#NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Speaks for the Nation

From Christine Brennan, at USA Today, "Adam Silver unprecedented — and perfect":

The era of leniency and looking the other way in our professional sports world has met its match in new NBA commissioner Adam Silver.

Banned for life? Now that's some serious punishment.

Isn't it wonderful to see a 21st century commissioner throw the book at someone who deserves it?

Silver did the absolute right thing Tuesday in banning Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life for his reprehensible racist comments that exploded throughout the news media since last weekend.

The commissioner's news conference in New York riveted the nation – and not just sports fans. The issues at play were the topics that often help form the foundation of high school history classes: racism vs. racial tolerance and advancement, the value of diversity in society, public figures and their private lives, ownership and its responsibilities.

This was about sports, but also about so much more. The conversation transcended sports, and so did Silver's unyielding performance.

He punished Sterling in every way he possibly could – and even in ways he could not. He said he fully expects the support of at least three-quarters of the other NBA owners, a league requirement to remove Sterling as an owner. That's the only thing that's left to do. Silver fined Sterling the maximum of $2.5 million, he made sure Sterling will never appear at a Clippers' game or practice again, and he banned him from making any decisions about his team or the league.

In other words: the works.

The rookie commissioner kicked out the league's longest-tenured owner – forever.

Not since Kenesaw Mountain Landis have we seen a commissioner in any sport debut in the public eye with such a bold stand. This clearly doesn't happen very often. Landis banned the Black Sox 94 years ago.

More.

And don't miss, "Racist Liberal Donald Sterling Banned for Life — VIDEO."

Racist Liberal Donald Sterling Banned for Life — VIDEO

At the Los Angeles Times, "Sterling banned for life from NBA."

And at TMZ, which first broke the story, "Donald Sterling Suspended From NBA INDEFINITELY After Racist Comments" (via Memeorandum).

This is the most riveting press conference I've ever watched. I wanted it to keep going. Adam Silver is a freakin' star. I'll definitely have more.

Stop what you're doing and watch:



Previous racist liberal Donald Sterling blogging is here.

#Blocked by Vile Liberal Racist @JoshTPM

I've gone 'round and 'round with TPM publisher Joshua Micah Marshall many times on Twitter, but recently I've been calling him out for his rank POS partisanship on Donald Sterling's Beverly Hills Racism. And he finally caved like a pussy and blocked:

Don't block most of my trolls, see them sort of like pets or collectibles. but this dude is just too crazy > https://t.co/GZDDg05h8C

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 30, 2014

I think these last few tweets put him over the edge:

.@AmericnElephant #DonaldSterling "Thirty years of leftist, Democrat-supporting hate and ignorance..." http://t.co/JEYrUKjzdl @JoshTPM @TPM

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 30, 2014

.@Olivianuzzi 'Thirty years of leftist, Democrat-supporting hate and ignorance...' http://t.co/xxXeXD23OK @JoshTPM @NoMoreMister #Clippers

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 30, 2014

Fact: Donald Sterling's a dyed-in-the-wool Beverly Hills liberal who's given to Democrats and far-left ballot initiatives exclusively. Honesty requires news outlets report these facts for the record.

PREVIOUSLY: "Liberal Racist Donald Sterling: 'The man who poisoned the Los Angeles Clippers for nearly 30 years with his ignorance and hate has at last been dragged away into sweet oblivion...'"

Hey, 'No More Mister', It's 'Donald T. Sterling' Who Owns the #Clippers, LOL!

OMG this is hilarious!

The idiot Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog's all in a lather since I've been calling out Democrats as the rightful racist party that they are. But you know, I don't think citing those $250.00 contributions of Donald E. Sterling, who lives at 118 Beach Mountain Cove, Georgetown, Texas, are quite going to do it, lol!

Actually, Donald T. Sterling lives in Beverly Hills.

But I love the all caps, because authoritah!

Lulz, "DONALD DOUGLAS GETS ANOTHER SET OF CURIOUSLY INCOMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS."

