EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda
by Patrick Courrielche**NEA conference call full audio and transcript here**
Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?
That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?”
The question still requires debate but the facts do not.
The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.
President Obama with the NEA’s Yosi Sergant
But some have claimed that the invite and passages, pulled from the conference call that inspired the article, were taken out of context. Context is what I intend to establish here.
On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and the Corporation for National and Community Service hosted a conference call with a handpicked arts group. This arts group played a key role in Obama’s arts effort during his election campaign, as declared by the organizers of the call, and many on the call played a role in the now famous Obama Hope poster.
Much of the talk on the conference call was a build up to what the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was specifically asking of this group. In the following segment, Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, clearly identifies this arts group as a pro-Obama collective and warns them of some “specific asks” that will be delivered later in the meeting.
Buffy Wicks
Play Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement:
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- “I just first of all want to thank everyone for being on the call and just a deep deep appreciation for all the work you all put into the campaign for the 2+ years we all worked together.”
- “We won.”
- “I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda.”
- “We’re going to come at you with some specific asks here.”
- “I hope you guys are ready.”
Later in the call, “specific asks” were delivered by Yosi Sergant, then Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. What were the “asks”? They were for this pro-Obama arts group to create art on several hotly debated political issues, including health care:
Yosi Sergant
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- “I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service.”
- “And then my ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table.”
- “Again, I’m really, really honored to be working with you; the National Endowment for the Arts is really honored.”
- “You’re going to see a lot more of us in the next four and hopefully eight years.”
As someone that has been creating arts initiatives and marketing campaigns for over 14 years, I feel like I have a good sense as to how a pro-Obama arts group, when requested by the NEA to address politically contentious issues, could so easily turn very partisan.
Consider:
Three days after the conference call a coalition of arts groups, led by Americans for the Arts, a participant on the conference call per the meeting contact list and recipient of NEA grants, sent out a press release with the heading “Urgent Call to Congress for Healthcare Reform,” which called for the creation of “a health care reform bill that will create a public health insurance option.” Eleven days after the conference call, Rock the Vote, another participant on the call, announced a health care design contest. “We can’t stand by and listen to lies and deceit coming from those who are against reforming a broken system,” they stated in their announcement. “Enough is Enough. We need designs that tell the country YES WE CARE! Young people demand health care.”
These may both be coincidences and I am not suggesting that the NEA or these groups definitively violated the law in these efforts. That’s for others to discuss and investigate. As I’ve stated in various television interviews, the organizers never discussed any specific policies. However, as can be seen below in the exchange between Nell Abernathy of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency, and Michael Skolnik, the third party moderator, the meeting seemed designed to deflect any questionable conversations to the “third party”, while keeping the issue of health care top-of-mind with the precision of a well positioned product placement.
![OrganizingForHealthCare[1]](http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/09/OrganizingForHealthCare1.jpg)
Play Nell Abernathy, Director of Outreach for Serve.Gov and Michael Skolnick, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons:
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Debating the role of government is and has been the goal of bringing this conference call to light. The NEA tainted the creative process by encouraging the art community to address highly controversial political issues. ‘How?’ you may ask. The NEA is the largest single funder of the arts in the United States. This government agency has the power and ability to fund arts organizations and recently expressed a desire to return to funding individual artists, bringing more from the group into the pool of potential grantees.
The NEA did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.
This practice has never been the historical role of the NEA. The NEA’s role is to support excellence in the arts, to increase access to the arts, and to be a leader in arts education. Using the arts to address contentiously debated issues is political subversion. And the fact that the White House played a role in encouraging the arts to address contentious issues should also be considered a government overreach.
Many on the phone call may say and believe that this was a worthwhile effort. “What can be more inspiring then the NEA encouraging national service,” they may say. I would say that while it might sound like a noble cause, the big hand of government often enters the scene well manicured, but in times of desperation it all too often takes on the shape of a fist accessorized with brass knuckles.
And it appears that desperation may have been the impetus to the birth of this specific arts effort. This possibility reveals itself when we take a step back and view the environment at the time the invitation was distributed.
It was the beginning of August 2009, Congress was heading for a much-anticipated month-long recess after weeks of heated debate over health care legislation. At issue was President Obama’s desire for “universal health care” for all Americans, and he was losing that debate. The Administration attempted to push health care legislation through before the August recess, but the so-called Blue Dogs resisted the proposed public option.
After several grueling months of discussion, where the opposition accused the administration of creating death panels, inching the country closer to socialism, and desiring a single-payer system, the Democrats left for the August recess without a bill on the floor and a bit battered from their effort. The Democrats were presented with a daunting task – to face a public at town hall meetings that had gone nuclear. Each night a new incident of public outrage against the government takeover of health care was broadcast widely on cable news – each network painting the protesters as either a legitimate revolt against government growth, or the angry, uneducated, lunatic fringe.
Regardless of how this group was labeled, their mere existence pointed to one fact – the administration was losing the debate on health care reform.
It was in this environment that I received the invite from the National Endowment for the Arts to attend the August 10th conference call. When seeing that the NEA and the White House were inviting a group from the arts world to tackle health care, as well as energy and environment, it appeared to me as an attempt to create an environment amenable to the President’s positions on these efforts. Only after learning that this was the arts group that played a key role in getting the independent arts community behind then candidate Obama, was I convinced that this effort was unusual.
Michael Skolnik, the person asked by the NEA and the White House to help bring together this arts collective, defined the group and its goal in his opening statement. I think it is made pretty clear how this pro-Obama group would react to losing the healthcare debate if prodded to speak to that very issue:
Michael Skolnick
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- “I’ve been asked by folks in the White House and folks in the NEA … we had the idea that I would help bring together the artist community…”
- “…the Hope poster obviously is a great example, but it’s clear as an independent art community as artists and thinkers and tastemakers and marketers and visionaries that are on this call, the role that we played during the campaign for the president…”
- “…the President has a clear arts agenda and has been very supportive of using art and supporting art in creative ways to talk about some issues that we face here in our country, but also to engage people. And I think all of us who are on this phone call, you know, were selected for a reason.”
- “And so I’m hoping that through this group, and the goal of all this, and the goal of this phone call, is through this group we can create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about as we did during the campaign. But to continue to get involved in those things, to support some of the President’s initiatives, but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration…“
I find it hard to believe that the very intelligent meeting organizers would think that this pro-Obama arts group would produce bipartisan art about health care at a time when the administration was losing a national debate on that very issue. As any parent can tell you, if you give your child a key to the candy drawer they’ll end up with a sugar high.
Were there artists on the call that would create imagery extolling the benefits of offshore drilling? Were there any musicians who’d drop an electro dance anthem warning of the Road to Serfdom that awaits us if we let government create universal health care? Or how about artists that would wheat paste posters throughout urban areas, featuring a miner named Cole entirely sanitized, sitting in a clean room with the subtitle “Clean Coal.” If this was truly a bipartisan effort, why was I not invited to any conference calls held after the publication of my initial article?
In their zeal to recapture the enthusiasm of the campaign, it appears the NEA overstepped its mandate and forgot its role to the arts, a community currently in dire straits. If this arts group should be rallying around anything, it should be to directly help the arts community. The NEA’s mere participation in a meeting of this nature has put them and those invited in murky waters.
Setting up a propaganda machine is a dangerous precedent. The creation of a machine to address any issues, even ones with noble intentions, can be wielded by the state to create a climate amenable to the policies of those in power. Does anyone believe that once these artists are in place and we move to the election cycle, that the art they create will be bipartisan?
While much of the phone call was spent explaining the general concept of United We Serve – to be expected when explaining the infrastructure and rational for any national initiative – when the time came to get specific on what the National Endowment for the Arts wanted this arts group to do, it was simple and concise – create art focused on four main issues, and the two at the top of the list, and most mentioned throughout the exchange, were health care and energy & environment.
Yosi Sergant
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- “This is a community that knows how to make a stink.”
- “…this is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand new conversation.”
- “We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally?”
- “So bear with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely…”
- “I would encourage you to pick something whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service.”
- “My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative community’s utilities and bring them to the table.”
The National Endowment for the Arts needs to issue a statement with a bit more detail than the one issued at the time of Sergant’s reassignment. Not only have they not explained why Sergant was reassigned, their current statement is full of obvious contradictions and has only prompted more questions.
The NEA’s unattributed statement reads:
“On August tenth, the National Endowment for the Arts participated in a call with arts organizations to inform them of the president’s call to national service. The White House Office of Public Engagement also participated in the call, which provided information on how the Corporation for National and Community Service can assist groups interested in sponsoring service projects or having their members volunteer on other projects. This call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end are simply false. The NEA regularly does outreach to various organizations to inform of the work we are doing and the resources available to them.”
By their own words and actions the NEA has attempted to distance the agency from the initiation of this meeting and have been outright dishonest in their role.
If the NEA has done nothing wrong, why have they been dishonest?
From their own words this effort was not something that the NEA regularly performed; otherwise their Communications Director wouldn’t have called this a “brand new conversation.”
As to the statement that the conference call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda, I believe the handpicked pro-Obama participants on the call and the vehemently debated issues that the NEA encouraged the group to address show clear intent on the part of the NEA. And that intent was to create art that aligned with the administration’s partisan agenda.
On September 4th I called the chairman of the NEA, Rocco Landesman, requesting a response to these inconsistencies as well as to request a statement from the NEA regarding their brand new arts efforts. As of the publishing of this article I have not received a response.
With each passing day, the National Endowment for the Arts’ credibility is tragically deteriorating. The only action that can restore its credibility is a full disclosure and accounting of the events that led to the launch of this arts effort, the rationale behind this new NEA function, and a clear explanation of the obvious contradictions in their statements related to this conference call.
I hope the NEA addresses this soon so that they can get back to their mandated artistic, not political, work.
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594 Comments
The irony is that all these people would have done anything it takes to push O's agenda…..they never had to ask.
Wasn't the media pro-Obama enough?
Man, between this and ACORN, it's amazing how quickly the wheels are coming off the bus.
"Viva la Revolucion!" Time to lock and load, folks.
Yosi Sergant is a Liberal Fascist Militant!
fizzle.
This won't be news. Sorry.
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News from our boys on the front lines in Afghanistan….they want to see Obama tried for treason, as he is now officially plotting against them.
You have them in a vice, please keep squeezing!
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If its this bad at the bottom, how corrupt is the top??
usarmymom
Treason? gimmie a break.
My impression is, as always is the stupidity of artists. All they have to do is look at how well the arts fare in Marxist countries like the former USSR, Zimbabwe, Venezuela. Have you seen any good Venezuelan movies lately? Lenin called people like this "useful idiots".
And who do these people report to: Valerie Jarrett slum lord Chicago Developer now Senior Advisor to the President and his Wife.
How are things over at HuffPo, slow? how's the pay for liberal trolls these days? What, $6, $7 bucks an hour?
Reporting by CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, WaPo, NYT
NOTHING – Reverend Wright’s Hate Speech
NOTHING – John Edwards Love Child
NOTHING – Van Jones Far Left Radicalism
NOTHING – ACORN’s Rife Corruption, Criminality
NOTHING – NEA’s Agitprop
Unf#$!ingbelievable. Malevolent arrogance, yes.
But just plain shamefully embarrassing too. I mean, wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0JDjfEkOSQ
Okay so is anyone in Congress doing anything about this? Taking government money to push a any political party agenda is illegal. See, that's why we have to throw them ALL OUT. Let's start over and Take Back America in 2010.
Jesus H! This is some scary shit. Next thing you know they’ll be a 30” golden likeness of His Holiness the Obamessiah on the national mall. Seriously. Frightening.
Look at what this sort of brainwashing got them over in Russia: http://russiatrek.org/images/ulan-ude-russia-city...
Yikes!
Finally a reveal of the propaganda machine! Time to ge a big broom and sweep DC clean!.
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Does the name maxim gorky ring a bell ? How about Obama's "mentor" 's friend Paul Robeson ?
Singing for you rsupper while they starve outside. Anyway, these two useful idiots are the ideological godparents of the artists that have signed on here to push th agenda. Goebbels would be proud.
