Jorge Ramos Is an Immigration Activist Posing as a Reporter

At a press conference in Iowa on Tuesday, Trump had barely reached the podium before Jorge Ramos, superstar anchor for Spanish-language network Univision, began interrogating him about his immigration platform. Trump, who already had called on a different journalist for the first question, told Ramos to be quiet and wait his turn. Ramos refused: “I have the right to ask a question,” he declared. At a nod from The Donald, security escorted Ramos from the room.

Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of Univision’s premier news broadcast, but “the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News” long ago revealed himself to be less a journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist. His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of time.

It would be difficult to overstate Ramos’s immigration radicalism. When Central American children were pouring over the border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, “First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own.” When, in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, “I’m not going to let you define what ‘immigration reform’ is,” Ramos replied, “It’s very simple: to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants.” And when, last November, President Obama lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as “a triumph for the Latino community.”

Since coming to the United States in the early 1980s, immigration has been Ramos’s pet cause. “It’s personal,” he has said. Indeed. The development of Ramos’s career has been largely the playing out on national television of his own immigration monomania.

Mingled with Ramos’s open contempt for the rule of law (he rejects any effort to secure the border as “right-wing”) is the self-righteousness of the professional partisan. “Don’t be neutral,” Ramos advised University of Southern California graduates in May. “Neutrality is for referees in a football game.” He encouraged them to be “fighters,” something he himself has taken to heart: “The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war,” he told Politico’s Dylan Byers. “I get the sense that we’ve forgotten that here in the United States.” Thus, to the Los Angeles Times: “My only weapon is the question.”

So much fatuous self-congratulation would be easier to endure were it not complemented by so much disingenuousness. For example, to Time’s Michael Scherer last November: “I am a registered Independent. I would never say [for] whom I vote. I would never pressure anyone to vote for one party or another. That would be way too much.” That level of fraud takes cojones.

Proclaiming his evenhandedness, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, is part of Ramos’s shtick, one that he shares with many other unofficial activists: Ramos agitates transparently on behalf of his pet cause, then, when called on it, claims that he is “just a journalist” (“My only weapon . . .” and such whimpers). It’s a tactic tirelessly employed by Jon Stewart, who was, recall, “just a comedian.”

In fact, Ramos — who sums up his philosophy as “pro-Latino” — is just another identity-politics hack, his daily crusade a sort of made-for-television La Raza protest. The problem is his enormous pulpit. Ramos’s Univision broadcast reaches 2 million people nightly, and Univision itself can claim 70 percent of Spanish-language primetime TV-watchers in the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic. Because of this, he is viewed as a gatekeeper — and one of increasing importance as “the Hispanic vote” becomes more important. Matthew Dowd, a campaign adviser to George W. Bush, told the New York Times in January that Ramos would be a crucial figure for Republicans in 2016: “You don’t want to lose Jorge Ramos.” Or as Representative Xavier Becerra, a Los Angeles Democrat, told the Los Angeles Times in 2013: “Spanish-language news has almost the same pull as the priest in the pulpit. And Jorge Ramos is the pope.”

AMERICANS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW-—Ramos’s daughter works for Hillary’s campaign

NY POST EXCERPT-—Univision recently trotted out Bill Clinton to talk to advertisers——as private equity owners of the debt-laden company sweat. Univision’s owners are hoping to launch the IPO in just weeks. Getting early commitments on ad spending from Madison Avenue would certainly make an IPO road show before potential investors that much easier....they hope to raise around $1 billion at a valuation of $20 billion, according to Reuters. (Univision has $9 billion in long-term debt.)

Mexican program provider Televisa also has an 8 percent stake.Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank — the lead underwriters — are getting ready to gin up some sizzle for a not very sexy business: free-to-air .

THE BIG BURRITO-—HILLARY/BILL CLINTON MEDIA CONNECTION-—Latino-TV Univision owner, Haim Saban described his formula to influence American politics: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets. (WIKI)

WIKI—Saban became involved in politics in the mid-1990s when he felt that support for Israel was slipping in the United States.[5] Saban has been a generous and consistent donor to the United States Democratic Party according to his mandatory Federal Election Commission filings.

Mother Jones, in an analysis of the major donors to the campaigns of 1998 election cycle, ranked Saban 155th among individual donors.[23] Amy Paris noted that Saban’s Clinton-era “generosity did not go unrewarded. During the Clinton administration, the entertainment executive served on the President’s Export Council, advising the White House on trade issues.”[23]

The New York Times reported that Haim and his wife “slept in the White House several times during President Clinton’s two terms.” Saban remains close friends with the former President. Clinton described Saban as a “very good friend and supporter.”[5] Saban contributed between $5 million to $10 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation.[24]

During the 2000 presidential election, Saban increased his rank to 5th among individual donors with a combined contribution of $1,250,500.[23] Matthew Yglesias wrote that “Saban was the largest overall contributor to the Democratic National Committee during the 2001–2002 cycle.” [25] Saban’s donations during that 2001–2002 period exceeded $10 million, the largest donation the DNC has received from a single source up to that time.

In September 2004, Hillary Clinton described Saban as a very good friend, supporter and adviser: “I am grateful for his commitment to Israel, to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and to my foundation’s work, particularly on reconciliation issues.”[5] In May 2007, Haim publicly declared his support for Clinton in 2008 presidential election.[20]

In June 2007, Saban and Steven Spielberg co-hosted a Hillary Clinton fundraiser at the house of Peter Chernin, the President of News Corporation.[26] According to the Los Angeles Times,[26] the fundraiser brought in over $850,000.

In March 2008, Saban was among a group of major Jewish donors to sign a letter to Democratic Party house leader Nancy Pelosi warning her to “keep out of the Democratic presidential primaries.”[27] The donors, who “were strong supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign”, “were incensed by a March 16 interview in which Pelosi said that party ‘superdelegates’ should heed the will of the majority in selecting a candidate.”[27] The letter to Pelosi stated the donors “have been strong supporters of the DCCC” and implied, according to The Jewish Telegraphic Agency,[27] that Pelosi could lose their financial support in important upcoming congressional elections.

On May 19, 2008, it was reported that Haim Saban had “offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization’s two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat.”[28]

Saban, a long-time supporter and donor of many pro-Jewish and Israel causes, has stated his main goal in multiple interviews: “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel.”[38]

Haim Saban touts himself as a worldwide pioneer and leader in the entertainment industry. He is the Chairman and CEO of Saban Capital Group, Inc.

THIS IS SABAN’S BUSINESS WEB SITE http://www.saban.com/html/team/saban.html

ANOTHER SURPRISE Hillary fanatic Haim Saban’s non-profit...”The Saban Center”.....subsidized a 34-page white paper titled, “Pathway to Coexistence: A New U.S. Policy toward Iran.” NO CONCIDENCE The paper essentially forecasted Obama’s approach to dealing with Iran: (1) the largely hands-off approach to Iran’s bloody 2009 Green Revolution, and, (2) the present-day compromises on its nuclear program.

The ties between the Clintons and Spanish TV television network-—UNIVISION-—run deep. Univision’s newscasts gleefully bash Republicans and praise Hillary’s newly-minted position on immigration. Network Owner Haim Saban’s unabashed support for Hillarys election effort segued into a partnership between Univision and the Clinton Family Foundation. Offended by his remarks, Univision dumped Trump’s Miss USA competition-—was aired on Reelz cable.

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