Judicial Watch: ‘NEA Propaganda Effort Grew Out of Obama Campaign’
by Big Hollywood
President Obama with Yosi Sergant
Press release from Judicial Watch:
“(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it obtained more documents from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests related to the NEA’s controversial August 10 conference call encouraging artists to create work that promotes the Obama agenda. The documents consist of internal NEA emails indicating the idea for the NEA propaganda effort grew out the Obama campaign while also providing new details regarding White House involvement. The Corporation for National and Community Service, which runs the AmeriCorps program, was represented during the call. The agencies and the White House were supposedly promoting the administration’s United We Serve political initiative. The emails include the actual conference call invitation, which details the controversial policy agenda that was being promoted. (The controversial call was first uncovered by www.BigGovernment.com. Other documents about the call were first released last week by Judicial Watch.)
“The following are email excerpts:
- July 28, 2009, 4:47 pm, Email from unknown Obama campaign activist to Yosi Sergant, former NEA Communications Director: “It was good to see you a few weeks ago in Washington. After our conversation, I thought it would be a really good idea to convene via a conference call some significant tastemakers/producers who can support United We Serve. As many of us contributed our services to the campaign, I would love to gather some of those folks to use their enthusiasm to get behind the President’s very important service initiative. Here are some people who I think should be part of the call. [Names redacted.]
- August 6, 2009, Conference Call Invitation sent via email by Yosi Sergant: “A call has come in to our generation. A call from the top. A call from a house that is White. A call that we must answer. And to answer it, we need you…United We Serve is President Obama’s call to service challenging all Americans to engage in sustained, meaningful community service. With the knowledge that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when given the proper tools, President Obama is asking us to come together to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”
- August 6, 2009, 9:46 pm, Email from Unknown to Yosi Sergeant: “How can I get down Yosi? I’m working with [redacted] doing brand consulting and event production for [redacted]. Love to see how we could collaborate our corporate funds with what you’re working on.”
- August 12, 2009, 3:30 pm, Follow-up Email from Unknown participant to Yosi Sergant. “As per a suggestion on the call, below is a list of action items that might be helpful to inspire an idea on how you can participate in the campaign…Ex) If you are a graphic designer tap into your professional network and organize other designers to create a series of United We Serve posters that can be featured in print, through social media and on serv.gov. Ex) If you are a DJ, tap into your professional network and organize other DJs to promote Serve.gov or a specific local opportunity on the radio or at a club.”
“The documents also detail the use of the 9/11 anniversary as a vehicle for this political effort.
“‘These new documents leave little doubt that the NEA conference call and the ongoing United We Serve effort are direct extensions of the Obama presidential campaign. Taxpayers should be outraged that their tax dollars were used to promote political ‘art’ for the Obama big government agenda,’ stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“Visit www.JudicialWatch.org to read Judicial Watch’s NEA documents.”
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I crime that will go unpunished. Where is the media on this, oh I forgot, in the White House pocket.
I'll be putting pressure on the new Republican/conservative majority House and Senate to cut funding from and then dismantle the NEA.
mm mm mmm "communism" mm mm mm.
"I thought it would be a really good idea to convene via a conference call some significant tastemakers/producers"
Um. Well. "Tastemakers?" Look Yosi. I know YOU are the artist and I'm just a businesshead but if "Obama Is My Home Boy" T-Shirts are any indication of what you 'tastemakers' have in store for the NEA then…
A local newspaper ran ads for AmeriCorps a couple weeks ago that solicited organizations who would receive $250,000 to 'round up' volunteers for an agenda that was (let's just say) less than transparent. Keep holding their feet to the fire!
Oh yea, here is some really good reading recommended by the NEA. Barf O Rama!
""Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives." Saul Alinsky
Appalling! Why in the world would someone sell their morals to produce propaganda knowing that in the end days, they would never be able to accept responsability for their work without the risk of seeing the indside of a jail cell? The jail cell may come sooner than they think.
Looking at the rainbow badge, I conclude the t-shirt has suffered a misprinting, in that an "o" was inadvertantly exchanged for an "e".