Now, what about the laws broken ?
This is why there should not be an NEA or NEH — because whatever government funds, it will eventually want to serve its purposes. Then, of course, there's the other reasons they should not exist — government confiscating the wealth of the productive to bankroll "art" that couldn't stand on its own or with funding…
Can anyone justify funding NEA/NEH when we're borrowing most of the federal budget? Oh, sure, those programs are a drop in the bucket, but the cuts have to start somewhere.
"With each passing day, the National Endowment for the Arts’ credibility is tragically deteriorating."
This is not tragic. This is good. The NEA should be abolished.
Politicized art is the inevitable consequence of government-funded art. It's the same principle at work as pointed out in the "ACORN is a Symptom. Big Government is the Disease" posting here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/21/acorn-is-a-sy...
Patrick Courrielche, you are relentless. Do not stop.
Connecting the dots . . .
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Imagery is a very powerful tool. Close your eyes and try to think of anything without thinking of it in an image. You cannot, it is impossible.
Our doofus in chief knows this. Our president is pure evil. The fact that he knows he has to do all these things though, gives me HOPE. He knows that if he showed himself as he truly is, "We The People", would reject him outright. Great Job Mr. Breitbart and Company!
30" Golden likeness? Thats just of his genitals, wait until you see how big his ego is…………
This bus is, at least, an 18-wheeler.
They're working on it as we speak.
The entire structure of these different entities and their relationship to one another is looking more and more like the same corporate structure of Acorn, where the lines between are so blurred that they become one big machine. It is interesting to hear people who are so obviously trying to skirt around laws to push an agenda. Sad to see the NEA taint itself with this. Is the artistic community and the NEA nothing more than an arm of the DNC now? It would
appear so.
This third piece is the most interesting to me, because of the woman's voice as she's explaining how she must appear to sound nonpartisan. With every sentence, her voice goes UP at the end. That's a clear sign of intentional deception.
Neither was the ACORN scandal when it first broke….
BTW, can I have a NEA grant? I want to call the Democrats and their apologists boot-licking scrote-sniffers…
At least Mein Furher had Leni Reifenschstal and Josef Goebbels, Obongo has Yosi Sergant and Buffy Wicks. Liberal Fascist Militant vermin.
Replace "Obama" w/ "Bush" and watch the shit fly.
Ugh. It's worse than socialists. There's…I can barely say it…hipsters.
I could be wrong but I don't think this has the mettle to make a punch that matters. It's art and artists – by definition they put themselves in the flaky column by accepting govt. money. if the government pays for it, it is not art.
Two things:
(1) What's with this "ask"-as-a-noun business? What horrible, grating use of the language. "My ask would be…" Ugh.
(2) Nell Abernathy has some of the most painful upspeak I've ever heard. You know, where declarative sentences sound like questions? And they all have this annoying cadence? And it makes the speaker sound like a 10th grader? You know — upspeak?
"""""
* “I just first of all want to thank everyone for being on the call and just a deep deep appreciation for all the work you all put into the campaign for the 2+ years we all worked together.”
* “We won.”
""""""
Um, you really need to bold that… she thinks she's talking to Obama partisans…
Vice or Vise? Was that a typo or an excellent double entendre?
Rush Limbaugh is covering this now…folks…this is a direct hit on their power plant. You can see the oil slicks coming from the damaged SS Obama…
Leni Riefenstahl approves.
hey .. polo .. ?
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or nation. …
.. YEAH. Treason fits. BHO is VERY disloyal to THIS country, just look at the last fews days with the missle defense, the way he aligns himself with OUR – the USofA's – enemies. Yeah. Treason fits.
BUT back on topic. This IS a huge story, just more Chicago politics at work. Sooooo.. any other news orgs gonna pick it up and run it? yeah.. not holding my breath on this one either.
m
Did you hear that the new design for the Oscar statuette is in the president's likeness? It vibrates, too.
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Name one high crime or misdemeanor. Just one.
I know today's repubs like to say everything is unconstitutional, but that doesn't make it so.
I wasn't until Nancy assured the public that impeachment was off the table that the Dems were trusted to govern.
Do you really think advocating impeachment in 2011 will be a winning strategy?
Sorry- while this is scummy, illegal and naked propagandizing, I doubt this story will have legs like ACORN. It's already been out there for a week, Sargent has been "reassigned," and unlike the ACORN piece I'm afraid Mr and Mrs Middle America won't really care. They already know it's not like you have to pay artists to be pinkos; they do it for free.
I was hoping for something bigger (in public attention terms), like an uncontrovertible linking of Valerie Jarret to Chicago corruption, or a DOJ whistleblower with an account of criminal malfeasance by the Holder gang.
Any idea why hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons might require the services of a "political director"?
Great job! Again. This White House knows no bounds or limits when it comes to corruption. What a bunch of tools. Keep going after 'em. Keep knocking the bricks out one by one and soon the entire thing will crumble and I cannot wait. I assume we'll get a statement full of "uh uh, blah, blah, lie, lie, I was not aware, blah, yada yada yada, lie lie, uh uh." soon.
I am one of those people who like migration, but America is about to be swallowed up by European-type socialist system primerily, because of migration and assimilation. These artists are not mainstream Americans, neither do they mirror our culture of a free society, they are disgruntled Marxist from Europe, and other parts of the world, and they hate America’s way of life. I am young gifted and black, and a proud conservative.
Orchestrating service to Obama to get money for your NEA grants?
White House cover up of this? Why re-assign Yosi Sergeant then?
Buffy Wicks to Valerie Jarrett? To Obama?
polo, you are too dense to talk to…away with you, troll!
Great work!
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But NOW they get to do it with taxpayer dollars .. how much FUN is that ?
Activism
Our enthusiasm will carry real action. Point being you "eat big elphant one bite at a time"
They "built a brick house one brick at a time"
Point being is that who wants to eat raw elphant?
You build a fire to cook it………..the fire has been light!
Van Jones & Acorn
To take a brick house down you pull out the corner stone
and the house will come down.
Tea Parties / Town hall meetings
To eat elphant you need a fork
Fox news / Glenn Beck-Bill O'riely/Hannity/Rush
to name a few…do they have all the answers NO, but they are willing to stand up
So
become activist
Write call your congress
There are tea parties / town hall meetings
If two kids can bring down Acorn. then there is hope to bring down the rest if the corruprtions
Which ever makes me seem smarter!
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……"The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable"
I read this three times
And I am still trying to figure out what the problem is.
/libtard off
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Move over Lincoln Memorial here comes the Baracktoplis
last weekend i went to a small college gallary to see a wonderful collection of colored pencil art.
naturally the NEA had given partial funding….how sad to see these people corrupt the simple premise that people enjoy art.
please post a full transcript
but meh, i was hoping for better. here's hoping for another shoe to drop…
We finally have some excellent investigative journalism to bring the truth to the public, now that the rest of the news media has sold out! Hurray! Thanks, biggoverment.com!
I can film you doing that.. then we can get double the grant money.
yawn…not anywhere near as exciting..this has been out there and is too complicated to lay out to the American public, seeing as they all have the attention span of an ADHD person.
I like what you did, and I like this story, but this only has legs in Hollywood and New York. Quite unlike what Giles and O'Keefe did, this particular story will have limited legs.
Unless, of course, as Andrew indicated, there's another Giles and O'Keefe story about the NEA ready to blow up in the Administration's face.
Every leftist is a Facist by nature, they will steal, lie, and yes even kill to get what they want, power.
This Yosi Sergant freak needs to be wearing an orange jump suit, well Yosi, when the tide turns you are in for a long long stay in a 6×4 cell
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." Vladimir Lenin
Not too hard to connect those dots…
Is it just me or is Obama and his slime helpers getting more and more "in your face" and blatant in his misuse of my tax money?
Thank you for the concise yet thorough write-up of the issue. It's good to have something clear folks can read to get right to the point. (And for what it's worth, I have written Electro Dance Anthems about both Von Mises and Von Hayek… )
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Thank you, Andrew.
Artist on the right…respond in kind. More posters in the flavor of Obama as the joker.
Absolutely activism. The best, highest priority? Get involved in the Republican Party as a precinct committeeman NOW so you can help elect better, more conservative leadership.
Go here to learn more: http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com
PCs get to vote for the leadership of the Party and help determine, my majority vote, which candidates get the endorsement of the Party in the Republican primary races. Only takes a few hours of time a month. With half the PC slots in the Party nationwide vacant, and with a fifty-fifty split right now between conservatives and moderate RINOs in the PC ranks, the Party is there for the taking by conservatives/libertarians if we'd all just get off our duffs and get to a meeting of the local GOP and volunteer to become a PC. Want to save your country? Then invigorate the "main enemy" of the Debtocrat/Socialist Party with your presence.
(By the way, half of the Party leadership, the moderates, DON'T WANT YOU TO BECOME A PC, BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR RINO CRONIES WILL GET VOTED OUT OF THE LEADERSHIP — THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BASIC CIVICS.)
Becoming a PC should be every conservative's first priority. Blogging and carrying a sign at a Tea Party or attending a town hall is great, but unless we have better leadership and candidates in the main adversary party, the Debtocrats will get returned to power. It's all about the Constitution and all about winning the elections. The best way to restore the Constitution and to have better candidates who respect the Constitution is to join the Republican Party at the grass roots and make it happen. It's a numbers game. The more conservatives we have in the Party in the precinct committeemen ranks, the more likely it will be that we'll get better elected leadership within the Party and in the general elections. Michael Steele was elected not by registered Republicans but by the precinct committeemen in all fifty states.
Also, you can go to http://www.redstate.com to learn more, too. Just type in the words precinct and committeeman into the search pane and hit the search button and links to a lot of good info will be presented too you.
Thank you.
Cold Warrior
I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican precinct committeeman and desperately trying to get other Constitution-loving conservatives and libertarians to do the same.
http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/09/02/43...
and i can paint you filming him…3x $$$ baby
This is much scarier than the Acorn scandal, but also a lot less delicious from a mass appeal perspective. I wont be surprised if it fails to stick.
If you people do not know who Leni Reifenschtal was, you better get familiar with her……….
In 94 when the Republicans took congress with the Contract With America one of the goals was to de-fund the NEA.They let the whiney liberals talk them out of it.Here we are.
Coordinating union goons to intimidate townhall protesters.
Coordinating with the NEA to peddle propaganda
Threatening AIG employees that received bonuses
Firing the executive of GM.
Giving the census to a known criminal organization: ACORN
Attempting to intimidate returning veterans and silence dissent by putting them on a watch list.
Creating an unconstitutional shadow govt with his unaccountable czars.
"Asks"? Is that some kind of newspeak? WTF?
[...] From Big Hollywood’s EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda: [...]
Once again the Saul Alinsky strategy of Obama's radical left has been exposed to the public. Do not be surprised as this is the RULE AND NOT THE EXCEPTION AS TO HOW THE LEFT WORKS! Once in control of the government the Radical Left / Obama / Alinsky view all government funded institutions as extensions of their own power and all need to work to implement the radical left's agenda. Don't be surprised at these revelations. Be aware that this is how they operate. Be aware that all government institutions, and all government funded organizations whether Acorn or Americorps are working as part of the official left wing agenda. The radical left are very good at what they do. They try to hide like cockroaches scampering to hide when the lights get turned on. The more light we shine on the Left's activities the better.
This is pretty much illegal anyway you want to look at it …
The problem with propaganda is it dissolves in the sunlight.
Looks like Obama's quest to become America's Hugo Chavez is in full swing. That's why ACORN was allocated $8.5 billion from the porkulus bill ehhh…
LOL!
[...] House Orchestrated NEA Propaganda Campaign For Obama September, 21, 2009 — nicedeb Big Government has released the full audio and transcript from the NEA conference call, Big Hollywood blogger, [...]
Stupid is as stupid does.
AND BOY ARE THESE GUYS STOOOOOPID! XD
I guess the Obama administration was/is interested in continuing its campaign's foray into Soviet-era Russian Constructivist art.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/09/breitbart...
