Movie Mogul, P.R. Firm Staged Return 'special'

cwo_ghwebb · 08-06-2009, 07:54 AM

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Bill Clinton's triumphant return from North Korea with two rescued US journalists had Hollywood written all over it -- from the Burbank airport to the big-time producer who bankrolled the expedition to the celebrity public-relations firm that orchestrated the homecoming. A key player in Clinton's high-flying diplomatic mission to rescue Laura Ling and Euna Lee was entertainment mogul Steve Bing, a longtime "Friend of Bill" who lent the ex-president his private Boeing 737.

The multimillionaire mogul paid about $200,000 in fuel and other costs that came with the trans-Pacific flight.

Bing's Shangri-La entertainment firm also funded a major logistical effort to carefully showcase Clinton's arrival in Tinseltown -- which featured Ling lauding the former president while almost in tears.

BILL'S H'WOOD BLOCKBUSTER - New York Post

All the while the discussion on health care rages. Nice try at a distraction but not working. Most folks didn't give a darn about Bill The Impeached while he was in office, and certainly don't care now.