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Campaign contributor helped Obamas score Netflix deal
nyPOST ^ | 5/26/2015 | isabel vincent

Posted on 05/27/2018 6:08:21 AM PDT by bitt

Barack and Michelle Obama are raking in the cash, thanks to the influence of a former campaign supporter.

The couple last week signed a creative production deal with Netflix that one entertainment-industry source said could be valued at more than $50 million.

Ted Sarandos, a major campaign contributor for Obama and the streaming giant’s creative-content chief who oversees an $8 billion budget, helped to broker the deal, the source told The Post.

Sarandos and his wife, Nicole Avant, bundled nearly $600,000 in contributions to Obama from their friends and associates during the 2012 presidential campaign.

The couple is friends with the Obamas, and Avant served as the US ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009 to 2011, during the former president’s first term.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; netflix; obama; obamanetflix
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To: bitt
The name rang a bell. From 2015...

Disney’s Bob Iger, Netflix’s Reed Hastings & Ted Sarandos + Jeffrey Katzenberg Guests At Tonight’s State Dinner For Chinese Prez

21 posted on 05/27/2018 6:54:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: PGalt; bitt
From the wikipedia entry on Ted Saranos, a former video store manager, re-marries and finds new financial success.

Ted Sarandos married Michelle Sarandos, his first wife,[3] with whom he had two children, Sarah and Tony.[35] In 2009, Sarandos married former United States Ambassador to the Bahamas (2009-2011), Nicole Avant, the daughter of former Motown Chairman Clarence Avant.[14] Producer Lawrence Bender introduced Sarandos to Avant.[8] The couple live in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles,[47] after previously living in Avant's home town of Beverly Hills, California.[48] In 2013, the couple purchased a beach house formerly owned by David Spade in Malibu, California.[49] Sarandos has said he is Catholic.[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sarandos

22 posted on 05/27/2018 6:55:54 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: bitt; Liz
From 2017...

Netflix and Weinstein Company: Closer Than ‘Arm’s Distance’

23 posted on 05/27/2018 6:58:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Jane Long

We canceled last week and convinced my adult kids to cancel on Friday. You can do it! Just Cancel Netflix!


24 posted on 05/27/2018 6:59:32 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: bitt
good thread on netflix/Ohummas

https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/1000701832845553664

While @_VachelLindsay_ tackles why @Netflix is doomed to fail because of its willing embrace of propaganda, I will go a different route and list some of Ted Sarandos and Nicole Avant's connections you may be unaware of.....

25 posted on 05/27/2018 7:00:58 AM PDT by bitt (t\\)
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To: EC Washington

That’s fantastic. Good for ALL of you!!

I cancelled back when they hired Susan Rice.

(Thus, the ‘I wish I could cancel, AGAIN’ remark :)


26 posted on 05/27/2018 7:03:37 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: mewzilla
From 2012...

Meet President Obama's $500,000 Hollywood Power Couple

27 posted on 05/27/2018 7:03:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla
Oh, wow, check this out on Sarandos' wife....

Another Obama fundraiser turns out to be a bad ambassador

28 posted on 05/27/2018 7:05:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Jane Long
Get a load of this....

Netflix cancellations are on the rise, but there’s no reason to worry

Glad I'm not a shareholder.

29 posted on 05/27/2018 7:06:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: bitt

Democrat is just another code word for GRAFT... Both the Clinton’s and the Obama’s barely had a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of before they ascended to their lofty positions... Now they are rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Meanwhile, Trump and the Bush’s were wealthy before becoming powerful, and the same goes for Reagan, Nixon and Eisenhower who became self-made millionaires... Goes to show, if you put a pig at a trough they are always going to feed. And the Obama’s and the Clinton’s are being fed very well for their ‘services’ while in power.


30 posted on 05/27/2018 7:08:37 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: bitt

Just cancelled my Netflix this morning.


31 posted on 05/27/2018 7:10:14 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: bitt

Didn’t the Zeros skim off enough of the Iran billions?


32 posted on 05/27/2018 7:11:16 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: bitt

Bribe laundering.


33 posted on 05/27/2018 7:15:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: hal ogen

I have cancelled my Netflix account and did it immediately after reading this crap about the Obummers’ crap. Interestingly, Netflix did not cancel it immediately as I ha just paid my next month’s rent. No refund and I will check and see the rent is has stayed “removed” next month.


34 posted on 05/27/2018 7:15:40 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Bodega

Netflix won’t prorate. So customers are stuck paying for whatever is left of the month they won’t use after cancelling.


35 posted on 05/27/2018 7:17:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Bodega
Netflix did not cancel it immediately as I ha just paid my next month’s rent.

No kidding. They're not going to refund you with money that's already been given to Obama.

Does any organization put together a list of leftard contributing companies? Historically, I've pulled money out of companies that contribute to the left, but there seems to be no good, easily available list.
36 posted on 05/27/2018 7:21:48 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: bitt

Will there be a Obama and wife show? Maybe they’ll have a aunt Esther in it?


37 posted on 05/27/2018 7:34:35 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Will there be a Obama and wife show? Maybe they’ll have a aunt Esther in it?.............. Oooops of course, Susan Rice!


38 posted on 05/27/2018 7:36:04 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: bitt

Cancelled Netflix this morning


39 posted on 05/27/2018 7:36:22 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: GnuThere
“What in the world do the Obamas know about producing anything,...?”

I thought the same thing, and posted similar comments on this forum a few days ago. After thinking about it however, and without discounting the real possibility of graft or even just wanting to reward the left’s Dear Leader, there may be a legitimate reason for this deal.

As I understand it, the biggest job of an executive producer is raising the funds needed to launch new productions. Particularly I would think for SJW movies that won’t rake in huge box office. Obviously the Obamas have the influence to do that. This may also pay for some unregistered lobbying down the road.

40 posted on 05/27/2018 7:49:45 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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