They can't all be hit-em-out-of-the-park investigations like the acorn mess. But this story develops the trends of corruption and law breaking that any GOP administration would be completely crucified for. I bet all the organizers are now on super secret alert for anybody asking anything. They are looking for insider traitors, that will make a putch look like a folk festival. "Paranoia strikes deep." Keep it up.
This is too Orwellian for me. Or is it more like Joseph Goebbels?
The Alinsky-ite needs to go.
This may be the future of NEA-commissioned artwork: "Obama Announces Creation of Royal Arts Patronage Program" http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-announc...
It's spelled Leni Riefenstahl. She was actually a pretty good actress in the silent era. It's too bad she got connected up with Hitler. It really ruined her. Just as any TRUE artist who gets involved with Obama will be compromised.
John Gault.
calling John Gault!
As a conservative heavily involved in the arts, I can say that I'm not surprised.
The whole scene is filled with these kinds of creepo thought police-types.
Yes, artist should just sit quietly and do as they are told.
Yet another plastic dragon. I'll ditto on the fizzle.
He should be tried for treason. Talk about war crimes! He's perpetrating them on OUR OWN TROOPS! Tell your offspring to pass the word: we're praying for them and support them. Blessings.
Barak Obama is on a Search and Destroy mission.He has been since he was sworn in Jan 20.He's out to destroy every freedom loving American in the country.He's systematically dismantiling this countries security walls and defenses.After 9-11 while the rest of us were looking at the horrors of Muslim terrorism Barak Obama was huddling with his Acorn,SEIU and other union hordes to plot his path to the White House.Guess you can lump the NEA into these groups as well.
Goebbels would be proud of these clowns.
Did anyone pick up on the fact that in the stimulus package they pasted, money went to Hollywood producers, there's the next step. First Oliver Stone making a documentary on Chavez. What is next with our taxpayers money. At the time I wondered why the government gave money to Hollywood producers, now I know.
well, biggovernment has arrived. You have a troll.
Don't you remember how polite the Republicans are when they are on top? They shared power in Congress so they wouldn't insult the Democrats. Bunch of wusses. The gang of six actually joined Dems on issues.
I remember when Republicans said someone's messing around in an opponet's office wasn't an important story. WATERGATE!
The left out-organizes the right. By nature conservatives don't like to "get involved" in the messy business of politics. But we must. Now. If you want to change the main adversary party of the Democrats, you have to join it and become a voting member of it. And you must do that NOW because, for example, in California, if you don't do it by the end of the year, it will be too late for you.
Go here to learn more: http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com
PCs get to vote for the leadership of the Party and help determine, my majority vote, which candidates get the endorsement of the Party in the Republican primary races. Only takes a few hours of time a month. With half the PC slots in the Party nationwide vacant, and with a fifty-fifty split right now between conservatives and moderate RINOs in the PC ranks, the Party is there for the taking by conservatives/libertarians if we'd all just get off our duffs and get to a meeting of the local GOP and volunteer to become a PC. Want to save your country? Then invigorate the "main enemy" of the Debtocrat/Socialist Party with your presence.
(By the way, half of the Party leadership, the moderates, DON'T WANT YOU TO BECOME A PC, BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR RINO CRONIES WILL GET VOTED OUT OF THE LEADERSHIP — THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THIS BASIC CIVICS.)
Becoming a PC should be every conservative's first priority. Blogging and carrying a sign at a Tea Party or attending a town hall is great, but unless we have better leadership and candidates in the main adversary party, the Debtocrats will get returned to power. It's all about the Constitution and all about winning the elections. The best way to restore the Constitution and to have better candidates who respect the Constitution is to join the Republican Party at the grass roots and make it happen. It's a numbers game. The more conservatives we have in the Party in the precinct committeemen ranks, the more likely it will be that we'll get better elected leadership within the Party and in the general elections. Michael Steele was elected not by registered Republicans but by the precinct committeemen in all fifty states.
Also, you can go to http://www.redstate.com to learn more, too. Just type in the words precinct and committeeman into the search pane and hit the search button and links to a lot of good info will be presented too you.
Thank you.
Cold Warrior
I am only one. But I am a conservative Republican precinct committeeman and desperately trying to get other Constitution-loving conservatives and libertarians to do the same.
http://www.redstate.com/coldwarrior/2009/09/02/43...
This is outrageous. I am emailing this to my Rep. and also to Illinois' 2 horrific Senators, Durbin and Burris. I expect nothing from Durbin nor Burris but THEY WILL KNOW we, the people, ARE ON TO THEM. It is time they start fearing the people.
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Everyone needs to email this to their representatives, including Democrats. Let them KNOW. They pull this stuff because they feel they can hoodwink the public. Let them know we are NOT hoodwinked.
Well, "soon" being a relative thing. If Obama follows his regular pattern it will be 5-8 days before we hear anything on this. He needs time, you see, to see how this is going to play, if the FM will pick it up at all, so he knows what side to come down on.
I couldn't agree more.
Clearly all federal funding must be cut off. This exposes Obama attempted, successful to a major way, in co-opting NEA into a propaganda arm. Fact the Fringe Media has not picked up on this in over a week is another exposure it is marginalized. Score another one for the New Mainstream Media…
Am I too bold to think Global Warming mania being used to promote absolute government control of the economy is next. Video proving global warming already sent to Fringe media outlets while Breitbart et al wait to see how far they run with it before the rug is pulled out.
Do I smell fear?
Nothing like a comment like that to make people think you're dangerous and get them to sideline the entire thing
Biggovernment has arrived. You have a troll with arguments just as substantive (uh, not.) as every other troll.
of course, your trophy room may need to be expanded.
Boils my blood every time I think of my tax dollars going to the NEA. It should be cancelled. If you cannot make a living with your "art" then you should re-think your career choice. Its not line we have the National Endowment for Accountants or National Endowment for Engineers!!!
[...] The story comes from Patrick Courrielche of Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. [...]
There is minimal difference here between the NEA's illegal support of Obama and the statuesand murals of dictators one would see in the Nazi Germany, USSR, Iraq, …
Politically and legally, heads should roll, and the NEA should be defunded immediately!
[...] on this to cover here so PLEASE head over to Andrew Breibart’s Big Government to have a look here with audio and [...]
def not as shocking as your other scoop. no real new news here. i hope there is more. otherwise, this story's legs have already run out
Okay, you demonstrated that obama is using the NEA for propaganda purposes. You did not use the word "propagand." You did not mention the laws he is breaking; nor for the re-educated, why those laws exist. To the average idiot, they will say "so what."
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Barb_NC and Scott Whitlock. Scott Whitlock said: From Big Hollywood: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda http://ow.ly/qkrE #tcot #iamthemob [...]
But every city must have a statue. Seattle has a statue of LENIN. (an orginal from USSR even.)
I know Bbb! It's Landmark Education jargon (formally known as est–remember Werner Erhart?) — can be effective when everyone has "got it", if you haven't spent the 3 days and one evening, not so much.
Oh, phuleeze. What about the fake PR done by the military in the Bush era, to make the Iraq war seem as if it was going better than it was? What about the Bush White House paying national columnists to write what they wanted them to write?
Political art? This is news? These people already "volunteered" their services. Yawn.
Let's talk about the millions being spent by big business lobbyists to tilt the outcome on healthcare reform, by buying off Congress. Now, THAT should be disturbing people!
How could Bill Buckley have gone so wrong? Buffy is Buckley's love child, right?
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,171...
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,171...
Folks….this group is a lost cause. Nothing will shut them down, but they do need to be marginalized. This group has been lost to the liberal machine grinding down the minds of our student generations in universities around the country. THAT is where the battle needs to be fought. We need to challenge the liberal belief systems being implanted daily there. These loons are not going to have there minds changed, that is of course, if they ever loose suction on the government nipple…in that case, if they actually have to go out and earn a living being involved in a business that HAS to turn a PROFIT to ensure its survival, then that dose of life reality might inject some sense into their clouded minds. Save that, they are lost forever.
Folks, the real battle is on the college campuses, for the hearts and minds of the next generation.
I got a better idea. Why don't we film Skolnick being dipped in urine and call it art!
I have said for ages – long before this NEA story first broke – that I believe in a level of government funding for the arts, and the level I believe in is zero percent.
Many of these ~scarequote~artists~/scarequote~ have not been corrupted at all: They are actually products of public funding for the arts, having been selected and financed by this leftist-dominated system. Their educations have been paid for by public funding, and their careers have been enabled by public funding. Their degrees are not actually in techniques for creating art, but rather are in techniques for obtaining government grants – that would be taxpayer money that is taken from us all.
So don't think that these poor, miserable ~scarequote~artists~/scarequote~ have been unwittingly corrupted by the NEA, because they are products of an inherently corrupt system and so are intrinsically corrupt people. Every one of them went into this with their eyes wide open, and the real surprise here is that it's no surprise at all: This is how the system that publicly funds artists works, from top-to-bottom and side-to-side.
In other words, this is standard operating procedure for this endemically corrupt system, it's just that in this case some evidence was obtained so some light has been shed on it.
The NEA should be abolished, along with all other forms of public funding for the arts. If leftists want to fund the arts, let them do it privately on their own dime.
I have said for ages – long before this NEA story first broke – that I believe in a level of government funding for the arts, and the level I believe in is zero percent.
Many of these ~scarequote~artists~/scarequote~ have not been corrupted at all: They are actually products of public funding for the arts, having been selected and financed by this leftist-dominated system. Their educations have been paid for by public funding, and their careers have been enabled by public funding. Their degrees are not actually in techniques for creating art, but rather are in techniques for obtaining government grants – that would be taxpayer money that is taken from us all.
So don't think that these poor, miserable ~scarequote~artists~/scarequote~ have been unwittingly corrupted by the NEA, because they are products of an inherently corrupt system and so are intrinsically corrupt people. Every one of them went into this with their eyes wide open, and the real surprise here is that it's no surprise at all: This is how the system that publicly funds artists works, from top-to-bottom and side-to-side.
In other words, this is standard operating procedure for this endemically corrupt system, it's just that in this case some evidence was obtained so some light has been shed on it.
The NEA should be abolished, along with all other forms of public funding for the arts. If leftists want to fund the arts, let them do it privately on their own dime.
Nothing but a bunch of endomorphic, panty-wearing beta-types.
I hope BG & BH nail these bastards.
[...] [...]
When art becomes propaganda
the artist becomes a whore !
Yosi the bear says, "Government run health care is what we want in our pic-a-nic basket".
Burffy the "blue dog" slayer says, "sic em".
And I thought "Piss Christ" was the most insulting endeavor the NEA was involved in.
Apropos nothing much, except you gotta laugh else you'd go ga-ga, but YOSI SERGANT is an anagram of…
O, NASTY SERGI
STY NOISE RAG
Young minds…….What a beautiful thing to waste!
Pardon me for a goddamned misspelled word…
That audio sent chills down my spine…..
This is cancer that metastacized into each organ every tissue of the body of our country…Do not underestimate the EXPERIENCE of this community organizer! He might not know the political or diplomatic etiqutte, but he sure knows who put him in power and how to make sure he stays for a long long long time…God help our country!!!! We, the people should stay vigil ans spread the truth as much as we can…nobody is paying us- we do it from the bottom of our hearts…(even one of those on the conference call used the same words- he is completely brainwashed).
People are waking up…there is a scheduled March on Main Stream Media in Times Square in the bwxt couple month…Make sure to stay tuned everyone.
God bless our Great Country!
Guilty.
Where's all the liberal comments? I see they have disappeared on this one. They can't use their 'it was only a few bad apples' defense. Thats why we started 'IdiotsForObama.Com' for liberals in denial. YOU GOT Conned!
