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monmouth3

(3,871 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2014, 01:45 PM Apr 2014

Donald Sterling and the Neverending Fantasy of ‘Democrat’ Racism

Update: Now comes the utterly shocking news that despite his campaign donations to the contrary, Sterling is—sit down—a registered Republican. The Los Angeles Times's Michael Hiltzik tweeted as much this morning, and I confirmed through a source that a Donald T. Sterling who lives in Beverly Hills and was born on April 26, 1934 is indeed a registered Republican voter in L.A. County. Now it's true, he makes no campaign contributions, so he's obviously not a gung-ho big-P Political Republican. But still, there goes your racist Democrat. Sorry, Daily Caller!

They have a fair point—just one—in that I do agree that having written several times lately about racism within the ranks of the Republican Party, it would be bad form of me not to write about Sterling. So here you are, cons.

First of all, I’ve been amused at how eagerly the right-wing press has pounced on the “fact” that Sterling is a Democrat. To my knowledge, there is no such established fact at this point. This is based on two political contributions he made many moons ago.

Apparently, when the story broke Saturday morning, everyone in the cyberworld somehow glommed onto a 2011 list published at a site called RealGM that listed the political contributions of NBA owners. This list said Sterling had donated to two Democrats, Gray Davis and Bill Bradley, and that these were long ago, going back to “the early 1990s.”

More at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/28/donald-sterling-and-the-neverending-fantasy-of-democrat-racism.html

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Donald Sterling and the Neverending Fantasy of ‘Democrat’ Racism (Original Post) monmouth3 Apr 2014 OP

Did Sterling have a partisan "News" channel and politicians rushing to praise him? underpants Apr 2014 #1

LOL. Another Daily Caller epic fail. nt Cali_Democrat Apr 2014 #2

So Donald's b-day Jamaal510 Apr 2014 #3

TBH, most liberals, regardless of ethnicity are generally rather decent people.......... AverageJoe90 Apr 2014 #4

Exactly! Democrats are NOT racists FrodosPet Apr 2014 #5

There are degrees of everything, but I would readily agree that Dems are less racist on the whole. nomorenomore08 Apr 2014 #7

You missed out on the 2008 primary here on the DU. hughee99 Apr 2014 #8

One thing I've noticed on my FB page is that NO ONE is defending Sterling maryellen99 Apr 2014 #6

Thats the third article or so I've seen from glenn beck's news site that is anti republican Jesus Malverde Apr 2014 #9

underpants

(182,805 posts)

1. Did Sterling have a partisan "News" channel and politicians rushing to praise him?

Reply to monmouth3 (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 01:58 PM

Apr 2014

Was anyone calling him a "hero" or a"patriot"?

Well?

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

2. LOL. Another Daily Caller epic fail. nt

Reply to monmouth3 (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 02:10 PM

Apr 2014

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)

3. So Donald's b-day

Reply to monmouth3 (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 02:32 PM

Apr 2014

was this weekend, huh? What a fucked up time it must've been with this controversy swirling over him, and with the Clippers getting creamed yesterday.

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)

4. TBH, most liberals, regardless of ethnicity are generally rather decent people..........

Reply to monmouth3 (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 02:37 PM

Apr 2014

Of course, that doesn't stop the Daily Caller and other right-wing nutbags from constantly whining about supposedly widespread "leftist racism" or whatever(when in fact, it is virtually non-existent. Even basic prejudice is not that common amongst us.), but it's still true, and no amount of bloviating from Rushbo and company can change that.