the guy is younger than and the operational head of ESPN. The former producer of the Dan Patrick Keith Oleriman Sports Center is succeeded in his role by the other former producer of the Dan Patrick Keith Alriman Sports Center. This is either testament to how easy I was to work with or how scarred you get after working with me. That's next. This is Sports Countdown.

Twelve oh nine pm Eastern ten. I don't know which part I like best, the fact that he has either forgotten or ignored Harris's interview commitment, or the fact that he has either forgotten or ignored that when Harris has stopped for those questions. Reporters have not rushed her with policy nuance, but instead with demands for reaction to the noises that have followed what has seemed like Trump's latest mini stroke. Still none of this, not the CNN uncommitted except he's voting for Trump, nor the latest slissit's self beclowning can top with. The New York Time has now done another of its priceless guest op eds, which are designed to put the satirist New York Times pitch bot account out of business and then put the Times itself out of business. The headline of this guest op ed, Trump can win on character the content the author thanks character means Trump settling on a nickname for Harris the rest. I'll spare you its fascist bullshit. I would really reverse my opinion of The Times if just one time it printed one of these, and instead of insulting everybody's intelligence, including the fascists, the Time simply repeated the words fascist bullshit five hundred times each. I'd frame that. Then again, I'm the guy who, when he was the editor in chief of his high school newspaper, Will Bunch was my ace underclassman news reporter. We had an editorial literally pulled off the page by the headmaster of the school. Came up to the newsroom and literally pulled the thing off. The addition that was just going to the printers. Very dramatic, very impactful. But he left our offices without telling me what to put in its place, nor did he bother to check before we actually shipped it off to the printers. So I simply printed out the word censored in big black letters, and we ran it where the editorial was supposed to be. But that's me. Anyway, I've left out the one joy of this remarkable times self own, and I might add op ed author self own, the Trump can win on character. Op ed was written by Rich Lowry, editor in chief of National Review. And if you've been with me a while, you already know what's coming next. Rich Lowry, October third, two thousand and eight, four eight pm, National Review, the day after the vice presidential debate between Senator Joe Biden and Sarah Palin who is still alive? Headline projecting through the Screen by Rich Lowry. The very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of Sayah bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. I read that in the legal papers, didn't I. Palin too, projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, hey, I think she just winked at me. And her smile by the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned. It's either something you have or your don't. And man, she's got it. Now. He's writing op eds for the Times, for the systemic and possible fatal problems of the Times. All I can say is this. In that context, this from Rich Lowry was a fitting climax. Also of interest here this all new edition of Countdown. A top Trump aid complains that the Democrats had a guy on the Sunday shows who was so old he should be in a retirement home. Guess who the guy is younger than and the operational head of ESPN. The former producer of the Dan Patrick Keith Oleriman Sports Center is succeeded in his role by the other former producer of the Dan Patrick Keith Alriman Sports Center. This is either testament to how easy I was to work with or how scarred you get after working with me. That's next. This is Sports Countdown.

This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, my crazy friend.

This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, my crazy friend.

Still ahead of us on this all new edition of Countdown. Not only is the former producer of the Big Show eleven PM edition of ESPN Sports Center the new operational chief at ESPN, succeeding the guy he succeeded thirty years ago, who had also been the producer of the Big Show edition of ESPN's eleven PM Sports Center. But now it turns out I me personally managed to help kill off the best all news radio station there ever was. And there is a newly rediscovered cassette of my debut as a professional newscaster, and the date is if you are sitting down, please July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty ahead in a combined edition of Sports Centers, Central and Things I Promised Not to Tell First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens, who constitute two days worst persons in.

Still ahead of us on this all new edition of Countdown. Not only is the former producer of the Big Show eleven PM edition of ESPN Sports Center the new operational chief at ESPN, succeeding the guy he succeeded thirty years ago, who had also been the producer of the Big Show edition of ESPN's eleven PM Sports Center. But now it turns out I me personally managed to help kill off the best all news radio station there ever was. And there is a newly rediscovered cassette of my debut as a professional newscaster, and the date is if you are sitting down, please July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty ahead in a combined edition of Sports Centers, Central and Things I Promised Not to Tell First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens, who constitute two days worst persons in.

The world.

The world.