March 15, 2004, – 3:15 pm
Def Sham: Russell Simmons’ Bigoted Hip-Hop Nation
By Debbie Schlussel
The Nation of Islam’s influence on Michael Jackson is disturbing. But it’s nothing, compared to the group’s influence on someone much more important –hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. The founder and Chairman of Def Jam Records, Simmons heads up the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN). Simmons and his wife also recently sold the Phat Farm hip-hop clothing empire for about $140 million. They appear in fashion and celebrity magazines. Writers gush over their 50,000 square foot mansion and his wife’s two Bentleys, 25-carat diamond ring, and world’s largest collection of Louis Vuitton bags (numbering in the thousands). Reporters laud the former drug dealer’s yoga, vegetarian lifestyle. Simmons is the most influential figure in the rise of hip-hop and rap and one of the most influential figures in American pop culture. But, in that role, Simmons has surrounded himself with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and his acolytes. At Farrakhan’s request, the Simmonses co-chaired the Million Family March Entertainment Initiative in 2000 and enlisted many celebrities. Simmons calls Farrakhan “a saint,” featuring him at HSAN events. Simmons’ receptivity to Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic, supremacist views culminated in a dangerous voter registration and political drive launched in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Simmons announced his “One Mind. One Vote” campaign on ABC Radio. His aim to register millions of young urban voters might seem laudable. But Simmons’ HSAN is headed by Farrakhan’s right-hand man and has supported some frightening, anti-Semitic candidates.
These individuals include:
read the rest on debbie's blog please
Full court press Patrick.
And Yosi? Want to talk about a hyper-greater-than-thou Melrose Ave. "artist" who couldn't conspire his way out of a paper bag? “So bear with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely…” This statement bears all of the circumstantial evidence needed to anyone with an ounce of logic or objectivity.
Transparency: free from pretense or deceit : frank b : easily detected or seen through : obvious c : readily understood d : characterized by visibility or accessibility of information especially concerning business practices.
What part of that definition did Rahm and Obama not know when they were pimping him for POTUS? And since we all have been told how they are genius don't we have to also assume they understand this definition?
SO which is it? Are they not genius or are they just liars? Don't wet your pants Yosi….I'm not asking you.
[...] is a very big story just breaking today at Andrew Breitbart’s two websites: Big Hollywood and Big Government. He has posts at each [...]
What are you two talking about?
Right out of Atlas Shrugged………
The ones that don't get taxpayer dollars will STILL do it for free. Most of the artists I've known (and I've known quite a few) can't think logically. They prefer feelings.
[...] And here it is, from Big Hollywood: Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being [...]
NEA is full of SCAM ARTISTS! Makes sense!
Glen Beck broke this story over two weeks ago.
Tell your troop(s) we are behind them ArmyMom.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_internet_f...
Screw this whole administration.
The NEA uses my money to pay for an artist to scatter elephant dung on an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and you didn't say ANYTHING. Now … the NEA comes close to goring YOUR ox and you say something.
Is this a twisted sense of values?
Yes!
Can anyone say Socialist?
[...] full transcript of the call is here; the more outrageous excerpts are quoted here. MR. SKOLNIK: All right. So we [...]
It looks like through Big Givernment.com we are employing Michael Skolnick's request
"…to create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about ….. (and) continue to get involved in those things… but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration…“
But when I interpret push…. push then right out of office and on their arse.
[...] Tools of the State Posted in Culture Of Corruption by Mike Sep 21 2009 TrackBack Address. The other shoe drops: On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, [...]
If the question is asked: How much did Valerie Jarrett know about this (since an underling of her own office initiated the call)
Then the next move in this chess game should be a sacrificial pawn.
Buffy Hicks will soon be under the bus.
@Nalora
Sir, I salute you!
But it IS Obama, so nothing will fly. I second "fizzle."
Save the down-dings for the MSM, the absentee DoJ, and all the federal agencies that will live unscathed despite this. That's what I mean by fizzle.
You are doing the work our "free" press should be doing. Keep it up.
calling all art whores…..the obama admin is calling,
code words : buffy wicks, acorn,
Obama is mastering the art of becoming an Authoritarian dictator who believes that anything and everything within the country is HIS to use and to coerce. He is going to make the NEA into nothing more than an organization that produces tax-payer funded propaganda, from orders dictated from the tyrants in the White House, in order to stealthily influence American pop-culture. Back in 1963, Congressman A. S. HERLONG, JR. from California put into the Congressional Record the 45 Declared Goals of the Communists in Order for A Takeover of the American Government. EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS LIST AND YOU WILL SEE WHERE ALL OF THE DEMOCRAT'S AGENDA COMES FROM AND HOW THEY HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL!!!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1561529/po... 21-23 are as follows:____21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. __22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." __23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art." __
Ok….need I say anymore about the now OBVIOUS reasons why I want to keep “government” completely out of my health care?
I am trying to remember the name of the artist who arranged the swastika in such a menacing design. Some of you folks don't realize that prior to another N-word leader, the swasitka had all the appeal of the smiley face. It took a good artist architect who understood classical proportions to be able to take "good luck" and turn it into the logo for Absolute Control of Your Life, (including, ladies, your wombs.)
Thus far 0bama has not found the right artist. In trying to be cool, he's come up with all the power of Elmo.
I am going to apply for a grant from the NEA to film US taxpayers throwing Bull excrement at posters of Obama. I feel it would really capture and convey the emotions that are present in our society now….based on how they have awarded monies in the past I don't see why I wouldn't get it…..
And… I can write a poem about you painting him, filming him…
Man, this could be a real racket! Oh… yeah, I guess it already is…
BO has proven himself willing to do whatever it takes to further his agenda, regardless of the dangerous precedence it sets.
Here's an interesting mental exercise:
Pretend for a moment that the Bush White House had hosted a similar conference call with the NEA for purposes of "encouraging artists to create art to boost flagging public support for the war in Iraq".
Can you even begin to imagine the response from the Fourth Estate?
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Speaking as an art director and professional artist/judge from California; – It is difficult on Conservative Artists, many of whom are MORE talented than these schlubs, to adjust to government subsidized crap. It has always been thus with ANY grant, just not as overt and “in your face”.
Conservatives make it on their talent. Period.
Please look at that as a metaphor – pretend we are still in the 90's with a little less PC paranoia…
And the administration feigned outrage when conservatives balked at letting Obama speak to schoolchildren…go figure?
Remember….The Nut tree..the nut does not fall far from their tree…Obama nut tree..Acorn..Louis Farrakhan ..Jeremiah Wright..Weathermen Underground..Ezekiel Emanuel baby killer..old people killer brother of Rahm Emanuel, Unions..too many to name. This president could never get a security clear clearance for a job at a airport let alone be a president. This take over of America must be stopped..We have the ememy within.
I think the NEA should finance a new opera to be called, "When Wingnuts Whine"
And OsamaObama knows how to play on stupidity – the NEA! And "stupid" is what got him elected! These "creatives" think the world revolves around them, but the truth is they can't think – they're stupid! There used to be fantastic artists and creatives years ago, but not any more since today's artists have been taught to be "followers" and can't think for themselves.
I have been in the Arts all my life and I have never trusted the NEA. Grants are given to the favored or the NEA's friends. I have seen worthy small theatre turned down for a mere $15 or $20 thousand dollars and a big name gets $200,00. It's a joke.
Why doesn't Obama just get his own news network like the Republicans have with Fox News?
THE NEA IS MEDIA, TV, MOVIE, CLOTHING, STAGE, AD CAMPAIN, ART WORK. ETC………
THIS IS PROPAGANDA FOR TAXPAYER GRANTS SWAP. SEWING THE SEEDS ALRIGHT…………….
[...] Obama’s White House has apparently been reaching out to artists with a mind toward funding the promulgation of Obamian propaganda with taxpayer dollars, via the [...]
Wow, first comment says what I was thinking from the beginning of this piece. So this man has discovered that arts are liberal. No doubt he will soon uncover evidence of liberal bias in the media.
Once Again: Thank God for Glenn Beck exposing this radical President, his radical friends, and his radical ideas. Glenn Beck: TAKE THEM DOWN!!!
ACORN SPAWNED THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, BARACK OBAMA!
ACORN = Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Obama: "Frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely, I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money."
DO WE BELIEVE OBAMA OR OUR LYING EYES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&hl
Obama's acorns are coming home to roost…
http://usataxpayer.org/page.asp?Get=obamaacorn
What hipsters. Obama is soooo cool…
Will it still be cool when our generation (I'm 18) and the coming generations have to pay Obummer's debt that he so graciously left to us?
[...] proof of tax money used to promote Obama, and lib agenda http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pc…rtisan-agenda/ This would be headlines, calls for investigation, and people indicted if this were a GOP scandal. [...]
[...] and tax payer funded organization such as the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) be used to push propaganda for a partisan effort such as health care reform?. Go ahead and read the transcript. Are they being given grants for political ads? That just [...]
Here's some art I'm sure the Obama-bots will hate:
http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com
Can I get a grant from the NEA for this? … Didn't think so.
When the Dems lose control of congress in 2010, funding for the NEA will be quietly cut and the real mission of the NEA will be lost forever. Do they realize what they have risked?
New idea on immigration reform. For every "undocumented worker" we accept into our country, we mandate that their country of origin take in someone associated with the NEA. That way we get a worker willing to do the jobs that Americans won't do, and we can export people that do jobs that nobody wants to pay for.
This is really disgusting. As an artist, I am HIGHLY INSULTED, not to mention the illegality of what they are doing. Using STIMULUS MONEY for the NEA members who SUPPORT OBAMA? So that means anyone who doesn't agree with Obama's is SOL? Really really sick.
http://www.LibertyTeez.com
[...] Hollywood releases more detail on their bombshell story regarding the Obama administration’s ongoing corruption of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): The NEA tainted the creative process by encouraging the art community to address highly [...]
You people need to get a life! Yes, this phone call was overreach by the NEA. But is this among the top-100 things in your daily life to spend time on?
What is the ultimate end effect?….some posters and a hip-hop TV-spot? Who cares?
References to Nazis and Commies are the most laughable. When I think 'Stalin,' I think hidden secret prisons. When I think 'Hitler' I think fearmongering and war of conquest. So far, those steps are the product of conservatives, not liberals.
Please, spend your time on something worthwhile for a change!
i..e – see Mainstream Media
More of your tax dollars @ work… The democratic party has been taken over and true Democrats seem not to care….
[...] art of deception Let's see where this goes. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pc…rtisan-agenda/ First piss-Christ, then Maplethorpe and now this. This isnt art. Its propaganda. The issue is [...]
Your proper name is lunatic-lefty wingnut.
Let the investigations and the purges begin. This is the most unlawful administration in American history. Trashing the Constitution and our laws is NOT to be condoned or excused.
[...] debate but the facts do not. The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama art click for more var _wh = ((document.location.protocol=='https:') ? "https://sec1.woopra.com" : [...]
The real problem is the existance of the NEA. Why tax the poor for the enjoyment of the rich (on balance)?
If this story is a surprise to you, you are either ignorant or just plain stupid.
can you say, "danger zone?" this WH is overstepping its role daily…folks, wake-up! do not give this president a pass just cuz he's "perty" and speaks "real nice"…his peeps, policies, actions, and agenda are dangerous for america!
He has several, fool. NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS. And then there are the 'newspapers' that are his mouthpiece.
Also the term "racism" will have no meaning since the "Left" has used it at every turn – You can't cry "wolf" and expect anyone to believe it anymore.
Rev Al…. Someone is getting into your "hush" money…..you're about to loose it…..
Google art in Nazi Germany and you will see similar means & methods used for propaganda. But I bet there won't be all the blue-eyed & blond-haired Aryans in this artwork.
Over here in Wisconsin they are pushing a novel idea. They want art exhibitions to be placed inside polling locations. Now it all makes sense!!!!!!!! This was last year if I remember correctly. That ONE and his party are criminals!!
You know what I find most disturbing in all this? These people are using "ask" as a noun. So it's an educational scandal as well.
When I read the transcript, I had to read the first sentence where they use "ask" as a noun four times before I realized I wasn't misreading it.
[...] Read more from the original source: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
i'd love to have had you say the same thing if bush was using the nea to promote his agenda…you'd be singin' a different opera for sure…hypocrite…whatevs!
