As ‘Punishment,’ Los Angeles Clippers Bigot Donald Sterling Could Make $1 Billion

The Daily Beast ^ | 04/28/2014 | Robert Silverman

[SeekAndFind]

The NBA will likely suspend L.A. Clippers owner over his racist remarks and ‘encourage’ him to sell the team—and it’s not inconceivable the sale will earn him a $988 million profit.

It’s only going to get worse for embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. On Sunday afternoon, Deadspin released a longer version of everyone’s least-favorite lecherous, reptilian, slumlord billionaire airing his so-called thoughts on race to his (presumably now former) girlfriend, V. Stiviano.

Feel free to listen to more of this poisonous dreck, if you really need to hear how Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp gets dragged in, some very weird and very wrong ideas about “black Jews,” and, of course, the Holocaust.

Unless the tape in question is somehow proved to be a fabrication of such maliciously doctored skill that it’d make Gennifer Flowers blush, Sterling will receive what has to be the largest fine in National Basketball Association history, be suspended, and then be “encouraged”—à la Marge Schott —to find a nice, non-racist fellow .01 percenter to sell the team to.

But even if the league eventually has this pustulant boil of a man forcibly removed, it’d be perfectly understandable if you were driven to pound nails into the floor with your forehead when you start thinking about the gargantuan pile of ducats that will be his ultimate “punishment.”

[dirtymac]

What is the source of the tapes since ‘she’ did not release them. I have a problem with privacy violations in what would normally be protected.

[Vigilanteman]

And, thus, my question in post #15.

I'm old enough to remember when Earl Butz, who was a pretty decent Secretary of Agriculture, got ridden out of town on a rail for telling an off-color joke which quoted a turn-of-the-century politician.

Not one empty suit nor empty skirt in the media would print or repeat the joke which was supposed to be so offensive so we could judge for ourselves.

Is this the case here?

[Ted Grant]

Is that ink or body paint? I hate ink.

[Ted Grant]

She’s a Hood Rat. But some might consider that racist.

[cynwoody]

What is the source of the tapes since ‘she’ did not release them. I have a problem with privacy violations in what would normally be protected.

She's being sued by Sterling's old(er) lady Rochelle. More info here.

Rochelle and Don Sterling

I found it odd that the name Stiviano is very scarce across these 50 united states. It turns out in 2010 she had her name legally changed to V. Stiviano from Maria Vanessa Perez for the stated reason that she had not "yet been fully accepted because of my race."

As to the tape, she denies releasing it. It's possible a third party knew about their taping their conversations and leaked a particularly good one. It's also possible she is simply lying.

[Chickensoup]

Pink fuzzy handcuffs?

[cynwoody]

I'm old enough to remember when Earl Butz, who was a pretty decent Secretary of Agriculture, got ridden out of town on a rail for telling an off-color joke which quoted a turn-of-the-century politician.

Handy mnemonic to avoid spelling confusion between "loose" and "lose": Loose shoes, lose job.

Not one empty suit nor empty skirt in the media would print or repeat the joke which was supposed to be so offensive so we could judge for ourselves.

Is this the case here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhT6d5fMhzI

[Defiant]

Not one empty suit nor empty skirt in the media would print or repeat the joke which was supposed to be so offensive so we could judge for ourselves.

I was 16 or 17 when the Earl Butz thing happened. I knew the "joke" then, and can remember it to this day. Don't know why you didn't find out what he said. If I knew it, everyone did. The print version may have used a lot of *&# letters but it was obvious what he said. It was pretty offensive. Didn't he tell it to someone sitting next to him on a plane? Just dumb.

[cynwoody]

remember when Earl Butz, who was a pretty decent Secretary of Agriculture, got ridden out of town on a rail for telling an off-color joke which quoted a turn-of-the-century politician.

Do you happen to recall who that turn-of-the-century politician was? I'd always assumed the joke had originated with ole Earl.

Butz also gets credit for another joke, referring to the Pope and reproductive rights: "He no playa the game, he no maka the rules." Cardinal Cooke demanded an apology. "I'ma sorry I speaka dat way."

[jjotto]

Never heard it attributed to anyone in particular. Probably just a folk saying.

The ‘No playa da game...’ quote was popularized by Vice President Spiro Agnew.

[Vigilanteman]

Well, thanks for the source and I gave it a listen. Sterling sounds like your typical old guy who doesn't want his GF acting like she is sleeping around or even banging everybody else. By the time the Larry Bird question is thrown at him, he's so upset by her race baiting that he doesn't even answer it, so I can't be sure. Is he old-fashioned in today's PC environment? For sure. A little bit racist? Maybe. Did he utter any racial epitaph? Never.

[EBH]

Indeed it just might be blackmail when one considers the whole context of the situation.

But this is what I do not understand, obviously the NAACCP was willing to give him a 2nd Lifetime Award, so that tells me the man followed the laws regarding discrimination in business. He can legally be a bigot all he wants in private.