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Because they are liberals. They think all this is absolutely fine, as long as it's their side doing it.
This is going on in every department and office in the White House. They're just going to do a better job of keeping the lid on it next time.
This is interesting, but not all that surprising.
The question is – what will be done about it?
It is just like all the corruption (on the right and the left) in congress. Pay for play, tax fraud, voter fraud… big things right? Yet, nothing ever happens to these people.
You may be right! Too funny!
Ya OK, we've identified the source of the FOUL SMELL, now – how do we get rid of it?
That's the real question. Tax payers money funding an Obama propaganda machine. Outrageous!
That picture there brings a song to my mind…
Each time I saw him I couldn't wait to see him again.
I wanted to let him know that he was more than a friend.
I didn't know just what to do
so I whispered "I love you"
and he said that he loved me too
and then he kissed me.
It is as if Obama and his minions view his election as a one term phenomena and they must act fast and furiously to institute, by any and every means possible, his agenda. The agenda which will transform a lasting majority of Americans into addicts inhaling government crack. It will fail. I just hope once the Congress and the White House is fumigated that the ruling representatives don’t spend too much time investigating the vile past and instead get this country rolling again by reversing the statist agenda.
Good grief. They sound like Jim Jones cult members.
Tastemaker? Maybe Yosi sees himself as Kate to Obama´s Henry V:
KING HENRY V
It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss
before they are married, would she say?
ALICE
Oui, vraiment.
KING HENRY V
O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear
Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak
list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of
manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our
places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will
do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your
country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently
and yielding. (Kissing her)
Why does this surprise anyone? The breadth, depth and heights the Obama groupies and cult members will go to in adoring their Messiah has been known for months and months. They have all drunk the purple Kool-Aid and are willing to sell their souls to the devil.
Art is Dead; killed by Incompetent Prostitutes for Oba Mao.
The simple fact that Obama would even talk to that weirdo tells you all you need to know.
Just another nail in the Democrat's coffins for the 2010 elections. Obama is an ENEMY of the United States Constitution and it is becoming glaringly obvious! If the Founding Fathers came back to life tomorrow, by miracle, they would have Obama and his henchmen arrested and tried for treason. They did not tolerate citizens actively or passively working to subvert the U.S. Constitution! In fact, the PENALTY for this WAS DEATH……
The American people and patriots like Breitbart have already filled the void left by the incompetent media within America. Do they also have to start doing E Holder's job as well ?????????
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Don't hold your breath. Funding for the NEA has always been a conservative issue and the GOP when in power continued to fund it despite their support for "art" that mocked Christ and His mother.
United We Serve?…Don't they mean serve the People's Democratic Republic of the America….or else? Adios to Rosie the Riveter and hello to the raised fist and images of Chairman Obama….
Wow, my kook detector's at Marshall Applewhite level after reading this article.
I must be going, I have kooks to detect on Keith Olbermann's Countdown to No Ratings.
Why do most liberals look like they are hygienically deprived?
Big surprise here! What genius figured this one out?
About a year ago, some UCLA or USC professor study stated that there would be a major earthquake within the next 30 years. Woow, what a prediction and the professor will be long forgotten and who paid this fool anyway, tax payer money..
This above great revelation is on the same scale. The NEA is at least a partially tax payer funded operation.
See what we get for our money. NOTHING, except scr…..!
…..(canned laugh track fade in)…..
We Cool!!! – Governmental Ebonics Revisionist Reality!
Direct from Loupee Fiasco’s NEA dumbed-down situational curriculum for the cognitive challenged and soon to be indigent and/or the Obama acolytes.
Is that guy giving Obama an earjob?
I would love for someone to show me where in the Constitution does Congress have the right to spend money on such organizations. Article 1, Section 8, is very clear in what the Congress can spend money on, and I sure don't see "art" in the list.
Yosi? Barack? WTF!? When did we outsource American government?
My God. What the hell has happened to the press in this once great country?
This should be the lead in every newspaper and news program across the nation. Unfortunately, since the press helped install this common street agitator into the White House, they will sweep it under the rug.
