Posted on 05/13/2014 6:46:21 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Presumably, when the team of crisis public relations experts sat down to prep Clippers owner Donald Sterling, they were able to hammer one paragraph into his head.
“I’m not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. I’m here with you today to apologize, and to ask for forgiveness,” Sterling begins, in what will quickly spin out into the most tone-deaf apology in TV history.
That was good. What followed was the antimatter of good. If the ideas Sterling vocalized to CNN’s Anderson Cooper were to come into contact with goodness, the universe would collapse in on itself.
Throughout, it was a cringing and maudlin display. Sterling kicks it off with a transparently phony story about his granddaughter being denied sweets at school because “we don’t give candy to racists.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
And now, gay, too.
If the property has been in a trust at least 5 years, good luck busting it....
Now I'm waiting to hear Sterling on Silver.
Leni
Why isn’t Magic making a play on his Lakers?
They probably don’t want to be anywhere near the infectious bastard!
While a bit clumsy, there is no question, he speaks of ‘Magic , without thought of ‘color’- a sure bet to mark you as a racist.
He is ‘essentially’ a Demrat. Changing parties when you are in your late 70’s is not really changing your world view. Maybe ‘Monica’ , Bill and “blue dress’ sent him running. Albeit, he was not against chasing a few of his own, it seems. And, then Magic, too. Not his kind of Democrat, either - per values thing. According to this latest interview. . .
Smart businessmen hedge their bets by giving to both parties.
Perhaps, but they school like fish.
And for similar reasons.
Magic Johnson is charming and intelligent and really good with the several hundred (or was it more) women he slept with and amazingly he got AIDs somewhere along the line. Sterling is right, he should be ashamed of himself.
Until Sharpton and Jackson are held to the same standard I’m not interested IMHO this is an attempt to take away an NBA team and give it to black ownership. Magics Johnson as new owner?
He's a Democrat and should know that REAL apologies always start with, "If anyone was offended..."
His comments on Magic Johnson were entertaining but he appears to love to dig that hole that he is in deeper and deeper.
It is interesting how the freedom to say what you think is somehow not “allowed”. Is Freedom outdated?
If either your or my employer doen't like our publicly stated opinions he/she has the legal freedom to fire us for making them.
That was always true. (although gay anti-discrimination laws break this rule a bit as they protect certain behavior)
In the case of the NBA the rules state that he can be fined by the commissioner for his public statements.
Is this new? Recall many in the GOP calling for boycotts of the Dixie Chicks ~ 2003??/
So, representing somebody accused of making racist statements in the US is almost as bad for a lawyer's career as representing somebody who "insulted Islam" would be in Pakistan?
A trifle late here on the subject, but I would like to add a few thoughts, politically incorrect though they may be. A sociologist once indicated a certain voice of reason that may have calmed the crowd. It was "the man on the edge of the crowd".
The voice would ask "Just what has he done?" Taking everything into account if sanity reined, it might be simply put that he was just stupid etc. Then let it go. Alas, there is no justice once the dogs of political correctness are unleashed. My salute to the Globe and Mail and Anderson Cooper etc. follows.
Hosannah.
Peace be with you. Peace be on you. Peace be to you.
May you b****r each other to kingdom come.
With apologies to the Rosy Crucifixion. Author Henry Miller.
Excuse the rant.
Letting it go would strike at the heart of their power. The following short video illustrates the point:
Grasshopper scene from "A Bugs Life"
The power of the left is dependent upon their ability and willingness to destroy any who would challenge their "Vision". Allow even one person to speak in violation of their vision, without massive consequences, would be an "Emperor has no clothes" moment.
The day that a critical mass of people stand up and declare their right to speak their minds, and to REFUSE to go along with penalizing a man for speaking his, is the day that their profitable little scam ends.
I had a smile, as I wondered what was in the link provided. Then it hit me as hard as the unfortunate followers who were then buried. Never a truer illustration. Orwell would have loved it.
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