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QAnon will be able to explain that, or a good neuropathologist. They run her up. Worser Andrea Tanteraro's former host of Foxes The Five and how bad do you have to be at your job to be removed from the Five? This is where they let Dana Perino, possibly the stupidest human being alive, and Jesse Waters, who's runner up or tied out there every day to let their brains leak out of their ears on national television, brains they can ill afford to lose. I might add Andrea Tantris used to be a host of that show, and then she got removed, and it wasn't just because she filed sexual harassment lawsuits against all the schmucks like Roger Ales and Bill O'Reilly. Cheryl Atkinson, who also was once an actual news reporter for CBS, simply tweeted, Kamala looks good. Andrea Tantaros, like ten minutes later, sub tweeted her. Cheryl Andkison writes, Kamala looks good. Andrea Tantaros writes, so did Hitler. Impeccable manscaping and tailoring. You're just like the rest two things, Andrea. First of all, you've made Cheryl Atkinson look normal. You really want to be responsible for that? Then number two, man scaping referring to Kamala Harris. First of all, Man's impeccable manscaping and tailoring man scaping of Hitler? Do we know, Angela Andrea, what manscaping means these days in the popular lingo? What the kids mean when they say manscaping? Why do you know something about Hitler's manscaping? Also, I want to add something here, even if you're just talking about Hitler's haircut here, have you seen pictures of Hitler's haircut and how uneven it was? I haven't seen that lopside of a haircut since since JB. Vance. But the winner, the circular gentleman, Jason Miller, the one accused of, you know, slipping extra ingredients into his smoothies. Ron philip Kowski pointed this out on Sunday. Jason Miller still somehow a Trump advisor after all this? Well, I mean, on the ranks of how bad you have to be as a human being, he's probably only like the one thousandth worst person working for Trump out of the million. This was one of Kamala Harris's most consequential weeks in her political career. Jason Miller rights from DC look at the commies and retreads the Dems had out on TV this Sunday. I mean, he writes, what retirement home did they pull Tom Dashel out of? Former Senate Majority leader Tom Dashell was born on December ninth, nineteen forty seven. Trump, on the other hand, was born on June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. Not only is Dashel younger than Trump, but he's eighteen months younger than Trump. So the answer to the question what retirement home did they pull Tom Dashel out of? Is the one Trump should be in with young Dashel feeding him porridge with a spoon. Jason Miller two days worst person in the world. Never asked a question you don't know the answer.

QAnon will be able to explain that, or a good neuropathologist. They run her up. Worser Andrea Tanteraro's former host of Foxes The Five and how bad do you have to be at your job to be removed from the Five? This is where they let Dana Perino, possibly the stupidest human being alive, and Jesse Waters, who's runner up or tied out there every day to let their brains leak out of their ears on national television, brains they can ill afford to lose. I might add Andrea Tantris used to be a host of that show, and then she got removed, and it wasn't just because she filed sexual harassment lawsuits against all the schmucks like Roger Ales and Bill O'Reilly. Cheryl Atkinson, who also was once an actual news reporter for CBS, simply tweeted, Kamala looks good. Andrea Tantaros, like ten minutes later, sub tweeted her. Cheryl Andkison writes, Kamala looks good. Andrea Tantaros writes, so did Hitler. Impeccable manscaping and tailoring. You're just like the rest two things, Andrea. First of all, you've made Cheryl Atkinson look normal. You really want to be responsible for that? Then number two, man scaping referring to Kamala Harris. First of all, Man's impeccable manscaping and tailoring man scaping of Hitler? Do we know, Angela Andrea, what manscaping means these days in the popular lingo? What the kids mean when they say manscaping? Why do you know something about Hitler's manscaping? Also, I want to add something here, even if you're just talking about Hitler's haircut here, have you seen pictures of Hitler's haircut and how uneven it was? I haven't seen that lopside of a haircut since since JB. Vance. But the winner, the circular gentleman, Jason Miller, the one accused of, you know, slipping extra ingredients into his smoothies. Ron philip Kowski pointed this out on Sunday. Jason Miller still somehow a Trump advisor after all this? Well, I mean, on the ranks of how bad you have to be as a human being, he's probably only like the one thousandth worst person working for Trump out of the million. This was one of Kamala Harris's most consequential weeks in her political career. Jason Miller rights from DC look at the commies and retreads the Dems had out on TV this Sunday. I mean, he writes, what retirement home did they pull Tom Dashel out of? Former Senate Majority leader Tom Dashell was born on December ninth, nineteen forty seven. Trump, on the other hand, was born on June fourteenth, nineteen forty six. Not only is Dashel younger than Trump, but he's eighteen months younger than Trump. So the answer to the question what retirement home did they pull Tom Dashel out of? Is the one Trump should be in with young Dashel feeding him porridge with a spoon. Jason Miller two days worst person in the world. Never asked a question you don't know the answer.

This is sports Senate. Wait, check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Ulberman.

This is sports Senate. Wait, check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Ulberman.

Sports for people who don't like sports. Actually it's a common a nation. Sports for people who don't like sports and things I promised not to tell. Dateline, Bristol, Connecticut.

Sports for people who don't like sports. Actually it's a common a nation. Sports for people who don't like sports and things I promised not to tell. Dateline, Bristol, Connecticut.

Hello.

Hello.

ESPN has named Mike McQuaid as its new executive vice president of Sports Production. Basically, he succeeds longtime executive Norby Williamson. This is the part of the movie where I came in. If you saw this story online and you saw Mike mcquad's picture, No, he's not wanted for anything. That's just how his photos always turn out.

ESPN has named Mike McQuaid as its new executive vice president of Sports Production. Basically, he succeeds longtime executive Norby Williamson. This is the part of the movie where I came in. If you saw this story online and you saw Mike mcquad's picture, No, he's not wanted for anything. That's just how his photos always turn out.

Always.

Always.

