In an article called "Tax Cheats Out of Control" we have three billionaires mentioned. One is identified as a football team owner, another as a movie producer and the other (rather, a brother team) as ... Bush contributors. But the movie producer is none other than:
HAIM SABAN picked up the phone in his office. Leslie Moonves, president of CBS Television, was returning his call. "Boobie," said Mr. Saban, the children's television mogul and a top Democratic fund-raiser, "don't worry, don't worry, I'm not asking you for money." Instead, Mr. Saban asked Mr. Moonves to help a singer, who was a family friend, in finding a TV gig.
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With his second wife, Cheryl, and their two young children, Mr. Saban lives in a grandiose French-chateau-style home in a gated community in the Beverly Park section. Former President Bill Clinton has stayed there several times, and the Sabans were guests many times at the White House. The Sabans have given as much as $10 million over the years to the Democratic Party and its candidates; Mr. Saban said he was not sure of the exact figure. They have donated more than $10 million -- to child-related charities like Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Free Clinic. And they have donated for the benefit of Israeli soldiers.
This, from the March 4, 20001 edition ... of the Times.
Why not identify Mr. Sabin as a major Democrat Party financier? Could it possibly have anything to do with the fact that the article is a negative one and the Times has a policy of identifying political activists negatively only if they are Republican? If you don't notice a pattern here, you are no good at connecting the dots.
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