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Tonight, Donald Sterling broke his silence for a second time (remember, he did that interview with Du Jour magazine, the magazine for rich people). He probably shouldn't have.

Variety called Sterling's interview with Anderson Cooper a "melt down." I wouldn't go that far -- he whined a lot, but he didn't wail or scream -- but it was a seriously poor showing, public relations-wise.

Sterling did apologize for saying a bunch of racist things in a conversation with his girlfriend or just good friend V. Stiviano, calling it a "terrible, terrible mistake" and asking for forgiveness "for all of the people that I've hurt."

"I'm wrong. I caused the problem. I don't know how to correct it," Sterling said. And then he proved exactly that by being horrible again, blaming Stiviano for somehow "baiting" him into being a racist and saying that Magic Johnson didn't do enough for black people and was a poor role model because he had AIDS HIV.

"He made love to every girl in every city in America and he had AIDS, and when he had those AIDS, I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him!" Sterling said, going on to claim that he "respects" and "admires" him while Cooper somehow sat there, totally stone-faced, no doubt thinking what a freaking score this interview was. Cooper also made sure to note that Johnson doesn't have AIDS -- just HIV. And CNN, in its write-up of the interview, included a three-paragraph explanation of all the things Johnson has done for his community.