Right-wing pundit: Donald Sterling proves there’s no real anti-black racism in America

Power Line's John Hinderaker says Sterling is "a reverse image of Othello" and a victim of the left

ELIAS ISQUITH

In 2004, Time Magazine wrote a glowing profile of conservative lawyer John Hinderaker and his blog, Power Line.

In 2012, Hinderaker penned a post for Power Line that argued President Obama was injecting “national socialism” into the U.S., an argument he supported with pictures of Mussolini and Lenin.

And now, in 2014, Hinderaker has unveiled a new classic, a long defense of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, whom Hinderaker says is probably not a racist — despite being caught on tape telling his mistress not to publicly associate with black people — because he’s old and many of the people he employs are black. (He also says Sterling is a “reverse image of Othello,” whatever that means.)

“The more you learn about the story,” Hinderaker writes, “the stranger it gets.” What’s so strange about an aged white man treating people of color as if they were less-than fully human, you ask? “What makes this bizarre is that Stiviano herself if black and Mexican, a fact that she reminds Sterling of during their argument,” Hinderaker explains. “The situation is otherworldly, in that Sterling seems not to have noticed that his own girlfriend is black.”

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