There's no search for him in seventeen Western states. No, but here's the point. In nineteen ninety four, Norby Williamson was succeeded as the producer of the eleven PM Big Show edition of Sports Center by Mike McQuaid. Thirty years later, in twenty twenty four, Norby Williamson was succeeded as operational chief of ESPN by Mike McQuaid. A patience is a virtue b then as now, all roads to power lead through Dan and Keith Dateline No York, New York. As I mentioned last week, the finest all news radio station in history was to go off the air at midnight Sunday, Monday. It happened. No reprieve your maniacs, You'll build up od damn God, damn you alte WCBS New York went off the air just shy of fifty seven years since its most recent newscasts started in August nineteen sixty seven, and only when the veteran anchor Wayne Cabot gave the last station ID and the station went silent for a second at midnight? Did I realize I was one of the murderers. The next thing you heard after the silence where News Radio eighty eight or eight eighty should have been was ESPN Radio, which I launched in nineteen ninety two. I mean I broke the first big story on the first weekend, which gave the thing the credibility it would then use years later to destroy the best all news radio station in history, the butterfly effect. We're still the first thing on ESPN Radio eight eighty was ESPN Radio Sports Center in nineteen ninety two. When we launched the radio network, they used to call the Sports News Updates ESPN Updates or something similar to had a guy named Tony Lamonica do it? Or used to point his finger out the window of the studio and queue somebody to do something that didn't have to be cued and didn't do anyway. We called the ESPN Updates or something similar, and I said, why aren't you calling it ESPN Radio Sports Center. That's the brand name. And they said, oh no, no, no, can't do that. We don't want to dilute the brand name. And I kept pushing for it. Six seven months in they renamed it ESPN Radio Sports Center, which was the first thing you heard after WCBS went off the air. So I killed WCBS. I'm sorry, I won't do it again. All of which brings us to the number one story on the countdown and things I promised not to tell, and the broadcasting business just got a little smaller. And if you think this is it, no, sir. I worked at five different New York radio stations, most of them in my youth. Two were as part of network gigs. I did sportscasts on the RKO Radio network and I would then go upstairs to WOOR twice a day to do local sportscasts for them. Same at the ABC network and WABC. I even did news commentaries for WABC. I was a regular on WNW and WNWFM here, and I appeared a couple of times on WIONS here as part of work I was doing for its your all news station in La KFWB. Out of those five outlets, RKO doesn't exist anymore. WNW ANDWNWFM are long gone. I think they went out of business in nineteen ninety two. At least WNW did KFWB Los Angeles is gone. I think they still have the call letters, but it ain't all news anymore, hasn't been for fifteen years. And the station I really wanted to work for was WCBS. I've told that story many times, including the story of the support I got as I was starting my career from the legendary news director of WCBS, the late Lou Adler. I kind of worked for WCBS. The job I did get at the start of my career was at UPI Radio, which by the way, has been long out of business. WCBS used to use our reports from UPI all the time, all the time. That was the greatest validation I could get to turn on the actual radio to my radio station and hear myself, a twenty year old rookie on there. But most of my local radio stationing was done on those two wnews. And in fact, I was looking for some old clips from CBS when I was reminded that the first time I actually did news anchoring for money, it was on a Friday afternoon in July nineteen eighty when everybody else, and I mean everybody else in the news department at WNEW was outsick or on vacation or something. I mean everybody. I had done the sports reporting that morning. I'd been there at three am, and as I was leaving at maybe nine o'clock in the morning, the second of the two afternoon newscasters. They had two newscasters who worked in the afternoon. One did the top of the hour news, one at the bottom. Now, if the station has two newscasters, that's a lot. They had two newscasters on the same shift, and it was a music station anyway. The second of them, Charles Scott King, who did the bottom of the hour newscasts that were mostly sports. Anyway, he called in sick. So they then had to page the news director on his beeper to get him to approve the last option me. No audition, no tests. They just said, well, he sounds okay, I guess doing the sports. Oh what are we gonna do? Just put on the horse racing results for an hour. So there I was back at the station after a quick nap, maybe four point thirty in the afternoon. I was on the air doing drive time news on a big time, highly rated news station in the biggest market in the country. So here's what I found While looking for those clips clips hit stop now if you do not want to hear my twenty one year old voice. The first is a quick report I did for UPI from the World Pool Championship as it appeared on WCBS on August twenty third, nineteen eighty. The WCBS anchor is Gary Moore. Geene Belucas of Brooklyn has won the World Open Pool Championship.

