Have you gotten around to listening to that tape of the disgraced Donald Sterling, the (by-now, former) owner of the Los Angeles Clippers yet? I finally did, and while like the rest of the world, I was appalled by the open bigotry—not to mention inherent sexism—of his repellent statements about African-Americans to his (by-now, former) girlfriend V. Stiviano, I was also shocked by how, well, senile he sounded. His voice was frail. His sentences didn’t quite string together. I’m relieved no one had a recording device on their cell-phone back when my Alzheimer’s-ridden bubbe used to watch the Cosby Show with the sound turned off.
Sterling’s tirade has, predictably, prompted a host of commentary, some of it inspired (see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s piece in Time), some of it just tired. I’ve sifted through much of it for you, and I’ve found the best response here, in Adult Swim’s genius insertion of the now-infamous audio into a classic exchange between George Costanza and his faceless and irascible boss George Steinbrenner on Seinfeld.
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