History tells us that once they solidify power, the Communists first step is to eliminate those that may threaten to take it away. Too late for the American Press, but soon they will reap what they have sown!
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Naw, he's nuzzling the Dali Bama's earlobe with his nose.
"With the knowledge that ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things when given the proper tools."
They certainly were given the right "tools", weren't they? What a tool they were to do Obama's bidding.
Let's prosecute these criminals now!
Absolutely right James.
And it's not the only case of taxpayers' money being used to destroy America. How about ACORN?
The comment being made by Obama: "I have to dress this way to fit in." The comment that followed shortly after this one, made by Obama to another person in a tux: "Oh, don't mind him! He's just the help."
C'mon, now, who's surprised about Marxist/Maoist Obama and his commissars, with the complicity if not direct involvement of the minion-state-media, engineering a taxpayer-funded propaganda effort?
Now that the libertarians, Republicans–and I don't mean RINOs–conservatives and everyone else who was temporarily stunned by Obamao's election and then communist blitzkrieg of the past few months have awakened, perhaps they can–we–will continue to press the Obamanists?
Gotta remember: The light of truth will always scare the darkness of lies and the likes of Obama and his thugs. After all, why else do they want complete control of the so-called news media?
They're scared, now, though, and with good reason. But they're also playing with fire.
Defund the NEA!? You can't do that. Look at the guy in the picture again. Not Obama, the guy on the right. If you cut out the NEA, just where in the heck are guys like him supposed to find work? We already have all the Starbucks attendents we need, and Stephanie Miller already has all the castrati male co-hosts she can use on her radio show. So just what are they supposed to do?
It's always struck me how so many pix of our own Ebony Hamlet are posed to make him appear to be looking bravely into the far distance to a brighter, and, hopefully for the libs, more restrictive, socialist future. So much of the "art" excreted by these self-important, over-indulgent adolescents is nothing more than crap that has all the earmarks of the propaganda produced by the mile during the reign of that paranoid mass-murderer, Uncle Joe Stalin. I say make the kiddies pay for their own crayons, finger paint and Playdough…
Wait !!! Not long until the communist machine in Washington will feel the wrath of the "REAL" Americans.
"Fundamental Change" must be done in a hurry! Every liberal, socialist, commie dream must be enacted speedily…before the citizens notice, government envelopes their lives. Taste makers are one resource to be used for all the "Changes" to be acceptable to the celeb-loving commoners, we must be seen as the "coolest"! Gettting them to accept all our programs "for their own good", appealing to their sense of idealism…being "cool" will do the trick. Those who oppose us will have to be painted as the Un-cool, Stupid, Un-educated, and Old-fashioned. YES…WE CAN do that! mm, mmm, mmmm!
Time for my Power Puke.
These people think they can get away with anything, and that they have the right to do so because they're "saving the world" from the evil conservatives. So it doesn't matter if they lie, cheat and steal their way into power. Anything to win. What they don't see is that they themselves are the evil and making things worse every minute they are in power. The country is on the verge of catastrophy because of their corruption, but they really don't care. In the end they're plan is to blame George Bush and the conservatives for whatever goes wrong.
I am in total agreement!
The more we learn about Team Obama, the more they remind me of the team(s) that led the former USSR. Hope there are some wiser individuals on Team O that read history — starting with Obama's 'close advisors' and his czars!
Someone needs to remind him that he IS NOT PRESIDENT FOR LIFE!!
not to sway oo far off topic but this sort of thing is an attempt to keep us from seeing what the other hand is actually doing. i hope that everyone wakes up real fast and sees that the entire country will be destroyed in december if obama signs the treaty in copenhagen. i dont know about most but i dont think we should be giving up 2% of our gdp to undeveloped countries so that they can progress. once the treaty is signed we are beholden to the group of leaders who will then have DIRECT control over our economy and our environment. this is what THEY do not want us to know. so while everyone is watching the NEA and the congress balking about health care, in december we can say goodbye to the country for we shall sign over control of it to a new world power. sound crazy? i know . you have to read the treaty for yourself (181 pages) to understand that it calls for a worl (global) governmnet. it doesnt say this group will govern it says GOVERNMENT. please read.