Please, Steve M., do try harder, because this is too easy for me, you ASFL racist apologist, lol!

BONUS: My earlier post is linked at Gateway Pundit, Ed Driscoll, and Flopping Aces. Thanks!

And linked at Memeorandum.

PREVIOUSLY: "Liberal #Democrat Donald Sterling Caught on Tape Screaming Ugly Racist Epithets."

Oh My! Snoop Dogg Eviscerates #Democrat Donald Sterling as 'White Bread Racist POS...'

This is pretty intense, man.

I'm issuing an extremely strong language warning, lol!

At Twitchy, "Snoop Dogg has a special video message for Clippers owner Donald Sterling."

There's an Instagram embed at the link.

Fuc the owner!!! I will buy. Them n sell them to magic johnson !! http://t.co/fDHLQw8Im5
— Snoop Dogg (@SnoopDogg) April 26, 2014

Snoop Dogg said he will buy the Clippers from Donald Sterling and sell it back to Magic Johnson. Straight up, hes a G pic.twitter.com/ocRLBMM0Ro
— Dilpreet (@Dilpreet09) April 27, 2014

Donald Sterling and Oklahoma City Prove Too Much for Clippers

The Clippers are out of the NBA West Finals, and not without controversy, "Clippers can't shoulder the weight, falling in Game 6 to Thunder."

Here's Bill Plaschke's column on Doc Rivers' Game 5 meltdown, "Clippers' Doc Rivers goes from voice of reason to loud distraction." (Added: "Doc Rivers calls out officials after Clippers' agonizing Game 5 loss.")

And here the series-deciding (in Rivers' interpretation) final minute of Game 5, where the Clippers blew a 7-point lead with 49 seconds to play. Unreal:



More from Plaschke, "Clippers are gone from the postseason, but it all won't be forgotten."

And on the liberal racism front, "Donald Sterling is refusing to pay $2.5-million fine, reports say." And at Sports Illustrated, "Sources: Donald Sterling refuses NBA sanctions, threatens to sue."

Bwahaha! 'No More Mister' Pulls Post Attacking 'Donald Douglas' for 'Curiously Incomplete Search Results' — LOL!

OMG this is too much!

Here's my earlier post, "Hey, 'No More Mister', It's 'Donald T. Sterling' Who Owns the #Clippers, LOL!"

So I go to click on the 'No More Mister' link and the post's gone. Deleted, heh.

See, "DONALD DOUGLAS GETS ANOTHER SET OF CURIOUSLY INCOMPLETE SEARCH RESULTS."

And now it's replaced with this, "I had a post up here about Donald Sterling, and about blogger Donald Douglas's accounting of his political contributions..."

Read it at the link.

The idiot Steve M. thought he had some kinda takedown on old Donald (Donald Douglas, that is, and American Power), and it backfired, badly. Now he just looks like what he always looks like: a bloody f-king moron.

But oh, just check "No More Mister's" archives and it's post after post on Cliven Bundy and the horrible! racist! Fox News! OMG! Like I always say: leftist don't care about race --- indeed, they're the biggest racists --- what they care about is power, and they'll stop at nothing to delegitimize and destroy anyone who stands in their way.

Look, it's been a good day blogging. Hilarious. But Steve M. pulling an attack post against me? Priceless.

I'd say it's @NoMoreMister who gets the curious search results, lol! http://t.co/Pv5Mvhfn3U @RSMcCain @GatewayPundit @ChrisLoesch @MsEBL
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 26, 2014

.@BlazingCatFur OMG leftist @NoMoreMIster is having a meltdown over racist #DonaldSterling, lol! http://t.co/Pv5Mvhfn3U #DonaldSterling
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 26, 2014

Hey, '@NoMoreMister', even @MBouffant's calling you out, lol! http://t.co/gTOZLQwNot #Racist #Democrats
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014

.@MBouffant Can you just get idiot @NoMoreMister to issue an update and correction? Thanks: http://t.co/TtsoBmvmUK #DonaldSterling #Racism
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 27, 2014

The #NBA Makes Its Case Against #DonaldSterling

The dramatic front-page story at today's Los Angeles Times, "NBA makes its case against Clippers owner Donald Sterling."