You mean like, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, …yeah maybe you’ve got a point?
duh…he has NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS…wow…one little cable network holds his feet to the fire and he can't take it…seems you can't either…shut-up!
I don't understand the difference between this and when Bush held meetings with right wingers to push his agenda? I'm against both forms of propaganda!
What's the difference between the NEA thugs and the Slavic artists who created all the cool cartoon artwork in support of the Soviet empire? None, really, except the NEA thugs can't be sent to the Gulag Archipelago if wander off message. Too bad, that; that's where they deserve to end up.
Polo-what would you call letting our guard down in the face of the enemy-especially when before millions you swore to uphold and protect the constitution??? TREASON!
Also in 2006, the lengths that the demoRATZ went to take power put my son at risk while on the front lines. Treason -Democrat party.
[...] them into using their resources to push their partisan political agenda. Specifically, as Big Hollywood reports, Buffy Wicks, the Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement, specifically asks the [...]
I'm not following why the letters NEA are used here. National Endowment for Propaganda is NEP.
So! I will henceforth switch the channel every time one of those stupid 'support the arts' pleas come on TV. Clearly, it is NOT art that I'd be 'supporting;' it's a political ideology dressed up as 'art.' It's not that I didn't know this already; it's just seeing it so blatantly defined.
Shines a whole new light to the meaning of "no boundaries".
The NEA, who brought us the crucifix in urine, exists to keep these wannabe artists fed with our tax dollars and to push the culture and politics to the extreme left.
Sheesh! Now all we need is for the Boston Pops orchestra
to play a special NEA-funded version of "In a Persian Market"
entitled "In a Healthcare Market." lol
LMAO. You certainly live up to your moniker, Cowboy Logic. I suppose you'll want to drag him to death, then stuff and hang him in your garage, too? Though, 'Communist', not 'Fascist' would probably have been more accurate in your childish name-calling.
You can't "take back" America FROM America.
Like it or not, both parties have committed grievous sins. Like it or not, there's a sizable populace of this country that agrees and disagrees with you. When Bush pushed too far to the right, Patriot Act, war, etc., the left had a similar OPPOSITE reaction. Push the swing.
So, with regard to your neighbors… understand and compromise, or fight and divide?
Enough with the team-mentality. If they're wrong, let them be found wrong, make an example of them, then establish a new precedence. But never for a moment believe ANY party has done any less. And If you're pinning your hopes on a the Republicans… you're a fool's fool. Bush initiated ALL of this in eight years.
God Bless the USA… with patience, tolerance, wisdom and tact.
And stop catering to egos who keep stoking your fires!
Non serviam. I am a free man.
And propaganda art was used to garner support, fool.
I don't care what they do if they do it on their own nickel. Why exactly do we need a Serve.gov? Those who wish to volunteer, and I do plenty of it (none of it politically motivated), know there are ample opportunities. Keep this info coming! Cold Warrior -your comments re: conservatives and organizing are dead-on correct.
Just follow the money… Who benefited from the stimulus? Ponder that.
[...] propaganda department recruiting potential Leni Riefenstahls? [...]
It is the new language of the Progressives, aka Orwellian Thought Speak; it is the new vogue, for them. For US, those who have fought and died for this idea called America, nothing short of a purge will do. The fundamental question is; will it be peaceful, or a full bloodletting? We will see it in our time; there are too many good folks that are too upset……………
I seem to have misplaced my care.
Buffy the non-partisan slayer, you go girl!
How much dirt has to be dug up on Obama before someone says enough is enough? Government money should never have been given to fund this group.
It is strange that Republicans would now underestimate the power of visual imagery- Ronald Reagan was really the first president to recognize the need for, and purposefully take advantage of, visual media.
These days we have a president who's got his own logo, and a brilliant one it is. It's clean, it's easily recognizable, it's simple. The cynical among us might look at it with derision, but the population at large are visual learners and eat it up.
I have no doubt that Democrats have been using the NEA and various art groups as resources for their own propaganda for years. How much you want to bet that this doesn't make nearly as big a splash as it should? Sweep it under the rug, of course…
Well yeah, and a poll or two, because politics is, above all, (you know nit picky things like national security) the most important thing.
Both NEA's should be abolished for that matter!
Once again, the principle of the left comes into play: "It's not wrong when our side does it because … well, because we're not evil."
Transparency my A$$! Everything Obama touches is corrupt. He's a Community Organizer through and through.
to US Army Mom … please contact me… I read your comment and became very scared. I have a son enrolling in the military. can you contact me directly with your story? lunalibra2005@yahoo.com. I would like informaiton.
Remember how Obama PROMISED to have ALL the troops home within 18 months? Now he is shifting troops from Iraq to Afghanistan … and potentially putting even MORE into Afghanistan.
Hmmmmmm…. I wonder why Obama would want to break his campaign promise – keeping troops at risk overseas …. all while pushing a very radical agenda which seemingly threatens the very Constitution – that which Americans (soldiers too) are sworn to uphold??
I wonder if it has anything to do with Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano) suggesting vets as being possible home-grown terrorists?
Yep that is what happened with 'the Arts' in Communist China, in the former Soviet Union, in Cuba, in Nicaragua, in Chile, In Spain…and in North Korea….also happens anywhere Big Gopvernment needs Artist Idiots to lure the massess…
REGISTER TO VOTE! AND LETS GET THIS LIAR OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE
I have to agree with Polo. Liberals commit treason as easy as they cheat on their wives. If we tried everyone for treason just for propagandizing for the enemy, the entire Democrat Party from Jack Murtha to Jane Fonda would be on trial.
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Oh yeah, cause the Rethugs don't use Fixed news, The brainwashed Christian Right, Corporate America (See Home Depot) etc.. for the exact same thing…. it's amazing how upset ya'll get when the Dems find a rely on their base to help push their agenda.. and amazingly it's not hidden, no matter how much the right wants to claim it is, if it was, do you think it would be available to a hack site like this?
And BTW, the Dems are ready to lock and load too… bring it on you righteous bastages! I'll protect my leader with a vengeance. My guns go bang just like yours!
Both parties are at blame for selling our country out. It just so happens that the Dems have gotten their hand caught in the cokkie jar.
I think we can safely start talking about impeachment proceedings now. Either high crimes or misdemeanors are the qualifiers for impeachment.
i'm gonna dress up like a pimp and have my girlfriend play a prostitute and we're going to see if we can get a grant from the NEA …can i be dumb here. i don't understand this story. is it really big. you gotta make it clear how bad it is or people like me wont understand
Gee! It's a good thing that Republican administrations didn't fund this agency that produces nothing of any measurable value.
Oh, they did?
Wearing all that Obama garb is just plain freaky scary.
What ye see is 1994 and A Brave New World…
WIKIPEDIA: The novel opens in London in the "year of our Ford 632" (AD 2540 in the Gregorian Calendar). In this world, the vast majority of the population is unified under The World State, an eternally peaceful, stable global society, in which goods and resources are plentiful (because the population is permanently limited to no more than two billion people) and everyone is happy. In this society, natural reproduction has been done away with and children are decanted…
Obama and minions read it too, apparently…….
[...] Here’s the news Dan was referring to. The NEA [National Endowment for the Arts] and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable. [...]
Doubleplusgood news from the Ministry of Truth.
I'm an artist and I just came back from a tour in Iraq, I think we should be giving President Obama a chance, I think he is doing the right thing by providing poor people with healthcare.
Lay off him.
OORAH
If I wanted to destroy the country I would do exactly as Obama is
correct – TREASON!
Soap Box, Ballot Box, Ammo Box…..
The Constitution WILL be followed!
[...] them into using their resources to push their partisan political agenda. Specifically, as Big Hollywood reports, Buffy Wicks, the Deputy Director of the Office of Public Engagement, specifically asks the [...]
The problem is that this is BIGGER than ACORN. Sorry if it doesn't fit with some people's "Reality TV Drama" sensibilities. Just because something doesn't scream "THIS MATTERS!" doesn't make it less important…
[...] Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda Posted in Breaking News by social alarm on Sep 21, 2009 Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan …. [...]
This Yosi Sergant, he wants to be someone like a cross between John Lennon and Che Guevara so bad, he can taste it…it seems like a cool, trendy, engaged, pro-"the people" lifestyle…in reality, this man is nothing more than a stooge or patsy for a statist oligarchy, which is all the USSR was, at it's corrupted little heart…deluded and sickening…curses on those who would see the USA reduced to this!
Be patient. Notice how Breitbart managed the ACORN tapes…give ACORN and the media a little more rope to hang themselves each day, and apparently there's still more ACORN material in the can. He managed the release of these stories very carefully. There's more to come.
So did "we" all get this out of wack and call for the presidents' impeachment when the Pentagon Propoganda scandal broke? There were reports of the Bush White House using Government buildings for political purposes, which is illegal, did this get airplay?
This is disappointing, but in these days and times it seems government may be inherently corrupt, no matter who is in charge, Repub or Dems. They are there to wield power, and they all want more, even the currently out of favor Repubs.
[...] Hollywood: Explosive New Audio Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda Categories : Daily Handpicked [...]
stop buying their product and services if they subscribe to this stuff. that's how you stop them in their tracks. discipline my friends. stop watching their movies, buying their CDs, videos, etc. stop supporting them financially… bankrupt them if you don't like them.. stop whining and take action.
The has always been a traditional relationship between the arts and prostitution.
[...] can read the introduction to the story here at Big Hollywood, but this paragraph explains why this story is so important: This practice has never been the [...]
more obama based corruption, defund the nea
Without gov't subsides, how else would these losers make a buck. They love BO 'cause he's going to send them a check every month and pay for all their health care. Uh-oh, I need to puke…
don't you mean liberal fascist mutant?
Only in Amerika!
If my Pastor were to endorse a candidate from the pulpit, he would put the non-profit status of our church in jeopardy. NEA is a non-profit organization, and as such, must register as a lobbyist in order to endorse anyone! Have they? and if not, where is the movement to defund them and remove their non-profit status?
And there's a problem with this how? I'm not seeing it. Actually, I think it's a damn good idea!
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I find it ironic that the NEA has been so incapable of creating new art for all to enojy, art that might be viewed aesthically pleasing or emotionally moving one to find inner peace and tranquility….
but, noooooooo……. we all know, they are not capable of creating art…..just using their sophomoric "crayon" talents to push a political agenda just in time to make them feel like they are contributing art…..when we all know better……it's easy to sniff out the BS when it stinks like a dead carcass……enough said…..
NEA
National Election Advocates
I believe this is illegal. Is anyone going to do anything about Buffy? Will there be an investigation into this scam? My guess is NO. People we have got to get something going to recall the election since Acorn was so heavily involved. My guess is there was voter fraud and BOBO could be in the White House illegally. Is there any way to recall the election?
Definitely, must see TV.
My first thought when I read it was "kos reader." reminded me of undercover Moveon people showing up at 912 events, saying outlandish things.
IMPEACH THE SOB
To those who think this is much ado about nothing. Does it pass the "Bush Test?"
That is, if BO would have inherited this cabal which his predecessor (you know who) had established to push HIS priorities — the war in Iraq, Patriot Act, extending Tax Cuts, etc., — would the Left not be going crazy, asking for Independent Councils, unleashing Eric Holder to prosecute the lawyers who OK'd the program?
It also works in reverse.
When someday (hopefully sooner rather than later) another GOPer re-takes the office, would the Left be OK (and silent) when these same tactics were adopted and re-directed to promote things counter to what BO used them for?
That's your answer.
Maybe it's not "news" to those who already participate in the "corporation" and have their smarmy little "loser che clubs" but it sure is news to TAXPAYERS. Why do oppressed people want to move TO america and not FROM america? Let's hope the NEA doesn't make porn movies, snuff movies, porn mags etc with taxpayer dollars.
The revolution continues; The far left machine/organizations/thought police crumble one-by-one, brick-by-brick.
Possitive thoughts and prayers for all those on the front lines of the media blitz.
God speed!
So corrupt it goes to the media as well!!!
All of these Neo Sicialists (including the President) give me gas !
