(A) Mr. Sterling was taped without his knowledge, which is, I believe, a felony in California (B) it was almost certainly done at the behest of Magic Johnson, who has been rebuffed in the past by Mr. Sterling in his attempts to buy the team so he almost certainly hatched a plot with the mistress to catch Sterling in a racist rant. Tell me, would you feel fine if EVERYTHING you’ve said in private in the past was broadcast to the world?
Do you have proof of A or B? I think A is a reasonable assumption, but it still needs to be proven, but so far B is pure conjecture. This is a leftist technique. I’m sure Sterling has decent lawyers to defend his rights.
I don't like it, but isn't that the world we live in? Very soon people will likely be fired because they post on sites like this one. I don't like it, but the question is how can we stop it?
Conservatives used to say there is a penalty for being stupid. Now the government should protect people from their stupid actions? I don’t know if Sterling knew he was being recorded, but I am not sure he didn’t, because his general actions suggest he probably would have done something like that. But it was pretty clear, that even a total idiot would have known she was baiting him into saying stupid stuff, and he obliged her very well. I am not totally clear about what their relationship was, but this guy was asking for trouble in a major way. And he got it. And it doesn’t even seem like he cares. He wanted it, he got it. Sorry.
“Mr. Sterling was taped without his knowledge, which is, I believe, a felony in California...”
...probably unenforceable in the 21st century.
“it was almost certainly done at the behest of Magic Johnson, who has been rebuffed in the past by Mr. Sterling in his attempts to buy the team so he almost certainly hatched a plot with the mistress to catch Sterling in a racist rant.”
This is conjecture, but worth looking into and any evidence of this should be taken seriously.