Alinski, et al suck. America is for Americans not traitors. That includes our deceitful president and our incompetent, power hungry Speaker of the House, Ms. Dung-head Pelosi and the Idiot and honesty challenged Senate Leader from Searchlight, Nevada (he probably needs one to find hit butt in the dark) Reid
Looking forward to this Thursday and watching the cowards run.
Yes, it's so very very bad that our government would be involved in a program to provide incentive for people to spend time helping others and providing public service at no cost. How horrible of our president.
Have you all had enough yet? How's all that "hopey-changey" stuff working for ya', eh? Are we ready as a society to throw all the Hopium addicts under the bus and get on with taking the country back from these effete, arrogant (and ultimately stupid, but they don't know that) idiots that are running and ruining America? Let it be known, and let the word go out from here… if the military decides to act and follow their oath to protect and defend the Consitituion, they need to know that millions of Americans will stand with them as they roll their tanks into Washington, surround the halls of power, and place these miscreants under arrest. They want to talk about "power to the people"? Well THAT would surely return power to the people, get the Fed out of the way and leave us alone…and put the criminals in Congress on trial.
Wonders Never Cease.
I've always been a BIG FAN of the Arts!
This is why they call me the "Artful Dodger" back home…I think.
Poor old Joe McCarthy died too soon.Academia has yet to be taken to task, then the unions are next.Tired of their influence of innocent student minds being corrupted before they learn to think for themselves.Also prefer our representatives be chosen by the constituents rather that bought by power brokers. Await 2010& 2012.
Just like the phony Global Warming crap the Kool Aid Drinkers and the Obama Sheep Herds will break any law any where they want and know they will get away with it because the American Pravda news papers will make sure that the guilty get away with it or just do community service, (Such as selling Obama merchandise at the NBC STORE or shinning Obama's shoes).
Everyone knows that the law doesn't apply to the Liberals as it does the Conservatives. This goes back as far as when Ted (HIC) Kennedy murdered Mary Jo Mary Kopechne and got community service.
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Remember the new "National Service Day" announced by none other than O on 9/11??? Now we know he actually intended to incorporate the 9/11 tragedy into his "service" agenda. It's all about the politics. Does this remind us of Dover? Oh no, it wasn't a photo op at all.
Do you think Fat Charlie will ever come to justice?
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-New York) #1 Using official congressional stationery to solicit contributions for an educational center bearing his name.
#2 His living in four rent-stabilized apartments in his Harlem district while claiming his Washington, DC home as his primary residence for tax purposes.
#3 Failure to report $75,000 in rental income or pay taxes on a beach property in the Dominican Republic, which included a interest free loan deal.
#4 Storing his Mercedes-Benz in the House parking lot, contrary to House rules and tax laws.
Does anyone remember the Uncle Sam posters? Someone must have drawn it…. For those of you whom believe this is somehow divisive…you are retards. Nationalism is not a bad thing. Hitler's view of nationalism was but we are from that. Get over it
i agree completely Stu.
Didnt I read somewhere that the guy that was from House was the unknown emailer?
It's not a Presidency, it's a cult!
Our president suffers from arrested maturity due to his self-admitted youthful drug abuse. (See NIH studies on the topic.) He thinks all of this cute crap is "neat", and he will do it as long as he can get away with it. Just look at our prez as an immature high school sophomore, and you won't be disappointed. I'm ready for some adults in Washington DC, though.
Yeah, that bothers me too. I don't understand how the anniversary of an attack on the US that killed close to 3000 and sparked off a war in two regions transfers over to be a day observed by community service and the President painting a freaking house. Yeah, lets remember those who died that day and those who have died fighting since by cleaning up a neighborhood. Hey, lets celebrate Independance Day by watching wet concrete cure.