ACORN should be de-funded because of the actions of a (relatively) few criminal-friendly nuts, just as the actions of a few bad actors at Abu Grahib, Bagram & Gitmo should be enough to de-fund the war effort, or at least warrant comprehensive criminal investigations to see who is really responsible in this conspiracy as well. I'm all for complete honesty & disclosure, but for both sides. That's where partisans like y'all on this website are as bad as those on Salon… Fair & Balanced my a**, a pox on both your houses.
You whiners didn't seem to care when Bush/Cheney politized everything including the Justice Department. It's called the spoils of war people. We won! Get over it. You'll have your chance in 2012. It looks like Palin will be your go to person so that means you'll have another chance in 2016. Now stop whining and enjoy the art.
As an Artist myself, I am appalled at this entire conversation. I would never have thought so many artists could bend so quickly to the whim of those offering grant monies~ What ever happened to my beloved community of "starving Artists" I would rather go broke then sell out like these have done! No thank you NEA I rather bid for my supplies with my meek budget on EBAY!
I'm t-o-t-a-l-y with you. The MSM has skin in BO's game and they will not expose this until some one out of FRUSTRATION says something "un-civilized." Obscuring the exposed truth. This is revolting. Our democracy WILL DIE without an unbiased media. This is one of the pillars of our system!! At least during Reagan it was mostly Holywood… Now the truth cannot get traction. The MSM covered for him and hence got him elected. Their main currency–credibility–would be worthless if they expose and report anything like this. Can you say Catch-22!!!!!!?
Of course, its way too over the top, indeed racist, to suggest that Obama and company are acting like Nazis when they subvert art to their political ends:
"The subjects which National Socialists favour and vigorously promoted showed that art was not only the direct expression of their political ideas, but also at the base of their political system in all its aspects. Here are some examples of what state-controlled art can produce…"
http://schikelgruber.net/naziart2.html
And here, too
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/politart-t...
Nathan, I hear ya but I would argue that obama has overstepped his constitutional authority and has violated his oath of office by attacking half of the citizenry simply because they disagree with him. Obama has engaged in mobster tactics and I would go so far as to say he’s an enemy of the United States, as evidence by his support of a wannabe dictator- Zelaya, his support of the dictator Chavez and his tacit support of Iran’s nuclear program. Like others I consider Obama a traitor that should be punished accordingly. I can live with impeachment however.
I was unaware Bush had so many czars. It wasn't right then and it shouldn't be tolerated now.
Seriously, I cannot think of a SINGLE problem our nation has that would still be here if we just got rid of the hysterical narcissistic sociopathic vermin traitor pig democrats!
It amounts to the political party in power using taxpayer money to create propaganda meant to push the agenda of using MORE taxpayer money on programs the bulk of taxpayers don't want.
Bob took your paycheck and is using it to buy a lock-pick set so he can break into your house later and take more of your money.
ACORN should be de-funded because of the actions of a (relatively) few criminally-inclined nuts just like the war effort should be de-funded because of the actions of a few bad apples at Abu Grahib, Gitmo & Bagram…I'm all for honesty & full disclosure, but for both sides. Y'all are as bad as those folks on Salon. Fair & balanced? Not so much. A pox on both your houses.
Thank You, Big Hollywood , Andrew Breitbart, Patrick, FOX, Michelle Malkin, GB, to name a few in the media who are looking out after us. How on God's earth would we have exposed these injustices without these honest hard hitting, heads out of the sand, reporters. Thank you , thank you , thank you!!!!
We will do our own impeaching in 2012.
As any East bloc artist could tell you, this is easy money. Just copy all the stuff produced in Germany and Russia in the 30's and change the heads.
You wing nuts are so gullible. A network keeps pounding the "fair and balanced" crap into you and you buy it! They got you believeing everybody BUT them are slanted in one direction. And you're buying it!! Can't you guys think for yourselves? Have any of you ever taken a class in media criticism? Fox is the textbook example of media manipulation. Anyone that has to keep telling you how fair and balanced they are should be looked upon with great scrutiny and suspicion.Don't believe everything that's shoved down your throats.
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You are so correct. You obviously get the image stuff. Have you seen the video talking about why LOL would be so effective? It's Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdtqtfXdR-c and completely dissects the genius behind daddy'o's images and discusses how effective LOL might be…. I call him daddy-o 'cuz he's gonna take care of us all good dictators do.
Hate to drop the “F” bomb but this is a big, fascist deal.
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS2...
http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS2...
Hyperbolic, perhaps, but there is a reason why this is a no-no.
yeah, man, like………yeah, like watergate, man…..really……..I mean, wow! Really, like, Bush sucks, man……..Really. Like, I really don't see any correlation, man but, wow, really, defund the capitalist pigs, man, yeah, wow!
"Michael, is the laundry done?"
"Don't, like, have time now, mom like, wow It's abugrahib, man….dig it…..you're gonna have to come downstairs to do it, man, I mean, mom."
But what's "new" here? We were promised a blockbuster revelation, but there's nothing in this we didn't know a week ago. Sure, posting the audio is something: but we knew the content of the conversation from Patrick's posts at bighollywood. The $2 million in funding was hunted up by the Washington Times. George Will has done two columns on it.
Where's the shocking, out-of-left-field revelation?
[...] term future of the US. Here is the most recent exercise in extremely poor judgement. Wavels EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda by Patrick Courrielche **NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National [...]
[...] “The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address polit… [...]
I am an artist and work very hard at it. There's no greater satisfaction than having a client spend their hard earned money on one of my paintings to hang on their wall. An NEA grant is for artists who can't make a living producing their crap. It's called free market…produce stuff that sells!
Watch the video "Obama's New World Order"
http://is.gd/3xjpE
I beginning to think Col. Ralph Peters' scenario for his new book isn't all that implausible, now. I don't know which I consider worse. This administration or what we may become to get rid of these things.
Anybody know what specific laws were broken?
I agree … All Fizzle & No Sizzle
Yeah, like unions and GE and the Soros octopus are't spending millions on their side.
We KNOW politicians are whores. That is a principal reason to give them control over as little of the economy as possible.
lame. & from yet another anonymous blogger. you make my point. thanks for the lucid insight.
Good question. I don't know.
He will ascend to power on a platform of peace. By peace, he will destroy many – Daniel 8:25
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One day soon they'll stomp a foot in the minefield of public opinion and draw back a very bloody stump. I can't wait, but somehow doubt it will ever happen.
"A network keeps pounding the "fair and balanced" crap into you and you buy it! They got you believeing everybody BUT them are slanted in one direction."
As do 3/4 of the American people- so says the Pew Trust for the People and the Press.
In fact, an earlier Pew study found Fox was, indeed, the most fair and balanced of any TV news outlet.
You can't even see the LSM's fawning Obama-worship? Talk about gullible!!! Ignorant troll. Take it to PuffHo.
Did you apply for one and justify it on grounds of artistic ground over pure political bigotry? Didn't think so.
Even THEN, the arts community in the west was pro-Soviet. The Beatles lyrics from "Back in the USSR" are iconic.
Didn't the US military knock down a bunch a pictures similar to these in Iraq when we liberated the city from the Bash Socialist? it's funny how all modern socialists and communists have to have their picture or party propaganda pictures posted everywhere. I just never thought I would see it in the USA. Furthermore, I never thought the American people would stand for it. Kind of shows what multi-generational government education can do to a society. Oh wait a minute, didn't Marx say that it is necessary for the government to control education as one of the steps in the Communist Manifesto needed to create a communist society. WAKE UP AMERICA! YOU ARE BEING ENSLAVED!
N A T I O N A L E N D O W M E N T F O R T H E A R T S.
A L L H A I L THE N E W R I E F E N S T A H L S ! !
This is sickening, but not surprising. We've known about NEA corruption for years. I am trying hard not to be discouraged with where this country is headed. Let's hope the recent Tea Party march in D.C. is an indication that our countrymen have had enough and are waking up!
Just imagine if Patrick Courrielche didn't reveal this! I applaud him for his courage. The true Obama agenda is clear. What more do Americans need? Impeach this guy quick.
Tax dollars. And Federal law.
Please. Go after NPR next. I"ve been waiting so long. Please get NPR.
Frast of all, quote me the exact PEW poll that says that about Fox. Don't throw insults, just give me facts. The PRECISE poll, not. Not anything but that.
Second, if I've learned anyhting from being on these sites is when someone has a weak argument, they ALWAYS, ALWAYS resort to insults. It never fails with you wingnuts. If you don't believe me, look at the words posted here. ALWAYS insulting.
Does Dick Cheney ring a bell? Does waterboarding ring a bell? Does Iraq ring a bell?Does Dubya ring a bell?
Does Homeland Security ring a bell? Does illegal wiretapping ring a bell? Does Katrina ring a bell?
Does Republican doubling the size of government ring a bell? Does the Republican administration's economic mess ring a bell?
I RING THE BELL OF LIBERTY AND TRUTH!
That's what I like to hear.
De-fund the NEA, and give them shovel ready jobs. I've always felt that if an artist couldn't make it on their talent, they needed to get "real" jobs. Yosi Sargent, and the other corrupt NEA officials act like entitled, elitist vultures, and now we find out not only are they vultures, but that they plotted to hide this political dirty trick and their role as political pimps. They need to be booted out, and the NEA needs to realize that the money they suck from the public trough is supposed to further ART, not the cadre of a political regime. Surely this is illegal, but aside from that, trying to hide their collusion is just vile and tacky.
We can't get deccent arts funding NOW.
How are they going to explain these MORONS using art to
keep OBummer in office?
Is THIS all the great Saviour-in-Chief has for ideas?!?
Use ART to push his loser programs?
REPUBLICANS DON'T LOOK AT ART.
Who are they supposed to influence?!?
Just ANOTHER obviously STUPID MOVE from our
ROOKIE PRESIDENT. When does his "on-the-job" training end?
2012?!?
This whole Obama experience, with his attempts to circumvent any degree of vetting by simply naming one Czar after another, to the implosion of ACORN… it's been one big nightmare. And to think we have over 3 years left to deal with this crap? Thank GOD the American Public is waking up
Forget the "Obama theme song." It's gone. And in its place, I hear, "POP! Goes The Weasel!"
Keep awake and digging for the truth America. You won't find it in the Main Stream Media. And pray that people like Glenn Beck don't just suddenly vanish.
Small Business owner here, I have to know how to market. I say we all change our images to LOL!
I've said this on other comment threads, but we need to do our part and fight the meme ware…as another commenter said liberal establishment's greatest asset is the short attention span of the public.
It is the The Big Government-Media-Hollywood Complex we need to target…
NEA: Nefarious Expenditures on Agitprop
http://bigchase.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/obey….
ACORN: Child “Services”, Financial “Services”, “Voter” Registration —Democrat Funded
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Alinksy Rule #13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
I've said this on other comment threads, but we need to do our part and fight the meme ware…as another commenter said liberal establishment's greatest asset is the short attention span of the public.
It is the The Big Government-Media-Hollywood Complex we need to target…
NEA: Nefarious Expenditures on Agitprop
http://bigchase.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/obey….
ACORN: Child “Services”, Financial “Services”, “Voter” Registration —Democrat Funded
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
Alinksy Rule #13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
Let's not forget Michael Skolnick:
“Tell the country, tell the young people: what’s cool; what’s not cool.” Ehh, gross.
“…the President has a clear arts agenda [in its simplest terms: the people pay for their own brainwashing]”
[...] Political Bureacracy Your tax dollars at work: On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, [...]
My son is also serving and he says they want Bush and Rumsfeld for war crimes. If those two had not started an illegal war he and his buddies would be home raising their kids and not in some god forsaken country getting shot at by the people that live there.
Let's not forget…these NEA clowns were also the ones who funded the "Piss Christ" art exhibit back in the mid 90's!!! Google it for yourself!
I agree with you! To be concise, which is what I think this story fails to be, people have a lot of ways to use their precious time, and they won't use it to connect the NEA and White House dots.
This story needs to point out to the American people why they ought to use their time to follow this story. Say: THIS is why this story is important to you!