This morning's @LATimes hard copy. #DonaldSterling. #NBA pic.twitter.com/DlrKh9N9GC

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 21, 2014

More, "NBA confident about its case against Donald Sterling," and "NBA alleges Sterling-led Clippers tried to cover up scandal."

#LiberalRacism: The Left's Cynical Perpetuation of Racist Plantation Politics

Derek Hunter has the epic must-read summary analysis of the week, "Liberal Racism," via Instapundit:

"It’s been fascinating to watch the ultra-liberal MSM work overtime to portray" #Sterling as Republican. http://t.co/GriI7hcqPK @Instapundit

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 4, 2014

.@Instapundit As I've said all along, doesn't matter #Sterling's party ID. He's a liberal to the core. Oops! http://t.co/GriI7hcqPK

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 4, 2014

.@Instapundit And that's far-left Michael Hiltzik at LAT, a rank partisan of the first order. #Progs #Hypocrisy http://t.co/GriI7hcqPK

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 4, 2014

Donald Sterling never will be accepted in polite society again, and rightfully so. He may even be forced to sell his NBA team for his private racist comments. Meanwhile, Democrats will continue to exude racism publicly, and proudly, in the hope that it scares the hell out of voters, particularly minority voters, and keeps them from realizing their lives depend more on who they are and what they do than on any politician or party. Democrats will continue to convince people that even though their lives haven’t improved after decades of loyally voting for Democrats and their ever-increasing government programs, the alternative is worse, so don’t try it.

It’s divisive, cynical, cruel, un-American and racist. It’s also the path to, the reason for, and the basis of Democrats’ power. As long as it works, they’ll never stop doing it.

Sad Little 'No More Mister': Cliven Bundy OMG! RACISM! KKK!! NOT A THROWBACK!! BLARGH!!! OMG!!!

Poor little Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog.

He got called out badly yesterday, had to retract his attack on me, and then got the sads after I hammered him as a pathetic leftist loser.

But oh, he couldn't let go, lol! He restored his lame attack in his updated post --- the one that doesn't have DONALD DOUGLAS!! in all caps screaming at you with authoritah! --- hoping that I'd get my widdle feelings hurt.

Update to an earlier post, and a restoration of the parts that were 100% accurate. @AmPowerBlog http://t.co/Mysildi44X

— Steve M. (@nomoremister) April 27, 2014

Man, what a sad little blog is No More Mister, catering to a sad little community of hateful, racist left-wing trolls. Steve M. desperately wants Democrat Party racism to go away. He's so desperate that he posts unhinged rants without even proofreading, pulls 'em after being called out (by his own commenters even!), and then gets all butthurt and reposts the stupid drivel in an update --- to get back at that old meanie DONALD DOUGLAS waaahhhh!!

My 12-year-old is more mature, heh.

But OMG! Republican racism OMG!

Here's his latest hilarious rant on how Cliven Bundy's "ideology" is all KKK and totally not a throwback or anything OMG! ...

[South Carolina Lieutenant Governor and Cliven Bundy clone] Glenn McConnell's thriving career is a reminder to me of why I automatically tune out any argument that contains the phrase "political correctness." I grant that there are things you simply "can't say," according to America's "official culture." But outside America's political and media centers, these "incorrect" ideas are loving cultivated, valorized, and carefully transmitted to future generations. That's why there are still Klansmen and neo-Nazis. That's why well-educated young men still think sexual penetration after the administration of Rohypnol or a few too many drinks is perfectly OK. That's why Silicon Valley and Internet comments sections are still hotbeds of virulent sexism. And so on. Cliven Bundy isn't a throwback. He's just a guy whose ideology usually flies under the radar. We just ignore the precincts where that ideology thrives.