There's no search for him in seventeen Western states. No, but here's the point. In nineteen ninety four, Norby Williamson was succeeded as the producer of the eleven PM Big Show edition of Sports Center by Mike McQuaid. Thirty years later, in twenty twenty four, Norby Williamson was succeeded as operational chief of ESPN by Mike McQuaid. A patience is a virtue b then as now, all roads to power lead through Dan and Keith Dateline No York, New York. As I mentioned last week, the finest all news radio station in history was to go off the air at midnight Sunday, Monday. It happened. No reprieve your maniacs, You'll build up od damn God, damn you alte WCBS New York went off the air just shy of fifty seven years since its most recent newscasts started in August nineteen sixty seven, and only when the veteran anchor Wayne Cabot gave the last station ID and the station went silent for a second at midnight? Did I realize I was one of the murderers. The next thing you heard after the silence where News Radio eighty eight or eight eighty should have been was ESPN Radio, which I launched in nineteen ninety two. I mean I broke the first big story on the first weekend, which gave the thing the credibility it would then use years later to destroy the best all news radio station in history, the butterfly effect. We're still the first thing on ESPN Radio eight eighty was ESPN Radio Sports Center in nineteen ninety two. When we launched the radio network, they used to call the Sports News Updates ESPN Updates or something similar to had a guy named Tony Lamonica do it? Or used to point his finger out the window of the studio and queue somebody to do something that didn't have to be cued and didn't do anyway. We called the ESPN Updates or something similar, and I said, why aren't you calling it ESPN Radio Sports Center. That's the brand name. And they said, oh no, no, no, can't do that. We don't want to dilute the brand name. And I kept pushing for it. Six seven months in they renamed it ESPN Radio Sports Center, which was the first thing you heard after WCBS went off the air. So I killed WCBS. I'm sorry, I won't do it again. All of which brings us to the number one story on the countdown and things I promised not to tell, and the broadcasting business just got a little smaller. And if you think this is it, no, sir. I worked at five different New York radio stations, most of them in my youth. Two were as part of network gigs. I did sportscasts on the RKO Radio network and I would then go upstairs to WOOR twice a day to do local sportscasts for them. Same at the ABC network and WABC. I even did news commentaries for WABC. I was a regular on WNW and WNWFM here, and I appeared a couple of times on WIONS here as part of work I was doing for its your all news station in La KFWB. Out of those five outlets, RKO doesn't exist anymore. WNW ANDWNWFM are long gone. I think they went out of business in nineteen ninety two. At least WNW did KFWB Los Angeles is gone. I think they still have the call letters, but it ain't all news anymore, hasn't been for fifteen years. And the station I really wanted to work for was WCBS. I've told that story many times, including the story of the support I got as I was starting my career from the legendary news director of WCBS, the late Lou Adler. I kind of worked for WCBS. The job I did get at the start of my career was at UPI Radio, which by the way, has been long out of business. WCBS used to use our reports from UPI all the time, all the time. That was the greatest validation I could get to turn on the actual radio to my radio station and hear myself, a twenty year old rookie on there. But most of my local radio stationing was done on those two wnews. And in fact, I was looking for some old clips from CBS when I was reminded that the first time I actually did news anchoring for money, it was on a Friday afternoon in July nineteen eighty when everybody else, and I mean everybody else in the news department at WNEW was outsick or on vacation or something. I mean everybody. I had done the sports reporting that morning. I'd been there at three am, and as I was leaving at maybe nine o'clock in the morning, the second of the two afternoon newscasters. They had two newscasters who worked in the afternoon. One did the top of the hour news, one at the bottom. Now, if the station has two newscasters, that's a lot. They had two newscasters on the same shift, and it was a music station anyway. The second of them, Charles Scott King, who did the bottom of the hour newscasts that were mostly sports. Anyway, he called in sick. So they then had to page the news director on his beeper to get him to approve the last option me. No audition, no tests. They just said, well, he sounds okay, I guess doing the sports. Oh what are we gonna do? Just put on the horse racing results for an hour. So there I was back at the station after a quick nap, maybe four point thirty in the afternoon. I was on the air doing drive time news on a big time, highly rated news station in the biggest market in the country. So here's what I found While looking for those clips clips hit stop now if you do not want to hear my twenty one year old voice. The first is a quick report I did for UPI from the World Pool Championship as it appeared on WCBS on August twenty third, nineteen eighty. The WCBS anchor is Gary Moore. Geene Belucas of Brooklyn has won the World Open Pool Championship.

Keith Oberman reports from the competition in Manhattan.

Keith Oberman reports from the competition in Manhattan.

For the other women in professional pool, it is once again the same old story. Very good is just not good enough to unseat the reigning champ, Jean Belucas. The twenty one year old sharpshooter, took her second straight World Open title and kept her record intact. She's unbeaten in major tournament plays since nineteen seventy three. The finals saw Lucas run through Billy Billing, marking a high run of forty one straight balls on her way to a one hundred and twenty five victory. The champ was pleased with her showing each.

For the other women in professional pool, it is once again the same old story. Very good is just not good enough to unseat the reigning champ, Jean Belucas. The twenty one year old sharpshooter, took her second straight World Open title and kept her record intact. She's unbeaten in major tournament plays since nineteen seventy three. The finals saw Lucas run through Billy Billing, marking a high run of forty one straight balls on her way to a one hundred and twenty five victory. The champ was pleased with her showing each.

Game I played, I had a good run in there, especially in the finals. At the women's game, I had two good runs in there, and I'm.

Game I played, I had a good run in there, especially in the finals. At the women's game, I had two good runs in there, and I'm.

Pretty proud of myself. I think this is the tournament that I.

Pretty proud of myself. I think this is the tournament that I.

Played my best in Jean Belucas, who, besides her women's title, finished in the top third of the strong sixty three competitor men's field. Keep overmitted Pools World Open in New York. And that's the spots of WCVS All News eighty eight.

Played my best in Jean Belucas, who, besides her women's title, finished in the top third of the strong sixty three competitor men's field. Keep overmitted Pools World Open in New York. And that's the spots of WCVS All News eighty eight.