Thank you, Andrew Breitbart for making conservatism exciting and relevant again. Thank you, Mr. Courrielche for being brave enough to share this information.
I'm just not sure this a story regular folks will really want to dig into (unlike the ACORN expose, which was unambiguous and popped right of the page/screen). This NEA business is so layered, that it's easy to lose the import/fail to see the implications once you've waded waist-deep into it.
[...] Times and others to try and nudge Paterson out of the NY governor's race and his administration has employed the National Endowment for the Arts as his propaganda arm – which should have everyone outraged. Of course Obama is open to bailing to newspapers and I [...]
If you're trying to convince us you're a fool you can stop now; mission accomplished.
You obviously have a difficult time focusing. This thread is about the White House turning the NEA into a propaganda machine. Your attempt to divert attention away from that makes you look petty and juvenile.
[...] partial transcript and audio from the conference call has been posted on BigHollywood.com. It shows Buffy Wicks, Yosi Sergant, then Communications Director of the National Endowment for the [...]
Not news? … Then why did u read it? It damages your political leader so u devalue it as "not news". Well, I got "news" for u, your Obama is ready and willing to use any avenue to "non-partisan tax payer funded' help to get his wrong message out. The NEA should lose its funding if it continues to involve itself in ANY political machine. That is not it's role and they should know better. I "hope" Mr. Obama knows better (being a constitutional scholar) but I dont think he cares. And you "polo", u should be wary of any government that uses your tax dollars to manipulate public opinion or sway votes under the guise of education. This is how those wonderful figures of history created propaganda to declare themselves as national heroes acting for the good of the people while they iced millions in Germany, Italy or Russia. What will this dictator reach for next?
[...] From BigHollywood.com… EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
Yes but I dont want my money being used to do it!!!
Yep. The artists have had a love affair with Communism from the get-go. I read a most interesting book entitled "Red Star Over Hollywood". For those fascinated with Hollywood and the Left's/communist influence on the community, it is a good read.
There is a childlike quality about actors. They're like the Eloi in "The Time Machine", beautiful people cavorting and at play in Elysian fields unaware anything bad can happen to them until it does. We ascribe too much credibility to them. The Lefties who've taken over the role of propagandists are more nefarious. They're like the Morlocks. They know the truth about socialism/communism, but they're enamoured enough of it and arrogant enough to think we in America can "do it right" and that they'll be spared from the mediocrity. What they don't understand is that an oppressed people do not turn to the arts. Even if they were interested, they don't have the funds for entertainment. These people are like gutted sharks, eating their own entrails.
But they did it for ART sake, not political gain, and that make all the difference.
What I was thinking while reading this article is this: If I ask the NEA for money to create Truth posters (posters demonstrating what is wrong with a government healthcare option), and they turn me down, can I sue them?
If I can show that a dispropotionate amount of money is going to a Liberal agenda, then shouldn't I win the law suit?
The bottom line is, Conservatism IS better (not perfect, but better). BUT Liberals have figured out how to use not only their own resources, but the TAX payers resources (conservatives' money) toward their agenda.
We are being out spent … with our own blood-sweat-and-tear.
My, what disgusting filth these people are. The White House needs a thorough decontamination.
Okay, BH, get the site fixed. What's happening is that a poster can post only one post, then has to leave the site and reenter (or I suppose refresh the page). This is not user friendly.
Obama will be impeached . . . and it will be his own party that does it. They will have no other choice.
It seems that somebody doesnt know what a "war crime" is…A president has the authority to defend the United States. This is why he has the title of Commander In Chief. Also, if Congress authorizes a war (as they did in both Iraq and Afghanistan), then what is the war crime? Congress made it legal because only THEY have the power to declare war … and they did! So, why are u not mad at Congress? And, one other thing, soldiers, airmen and sailors serve as volunteer. There mission is to "support and defend the United States…and obey the orders of the President". There is no war crime associated with a President giving orders to his military during either the Iraqi or Afghanistanian elements of the war on terror. So stop being a numbskull and understand your own Constitution.
However, I do agree that with troops in harm's way… No leader (Congress included) should be deficient in providing the best and brightest in the field with the tools they need to win the day. Politics should stay off the battlefield and victory should be the overarching purpose. God Bless America, our leaders and our troops.
Straight from Alinsky's handbook.
OK – just had my knee scoped and on pain meds so my noggin is not @ 100% – so please bear with me.
These revelations, the last part with Yosi was played on Glenn Beck's TV show last month. The audio preceding that is all new info to me.
Now the question, is this something that can lead to charges being placed? Or is this like the ACORN videos, extremely embarrassing and leads to the defunding & investigation of the NEA and or more people being thrown under the Obama Bus?
One thing about the ACORN videos that made them viral, they were VIDEOS, and ACORN representatives being OK with Child Prostitution has "SHOCK" value. Not to mention Hannah is very attractive. I hate to be a kill joy, but there is no shock in the revelation that the liberal arts are….."LIBERAL".
I hope this is a situation where Andrew has more and this was the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Whistleblowers signing affidavits would be nice. Something that really ties ACORN to this would be a very good link, ACORN is politically TOXIC right now.
Again I am under the influence of pain medications so don't flame my arse, if it wasn't for the spell checker this whole comment would be unreadable.
Watch it there with that "Take Back America" talk.
I saw Chris Matthews on Sunday talk about that statement as being racist.
This is how they usually get around to covering stuff like this eventually. But are able to spin it to their fancy. They don't pick up on the real storry of it all, but find a reason to denagrade it while they are eventually forced to cover it. So the whole issue ends up looking like "What me worry".
Headline: "Racist hate mongers try to use their hatred towards black people as a way to kill the arts, news at 11"
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I thought it was VOLUNTEER armed services!! Duh…if they didn't want to go to war, why did they enlist? Such a weak argument, Smart USMOM!!
This is what America gets for voting in a marketer-in-chief, instead of a leader. Are you ready to vote his peeps OUT?
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln
Joe McCarthy was right!!!!!!!
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Agreed.
I figured out how to make this apparent misuse of NEA paid tax payer dollars even…
1) Figure out how many months/years this has been going on,…hours equivalent
2) Analyze how much work has been done and what pieces — all these pieces must be recognized/tagged as
tax payer supported art if they are further reproduced.
3) Assign the NEA members utilized by Team Obama, to design logos, promo, commercials, video for the any
any other organization/foundation challenging the over-reach, agenda of Team Obama. If they refuse, they
should be assessed a fine and/or repay any dollars routed through NEA
4) Decide if NEA will be further funded by Tax dollars — if so, new regs for funding…ENOUGH!
…ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
Did Bush have 42 Czars at ONE time? or over the course of his 8 years?
I was in DC for the 9-12 march – and on 7th ave or street, just a few blocks from the Capital, there is this "Washington Novelties" store… the kind of place where you'd expect to see Washington Bobble heads and mock ups of the constitution…. they had NOTHING but PROBAMA T-shirts, but even more, funny yet distrubing was a LIFESIZED cutout of Obama in a SUPERMAN getup (which was grey, nod red and blue) with a big O on the front instead of an S…. this is how these people think. It's literally creepy… my big regret is that I didn't take a picture of it while I was there….. still kicking myself that I didn't.
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i too agree that we should have a constitutional amendment banning ask as a noun.
it's. just. so. cringeworthy.
i can see some libbylefty linguistics prof coming up with some bullshit theory how as a noun "ask" somehow unvalorizes an occidental hegemonic phallocentric cartesian subject.
i have just one tiny ask, then: that you go back to whatever caliphate of marxistan you squirmed out of…
WHAT A TRAVESTY THIS IS THE GREATEST MOST SUCCESSFUL HUMANITARIAN NATION THERE HAS EVER BEEN! THESE JACKALS ARE TRYING TO TURN IT IN TO A GOVERNMENT RUN SOCIAL EXPERIMENT THAT ALL OF HISTORY SAY'S WILL FAIL HORRIBLY. WAKE UP
From the , "Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it" department… This reminds me of the marvelous poster propaganda art that came out of the USSR. Some of the best graphics arts ever. Too bad the substance didn't match the message there either. In the end, the communists just figured out is was a lot easier and cheaper to print up stirring posters than actually do anything.
Just keep telling yourself, "Four legs goooood,, Two legs bbbbeeettteeerrr…" Bah! Bah! Bah!
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So Yosi thinks its ok to call a black guy 'boy' hu? Racist!
The new poster needs crosshairs in the O. I just hope all those freaks that helped bring this upon us keep those nasty bumper stickers shining until 2010.
"The Corporation" what a bunch of lying Sacks of Shat. The sooner obama goes home the better.
Thanks Andrew & Co.!
OMG art being used to address relevant social issues! nooooo!
morons.
Is this a trick question?
Let me guess, where is your son serving …in the ACLU? Ha! Nice try, now why you don't you be a good little girl, and go crawl back under your rock, perhaps Daily Cos or Huffington Post with the other lying, emotional sickos.
Oh my goodness what have we done is all I can say. I see the truth but how many of of don't.
Unfortunately, my armchair knowledge of the Law doesn't say any of that is illegal. Is it against the Spirit of the Constitution? Yes, in spades, but it's not against the Letter of the Constitution. We need a smoking gun before we can get this guy. Show me documents with his signature on it telling ACORN how to fraudulently fleece the American Taxpayer and we'll have something to go on.
We can't impeach him because we disagree with his policies. Also, he can say whatever he wants about the 48% of people who voted against him–he's got the right to free speech just like the rest of us.
Remember "The Boy who Cried Wolf"? We need to wait until the calls for impeachment mean something. If there's anything I've noticed about the GOP, it's that we Republicans excel at shooting ourselves in the foot. Let's not sabotage our chances by screaming "Impeachment!" like a bunch of left-wing mooncalves.
I motion that WE THE PEOPLE demand that OUR REPRESENTATIVES (they are not our "lords") immediately vote to de-fund these clowns as well as ACORN!
Unfortunately, my armchair knowledge of the Law doesn't say any of that is illegal. Is it against the Spirit of the Constitution? Yes, in spades, but it's not against the Letter of the Constitution. We need a smoking gun before we can get this guy. Show me documents with his signature on it telling ACORN how to fraudulently fleece the American Taxpayer and we'll have something to go on.
We can't impeach him because we disagree with his policies. Also, he can say whatever he wants about the 48% of people who voted against him–he's got the right to free speech just like the rest of us.
Remember "The Boy who Cried Wolf"? We need to wait until the calls for impeachment mean something. If there's anything I've noticed about the GOP, it's that we Republicans excel at shooting ourselves in the foot. Let's not sabotage our chances by screaming "Impeachment!" like a bunch of left-wing mooncalves.
In the meantime, let's make him a lame duck president starting in 2010.
Your not even a mother. You should be ashamed for pretending to be the mother of someone 'serving". Go away.
They know they are in the wrong and they use "cute" language to try and hide their criminal activities. Where is that POS Holder???? Where is the FBI ??? These swarmy lprogressive creeps think they are above the law and that includes king acorn.
I can feel that this jackass will be out of the WH soon. What a dunce.
Its the boomer generation. We just need to survive it.
CULT OF PERSONALITY
Wikipedia defines this as:
"A cult of personality arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. Cults of personality are often found in dictatorships and Stalinist governments. A cult of personality is similar to general hero worship, except that it is created specifically for political leaders. However, the term may be applied by analogy to refer to adulation of religious or non-political leaders."
Sound familiar?
socialist art is nothing new….look to poland, czechoslovakia, soviet union etc during 50 years of darkness for vivid examples of thuggish politicians using art to influence body politic. the irony is so very rich in that these people on the call consider themselves at the vangard of artistic freedom when in reality they owe their daily bread to the obama machine
I'm scared too. But, know that our boys over there are still "taking care of business" no matter Obama says.
I'm scared too. But, know that our boys over there are still "taking care of business" no matter what Obama says.
I'm not positive, because I don't read the rag, but I heard from a friend that the NYT ran a piece on John Edward's and his love child this past Sunday.
If they did I'm sure it was puff piece and put on page 50.
Pop! There went another wheel. Wonder how many are left?
