“He is not receiving a lifetime achievement award from the NAACP,” Miller said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” according to Politico.
So actually watching MTP yourself, or even reading a transcript from it was too hard, you had to re-report Politco’s accounting of what someone said on a publicly-broadcast TV show?
Yeah. Actual journalism is pretty rare at TPM these days.
LOL You are good at this. The one yesterday was just as good.
Guess you are going with the “slinking away” route.
Hardly surprising.
I assume he paid good money to earn the NAACP’s gratitude. I don’t have a big problem with that, by the way. If rich guys want to give chunks of monay away and all they want is to have someone say nice things about them, that’s better than them hanging on to every last nickel. But if you’re a wealthy donor who is personally living out of step with your humanitarian giving, you had better try to keep a lid on it. Money can’t make up for every disgrace.
Sterling is 80 years old. Will they revoke his AARP card next?
NAACP Will No Longer Give Clippers Owner Lifetime Achievement Award
As a Life Member, I have only two words for Interim President Miller: “Thank you.”
The NAACP should be ashamed of even considering giving him a lifetime achievement award.
NBA basketball players feel they’ve made it. They have access to white women and big salaries, but they’re just a money-making tool for white owners, who disrespect and revile them.
They have access to white women? What does that even mean? As far as those huge salaries, I believe players earn those, and also a small handful get paid the truly humungous salaries we often hear about, but nothing in comparison to what the owners of those teams make hand over fist while the players do all of the work. In fact the owners make money even if the team fails. In what world does that make sense?
If you live in Los Angeles, the fact that Donald Sterling is a sleazebag’s sleazebag is not new news, with his weekly ads in the LA Times touting his latest award for his “humanitarian” charity work. I’ll bet UCLA Medical Center is squirming - the latest Sterling Is Wonderful ad in today’s LA Times has him getting an award from them for donating the money for a new cancer treatment wing that has a “golden tablet” on the wall memorializing the gift from he and his wife (currently suing him for giving the girlfriend $1.8 million in gifts). You can bet Dianne Feinstein and Jerry Brown and ex-mayor Antonio Villageidiot and the rest of the Beautiful People whose friendship he bought by the pound are now trying to scrape him off their shoes as fast as they can. The City of Lost Angles is home to many many many World Class Assholes, but anyone who has just read his ads for the past 40 years knows he’s the Assholes’ Asshole. Watching his downfall is going to be fuuuunnnnnnnnnnn…
Ms. Miller, acting at the national level, has put an end to it. Notwithstanding the LA chapter’s ill-conceived award, she and the national organization are better than this, and have made great strides (for all of us).
Great comment, but you do realize that slimy snakes never own up to their filthy doings, so don’t expect any changes from it.
…you know where they ought to stick that award…
What a terrible thing to say about Leftflank!
…who still has offered no proof that I ever said a thing about Magic Johnson. He slunk away and hid.