The New Yorker just published a story on Haim Saban, whom I've never heard of before, a cutthroat media tycoon worth billions and a major player in the (dormant?) Clinton wing of the Democratic Party. He was instrumental in bringing the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - yes, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - to my TV screen when I was a kid, and started making his fortune by owning the publishing rights to cartoon theme songs. He's also extremely pro-Israel. There are so many issues to tackle, I'll just list them all:
o The shadiness of the record industry (Saban basically did to cartoon songwriters what white record producers did to black recording artists)
o Tax shelters
0 The rich in America are above the law
0 Israel, especially very Hard Right views
o The Clintons, especially how Bill has an uncanny ability to take money from billionaires
o The tension between Obama, Israel, and the hardliners that are major funders in the Democratic party
o All-American Power Thirst: Media, Politics
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