Haim Saban
Posted at 1:42pm on Jun. 24, 2008 Hold on, Variety: back up there. Haim Saban's -not- meeting with Obama on Thursday?
That's not *burying* the lede. That's dumping the lede under twenty tons of quick-setting concrete.
By Moe Lane
Yes, I understand, superficially this article is supposed to be about the glitterati coming out for Senator Obama (Via Jake Tapper):
Sugar Ray Leonard and Jennifer Beals are the latest boldfaced names expected on Tuesday afternoon for Barack Obama's fund-raiser at the Los Angeles Music Center.
Also on the guest list are Dennis Quaid, Heidi Klum, Sidney Poitier, Cedric the Entertainer, Will.i.am and Kal Penn, as well as industry names like Ari Emanuel and Ron Meyer. Seal is scheduled to perform.
Very nice, I'm sure that Seal will do well performing his Song That Everybody Knows... and the rest of his repertoire. Celebrities a go-go tonight; all very well, and Obama should get a decent hunk of change out of it. But that's not the story. This is the story:
Obama is expected to reach out to others, like media mogul Haim Saban, who raised more than $1 million for Clinton's campaign. Asked by the Los Angeles Times whether he planned to attend a meeting that Obama and Clinton are hosting on Thursday with her top money men, he sent back a terse reply: "No."
[Bolding mine.]
Let me summarize the below-the-fold for you: if Barack Obama leaves California without a firm commitment of support from this man, then Barack Obama's trip was a failure.
Read on.
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