The problem now is that everyone is standing by watching all of this and asking "Isn't anyone going to do anything about all of this?" And for a long time no one wil. Until it gets to the point that someone or some group gets so fed up that they snap. I fear that what will happen will not be the wonderful idea of peaceful political debate and voting that changes the "change" we are going through. It will be something far worse. Read up on the past. History is a bitch when it comes back to bite you in the ass.
Judicial Watch is just watching their toe nails ; they never actually accomplish anything.
I don't think they realize that the jail cell is the least of their worries. They'll be spending eternity paying for their greed and stupidity!
Michele Bachmann has a new plan to stop the Democrat's health care reform bill: Drive to Washington D.C Noon thursday the 5th. at the Capitol. To all Americans Please save your freedom!!! Jon Voight is there also!! With love from Canada.
Well, wish I was surprised by rodents like Yosi as they sneak around in the dark promoting progressive socialism on the government's dime – but after all, he is simply another want-to-be czar who will be the first to wail when he realizes his loss of freedom by this increasingly fascist government.
Always remember that the Democrat Party wages its wars within our borders. Every branch of the government will be used to destroy traditional values. This is something that Obama had in place from the start of his Presidency. Obviously a high priority.
On the other hand, his Afghanistan policy that he rigorously formulated in March is still under re-re-re-re-re-re-re-review over six months later (but definitely NOT dithering!).
But it sure would be nice if he could be President for Life. The country would be a lot better off
The majority of these Right Wing Foxie's will be critical of anything the president does. I still believe in him.
Obama is not an AMERICAN He was paid for by another foreign source, to destroy this country in a one/two punch and he almost suceeded. How about his kids and wife,how come they don't take his vacine? Remember he refused to close the borders back last year. He wanted the swine flu. This flu is man made, to cause what yet to be determinedconfusion.Remember the drug company producing the vacine is related to someone in his oministration.Just so convienent that they are behind schudule on producing enough.rich@ He is on a mission to destroy us. He's not a democrat not even an American. I feel sorry for his wife .,She is never happy when she is on the news,only around her kids
This administration is going to continue to get away with this kind of crap until you stop making comments on here and start emailing your representatives calling for an investigation. Once Congress starts feeling some heat, then they will act. If they don't vote the bums out!
I just re-watched the movie "The Lives of Others" (excellent film about life under socialist east Germany). The hero in the movie is watching and listening in on artists (writers, actors) who are suspected of subverting the socialist system. I wonder how many of these so-called "artists" like this yosi clown would be (a) stooges for the state or (b) dissidents fighting to become free… I'd put them all in the "A" column.
These breathless sychophants have no idea of what they're doing.. they're simply feeding their need to have attention paid to them. He probably really does think the president is his "home boy" – I doubt Obama shares that sentiment. He simply realizes that good old Yosi is a typical useful idiot.
‘These new documents leave little doubt that the NEA conference call and the ongoing United We Serve effort are direct extensions of the Obama presidential campaign. Taxpayers should be outraged tha
I hear there is concern regarding brobamas weight. just say no to the crack pipe.
Producing art for the sake of advancing the State's agenda — I hear it was quite popular under Stalin's reign, as well.
Where is the attorney general on this? Where is the attorney general's ethics? Where is the congressional investigation? Never mind…..vote them all out!
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I particularly love the flak that wanted to "…collaborate our corporate funds…" This is what we need, using corporate money to engorge the anti-business governement beast.
Where were these people when president Bush was calling for service? Where was their over-eager sense of civic-mindendness when the last president needed a hand?
I CANNOT wait for 2012 and the opportunity to flush this corrupt filth out of office and back to the Chicago sewer whence it came.
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I don't think they're selling anything. Most of the people on the phone conference agree with Obama and everything he stands for. They're only to happy to further the cause, and it gives them a warm glow inside to know they're doing it for their Fuhrer…erm…President.
Michele Bachmann, Health Care Bill, November 5, 2009, Make a House Call on Congress on November 5th and Stop the Gove… http://wp.me/pbWMK-PI
The Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and many others are things the conservatives have been harping about since Renaldus Amnesteus was in office. Even when they held the majority, none of these things were dismantled.
So, no. Funding will continue, just like it will for Amtrak and other goodies.
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