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RUSH: Magic Johnson. After being raked over the coals by Donald Sterling on CNN, Anderson Cooper went out and got Magic to appear last night, and Anderson Cooper said, “Are you interested in the Clippers? There\u2019s a lot of reports that you would be interested in being an owner, part-owner of the Clippers.”<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: We have to wait. That\u2019s gonna be eight months to a year to see if it ever hits the market. But for me, if it comes out and it\u2019s for sale, and my Guggenheim Partners and I say, “Okay, we want to take a look at it; we want to buy it,” of course we\u2019ll make a run for it.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: “[W]e\u2019ll make a run for it.” It\u2019s “gonna be eight months to a year to see if it ever hits the market”? That\u2019s not gonna sit well with LeBron James. LeBron James wants this done tomorrow. Rick Barry wants the Sterlings to give up the team tomorrow! We had the sound bites. They don\u2019t want to wait. Eight months to a year to adjudicate this? He\u2019s got the timeline already worked out.<\/p>\n

Magic says it\u2019s gonna be eight months to a year before anybody can make a run at it. (interruption) It is. It is the first time I\u2019ve heard a timeline at all on the team being available. Well, it would appear that Magic Johnson\u2019s got information. I haven\u2019t heard the commissioner talk about how quickly this is gonna end. I haven\u2019t heard Sterling announce when he\u2019s gonna give up the fight. <\/p>\n

Well, his wife said she wants the team. <\/p>\n

Everybody else said (summarized), “Well, you better realize nobody wants you. So you should just go away. Your husband should sell the team, buy an island, and leave everybody alone! Why do you want to be around people that don\u2019t like you?” That was Rick Barry yesterday<\/a>. But Magic on CNN last night said it\u2019s gonna be eight to 12 months. I wonder if LeBron James has heard this, because they\u2019re expecting this to happen like by Friday. <\/p>\n

Well, they want it to happen by Friday.<\/p>\n

So after revealing that it\u2019ll be eight to 12 months before the team even hits the market, Magic then continued.<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: We have to wait and see. But this notion that I want his team? If I was gonna trick somebody, deceive somebody, be dishonest to somebody, steal somebody\u2019s franchise, it\u2019s gonna be the Los Angeles Lakers. (laughing) Let\u2019s make that clear right now.<\/p>\n

COOPER: You\u2019re putting that on the record?<\/p>\n

<\/a>JOHNSON: It won\u2019t be the LA Clippers. Look, I\u2019m a respectable guy. I\u2019m a guy who worked hard to put myself in this position. I am not gonna do anything bad to ruin that. I can\u2019t look my kids in the face and say, “Hey, I\u2019m a thief. I\u2019m a guy who back stabs people to get to where they want to get to.” I don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was just kidding about stealing the Lakers. I want everybody to know he was only kidding. He didn\u2019t really mean it. He was bouncing off the allegations he was gonna steal the Clippers. Well, \u2019cause he\u2019s not gonna talk openly about seriously stealing a team. He was joking about stealing it. If he gets one of these he\u2019s gonna buy it. He\u2019s not gonna steal. He was just making a joke. Some people take it seriously. I just wanted to step in and make sure everybody understood. (interruption) They did ask if he knows V. dot. Let\u2019s see. Grab sound bite 15. He said he never met her. Anderson Cooper, “Donald Sterling claimed in this interview that I did with him the other day that you knew V. dot and that you knew her really well.”<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: I\u2019ve never met this young lady. I took a picture with her probably, it looked like at a Dodger game. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all I know of her. You know, and then he says I\u2019m trying to set him up. How am I trying to set you up?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he thinks that you\u2019re behind her getting the tape. He thinks that you want his team and that you\u2019re using V. dot to sweet talk him into saying things to get him thrown out of the league. But he didn\u2019t know V. dot. Did not know V. dot. So okay, back to sound bite 14. Anderson Cooper. “One of the things that Sterling said to me was that you called him up.”<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: I was sitting in my office, I get a call from Donald Sterling. This is what happened. He asked me to go on the Barbara Walters show with him. I told him I wouldn\u2019t do it. I said, “The number one thing you need to do, which you haven\u2019t done, is apologize to everybody and myself.” “I\u2019ll get to that. I\u2019ll get to that.”<\/line><\/p>\n

COOPER: So he wanted you to go on with Barbara Walters sitting next to him?<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: Sitting next to him.<\/p>\n

COOPER: To kind of give him cover or —<\/p>\n

JOHNSON: Exactly. So I said no. Then I told him, I said, “Donald, you should consult with your attorneys.” I said, “This thing is a big thing, and you should deal with your attorneys and let them advise you on what to do.” But I said, “You need to go public and apologize to everybody.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he did. And then he stepped in two more buckets of excrement in the process. He did. He went on apologized. And he tried the Clinton route. It was just sex. You know what he said was, he said (paraphrasing), “Look, you\u2019re with a woman, everybody knows this, you say whatever you have to say. I mean, you don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s recording it. If you thought somebody was recording it you\u2019d never say it, but you say whatever in order to get the woman to have sex with you.” They tried that. Shortly after the Lewinsky thing had resurfaced, there\u2019s no question what he was trying. If it worked for Bill Clinton, it can work for me, Donald Sterling. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, let\u2019s get one thing straight. It\u2019s not crazy for Sterling to ask Magic to appear on Barbara Walters with him. It\u2019s not crazy. I mean, it\u2019s crazy that he might think Magic would do it, but it\u2019s not crazy to ask. I mean, it would be like Bill Clinton asking Hillary to sit next to him in an interview about his bimbo allegations, which she did, to give him cover. It was 60 Minutes, 1992, and it was Steve Kroft doing the interview. (interruption) Well, she didn\u2019t show up the second time? (interruption) Well, no, they didn\u2019t, but they walked out of the White House together hand in hand and then she goes on the Today show and blamed the right-wing conspiracy for it. <\/p>\n

But she did give Clinton cover on 60 Minutes in 1992. So it\u2019s not unusual. I mean, if Sterling is trying to channel Clinton and do what Clinton did, I mean, Clinton did that. It\u2019s interesting to me, though, that wherever you look in this story — I mean, we\u2019re just playing sound bites of what\u2019s on television, and all roads lead to Magic Johnson in this thing. I mean, whatever angle is discussed, it all ends up back with Magic being the go-to guy for the real story about what happened here. And I know Magic is Mr. LA, but Kobe is there, too, and they\u2019re not going to Kobe about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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