And then a couple of complete newscasts from July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty Thank guy, I was exhausted. It covered up the terror. On WNW Metro Media Radio in New York.

And then a couple of complete newscasts from July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty Thank guy, I was exhausted. It covered up the terror. On WNW Metro Media Radio in New York.

It's time now for Keith Oberman. He was doing the morning sports when I was doing Ted Show last week. This gentleman is peripatetic, not to mention that he gets around a great deal for a young person. I'm Jim Low, and I hope you rejoin me in the Jim Low Music Hall. Straight ahead on WEW Metro Media Radio in New.

It's time now for Keith Oberman. He was doing the morning sports when I was doing Ted Show last week. This gentleman is peripatetic, not to mention that he gets around a great deal for a young person. I'm Jim Low, and I hope you rejoin me in the Jim Low Music Hall. Straight ahead on WEW Metro Media Radio in New.

York WAW News at five point thirty, it's sunny and ninety two degrees.

York WAW News at five point thirty, it's sunny and ninety two degrees.

I'm Keith Oberman.

I'm Keith Oberman.

There's been a seventh fatality from yesterday's explosion and fire at the factory building in Queen's. The latest victim, twenty one year old Evelyn Rodriguez of Queens. Another eight still reported in critical condition undergoing treatment at the New York Hospital's Burns Center. No major power problems reported. After the conclusion of what turned out to be a rather brief public service electric and gas strike, an all night bargaining session produced tentative agreement on a two year deal, providing an eight point five percent raise the first year a nine percent hike the second. Some five thousand clerical and electrical workers had struck the New Jersey power outlet last night. Security precautions reported tighter than ever at the Metropolitan Opera House now, this after Wednesday's murder of violinist Hennett Helen Hagnes Mitticks. Police continuing their investigation, questioning now members of the Berlin Ballet Troop, who are scheduled to leave the city next week. Reports now that Mss Minnicks died of injuries suffered as the result of her fall. A special Senate sub committee that will investigate Billy Gate has announced plans to start its work on Tuesday. Full details on these stories and the rest of the news on The Hour at six with Bruce Charles Now in Sports Commissioner Warrants O'Brien of the NBA has awarded the next Seattle's first choice in next year's college draft. That O'Brien's response to a court ordered restructuring of the compensation the Sonics got two years ago when the NIXT sign away Marvin Webster from Seattle. O'Brien gave the Knicks the choice of the choice or the two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars that he valued the choice at Knicks are expected to go for the draft pick, they say, though they're not pleased with the O'Brien decision, they still want Lonnie Shelton back. Turnabout, though possibly not fair play. At the Moscow Olympics this afternoon, Nadia Komenich, originally placed by the scores in a tie for the silver in the women's floor exercises, saw her marks upgraded so that she wound up sharing the gold with her arch rival Nellie Kim. Earlier, Naja took a gold in her own right in the beam competition.

There's been a seventh fatality from yesterday's explosion and fire at the factory building in Queen's. The latest victim, twenty one year old Evelyn Rodriguez of Queens. Another eight still reported in critical condition undergoing treatment at the New York Hospital's Burns Center. No major power problems reported. After the conclusion of what turned out to be a rather brief public service electric and gas strike, an all night bargaining session produced tentative agreement on a two year deal, providing an eight point five percent raise the first year a nine percent hike the second. Some five thousand clerical and electrical workers had struck the New Jersey power outlet last night. Security precautions reported tighter than ever at the Metropolitan Opera House now, this after Wednesday's murder of violinist Hennett Helen Hagnes Mitticks. Police continuing their investigation, questioning now members of the Berlin Ballet Troop, who are scheduled to leave the city next week. Reports now that Mss Minnicks died of injuries suffered as the result of her fall. A special Senate sub committee that will investigate Billy Gate has announced plans to start its work on Tuesday. Full details on these stories and the rest of the news on The Hour at six with Bruce Charles Now in Sports Commissioner Warrants O'Brien of the NBA has awarded the next Seattle's first choice in next year's college draft. That O'Brien's response to a court ordered restructuring of the compensation the Sonics got two years ago when the NIXT sign away Marvin Webster from Seattle. O'Brien gave the Knicks the choice of the choice or the two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars that he valued the choice at Knicks are expected to go for the draft pick, they say, though they're not pleased with the O'Brien decision, they still want Lonnie Shelton back. Turnabout, though possibly not fair play. At the Moscow Olympics this afternoon, Nadia Komenich, originally placed by the scores in a tie for the silver in the women's floor exercises, saw her marks upgraded so that she wound up sharing the gold with her arch rival Nellie Kim. Earlier, Naja took a gold in her own right in the beam competition.

A bunch of British.

A bunch of British.

Olympians had something to waive the Union Jack about today, Alan Wells winning the gold in one hundred meter dash, Steve Ovid and Sebastian Coe, both earning semi final victories in the eight hundred meters. They'll square off along with six others in the finals tomorrow. Daily Thompson of Great Britain moved into the early lead after three of the Decathleen events. Alexander to Diet and the Russian male gymnast took home a loop bag full of six medals today alone, one gold for silvers, one bronze diet in with eight medals at the game so far. The local sports mets at home, Yanks on the road after this light bonza.

