Hillary and Haim: A Connected Pair

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  • ritehook
    SBR MVP
    • 08-12-06
    • 2244

    #1
    Hillary and Haim: A Connected Pair
    And just who is Haim?

    Haim Saban, that's who. Forbes's 102nd richest man.

    A billionaire who not only counts Hill and Bill among his closest friends. A media-mogul who owns part of the big Spanish-language media, Univision.

    He is probably the biggest contributor to Hill's campaign. A welcome guest at the Clinton residence anytime he so wishes.

    Famous (notorious?) for his statement that he is "a one-issue guy."

    Ok, sports fans, one guess only as the what is Haim's biggest issue. (I'll give answer a few replies down from here.)
  • ritehook
    SBR MVP
    • 08-12-06
    • 2244

    #2


    Political lovebirds.

    And no, Haim's one issue isn't Ireland
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    • ritehook
      SBR MVP
      • 08-12-06
      • 2244

      #3
      Haim Saban (Hebrew: חיים סבן; born 15 October 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a television and media proprietor. With an estimated current net worth of around $3.4 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 102nd richest person in America.

      Contents [hide]
      1 Career
      2 Politics
      3 Family
      4 References
      5 External links



      Career
      Saban and his family, along with much of the Egyptian Jewish community, fled Egypt for Israel after the 1956 Suez War. He currently resides in Beverly Hills, California, and in Israel.

      Saban started his career as a concert organizer. In France, he participated in the introduction of Japanese anime and sentai TV series in the country. He produced the scores and opening themes for UFO Robot Grendizer and Candy Candy. He also did the same work on early imported series from America such as Starsky & Hutch and Dallas.

      In the United States, he became a television producer, founding Saban Entertainment in 1983. During that time, Haim Saban and partner Shuki Levy became known for soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s. Although Levy and Saban composed for their own properties (such as Kidd Video and Maple Town), they scored for other production companies as well (such as Inspector Gadget, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., Dinosaucers, Dragon Quest, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors).

      In the 1990s, Saban's company became best known for the adaptations of Power Rangers, Masked Rider, VR Troopers and Big Bad Beetleborgs. In 2003 he headed the $5.7 billion purchase of Kirch Media Group, the then-bankrupt German media conglomerate.

      In 2001, he and News Corporation sold Fox Family Worldwide for $5.1 billion to The Walt Disney Company for ABC - the network was renamed ABC Family Channel. Saban made about $1.6 billion from this sale, making it the largest transaction between a company and a private citizen ever.

      In June 2006, he was part of an investor group led by Texas Pacific Group of Fort Worth, Texas and Thomas H. Lee Partners that won the bid for Univisión, the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States. The bid was for $12.7 billion (USD). Shareholders have filed a lawsuit over the handling of the deal. [1]


      Politics
      Saban summarized his politics in a 2004 New York Times interview with the statement, "I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel."[2]

      Saban has donated to the US Democratic Party and the Israeli Labor Party, he has also donated to Republicans including George W. Bush, and has business affiliations with Rupert Murdoch. In the 2001-2002 election cycle, his Saban Capital group donated over $10 million to the Democratic National Committee[3], the largest donation from a single source up to that time.

      He also founded the Saban Center for Middle East Policy[4] at the Brookings Institution, installing Martin Indyk as its director.

      Saban joined Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg in endorsing the re-election of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican Governor of California, on August 7, 2006.


      Family
      Saban is married to Cheryl Saban (née Chackler), with whom he has two children. Through Cheryl, he is also the step-father of Tifany and Heidi Lenhart.
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      • ritehook
        SBR MVP
        • 08-12-06
        • 2244

        #4
        It was Napoleon, or maybe DeGaulle, who said: "A nation has no friends. Only interests."

        Fortunately, neither Hil nor Bill endorse that bull from a couple of old Frogs!

        Prez Hil will show her friend that she means biz in the Mideast by laying the big one on those bearded old mullahs.
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        • BigBollocks
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          • 06-11-06
          • 2045

          #5
          Love them, hate them, or indifferent, you have to give them credit. The Jews have every candidates' pockets bulging, and own the majority of the news stations and newspapers in the US. If you travel outside the US, this becomes substantially more apparent in terms of the media slant.

