So the former prez could negotiate the release of those two detained U.S. journalists. According to AP, Clinton flew to North Korea on movie producer/director Bing’s private Boeing 737. Since it’s currently illegal for American planes to fly to North Korea, Bing had to iron out details with the U.S. government over several days. Now, according to ABC News, the real estate heir and the owner of Shangri-La Entertainment will pay an estimated $200,000 for the round-trip flight.
Steve Bing Flew Bill Clinton To N. Korea
By NIKKI FINKE | Wednesday August 5, 2009 @ 6:00pm PDTTags: Politics
This article was printed from http://www.deadline.com/2009/08/ap-steve-bing-flew-bill-clinton-to-n-korea/
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Must be nice acting like a self-made man when you inherit 600 million of Grandpa’s dough. Steve Bing is like every other self important, never-earned-it rich guy: full of shit and bereft of any real talent (other than spending his family’s dough).
I wonder if he realizes that Clinton and all his political pals only like him for his money…
What a tool.
Bill, Your the best I miss you. Only you could make this happen. I wish you or Hilary were the the leader of this great country!
Did they bring into Korea DNA samples as identification in lieu of passports? Oh that’s right. The Obama Administration in crisis – was their passports. I hear Rahm the flight attendant dressed in “primary school girl” Blue Moon blue. As opposed to a non-full disclosure Tony Rezko orange prison jumpsuit. Which may be his next outfit judging from Obama’s last press conference. (Theft of the People’s Airwaves on Network Television – Professor Gates, call Oprah Winfrey for a Chicago lawyer recommendation post-haste. The Obamas are going to be otherwise engaged.)
Hey Richie Rich, Steve Bing is hardly a no talent guy, he wrote “Missing In Action”, originally not a martial arts fest, when he was 17 years old. He has also written a few other films that have gotten made by studios when he was actively writing. Spending his own money to help rescue journalists from a North Korean hell hole is pretty admirable. So what if he inherited money? He is trying to help people with what he has. What have you done?
I was starting to lose faith in right wing nuttery ever coming back to DHD…Thanks Laura, your nonsensical rambling was greatly needed.
@redmenace
Please, the guy is a no-talent pocket-book artist who uses his money to play “writer/director/producer”. Then again, he did pen such opuses as “Missing in Action”, “Kangaroo Jack”, and an ep of “Married With Children” – who am I to question his artistic cred?
apparently he funded that recent cuba excursion too…
He also underwrote Brad Pitt’s housing project in New Orleans. Uses his resources for good. He’s a true philanthropist. What’s up with the negativity here?
what the hell richy rich? do you sit around on this site and just rag on everyone. Bing paid for the president to go to n. korea and bring back the girls. what if you had someone dear to you in n. korea and they were brought back courtesy of steve bing? he also was a huge financial supporter fighting against prop 8. so what have you done to help people? oh i guess your negative comments on here are your contribution. lame.
In my 15 year career, I’ve been incredibly lucky to have only worked with a tiny handful of unscrupulous assh*****. Steve Bing is sadly right at the top of the list. Money clearly doesn’t buy morality, in my experience. Happy he did something good here, but the guy I worked with would have an angle behind it.
Hello!
To all Clinton, haters and those who participated in his impeachement, Karma is A B–CH HUH? All those that tried to destroy them, failed …. and they are all, dead politically and physically. The Clintons are true patriots, of our nation, true American heroes, God Bless them, for they defend the meek, and the meek will inherit the earth !!!!
@SadlyInformed
I’ve worked with Bing and found him to be at the top of my list — my list of people I’d want to work with again! He was fair, upfront, conscientious, personable, and giving. Maybe because people are constantly expecting something from him he’s put his walls up, but you’re not describing the man I know (who just helped do what our government was unable or unwilling to do!). Bing is one of the good ones.
Anyone with something bad to say about Steve has never been in a room with him. He’s a big kid with a big heart who never fails trying to give back for having a life of wealth. He’s a jeans and t-shirt guy who you’d never guess had two dimes to rub together unless you were a friend and in need.
@A Really Bing (ugh…) Fan
That all may be true, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he’s a talentless hack who bought his way into the biz. People tend to have contempt for those who didn’t earn what they have.
@Johnny Marshall
You’re sad.
HappilyInformed,
I’m glad you had a positive experience with him. It doesn’t negate the fact that MY experience, he did one of the most underhanded, unnecessary, disgustingly pretty things I’ve ever seen a producer do. And, I only worked with him once because of it. This doesn’t negate your positive experience, it’s just a comment on mine.
Let’s hope he woke up the next day after working with me and decided to turn over a new leaf.
I understand that there are some people who have had different experiences with Steve Bing and if infact it was less than desireable than I am sure it must have been a bad day for him b/c like others here I have had NOTHING but very good experiences with him. He is absolutely a jeans and T-shirt guy with absolutely no pretense or disrespect. He has only ever helped myself and others I know with the money he knows he was priveleged to inherit. It’s not even just his money and what he does with it that makes him a good person but the human being he is. I am not surprised at all that he would do all that he could to get another, if somewhat morally flawed, man over to a country we as a nation have conflict with to bring home two innocent woman to their families and lives. I think for those who have never actually met or don’t know mr Bing at all should really watch what they say and that goes for anyone they ever bad mouth without having ever known them. Thank you!
I don’t get it. The two women were working for Al Gore’s company. Can’t that company come up with the $200,000 and/or the CIA which hasn’t had a decent flight into North Korea for a while.