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Excellent.

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Donald Sterling and Anderson Cooper

This is big. This is huge!

Anderson Cooper has an exclusive interview with Donald Sterling!



From CNN:

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says he's sorry but feels he was "baited" to make racist comments, nearly two weeks after the NBA fined him and banned him for life for his remarks in a recorded conversation.

"When I listen to that tape, I don't even know how I can say words like that. ... I don't know why the girl had me say those things," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview set to air on Monday.

"You're saying you were set up?" Cooper asked.

"Well yes, I was baited," Sterling said. "I mean, that's not the way I talk. I don't talk about people for one thing, ever. I talk about ideas and other things. I don't talk about people."

Sterling, an 80-year-old married lawyer and billionaire real-estate investor, hasn't spoken publicly about the accusations since celebrity gossip website TMZ posted a 10-minute audio recording of him that drew widespread condemnation from fans, players and the league.

..."I'm not a racist," Sterling told Cooper. "I made a terrible, terrible mistake. And I'm here with you today to apologize and to ask for forgiveness for all the people that I've hurt."

Asked by Cooper why he took so long to say he's sorry, Sterling said he was "emotionally distraught."

Not me.

There is an aspect of the Sterling story that deserves serious consideration - the way the NAACP embraced this man.

Sterling BANNED FOR LIFE

Eighty-year-old billionaire Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA.

Gasp!!!

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be suspended for life and fined $2.5 million in response to the racist remarks he allegedly made in a recorded audio clip.

Silver spoke to the press at 11 a.m. news conference from New York, stating he will “do everything in my power” to force the sale of the Clippers.

“The hateful opinions voiced by that man are those of Mr. Sterling. The views expressed by Mr. Sterling are deeply offensive and harmful. That they came from an NBA owner only heightens the damage and my personal outrage,” Silver said. “I am banning Mr. Sterling for life from any association with the Clippers association or the NBA. Mr. Sterling may not attend any NBA games or practices, he may not be present at any Clippers facility, and he may not participate in any business or decisions involving the team.”

Sterling can't go to any NBA games for the rest of his life, a 20-year sentence at most.

Oh, God! Cruel and unusual punishment!

He'll be pressured to sell the team. Oh, no! Sterling will be punished by pocketing roughly half a billion dollars. TORTURE!

I don't care what the NBA does. Sterling is a racist idiot, honored by the NAACP. Whatever.

I hope this little drama can be put aside and we can focus on things that really matter, like the blowing up of our health care system by the Obama administration, Obama's disastrous handling of the economy, Obama's attack on the Constitution, his assault on the First Amendment, specifically religious liberty, and the catastrophic screw-up of American foreign policy by Team Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

The Sterling distraction hopefully is over.
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Well that was something. Now what do we talk about

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) April 29, 2014

Donald Sterling and the NAACP

This is what I know about Donald Sterling--

He's a billionaire.

He owns the LA Clippers.

He was recorded making horrible, racist remarks.

I don't care about the NBA. I don't care about my home team, the Milwaukee Bucks. I certainly don't care about the Clippers. Accordingly, I certainly don't care about their billionaire owner.

For days, the media have been drooling over the Sterling story. Supposedly, the nation is gripped by the drama.

Of course, I'm troubled when I learn of such ugliness as the Sterling matter. It's concerning, generally speaking. But I really don't care about it.

I don't care what the NBA does. I just don't care. Sterling is an idiot. That's well-documented.

The fact that Sterling is a known racist buffoon makes me wonder why no one addressed that sooner.

Why did the NAACP give Sterling a lifetime achievement award in 2009? Why was the NAACP going to honor him again next month?

From TMZ Sports:

The NAACP tells TMZ Sports ... the organization is revising its guidelines for selecting honorees in light of the Donald Sterling situation ... saying the fact he was set to receive an NAACP award next month is "unfortunate."

As we previously reported, Sterling -- who was sued TWICE for discrimination and has faced allegations of racism in the past -- was set to be honored on May 15th by the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Now, a spokesperson for the national office tells TMZ Sports, "We are working on a new set of guidelines so there's greater scrutiny on who's selected for these awards."

"We need to have a better vetting process."

The rep tells us ... the national office is talking to the L.A. branch to find out exactly how Sterling even got on a list to be honored by the organization ... saying, "It was an unfortunate selection."

Still, it seems unfathomable that the national office would know nothing about the L.A. chapter's plans to honor such a controversial person ... especially given Sterling's reputation.

Yes, it's unfathomable.

The NAACP is a joke. It's sad, but it is what it is.

USA Today reports that the NAACP was set to honor Sterling again because he donated to the organization.

Money, money, money... whatever.

I am so sick of this story.

Sterling is a racist. That was known. All of sudden, it matters. Even Obama had to weigh in.

We're all supposed to be upset about Sterling. We're all supposed to care about the Clippers and the NBA. We're supposed to consider Sterling's racism the most important issue facing the country right now.

I don't think what Sterling said or did or says or does is important at all.



Are we supposed to be concerned about Obama and like-minded Leftists preventing children from getting a quality education via school choice programs? Does that deserve our outrage?

Nope.