UPDATE: NEA Scrubs ‘Health Care Resource’ From Website
by John NolteYesterday, Scott Johnson at Powerline reported that the NEA homepage ”Health Care Resource” link took you to the Artists’ Health Insurance Resource Center (AHIRC), whose own homepage urged artists to ”get involved in the health care debate,” contact Congress and “demand affordable-guaranteed insurance.”
I grabbed some screen shots, did some digging and discovered that the AHIRC was created by The Actors Fund with a grant from the NEA and is a 501(c)(3), which means, according to the IRS, they…
…may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate in any campaign activity for or against political candidates.
Well, what a difference a day makes. Not only has the NEA completely removed the link to what was essentially a lobbying demand for health care reform, but the AHIRC did a little scrubbing of their own to nudge the rhetoric closer to 501(c)(3)-ey territory…
Yesterday at the NEA:
Today at the NEA:
Yesterday at AHIRC:
Today at AHIRC:
Is this how our government works? Without a word, the NEA, an agency that survives off our hard-earned tax dollars, is just allowed to disappear a direct link to a 501(c)(3) organization (started with a grant from the NEA!) that until yesterday seemed to exist only for the sole purpose of violating the very first law of a 501(c)(3)?
Every desperate artist looking to the NEA for practical health insurance guidance was told to shill for health care reform (the NEA didn’t even have the decency to recommend they dial 9-1-1 in case of emergency) and the only consequence is that someone whose salary is paid for by our tax dollars had to set aside the shovel they were leaning on or put down the Crucifix they were about to dip in piss or pull the bullwhip out of their butt long enough to give some bureaucrat an order to “memory-hole” this stuff?
Or maybe this is Yosi Sergant’s new job. He was “reassigned” as the new NEA Compliance Officer and runs around with a clipboard covered in Obama Hope stickers, the Chairman’s factless Fact Sheet, and strict orders to erase everything before the mainstream media learns how to feel shame again.
Overnight *blink* gone — as though we’re going to forget.
Only the Federal Government could creep me out and insult my intelligence at the same time.
*My thanks to our own John Simpson for the tip on the NEA site change.
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It's the Cover-Up, not the Crime…
Drip… drip… drop.
These little brats. They've spent all their lives living off of dad's American Express card and never had to pay the bill themselves for totaling the family car or getting the dog pregnant. Now they're screwing the pooch again and looking at me to pay the vet bills. Man, there's some brats that need to grow up real quick!
Now you see it and then poof …..gone. We should be so lucky to get rid of all this with a click. I think this is so inter weaved that just like the game "jenga" piece by piece and then that one piece will finally take it all down.
Good job. More pieces – please?
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The dishonesty in this government has no end it goes on and on. The lies and coverups are just one after another. I admire the stick to itness John Nolte, Patrick Courrielche, Andrew Breitbart and others exihibit.
It seems to be a bottomless cesspool. I hope someone on the justice end of this supposedly civilized country
takes all this info and applies the rule of law. I guess a slow step at a time is progress. Rightous folks will see that this criminal behavior is punished, won't they? it well have a proper ending , won't it?
Don't Tell me this is all for naught. Please.
The NEA stuff is great but how about a Michael Moore review. I'm dying to discuss it. It's more of a revenge fantasy than Inglorious Basterds.
Run you curs. Run.
Oh look, they think we are stupid enough to just forget.
Not now. Not in 2010. Definitely not in 2012.
John – many thanks to Simpson for this pick-up, and you for publishing it. I really appreciate what you guys are doing on this, but even you can't be everywhere. I quietly seethe at the amount of tax dollars spent on groups like this or ACORN. It reminds me of the tax exempt status of some of these so-called inner-city churches that openly engage in partisan politics.
I really appreciate this site posting these ongoing exposes about this ongoing issue (NEA and illicit requests for artists/beneficiaries to lobby for the Obama Admin./Demos in Congress).
Doesn't it now appear, also, that this current spate of Demo-heavy persons in government are keen on erasing just about everything, weekly if not more often than that? There SURE ARE a lot of flags these people have to erase, like Obama not being aware of_____…
If anyone cares to, should they keep track of these ongoing events ("erasures"), there's already quite a tome written of these erasure events. Which means, there've been a lot of events that they 'needed to' erase. And in only, what, nine months now?
Ah, the latest version of the ol' "We never did any of that stuff. That would be wrong. And we promise to never, ever do it again."
The fact that these things are being scrubbed points to their not being legal in the fist place. If they were, then someone would have come forward and tried to make the case. They can't because their case is untenable.
We have a legal system that needs to respond to these acts. Now.
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Gentle reader,
In the great hierarchy of creative expression otherwise known as Art, (and yes, there actually is a hierarchy) theatrics and stage rank among the lowest. I have never been to the NEA website, although I am a visual artist and a sculptor to be more precise. While selective surgery on any given part of the body can remove cancerous lesions and promote a general health, it is also important for the surgeon not to destroy that healthy tissue surrounding it. The average "Joe the Artist" makes considerably less money than any plumber and indeed is simply struggling like anyone else to get by and make a living doing what they love. While there is no doubt in my mind that government backed institutions like the NEA are largely theatrical and pretentious in nature (like Acorn) and simply exist for the sake of continuing to exist (like most government funded institutions) I think it is my obligation to at least point out that none of the sculptors or painters that I know have ever received squat from this entity.
I pray you are right. I only wish I could believe it was possible.
Well said, Couerl, and I appreciate your clarification that those you know have not received anything from the NEA, This saddens me, though I'm not surprised. I wish it weren't so.
YES, I agree. So, how is that supposed to happen? It would seem that the fox is guarding the hen house, no?
There just seem to be so many situations like this that we can't even keep up with them. Definitely "tip of the iceburg",
Pretty discouraging overall.
Artists in the paint pot for Obama!
Of course the ruse is always that artists are the free expression of thought, ideas, philosophy, etc.
Don't these dopes know that the first to go to the Gulag are the ARTISTS?
Talk about selling your soul for a bowl of soup!! What a disgrace!
Given that the Google cache is temporary and a neutral third party storage site is the best way to keep everyone honest, I recommend that if you see things that might quickly evaporate, archiving them to http://www.webcitation.org is a valuable public service.
Oh, they'll learn….when it's too late.
You mean you and your friends are at the mercy of…THE MARKET? Oh, the horror! You must hate having to create art that people actually enjoy. If you had an NEA grant, you could maybe start a conversation, shock us out of our complacency, and teach us to see the world in a new and different way. That is, you make art that tells us us how stupid we are. Maybe by working exclusively in barbed wire and used tampons…
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