Producer Funded Clinton's Mission?

Just read this from the Daily Beast and sit here and wonder. Yes my friend wrote a blog in the Obama website and I wonder if they decided to explain... because they do read his blogs and has been banned from publishing some stuff because he says it as it is. So with that in mind, did the administration attempt to cover up a mission funded by them? Who knows... I just sit read and wonder... if you and I paid for it or if this Hollywood production was all funded by the rich and famous!

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From the Daily Beast
August 6, 2009

Producer Funded Clinton's Mission

Bill Clinton may have been a hero this week, but on whose payroll? "Former president Bill Clinton's central role in the return of two journalists detained by North Korea has once again cast a spotlight on his vast web of financial and political contacts, a network that troubled senators who weighed whether to confirm his wife as secretary of state," according to The Washington Post. "Dow Chemical, which has contributed as much as $50,000 to the William J. Clinton Foundation, provided the plane that ferried the former president from his home in Westchester County, N.Y., to Burbank, Calif. There, he boarded an all-business-class Boeing 737 jet provided by wealthy Hollywood producer Steve Bing." Not only did Bing foot an estimated $200,000 on fuel, but the New York Post adds that "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."