Lets meet Hillary's Biggest donor

[FreakinDJ]

An extensive New Yorker profile of Saban recalls how Saban publicly described his “three ways to be influential in American politics” in 2009. One was political donations. Another was establishing think tanks (he founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in 2002). And the third was controlling media outlets.


Saban is not shy about throwing his weight around. In 2001, when Brazilian regulatory approval became a roadblock to the sale of Fox Family, the company he founded with Rupert Murdoch, he asked Bill Clinton to call the president of Brazil to push for a quick approval. When the deal went through, Saban personally made $1.5 billion; the next year he gave a “record-breaking” $7 million to the Democratic Party for a new national headquarters and $5 million to Clinton’s presidential library.

The New York Times reported in 2009 that Saban was apparently part of a scheme before the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress in which Saban would threaten then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi that he would withhold donations if Pelosi didn’t make then-Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., chair of the House Intelligence Committee. (In return, according to the Times report, which was based on telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency, Harman would lobby the Bush administration for leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists under investigation for espionage. Harman denied ever speaking to the Justice Department about the case, but did not address whether she contacted any White House officials.)

And according to a high-ranking official of the Young Democrats of America, during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary Saban offered to donate $1 million to the YDA if the organization’s two super delegates committed to Hillary Clinton.


https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-ha-hillary-clintons-top-financial-supporter-now-controls-the-onion/

[cali]

1. Corruption

[nolabels]

8. Rather, ownership has it's privileges

The idea is no longer to drown the baby in the bathwater. The new idea for them, that now that government (and a lot of other institutions) are small and docile enough that they can be influenced easy enough with just a few levers to do the bidding of the ownership class why make any drastic changes. And after all, you should not complain because you do understand the future of your employment is very dependent on how you do for the Ownership.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Hollywood Mogul Haim Saban Calls for ‘More Scrutiny’ of Muslims

“You want to be free and dead? I’d rather be not free and alive,” billionaire and Hillary Clinton supporter tells TheWrap

Media mogul Haim Saban, one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest backers in Hollywood, said that the U.S. should step up its scrutiny of Muslims in the wake of the deadly ISIS attacks in Paris.

http://www.thewrap.com/hollywood-mogul-haim-saban-more-scrutiny-muslims-profiling-hillary-clinton/

[longship]

6. I'd go for more scrutiny for Haim Saban.

And his followers on.

Who would go for that?

[Odin2005]

24. You saw it here, folks, Hillary is backed by FASCISTS.

[SamKnause]

3. Establishment politics.

Corruption.

Absolutely disgusting.

[FreakinDJ]

11. Where Hillary is concerned Establishment politics = Corruption

[longship]

4. Hoo boy! nt

[EdwardBernays]

5. Another one of her huge donors/bundlers

Is Tony Podesta... Considered to be one of the few Super Lobbiests. And one of DC's most influential power brokers.

He owns a lobbying firm - with his brother - that represents weapons manufacturers, Saudi Arabia and big pharma.

His brother, John, is Clinton's campaign chairman.

Go figure.

[FreakinDJ]

7. Her campaign staff is packed with lobbiest

[EdwardBernays]

9. Yep

But none is worse than who she chose for the top of her campaign staff. IMO.

But it's definitely bears saying that she's surrounded by lobbyists. By choice.

It's her milieu.

[chknltl]

10. KnR nt

[RiverLover]

12. Lessons on How To Buy A Country.

Sickening.

[beam me up scottie]

15. +1

[SoLeftIAmRight]

13. Saban personally made $1.5 billion; the next year he gave a “record-breaking” $7 million to the Demo

one half of one percent

wow - good deal for someone

[FreakinDJ]

21. America's Presidencts are becoming cheaper - sadly

Until Americans stand up and take notice the Presidency will become cheaper to buy

[reformist2]

14. We need a new type of politics, where the term "biggest donor" is a thing of the past.

I think it's awful that people still can and do buy access to our political candidates. I mean we're supposed to be a democracy. And it's 2016. We all deserve to be heard. And yet some voices get to be heard a lot more than others. It's just so WRONG.

[ejbr]

16. This Hillary hate is just too much for me

I mean, you never said you hate her; and if you did, you explain why with supporting documentation. But I just find the hate for her more troublesome than any corruption. If the right hates her, then we have to love her. It's just that simple or we will be perceived as mysoginistic, wanting to hand the Supreme Court choices over to Donald Trump. I'm just grateful that most of her supporters are ignorant of or indifferent to this level of nefarious behavior.

thingy just to be clear

[Mbrow]

17. +1

Good point and all, we get called on the carpet for ANY criticism of any other Dem but Bernie, Him? You can bash all you want and how dare you point out the lying Bull shit.

[ejbr]

19. Thank.you

Another consistent difference is that we speak to the concerns leveled against him; they seem to attack anyone who points out her issues. To be fair, this is not always the case, but given her history, I can't see how else they can "defend" her other than attacking the messengers.

[Dustlawyer]

18. You notice that in past elections the media would always breathlessly report on how

much money has be raised by the candidates each reporting period. Then they would rank the chances of those politicians based on how much "bribe" campaign donations were collected. We used to rank our politicians on who was better at selling us out. Since Bernie's run they aren't quite as vocal about it now.

How messed up is that where we judge our candidates on who the big money supported? It's like we were in denial that Big Donor giving money to a politician resulted in Big Donor getting access and huge amounts of our tax dollars. Big Donors were having customized laws written to benefit themselves and our media reported it like it was a good thing!

[FreakinDJ]

20. The whole country is against the "Payola for President" scheme now

[amborin]

22. of and for the billionaires....

[Odin2005]

23. That outright bribery of YDA is disgusting.