Olympians had something to waive the Union Jack about today, Alan Wells winning the gold in one hundred meter dash, Steve Ovid and Sebastian Coe, both earning semi final victories in the eight hundred meters. They'll square off along with six others in the finals tomorrow. Daily Thompson of Great Britain moved into the early lead after three of the Decathleen events. Alexander to Diet and the Russian male gymnast took home a loop bag full of six medals today alone, one gold for silvers, one bronze diet in with eight medals at the game so far. The local sports mets at home, Yanks on the road after this light bonza.

This the Australian Airline.

This the Australian Airline.

The Yankees and Royal meet for the second time in a week, starting tonight in Kansas City. Louis Tiot coming off the disabled list to start this evening against the Royals and happy to have him back his Yankee second baseman, Willie Randolph.

The Yankees and Royal meet for the second time in a week, starting tonight in Kansas City. Louis Tiot coming off the disabled list to start this evening against the Royals and happy to have him back his Yankee second baseman, Willie Randolph.

Whichiank is that experience.

Whichiank is that experience.

Of course, he's been there and we get down in the dark days with which we're coaching right now.

Of course, he's been there and we get down in the dark days with which we're coaching right now.

He comes too big for he likes the hot weather and as I said.

He comes too big for he likes the hot weather and as I said.

Before, louis that old craftsman.

Before, louis that old craftsman.

Who knows what to do when the situation near.

Who knows what to do when the situation near.

Arriving Randolph and the Yanks are eight and a half games in front of the East in the American case, up by eleven in the West. The Royals have reportedly given third basement George Brett and Eat five million dollars for a five year contract. The Mets are home to Cincinnati looking for better things than last weekend's one and three record against the Reds at Riverfront Stadium. Pitchers tonight and the opener of the nine game homestand Paul Moscow for the Reds Pat Zachary for the Mets. Not a single game in progress in baseball right now, though momentarily. Double header action starts at Philadelphia the Braves and the Pills, and at Cleveland the Angels and Indians starting at six o'clock. The Red Sox Red Sox played two at Minnesota the Stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average down eight point oh two today, closing at just more than nine hundred and eighteen.

Arriving Randolph and the Yanks are eight and a half games in front of the East in the American case, up by eleven in the West. The Royals have reportedly given third basement George Brett and Eat five million dollars for a five year contract. The Mets are home to Cincinnati looking for better things than last weekend's one and three record against the Reds at Riverfront Stadium. Pitchers tonight and the opener of the nine game homestand Paul Moscow for the Reds Pat Zachary for the Mets. Not a single game in progress in baseball right now, though momentarily. Double header action starts at Philadelphia the Braves and the Pills, and at Cleveland the Angels and Indians starting at six o'clock. The Red Sox Red Sox played two at Minnesota the Stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average down eight point oh two today, closing at just more than nine hundred and eighteen.

The American also.

The American also.

Down one point forty five to settle at three sixteen point forty seven, and the over the counter Nasdaq Index dropped point twenty nine to close at one sixty nine point sixty three. The WNAW Weather Center forecast for New York City and Vicinity. Tonight, clear and mild, below near seventy. We'll have one of those full moons as well. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, the humidity going up in the high and the low nineties. Just in case you forgot what the early part of the week was like. Tomorrow night fair and warm, low in the mid seventies. And on Sunday partly cloudy, hot and humid again, the high in the low nineties. Right now, it's sunny, ninety two degrees, the humidity twenty seven percent. The winds are at five miles an hour, and they're from the southwest.

Down one point forty five to settle at three sixteen point forty seven, and the over the counter Nasdaq Index dropped point twenty nine to close at one sixty nine point sixty three. The WNAW Weather Center forecast for New York City and Vicinity. Tonight, clear and mild, below near seventy. We'll have one of those full moons as well. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, the humidity going up in the high and the low nineties. Just in case you forgot what the early part of the week was like. Tomorrow night fair and warm, low in the mid seventies. And on Sunday partly cloudy, hot and humid again, the high in the low nineties. Right now, it's sunny, ninety two degrees, the humidity twenty seven percent. The winds are at five miles an hour, and they're from the southwest.

Now. I'm Keith Olderman WAW News with Jim Low.

Now. I'm Keith Olderman WAW News with Jim Low.

Five million dollars for a five year contract. But you know something, it didn't steady. They're out of work six months.

Five million dollars for a five year contract. But you know something, it didn't steady. They're out of work six months.

Of the year.

Of the year.

Only thing lot of music hall When you come back, we'll have a big band sweep and another nostalgia trivia Hall of Fame question. Straight ahead on WAW Metro Media Radio in New York.

Only thing lot of music hall When you come back, we'll have a big band sweep and another nostalgia trivia Hall of Fame question. Straight ahead on WAW Metro Media Radio in New York.

