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RUSH: Donald Sterling. Now, this is Monday night, CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper\u2019s interview, and this has just come to light now. I mean, there\u2019s a lot that he said. And this is before he realized that they had put two buckets of excrement in front of him for him to step in<\/a>. And he did. And Cooper said, “Look, the players on your team, the Clippers –” who, by the way, were eliminated in playoffs last night against Oklahoma City. And players said, nah, the Sterling thing had nothing to do with it. We\u2019re not gonna use that as an excuse. Anderson Cooper said, “The players on your team say they don\u2019t want to work for you.”<\/p>\n

STERLING: Let me just say that I apologized to the league. People want me to hire a wall of lawyers and them to hire a wall of lawyers and to go to war. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the answer.<\/p>\n

COOPER: So what are you gonna do?<\/p>\n

STERLING: I think the answer is, the league is a good league. All honest people. And I think that whatever they decide that has to be done, I think I should work with them and do it. I don\u2019t want a fight with my partners.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Now, see — really, this guy, I don\u2019t know that he, A, remembers what he says when, and may not know what he\u2019s saying when he says it, and I don\u2019t mean that as any kind of excuse, don\u2019t misunderstand. This guy\u2019s elevator may not be going to the top floor here. Because he says this before realizing, I mean, this is in the same interview where he\u2019s saying (imitating Sterling), “Magic Johnson, what has he done? What has he done? He\u2019s got the AIDS. He slept with every woman. He\u2019s not a hero. I mean, hell, I\u2019ve done more for my synagogue, uh, uh, uh, and, you know, Magic, he called, he wanted me to appear on TV with him, he\u2019s phony, he knows the girl, yeah, you know.” <\/p>\n

And then later in the same interview, here he is trying to curry favor. He\u2019s trying to be classy and praise his partners, the other owners. (imitating Sterling) “I don\u2019t want to sue anybody. I don\u2019t want to go to war. Honest people. Some really good people, and I just want to, you know, whatever they decide has to be done. I should work with them.” Well, okay, so he finishes the interview. He stepped in it with Magic. Everybody\u2019s just jamming him on Magic<\/a>. So he forgets this, and now, after saying Monday night that he wanted to work with \u2019em, to do whatever they want done, “I should work with \u2019em. I don\u2019t want to fight with my partners.” Donald Sterling tells NBA to pound sand. He is not gonna pay the fine, and he\u2019s not gonna sell the team. <\/p>\n

Now, just five days ago he thought, I\u2019m sure this guy thought by saying what you just heard that he was re-ingratiating himself. He was praising them. They\u2019re honest people. They\u2019re good people. I don\u2019t want to fight with my partners. But he didn\u2019t realize that what he\u2019d said about Magic — one, he says Magic a hero, he\u2019s a great guy, and then next minute he\u2019s got the AIDS, and he\u2019s sleeping with every woman in every town in America, he\u2019s not a role model. So I\u2019m sure he finished that interview with Magic Johnson thinking he might have stopped the bleeding and maybe even turned it around. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Then he goes and sees the reaction to it, and it\u2019s totally opposite what he thinks he accomplished. So now (imitating Sterling), “Okay. To hell with all of you. You know what? I tried to be nice and I tried to be complimentary of Magic. I tried to praise my fellow owners in the league, but the hell with that now.” <\/p>\n

So now he\u2019s basically telling \u2019em to put it where the sun doesn\u2019t shine. He\u2019s not gonna pay the two and a half million-dollar fine, and his attorney put this in a letter to the NBA. The person who reported this to USA Today requested anonymity \u2019cause he\u2019s not authorized to speak publicly about the letter, which was sent yesterday. The attorney, Sterling\u2019s attorney, Maxwell Blecher, wrote that Sterling doesn\u2019t warrant any punishment at all for his racist comments that were recorded with a female friend and made public. <\/p>\n

This lawyer\u2019s a well-known anti-trust attorney. He contents that the fine violates Sterling\u2019s due-process rights. So now Sterling has lawyered up. He\u2019s put on the gloves, and I\u2019m sure after what he thought was making peace Monday night, something told him that didn\u2019t work. So now he\u2019s loaded for bear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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