IMHO this story is another case of media hype. My policy is to judge people by what they do, rather than what they say. Language today has become a social lubricant. Something that fills the space and lets thing slide by at a social event. Language has been devalued so much by Political Correctness and sound bytes much of what we hear is simply noise.

In Sterling's case, by his actions he was awarded or up for MOTY awards from the NAACP. They probably are not looking to give an award of that acclaim to a racist. Add to that the estranged wife fighting over community property, the temerity of the gold digger recording and releasing a private conversation, and the aging sugar daddy trying to control those around him; with all of that you have a gossip story that will go on until a real news item bumps it.

Was the gold digger trying to get something on him to advance her public image? Was the wife trying to crush him so she would have a better outcome in court. Was what he said the crudest way possible of saying without a team owner providing financial support and market planning those jobs would not exist in the time and place where they are?

What has Mr. Sterling done?

I can't imagine anyone being that tactless. Or that ignorant. He accused the light-skinned among the Jews of Israel of discriminating against their Ethiopian and other dark-skinned fellow residents. I've been to Israel. I did not observe any hint of that. And I remind everyone: those Ethiopians are there because El Al Israel Airlines lent a 747 to airlift them there, as many as a thousand per load.

Other problem: the tape was unlawfully made. California is an all-party-consent State. He could sue for damages and hang a lot of people up if he wanted to.

Nonetheless: Rand told us that "racism is the lowest form of collectivism." Here you saw it on display. And the market has already moved to expel him from the circles of organized sport.

"L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whom commentators tried to tie to the Republican party immediately after his alleged racist statements became public"
It would suck to have a writing job where you're supposed to shoehorn every oddball story to be about partisan politics.

I, too, had to revise opinion after more information came out and I actually listened to the recording. I've been burned several times now on stories I picked up from Drudge. I think a good aggregate site should vet what it's putting out there. and apologize when they're wrong.
I also got caught up on another post-March of Tyranny cartoon. Zero posted other cartoons from the cartoonist which clearly showed him to be racist-neo-nazi like. Turns out, the cartoonist is being hijacked by members of hate organization against jewish people. They are altering his cartoons and putting them out on the net. Dig, dig, and dig some more I guess. ah well, hopefully everyone is reading ALL the comments cuz the article is on the daily today.

Nothing. That’s my take. If this all it takes to be labeled a racist and a bigot then everyone on the bandwagon must be suffering from borderline personality where an uncomfortable and unreasonable level of drama is preferred.

I think this an exploiting attempt to make use of a situation that might make him consider selling the team. If that happens, let’s watch who steps up to by it.

Link, please.

He's not only a liberal democrat, he is a darling of the NAACP and made money on subprime gov't mortgages. He has received awards from NAACP in the past and was slated to receive another. Progressivism is a schizophrenic movement.

Happily married to a woman almost 20 years. When we married, I didn't have any money, so no golddigger there.

Oh..sorry....I thought your last word was penility.

We are both suffering from premature posting... you can delete it but...... the comments keep it alive anyway. Some day we'll learn.

there are pills

lol

He is is sad. I saw his wife. She not bad-looking for her age and then they have been together for sixty years. But the chick is definitely a gold-digger. Lol. I didn't know it was the wife suing! Hahaha. I say if Miss V wants to claim she should keep her ‘gifts’, then somebody at the IRS should be paying her a visit real soon.

make them take a test first...wait-are you single and available straight?

I hope, when I get that old, that I'm able to rise above the senile delusion that some beautiful young thing has an interest in anything but my money. I also hope I have some money for wanna be golddiggers to be interested in.

I really posted this too quickly. Can I delete? ;)

You got Charles Barkley on ESPN declaring that the NBA is a black sport. Lol. What planet am I on?

The owner gave a few bucks in the nineties; he’s not much of a Democrat.
It’s wild the way this chick, the team, the advertisers, and the media got fired-up so fast.

Watch Oprah step up to buy the team. Lol

You hit the nail on the head. Shame no one is mentioning that he's a liberal democrat but no one in the MSM missing that he's white.

ok, I listened to it. It certainly is NOT what is portrayed in the media. It's almost like he's worried she's dating someone else and he's just using it as an excuse. He contradicts himself. at one point he said "I love black people." She was definitely leading the conversation and saying things he didn't say in the conversation. I think he sounded creepy but she did too