WAW News at six point thirty. It's sunny and ninety degrees. I'm Keith Olberman. The news being brought to you by the New York Bank for Savings. Violinist Helen Hagnus Mitticks was alive when she fell sixty feet to her death down an air shaft at the Metropolitan Opera House. At the statement today of the City Medical Examiner's Office, severe fractures to the skull, ribs and legs apparently caused Miss Mitticks's death. Increased security procedures reported today at the met including the use of ID cards by employees. A seventh person has now died as a result of the terrible explosion and fire at the metal factory in Queen's yesterday. Another eight people still in critical condition at New York Hospital's Burns Center. The PSE and G strike is over less than twenty four hours after it began. An online bargaining session producing a tentative agreement.

WAW News at six point thirty. It's sunny and ninety degrees. I'm Keith Olberman. The news being brought to you by the New York Bank for Savings. Violinist Helen Hagnus Mitticks was alive when she fell sixty feet to her death down an air shaft at the Metropolitan Opera House. At the statement today of the City Medical Examiner's Office, severe fractures to the skull, ribs and legs apparently caused Miss Mitticks's death. Increased security procedures reported today at the met including the use of ID cards by employees. A seventh person has now died as a result of the terrible explosion and fire at the metal factory in Queen's yesterday. Another eight people still in critical condition at New York Hospital's Burns Center. The PSE and G strike is over less than twenty four hours after it began. An online bargaining session producing a tentative agreement.

That would, if approved, give.

That would, if approved, give.

Five thousand clerical and electrical workers raises of eight point five percent and then nine percent over two years and the two sides in the path if you'd have been called back to the bargaining table for a meeting, they will meet next Wednesday. Full details on these stories and the rest of what's happening on the seven o'clock News with Bruce Charles now in Sports. Preston Gomez, who took over the Chicago Cubs after the end of last season, was fired this afternoon as the team's manager. Third base coach Joey m al Fatano, who took over last season when Herman Franks resigned as the Cub manager, has again been named acting field boss. Chicago is thirty eight and fifty two right now, in last place in the NL East. They're thirteen games backup front running Pittsburgh Baseball. Tonight, the Yankees are at Kansas City, with Louis Tiant trying to make a successful comeback after three weeks on the disabled list. Rich Gale to pitch for the Royals at Chase Stadium. The Reds are in town to start off a nine game homestand for the Mets it'll be Paul Moscow against Pat Zachary. Three double headers underway in the major leagues right now. In Philadelphia, the Phillies lead the Braves two to one and the third inning of the first game there, Angels over the Indians three nothing in the second game of their the first game of their doubleheader second inning rather and the Red Sox and Twins scoreless in the first two. Minnesota, the Jets and Giants battled to a ten ten tie at Hostra this afternoon. In the Rookies scrimmage, second round draft choice Ralph Clayton outshine top Jet pick Lamb Jones. Clayton with a five yard touchdown run and four catches for forty eight yards. The Giants td came on a Scott Runner to Danny Pittman four yard pass. At the Olympics yesterday, Nadia coman H had her score readjusted downwards that took a gold medal away from her. Today she had the tally upgraded, as Patty Berman reports, and she wound up with two gold medals.

Five thousand clerical and electrical workers raises of eight point five percent and then nine percent over two years and the two sides in the path if you'd have been called back to the bargaining table for a meeting, they will meet next Wednesday. Full details on these stories and the rest of what's happening on the seven o'clock News with Bruce Charles now in Sports. Preston Gomez, who took over the Chicago Cubs after the end of last season, was fired this afternoon as the team's manager. Third base coach Joey m al Fatano, who took over last season when Herman Franks resigned as the Cub manager, has again been named acting field boss. Chicago is thirty eight and fifty two right now, in last place in the NL East. They're thirteen games backup front running Pittsburgh Baseball. Tonight, the Yankees are at Kansas City, with Louis Tiant trying to make a successful comeback after three weeks on the disabled list. Rich Gale to pitch for the Royals at Chase Stadium. The Reds are in town to start off a nine game homestand for the Mets it'll be Paul Moscow against Pat Zachary. Three double headers underway in the major leagues right now. In Philadelphia, the Phillies lead the Braves two to one and the third inning of the first game there, Angels over the Indians three nothing in the second game of their the first game of their doubleheader second inning rather and the Red Sox and Twins scoreless in the first two. Minnesota, the Jets and Giants battled to a ten ten tie at Hostra this afternoon. In the Rookies scrimmage, second round draft choice Ralph Clayton outshine top Jet pick Lamb Jones. Clayton with a five yard touchdown run and four catches for forty eight yards. The Giants td came on a Scott Runner to Danny Pittman four yard pass. At the Olympics yesterday, Nadia coman H had her score readjusted downwards that took a gold medal away from her. Today she had the tally upgraded, as Patty Berman reports, and she wound up with two gold medals.

The final competition of women's gymnastics was.

The final competition of women's gymnastics was.

Event charged with high emotion and political tension.

Event charged with high emotion and political tension.

HII Burman Moscow.

HII Burman Moscow.

Also at Moscow, Russia's male gymnastics win Whiz Rather Alexander Didatan won no fewer than six medals, a gold, four silvers, and a bronze. In competition today, the Soviets with thirty four gold seventy six total medals. Second place East Germany has only eleven goal just forty seven total. All the knicks we'll say is we're not happy. We'll have more on that story after this from the New York Bank Savings.