Oh, the poor precious widdle weftists. 'Cuz hatefwul conservatives are all about roofies, or something lol!!

BONUS: At the risk of shattering Steve M's tender pwogwessive sensibilities, you gotta check this out --- and love it too. Turns out my post from yesterday got picked up by Tim Cavanaugh at National Review, with the hilariously accurate headline, "Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat."

Racist Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Is a Democrat http://t.co/3IJK9HbkS6 with bonus shoutout to @AmPowerBlog

— Bossy & Proud of It (@lamblock) April 27, 2014

And in the comments there:

Moonbattery • 4 hours ago

All Democrats are racists. It is the foundation of the Democratic party. Keeping blacks in poverty is just an extension of when Democrats founded the KKK and opposed all civil rights acts the Republicans were trying to enact.

Don't let them keep rewriting history.

Nails it!

FLASHBACK: "Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., Kansas Jewish Murder Suspect, Made Democrat Congressional Bid in 2006."

Angry Protesters Demand Donald #Sterling Sell #Clippers

He's the most hated man in America right now, a reviled racist Beverly Hills liberal.



PREVIOUSLY: "Liberal Racist Donald Sterling: 'The man who poisoned the Los Angeles Clippers for nearly 30 years with his ignorance and hate has at last been dragged away into sweet oblivion...'"

Daily Beast Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi: 'I really don't care about this debate very much..." — #DonaldSterling

LOL!

Leftists don't really seem to "care about this" anymore when the facts show that racist Donald Sterling contributes exclusively to Democrats and far-left ballot measures.

@AmPowerBlog I really don't care about this debate very much. Please direct tweets elsewhere.

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) April 29, 2014

PREVIOUSLY: "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!"

#Sterling Will Fight to Keep #Clippers, Mayor Garcetti Predicts

It's going to be an ongoing drama.

At LAT, "Donald Sterling will fight to keep Clippers, Garcetti predicts."

Lake Bell for Esquire

She's very beautiful!

At Egotastic!, "Lake Bell Sweet Epic Hot Outtakes from Esquire."

And, while I'm a little behind on my #Rule5 blogging --- what, with all the Donald Sterling news, lol! --- do check out Blackmailers Don't Shoot, "Jennifer Lawrence Spotted at the North Pole with Santa Claus: Rule 5 Linkfest," and Camp of the Saints, "Rule 5 Saturday: Sarah Willis."

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Buy Clippers for $2 Billion

Jeez, $2 billion?!!

Talk about sweetening the pot!

At the Los Angeles Times, "Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wins Clippers bidding war for $2 billion."

And at Instapundit, "I WITHDRAW MY EARLIER SPECULATION THAT DONALD STERLING WAS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA: Sources: Ballmer agrees to buy Clippers for record $2 billion. In fact, now I wonder if he set the whole thing up. He bought the team for $12 million."

V. Stiviano: Donald Sterling Should Apologize for Racist Remarks — #LiberalRacism

At USA Today, "V. Stiviano sits down for interview with Barbara Walters."

I'm still trying to figure this woman out, and this interview is frankly bizarre.

#Clippers Win Despite Distractions

From Bill Plaschke, at the Los Angeles Times, "Clippers are not riven by distraction: They win a series over the Golden State Warriors that could have finished them but instead defines them":

Their owner was thrown out of the league, their organization is buried in chaos, yet the Clippers play on.

They were humiliated by hate, distracted by protests, exhausted by stress, yet the Clippers play on.

It was a series that could have finished them. It was, instead, a series that has defined them.

Exactly one week after their world was rocked by the release of an audio recording containing racially charged comments by owner Donald Sterling, the Clippers finished their fight through the sludge Saturday with a 126-121 victory over the Golden State Warriors in the deciding Game 7 of their first-round playoff series.

A series of seething turmoil ended in screaming relief. A series mired in pain ended in joy. The gestures of Doc Rivers, the rarely celebratory coach who calmly led his team through the continuous controversy, spoke volumes in the final seconds with a fist-pumping dance down the sidelines.

