Campaign contributor helped Obamas score Netflix deal

nyPOST ^ | 5/26/2015 | isabel vincent

[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.

[Thank You Rush]

Lord, help us. In addition to this excerpt, the article states that his speeches ($$$$$$$$) are meant to HELP THE POOR! Boy! Aren't we impressed tho'? There are spaces between the paragraphs just as in the article but they refuse to show up in the preview as such. Sorry! ""The multiyear Netflix agreement, in the works since at least March, calls on the Obamas “to produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docuseries, documentaries and features,” which will be broadcast in 190 countries, according to a statement from the streaming service, which has 125 million subscribers around the globe. The Obamas plan to work on stories that “promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples and help them share their stories with the entire world.""

[Thank You Rush]

“”You can do it! Just Cancel Netflix!””

Don’t have it so can’t cancel...but wouldn’t hesitate to do so otherwise.

[Vaduz]

All liberals look that way strange.

[OpusatFR]

You know that Netflix has user reviews.

Why a miss a chance to review the Obamanation’s screeds?

[rusureitflies?]

I wonder if assets could be seized. My hope is many will land in jail after being indicted. Wishful thinking?

[gigster]

That’s quite a lucrative deal for two people who haven’t worked a day in their lives.

[YogicCowboy]

Unadulterated propaganda on its way...

[Liz]

FR lawyers need to analyze the Netflix FEC filing (below) to determine whether this conflicts with Obama's Netflix plans that include training political workers.

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OBAMA: "After I left office, what I realized is the Obama Foundation could eventually create a platform for young up-and-coming leaders, both in the United States and around the world," Obama said at a conference in Tokyo in March. "If I could do that effectively, then, you know, I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas, or, you know, the next group of people who could take that baton in that relay race that is human progress and continue to build on the work that we have done. So that's really going to be my focus." A million Obamas is one of the most ambitious goals ever for a former American president.

SOURCE - WIKI In April 2012, Netflix filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to form a political action committee (PAC) called FLIXPAC. Politico referred to the PAC, based in Los Gatos, California, as "another political tool with which to aggressively press a pro-intellectual property, anti-video-piracy agenda."The hacktivist group Anonymous called for a boycott of Netflix following the news.

Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers indicated that the PAC was not set up to support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), tweeting that the intent was to "engage on issues like net neutrality, bandwidth caps, UBB and VPPA."

REFERENCE Netflix is an American entertainment company that provides streaming media, video-on-demand online, and DVD by mail. It was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production as well as online distribution. It is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflix's founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business.

In 2007, Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental service. The company expanded internationally, with streaming made available to Canada in 2010 and continued growing its streaming service from there; by January 2016, Netflix services operated in over 190 countries – it is available worldwide except Mainland China, Syria, North Korea and Crimea.

Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2012, debuting its first series, Lilyhammer. It has greatly expanded the production of both film and television series since then, offering "Netflix Original" content through its online library of films and television.Netflix released an estimated 126 original series or films in 2016, more than any other network or cable channel.As of April 2018, Netflix had 125 million total subscribers worldwide, including 56.71 million in the United States.

Netflix's efforts to produce new content, secure the rights for additional content, and diversify through 190 countries has resulted in the company racking up billions in long-term debt: $21.9 billion as of September 2017, up from $16.8 billion from the same time the previous year, although only $6.5 billion of this is long-term debt; the remaining are long-term obligations.

[bgill]

Not on my dime. I canceled Netflix. Nothing worth watching. Too much gay crap and obamy stuff.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Perhaps there are Freepers who will forward this post to Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing to see if they would analyze this for We The People. Hannity or Mark Levin might be interested and a great help!

diGenova & Toensing, LLP
Attorneys at Law
Criminal and Civil Litigation.
Practice in Federal Courts, Federal Departments and Agencies, and Congress for National and International Clients.

1776 K Street NW Suite 737
Washington, DC 20006

Phone (202) 289-7701
Facsimile (202) 289-7706

dt@diGenovaToensing.com

[PGalt]

Thanks for the additional information on this company. I’ve never seen or used it and certainly have NEVER paid for anything related to or remotely related to Netflix, nor will I in the future.

[poconopundit]

... a million Barack Obamas.

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Great.  Exactly what the Leftist/Marxists need to crush the MAGA movement.  /sarc  That comment exposed Barkie's inner Stalin. And I detect Bill Ayers' diabolical hand in the plan, too.

[poconopundit]

[Deo et patriae]

My wife and I have 20 more shows of Andy Griffith to watch, then we are canceling our Netflex. We are watching two each evening so it can be canceled asap. We are going to be sure to tell the main reason is Obama and Rice.

[Liz]

LOL----good one.

How to wipe that ***-eating smirk off his Halfrican face?

[Candor7]

Oh Yes, the Obamas. Using Netflicks to create one little liberal fascist at a time.

Safe to say they won’t be creating US patriots who want to make America great again, or who know the Constitution.

The Obamas will be creating little emotional knee jerkers who will blossom into violence when they do not get their way.More cannon fodder for the liberal fascist hegemon.

Get Netflicks everybody! Let the Obamas f**k up your kids!( sarc.)