Also at Moscow, Russia's male gymnastics win Whiz Rather Alexander Didatan won no fewer than six medals, a gold, four silvers, and a bronze. In competition today, the Soviets with thirty four gold seventy six total medals. Second place East Germany has only eleven goal just forty seven total. All the knicks we'll say is we're not happy. We'll have more on that story after this from the New York Bank Savings.

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The Beehive Bank, we give you more member ifdice. The Knicks are not happy about NBA Commissioner Larry O'Brien's decision this afternoon that they should receive Seattle's first choice in next year's college draft. That O'Brien's way of restructuring the Marvin Webster compensation case from two years ago. About a month ago, a court said he had to give the next something back from that compensation. Mike Burke and the gang at the Garden were hoping for Lonnie Shelton. Jim Simon's is sixty two yesterday, is seventy today, but he's still up by a stroke at the Greater Hartford Open, Patty Hayes and Sally Little up by one at the LPGA event on the island at Jericho and Yonkers Raceway will reopen tonight after more than a week of quiet due to the horse owners boycott.

The Beehive Bank, we give you more member ifdice. The Knicks are not happy about NBA Commissioner Larry O'Brien's decision this afternoon that they should receive Seattle's first choice in next year's college draft. That O'Brien's way of restructuring the Marvin Webster compensation case from two years ago. About a month ago, a court said he had to give the next something back from that compensation. Mike Burke and the gang at the Garden were hoping for Lonnie Shelton. Jim Simon's is sixty two yesterday, is seventy today, but he's still up by a stroke at the Greater Hartford Open, Patty Hayes and Sally Little up by one at the LPGA event on the island at Jericho and Yonkers Raceway will reopen tonight after more than a week of quiet due to the horse owners boycott.

Downday on Wall Street.

Downday on Wall Street.

The Dow Jones dropped eight point oh two, closing at nine to eighteen point oh nine. The American Index dropped one point forty five, closing at about three sixteen and a half, and the over the counter Nasdaq lost point twenty nine, finishing up at one sixty nine point six. The WAW Weather Center forecast for New York City and Vicinity.

The Dow Jones dropped eight point oh two, closing at nine to eighteen point oh nine. The American Index dropped one point forty five, closing at about three sixteen and a half, and the over the counter Nasdaq lost point twenty nine, finishing up at one sixty nine point six. The WAW Weather Center forecast for New York City and Vicinity.

It was a nice day.

It was a nice day.

It will be a nice evening, clear and mile lone near seventy the full moon out Tonight. Mostly sunny, getting stickier tomorrow as the humidity goes up, high in the low nineties. Tomorrow night fair and warm, low in the mid seventies. Sunday a lot like tomorrow, only more cloudy, hot, humid, high in the low nineties. Right now, sonny and even ninety degrees thirty two celsius. Humidity stands at thirty two percent. Winds coming from the southwest at six miles an hour. The news has been brought to you by the New York Bank for Savings. I'm Keith Olberman WNW News back now to Jim Low.

It will be a nice evening, clear and mile lone near seventy the full moon out Tonight. Mostly sunny, getting stickier tomorrow as the humidity goes up, high in the low nineties. Tomorrow night fair and warm, low in the mid seventies. Sunday a lot like tomorrow, only more cloudy, hot, humid, high in the low nineties. Right now, sonny and even ninety degrees thirty two celsius. Humidity stands at thirty two percent. Winds coming from the southwest at six miles an hour. The news has been brought to you by the New York Bank for Savings. I'm Keith Olberman WNW News back now to Jim Low.

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In New York.

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WAW News at eight o'clock. It's clear eighty six degrees. I'm Keith Olberman. Security is tight the Atmosphere tents at Lincoln Cider this evening, where the Metropolitan Opera will go on with the show. New security procedures such as the use of ID cards by employees entering the opera house when it went into effect today after Wednesday's murder a violinist. Helen Hagness mittis more on the circumstances of the violinist death released today.

WAW News at eight o'clock. It's clear eighty six degrees. I'm Keith Olberman. Security is tight the Atmosphere tents at Lincoln Cider this evening, where the Metropolitan Opera will go on with the show. New security procedures such as the use of ID cards by employees entering the opera house when it went into effect today after Wednesday's murder a violinist. Helen Hagness mittis more on the circumstances of the violinist death released today.

Mona Rivera has a report it was a gruesome death.

Mona Rivera has a report it was a gruesome death.

I'm Mona Rivera at w ANDEW News.

I'm Mona Rivera at w ANDEW News.

The explosion and fire at that Queen's factory happened yesterday, but the suffering and the tragedy appear to be stretching out to many days. The death toll now seven after forty two year old Lewis Cruz of Manhattan died early this morning and twenty one year old Evelyn Rodriguez died at a quarter to three this afternoon. Miss Rodriguez was the fourth die of injuries since the explosion. Three died on the scene, eight are still reported in critical condition from the blast, three with burns over seventy percent of their bodies. Their prospects for survival very poor. Not all the news is This Friday night, the Public Service Electric and Gas strike, over less than a day after it started, PSEE and G reaching tentative settlement this afternoon with five thousand electrical and clerical workers who'd.