The Onion's new owner is Hillary Clinton's most lavish financial backer

[dixiegrrrrl]

Univision, a hugely successful Spanish language broadcaster, bought humor newspaper/site The Onion two weeks ago, and in so doing, transferred control over a site that has produced scathing comedy at Hillary Clinton's expense to Haim Saban, millionaire financier and Democratic power-broker, who calls Clinton "pristine plus" and "great for the country and great for the world."

Saban describes himself as a staunch zionist and partisan for Israel ("I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel&quot , which also has implications for The Onion, given its long history of scathing commentary on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and the system of Apartheid enforced by the Israeli state.

But what’s gotten no attention at all is that Haim Saban, Hillary Clinton’s biggest fan and financial supporter, is Univision’s co-owner, chairman, and CEO. Saban and his wife, Cheryl, are Hillary Clinton’s top financial backers, having given $2,046,600 to support her political campaigns and at least $10 million more to the Clinton Foundation, on whose board Cheryl Saban sits. The Sabans are also generous supporters of the overall Democratic Party infrastructure, donating, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a total of $16.1 million since 1989 to Democratic and liberal candidates, party committees, leadership PACs, and federally focused 527s.

Saban badly wants Hillary Clinton to be elected president this year, vowing to provide “as much as needed” to see it happen, since “she would be great for the country and great for the world,” and “on issues I care about, [Clinton] is pristine plus.”

http://boingboing.net/2016/01/28/the-onions-new-owner-is-hill.html

[dembotoz]

1. well at least it is not fox news

but this could be worse

[Blue_Tires]

2. So is Greenwald's boss...

what's the problem?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Owner of the Intercept is Pierre Omidyar, who stopped donating to political campaigns in 2008.

http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/guide-to-individual-donors/pierre-omidyar.html

[Blue_Tires]

6. Now he's just shoveling money into the Clinton Foundation instead...

Donations from $500,001 to $1,000,000

The Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund
The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust
The Swedish Postcode Lottery
The Ted Arison Family Foundation USA, Inc.
Thomson Reuters
Mrs. Carole Shields Westbrook and Mr. Hugh A. Westbrook
The Winnick Family Foundation

[tk2kewl]

3. I guess that explains the latest piece chastising young voters

for not recognizing how revolutionary Clinton is

[lame54]

5. The Onion writers should write a piece ripping Hillary...

to see how this guy reacts
if they are censored they may want to move on to something else

[krawhitham]

7. To be fair, Univision bought 40% of the Onion

Univision is owned by Broadcasting Media Partners, Inc.


Broadcasting Media Partners Inc. is an investor group consisting of Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, TPG, Thomas H. Lee Partners, and Saban Capital Group.


Haim Saban does not seem to have direct control of The Onion

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. The beauty of DU is people like you have info to add to the mix......

it will be interesting to keep an eye on the Onion...so to speak.

[themaguffin]

9. It's not a Republican. Moving on to real issues now.