“I needed to exhale ... this was a hard week, it feels like two months,’’ Rivers said afterward. “I just needed to be able to smile and laugh and cheer and be proud of something. And I was very proud of this team.’’

The Clippers' resilience began the night before the game, when the players began texting each other with inspirational messages.
“Guys were texting like, 'No, this can’t be over, it’s not our time to be over,' ’’ Paul said.

Well, the team's fourth quarter play last night was spectacular, as you can see at the clip at top.

And more at the link.

Avril Lavigne 'Hello Kitty' Music Video is Racist!

Heh, it's a celebrity racist extravaganza today, lol.

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Avril Lavigne is not racist, she's only guilty of making bad muzak":

I am fresh out of my 3 week work Bubble which largely kept me away from monitoring pressing current events like the "controversy" over this irritating video made by Avril Lavigne. I mean racist? Really? What a crock. It was allegedly pulled from YouTube, but is back now and apparently hasn't been whitewashed like Katy Perry's crapola was because she offended Islam.

Avril is a pleasant young lady, I hope her music improves.

Yeah, she's a sweetie. But see Althouse, "Avril Lavigne picked a bad week to go all racist" (via Memeorandum):

Do you not see what's so cliven about it? Well, then, you might want to submit to Vox, the website that explains everything to the point needed by an adequately intelligent but generally pretty busy person...

ADDED: The Vox-shaming continues here.

Well, maybe the Vox-splainers will be all over Donald Sterling's racism as well, lol!

Shout Out to Bad Blue on Awesome Banner Headline Aggregation Holla!

I'm getting some full banner headline linkage at Bad Blue right now, the second one in days.

Here's tonight's entry, "Desperate Leftists: Beverly Hills Liberal Donald Sterling Is 'Registered Republican' OMG! TAKE THAT!! BLARGH!! OMG!!!"

And here's Saturday's banner, which was up almost the entire day, from about 2:00pm 'till 10:00pm or so.



Holla to Doug Ross at Director Blue for the great blog aggregator Bad Blue!

Michigan's Macomb County May Not Break for Obama in 2012

Following up on some of my general election analysis from last night, the Los Angeles Times reports on Macomb County, Michigan, and President Obama's reelection chances, "Swing county in Michigan isn't sold on batting for Obama."

Reporting from Sterling Heights, Mich.

Macomb County's mercurial "Reagan Democrats" have long served as a barometer of the national mood. Their abandonment of their own party to support Ronald Reagan helped usher in GOP rule nationally. Three decades later, Barack Obama pulled them back into the fold, sweeping the county by more than 8 points and winning Michigan by the largest margin for a Democrat since 1964.

The size of that win — particularly in a white, blue-collar swing county like Macomb — might have been enough to convince Republicans that Michigan wasn't worth the effort in 2012. But as Obama seeks a second term, the Democratic loyalty demonstrated three years ago appears tenuous.

Unemployment, which peaked at 14.1% in summer 2009, is still the third-highest in the nation at 11.1%. After declining for 19 months straight, it climbed a full point between April and August.

Though Obama helped rescue two Michigan-based auto companies — a move his advisors credited with saving 1 million jobs — his economic policies draw little praise from independent and Democratic-leaning voters in Macomb County.

Among two dozen interviewed recently, some said they felt sorry for the president because congressional Republicans have thwarted him at every turn. Some were disappointed that he had not been able to accomplish more in the area of job creation when he had a Democratic majority in Congress. And some, like Donald and Arlene Wittmer of Sterling Heights, have simply concluded that he is out of his depth.

"His first stimulus was ridiculous; he spent [$787 billion] and got nothing out of it," Donald Wittmer said. "Now he wants to do it again and still doesn't really have a plan."

"We're just sinking," he said. "We're losing ground."

Michigan is Romney territory, and the state's 16 electors will go a long way toward a GOP victory in the Electoral College.

But continue reading the Times' report here.