Anderson Cooper recently spoke with Donald Sterling about those horrible racist comments — the interview airs Monday night at 8p on CNN, but some quotes from the interview have leaked. These are the first public comments that Sterling has made since being banned from the league. Check out what’s leaked so far, I’m sure the full interview will be “interesting”….
Via TMZ:
Donald Sterling believes V. Stiviano is a calculating viper who pretended to care for him while she set out to destroy him … that’s the upshot of what Sterling told Anderson Cooper.
Cooper, who scored the interview Sunday at Sterling’s Bev Hills home, asked the suspended Clippers owner if he felt she set him up. He said, “Well yes, I was baited. I mean that’s not the way I talk.”
Sterling claims he’s not a racist … never been one. He says he feels used by Stiviano: “I don’t know, an 80-year-old man is kind of foolish, and I’m kind of foolish. I thought she liked me and really cared for me. I guess being 51 years older than her, i was diluting myself.”
Sterling also said of the Clippers players, “They are clippers and they’re mine and I’m theirs. That’s how I feel.”
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Via USAToday:
Embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling said that he is “not a racist” in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in what may be the start of an apology tour.
Sterling, who was banned from the NBA after a recording of him making racist comments surfaced, told Cooper that he “made a terrible mistake.”
“I’m a good member who made a mistake and I’m apologizing and I’m asking for forgiveness,”he said in an interview set to air on Monday, according to excerpts posted on the network’s website. “Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years? I mean, I love my league, I love my partners. Am I entitled to one mistake? It’s a terrible mistake, and I’ll never do it again.”
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