:: and ‘encourage’ him to sell the team ::
I’d do everything I could to convince one “Rush Limbaugh” to buy the Clippers!
how did this recording of a private telephone conversation take place?
So far there is no legal implications for thoughtcrime, this unofficial civil pillorying is all they can do.
Marge Schott made her comments public ally, to a reporter. From what I've heard this guy's statements were made in a private conversation. Or at least he thought it was private.
The Clippers’ value will never get much higher and the hassle just isn’t worth it now. Sterling should sell up and sleep at night on top of a pile of money with many beautiful ladies.
Can’t Obama make such talk a felony?
I don’t see what was racist about Sterling’s comments. To the contrary, it sounded to me as if he was tired of his girlfriend using black people as some sort of decoration. It was her actions then that were racist as she was using her ‘black friends’ to make herself look ‘diverse’ when it sounds to me like Sterling knows her better.
Ridiculous....The b**** belongs in jail. It’s called blackmail.
On what basis could they fine him? Right, wrong or indifferent, his comments were personal and had nothing to do with his ownership. If he influenced the hiring or firing (within the confines of law), is that not a prerogative of ownership?
If that would outrage everyone associated with The Beast, gee, go for it.
The speech police is at it again. Private conversations and/or private political donations (Mozilla) are subjected to financial penalties if the speech/donation violates the sensitivities of the politically correct crowd. Of course the NBA has an unblemished record of hiring only model citizens.
Just for the record, some Sponsors are pulling out, perhaps there is a thread on that I have missed.
I haven’t heard the tape, but from headlines and comments you’d think this guy was worse than Hitler. He said some derogatory things about blacks and Jews? So what? Was he planning to kill them all? That would be one thing, but not liking them? Again: so what? FTR, I have no idea who this guy is and could not care less for basketball.
Reid is sulking in his office wondering how come he wasn’t involed in deals like this so he could line is pockets with more money. Why does Donald Sterling get to make more money than him, ever though reid is a corrupt crook he never makes money like that and thar’s not fair.
So let me get this straight:
1. A gross, entitled, creepy rich guy got drunk and said crappy/racist things to his entitled, creepy, skank gold-digger “girlfriend.”
2. Creepy, entitled, skanky, gold-digger “girlfriend” taped him, in a creepy, skanky, gold-diggery sort of way in some sort of revenge after he trades her in for a new model.
3. We’re supposed to care?
Sorry, I don’t care. They deserve each other.
Rich people problems.
I hope he does...
Donald Sterling 2004 flashback: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nba-owner-sex-scandal
Donald Trump was on F&F this morning, via telephone, and if I understood him correctly, he seemed to imply that Sterling was having cognitive problems associated with his age.