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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew this was gonna take a while for that to get picked up. They\u2019re just now focusing on that at CNN. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been playing Sterling excerpts of an interview with Anderson Cooper all day because it runs in its entirety tonight. They\u2019re gonna interrupt coverage of the Malaysian jet for their full-fledged interview with Donald Sterling. In this interview he said, “I don\u2019t think Magic\u2019s a good example for the children of LA.” <\/p>\n

I knew it was gonna take a while for that to be absorbed because those are fighting words, and Sterling was saying (summarized), “I don\u2019t talk like that. I was baited. I didn\u2019t mean to say that. That\u2019s not who I am! I was just trying to sweet talk this babe. She was frustrating me. I wanted sex. That\u2019s all it was, and I was baited into saying those things. I\u2019m not a racist! I don\u2019t really mean that stuff.”<\/p>\n

His wife was over with Barbara Walters. (paraphrased) “No, he\u2019s just… You know, I was sickened when I heard him say it, but he\u2019s in early onset of dementia. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying, and I want the team.” That\u2019s gonna really gum up the works because if she wants the team and he bequeaths it to her, or if he dies or just hands it over beforehand, she hasn\u2019t said any of this racial stuff.<\/line><\/p>\n

Oh, big, big mess. <\/p>\n

So Sterling steps in it again by ripping into Magic. I told you. You know, everybody pooh-poohed this, and a bunch of left-wing media people wrote stories about my mad-hatted conspiracy theory. But this babe was running around with Magic, this V. Stiviano, and she\u2019s running around with Dodgers players.<\/p>\n

And it was with pictures of Magic that Sterling went bongo. “What are you doing?!” Sterling knows that Magic\u2019s had designs on his team, and he\u2019s probably paranoid and so forth. Now Magic\u2019s not a good example for the children of LA? That\u2019s like saying Oprah\u2019s not a good role model for women. That\u2019s just not gonna fly. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got Sterling ripping into Magic here. We have two excerpts of Sterling with his interview Cooper 22, and this is the first one.<\/p>\n

STERLING: I\u2019m apologizing, and I\u2019m asking for forgiveness. Am I entitled to one mistake after 35 years? I mean, I love my league. I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It\u2019s a terrible mistake, and I\u2019ll never do it again.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON: Why wait so long to apologize? It\u2019s been a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

STERLING: I\u2019m so emotionally distraught, and the reason it\u2019s hard for me — very hard for me — is that I\u2019m wrong. I caused the problem. I don\u2019t know how to correct it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He sounds on the verge of tears there, doesn\u2019t he? It sounds like he wants to cry and can\u2019t. It sounds like he wishes he\u2019d start crying and just can\u2019t pull it off. Anyway, Anderson Cooper says, “There are a couple of phone recordings just in the last week or two that have come out of people who talk to you on the phone seem to be your voice who sold it to Radar Online and TMZ? Do you have anyone you trust?”<\/p>\n

STERLING: I don\u2019t give interviews. The only one that I know that I talk to is Magic Johnson.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON: You have talked to him?<\/p>\n

STERLING: Twice.<\/p>\n

ANDERSON: Did you apologize to him?<\/p>\n

STERLING: He knew the girl, he said, he knew the girl well. <\/p>\n

ANDERSON: Did you apologize to him or —<\/p>\n

STERLING: Well, if I said anything wrong, I\u2019m sorry. He\u2019s a good person and he — what am I gonna say? Has he done everything he can do to help minorities? I don\u2019t think so. But I\u2019ll say it, I\u2019ll say it, you know, he\u2019s great. But I just don\u2019t think he is a good example for the children of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. Is that not convoluted or what? He knew the girl, he knew the girl. “Did you apologize?” (imitating Sterling) “Well, if I said anything wrong, I\u2019m sorry. He\u2019s a good person. And what am I gonna say? Has he done everything he can to help minorities? I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019ll say it. I\u2019ll say it, you know, he\u2019s great. But I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s a good example for the children of Los Angeles.” <\/p>\n

Phew. Okay. Stepping in it, Phase II defined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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