          Bobby Fischer was a tad loony, but he was no doubt right that the Jews own and run the United States....
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          • BigBollocks
            SBR MVP
            • 06-11-06
            • 2045

            #6
            Only in the US can someone ask a cop if he is Jewish and be ruined for life (and labeled with the dreaded "antisemitic" term which is uniquely horrible for only that one group), while Dana Jacobson can say "f**k Jesus" and "Touchdown Jesus" and be back on the Jewish-run Disney station (ESPN2) within a week....
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            • MoneySportsGuy
              SBR MVP
              • 12-09-07
              • 4891

              #7
              Originally posted by BigBollocks
              Only in the US can someone ask a cop if he is Jewish and be ruined for life (and labeled with the dreaded "antisemitic" term which is uniquely horrible for only that one group), while Dana Jacobson can say "f**k Jesus" and "Touchdown Jesus" and be back on the Jewish-run Disney station (ESPN2) within a week....
              Good point and what about the Don Imus thing as well.....
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              • Jamie UK's mom
                SBR Rookie
                • 12-17-07
                • 9

                #8
                Ritehook you are a fukking skinheaded piece of sh*t for bringing up this meaningless nonsense in a sports and gambling forum you and your anti-semitic neo-nazi rants such a fukkin pure bastard you are I'm sure. Somebody should circumsize half of what you got and leave you with only 2 inches left u piece of crap, who knows maybe it can be arranged.
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                • MoneySportsGuy
                  SBR MVP
                  • 12-09-07
                  • 4891

                  #9
                  Ut oh Jamie is fired up.


                  Oh wait nevermind that is a different poster. Or wait, Jamie UK's mom who are you?
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                  • Jamie UK's mom
                    SBR Rookie
                    • 12-17-07
                    • 9

                    #10
                    moneysports guy you are a fukkin parrot all you can do is repeat something you heard fukkin tweety bird should be in a zoo who let you near a fukkin keyboard.
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                    • MoneySportsGuy
                      SBR MVP
                      • 12-09-07
                      • 4891

                      #11
                      you are a @$#@#$@ parrot all you can do is repeat something you heard @$@$@ tweety bird


                      man your funny.
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                      • Jamie UK's mom
                        SBR Rookie
                        • 12-17-07
                        • 9

                        #12
                        Every time this fukkin ritehook loses a couple of bets he's got to start some new piece of trash. Like there's three fukkin laws in the constitution 1) you can bear arms, 2) have free speech, and 3) Hillary and Haim are not allowed to be friends. Ritehook and his sharp eye have located Hillary and Haim together in violation of one of the 3 rights in the constitution. Thanks a bunch ritehook, you saved us from evil once again.

                        Maybe ritehook you can blame yourself for your problems in your own fukking piece of sh*t of a life instead of evertime you lose a few bets coming to a sports forum and spewing fukkin nonsense and for lookin for some scapegoat for your own problems you fukkin cowrdly piece of sh*t.
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                        • Jamie UK's mom
                          SBR Rookie
                          • 12-17-07
                          • 9

                          #13
                          Your continuous moronic implications that a country like Israel with a population of 5 million people of which 2 million are kids and which has a GNP that couldn't even fit into Bill Gates's wallet is controlling the U.S. like a tail wagging the dog OMG man just reading those words makes my eyes almost roll out of my head. You and your other cronies here need to get your fukkin heads out of Paranoid Weekly magazine and take a walk in the park and get some fukkin oxygen into your fukkin brains a mind is a terrible thing to waste don't you know.
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                          • Jamie UK's mom
                            SBR Rookie
                            • 12-17-07
                            • 9

                            #14
                            Damn wtf you doin ritehook lose some bets oh man you're so pissed who should you take it out on. Well ritehook can't take it out on himself that would be too much like a man. Let's think who can ritehook take out all his frutrations on, yeah Hillary the Jew lover that's who, yeah Israel, shaking down the U.S. yeah that's right (Bolloocks the parrot nods, uh huh, yeah say it again sister!). I am ritehook all good and wondeful not a loser for sure the bets he lost were because of Jews and Hillary and Australians and blacks that's why fukkin dickweed ritehook lost his bets, man wtf putting this kind of trash up in a sports gambling forum take a look in the fukkin mirror before blaming the world pal.
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                            • Jamie UK's mom
                              SBR Rookie
                              • 12-17-07
                              • 9

                              #15
                              Ever see a parrot perched in a cage? SOmetimes it starts moving its head up and down, up and down really fast, this is my image of Big Boolocks the parrot. Jim Jnnes aka ritehook speeketh, and Boolocks the parrot starts nodding the head, up and down, up and down, say it again Jim Jones, say it agaim. Sure, I'll drink that kool-aid! Boolocks the parrot? Polly want a cracker? Boolocks want a cracker?
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