Billionaires Adelson and Saban, at odds in campaigns, unite on Israel and hit Obama
The billionaire political kingmakers planning to bankroll much of the 2016 presidential campaign spoke out together Sunday with blunt warnings on key issues for their respective parties.
Haim Saban, a media mogul and close Democratic ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized President Obama’s outreach to Iran, declaring that “we’ve shown too many carrots and a very small stick.”
Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate who is likely to tap into his fortune in an effort to elect a Republican to the White House, upbraided many in the GOP for their opposition to legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants. Without a comprehensive overhaul, he said, the country would not be “the America that I’m proud to live in.”
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“I wish that Jeff Bezos hadn’t bought The Washington Post,” Saban said, referencing the Amazon.com founder who purchased The Post a year ago. “For $250 million — bupkis — he stole it.”
Adelson countered, “Why don’t you and I go after the New York Times?” Saban said that he has “tried over and over to buy it” but that the family-owned Times is not for sale. Adelson quipped, “There is only one way to fight it: money.”
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Growing up I used to watch a lot of the Japanese anime translations released through Saban Entertainment on home video/DVD.
Maple Town, The Noozles and Power Rangers were a few of my favorites. Complete list of all Saban properties (many of which are now Disney materials, no surprise) here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saban_Entertainment
Haim Saban, Shuki Levy and Jean Chalopin (French producer of now-defunct DiC Studios, former affiliate of Saban Entertainment and the man behind Inspector Gadget and The Heathcliff Show) were listed on the credits of practically everything I loved as a kid.
I believe the "I'm a one issue guy" quote is attribute to him, not Adelson. Saban sounds like he's a rabidly nationalist Spielberg. So sad. Childhood ruined.