Getting the NEA to be your propaganda machine is easily as illegal as the fun in the Watergate Apartments back in Nixon's term. Time to clean up DC!
Why is anyone with brains supprised. They all are a bunch of liberal democrat shills..
[...] EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda by Patrick Courrielche **NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally? That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big… [...]
that's not the point, moron.
any art or artist can address relevant social issues. big deal.
what THIS is about is taxpayers funding ob-knobs lefty soros-driven agenda.
get it?
now go back to sleep, tool
Hey there folks….I have contacted you maybe 20 times now….why can't I blog on this. I do it your way…but somehow nobody wants to get this fixed. pls contact on back channels.
Connect the Dots La, La, La, La. Obama you are a crooked POS.
Huh? Don't you have to go chase the Haley-Bopp comet?
Just got done with the entire transcript & tape – the important parts were on Glenn Beck before ACORN broke…. Yes, it's yet another corruption of the Giant Head's Imperial Government – don't know yet, but killer scandal? Not so much………………..
wait… i thought the NEA was a complete waste of money on an ineffectual and useless area of endeavor. now suddenly they're a highly effective, efficient, and deadly propaganda machine? bwhahaha, you people really crack me up!
You should be tried for a misleading commenter name.
Why am I surprised about more wasteful spending of our tax dollars by Obama? At a time where everyone in this country is counting their pennies to make ends meet, we have a President and his political party that are bent on foolishly spending money on what ever silly scheme that seems to advance their agenda. To top it off, when they start running out of our money they go out and print more of their own. They are like a bunch of frat boys out using their parents credit cards.
u r pathetic
Sergant: "We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally, we're still trying to figure out the laws of putting government web sites on Facebook and the use of Twitter."
Do the progressive artisans plan on using an "artist's license" to skirt laws?
lol!
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I would say funneling tax dollars to shady criminal organizations such as ACORN and the NEA is solely done to undermine the Constitution and promote obama’s socialist agenda. To me that seems to be enough justification for impeachment. But I’m under no illusions that the democrat prostitutes in control of congress would go forward with impeachment, after all they’re just as complicit.
Revolution 2010: Throw out every democrat socialist sack of shyt and bedwetting rino; replace them with unabashed Conservatives.
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The reason being, Obama is going out of his way so our troops will fail so he can satisfy his left base.
He has our guys reading terrorists Miranda rights now. They are not even alllowed to interrogate them, Obama says they have the right to be silent, and if they don't say anything, they have to let them go in 72 hours. Obama is deliberately putting our troops in danger by now not sending more troops that they need. You've got lone patrols, of 12 or 16 guys up in the mountains, with little support, and they're not allowed to kill them, becasue the terrorists hide with the women and children, so all they can do is capture them, but for what??? For them to sit silent for 72 hours and then have to release them again? This is Obama's idea of how to win a war???!!! Who does he think he is kidding??!!
Not sure if there's a connction, but I was reading up on the Get Schooled campaign launched by Obama. (see the website http://www.getschooled.com) and noticed Russell Simmons is on their very short list of people students are encouraged to admire. (Obama is there too) I noticed today that Russell Simmons political advisor Skolnik is involved in ths call as well. Is there a connection between the NEA and the launch of the Get Schooled campaign?
The Get Schooled campaign is allegedly co-developed by the Gates Foundation and Viacom. But with this post has me wondering if there isn't something more to all of this and any connections. I'd love to know for sure and you folks seem to be the obvious site to find out.
So, you wish to attach some equivalence of this to:
A. Some prisoners photoed wearing underwear on their heads. I hope they don't have to pledge a frat. There was an investigation and prosecutions resulted.
B. Terrorists awaiting trial given full access to the practice of their religion and fed better than the troops that captured them because……..oh yeah, they might have been "waterboarded". Well, they can join anyone who has ever been: Navy SEAL, Marine Force Reconnaissance, Army Special Forces/Ranger, any aircrew that has attended Survial, Escape, Resistance and Escape training and quite a few more. Funny how Zerobama doesn't really care too much about closing it anymore, isn't it?
C. Male Soldiers/Marines sneaking into Female Soldiers/Marine quarters. Newsflash!! Not new. That's a internal matter for the UCMJ to straighten out.
Pt 1.
Against that we have a Federally funded, supposedly non-partisan 501 organization blatantly pushing a partisan agenda. Additionally, we have another taxpayer funded organization advising the community on Federal Tax Evasion, Prostituion, Intent to transport illegal immigrants not only across state lines but internationally. A few bad apples? I'll bet that if 6 teams had fanned out coutrywide, there would be 30-40 more videos of the same thing. Conjecture? Sure, but I really like the odds.
Pt 2.
[...] Breitbart’s Big Hollywood has a bunch of new articles up today regarding the NEA efforts to push Pres. Obama’s agenda through propaganda: Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on [...]
Until now, I couldn't understand why the NEA was paid-off so generously in Obama's so-called "Stimulus" bill.
How, I wondered, would giving massive taxpayer funding to "the arts" generate the millions of jobs America STILL desperately needs?!
With this new NEA revelation, however, Obama's objective becomes unmistakably CLEAR — we have just financed a massive taxpayer-funded Obama propaganda machine.
Does the name Joseph Goebbels sound familiar? Hey, Herr Goebbels even bears a strong resemblance to Mr. Rahm-it-down Emanuel.
[...] The indispensible Andrew Breitbart has more on the transformation of the National Endowment for the … [...]
This is the most CORRUPT and UNCONSTITUTIONAL Administration in at least the last 50 years.
and have mom call the cable guy too. You're not getting MSLSD very clear.
or maybe you are…….
It appears the artists are victims of the cult of personality known as Obama. And here I thought we artists are supposed to have independent thought. Suffice it to say – these folks are apparently dependant on the state (Fed) so they have a vested interested in "following orders".
Good luck with all of that.
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I am an Art major at Louisiana State University and my personal opinion is that the NEA definitely should NOT encourage artist to create art based on political issues. Yes, if that is what a particular artist wants to focus on that's great but to try and influence someone and tell them what they should be creating is total BS! It is out and out propaganda, not matter what kind of spin someone tries to put on it.
To paraphrase the First Lady,
I was always proud of America.
Until 11/04/2008.
This community is starting to learn "how to make a stink" too. Defund the NEA!
Leni Riefenstahl, gone but not forgotten!
Wow! Doesn't Yosi makes Liberace look like Mike Tyson.
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I agree with Mark Levin. . . . REJECT SOCIALIST government schemes and DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK or MEDICARE BENEFITS. These are NOT "rights" and we cannot afford them any longer. We deserve nothing except what we do for ourselves, plain and simple. REJECT government support of the elderly. . .they should be able to take care of themselves or live with family. I can do for myself and so should you ! If you can't support your own retirement or health care, why is it MY responsibility to chip in
—References to Nazis and Commies are the most laughable. When I think 'Stalin,' I think hidden secret prisons. When I think 'Hitler' I think fearmongering and war of conquest. So far, those steps are the product of conservatives, not liberals.—
heh, ……..The end of that statement is, the popular tem is projection, at best. Seriously, whatever you are paying to be educated is……well, it's not working.
—References to Nazis and Commies are the most laughable. When I think 'Stalin,' I think hidden secret prisons. When I think 'Hitler' I think fearmongering and war of conquest. So far, those steps are the product of conservatives, not liberals.—
heh, ……..The end of that statement is, the popular term is projection, at best. Seriously, whatever you are paying to be educated is……well, it's not working.
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Chicago Machine Politics with a hint of "Messiah"! You wanted "Change", and you are about to get it.
Typical leftist parrot. Do you ever have anything to back up your claims? The Tea Parties started at the grass roots level. You have absolutely no proof otherwise. The left has been using professional protesters for decades, no need for proof, you can see them at every function. The lack of protests from the left on the war proves it was never about the war, It was about you're maniacal hatred of Bush. Here we have proof positive of the corruption deep in this adminstration, and all you can talk about is Bush. Anything close to this level of corruption any where near the GOP would have had you all screamming and crying. Hypocrites, every last one of you.
What?!?!?! and make them associate with the 'muscular" class (coined by Victor Davis Hanson), That just wouldn't be cricket. They might be exposed to:
conservative values.
The horror, the horror………
[...] the mainstream media. EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda Big Hollywood The NEA did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address issues under contentious [...]
Art as propaganda. Propaganda as art. Who'da thunk it could happen here?
We're at the point that lies are truth, or at least, better than truth. Even in 75% of us finally wake up to what's happening to our country, it won't matter.
He'll pull a Putin, change the voting laws and we'll have no peaceful avenue for recourse.
The irony of the left is that it champions the very ideology that will smother them. Go figure. Look at what is happening already in Venezuala. Chavez is already closing down radio stations and now even golf courses…..because they are too capitalist. What is it with these leftists who champion a narcissist in the White House who, if unchecked, will restructure our country in a model defined by the people he appoints. I'm talking about Van Jones, an avowed communist. Obama must go, if we are to have any semblance of a constitutional form of government. He is a LIAR of the first order and Obama is Public Enemy Number One.
Exactly. By choice.
[...] bloggers pore over the tape and transcripts showing Obama Administration officials attempting to use the National Endowmen…, I got to wondering how much of this politicking goes on in the various departments and agencies of [...]
But we don't have incontrovertible proof of Obama himself washing the money. Once that's there, impeach away, and good luck with it.
The revolution will be televised, but only on Fox News. No Incumbents in 2010!
Wow, thoughtful and fact-based journalism…very nice job Mr. Courrielche.
I fear for the "tea party" people! After watching the president of the AFL-CIO speak to his "brothers and sisters" the other night! Watch for a huge movement by the UNIONS ! To EXPAND their cause! And to FORCE their WILL onto OTHERS! The THUGS will look to PUT FEAR into ANYBODY that questions the ABOMINATION into DESOLATION! I had a neighbor that was a "STEWART" for the union! And EVEN he was THREATINED (to be killed) by his fellow "BROTHERS and SISTERS"! (His offense was he was not able to get ALL of what they DEMANDED! ( From management who gets the jobs handed to them from the LIBERAL DEMO political people!) NON-UNION are not allowed to bid on the highway and bridge jobs! This was 20-25 years ago! By "concrete" truck drivers" that were makeing 100,000 ayear and more! Non-union drivers were making 14 dollars an hour! The UNIONSW will be the "BULLYBOYS for OBAMA" they WILL enter the the fight shortly! They "tea party people" should DEMAND POLICE PROTECTION all over the country when it happens! Wonderful to see "COMMUNISTS" once again about to use the "UNIONS" as in the 30s! Watch for it and remember!!
Dig: Problem is many people "DEPEND" on SSI they PAID into it ALL their life! Had SSI never been "PROMISED" then the older people that were youn then might have prepared better! But for the next generation? They should be "taught" how to plan for retirement minus SSI!!
Using tax supported agencies for partisan political purposes is criminal no different than what Acorn is currently being investigated for. What's next for the Narcissist in the White House? Our military? Wait until this marxist liar gets his hands on a private military force that he talked about in the election. I cannot wait until the elections. We will either clean house of these corrupt marxist rats or the country will end up getting what it deserves.
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Have you done any investigation on whether or not this violates either the Non-Profit status and/or the Law Congress Passed establishing, running, and operation of the NEA? As I seem to remember, every Democrat out there screamed to holy heck when they thought Bush was trying to change the NEA from Liberal to Unbiased and threatened lawsuits challanging the Presidents authority to "Influence" the NEA itself..
Perhaps you can take all your research and send it to the US Attorney's office or to a Private Lawyer who will file a lawsuit Pro-Bono to stop an out of control Executive Branch from ignoring the laws and Constitutional Restraints of the USA/
Have you done any investigation on whether or not this violates either the Non-Profit status and/or the Law Congress Passed establishing, running, and operation of the NEA? As I seem to remember, every Democrat out there screamed to holy heck when they thought Bush was trying to change the NEA from Liberal to Unbiased and threatened lawsuits challanging the Presidents authority to "Influence" the NEA itself..
Perhaps you can take all your research and send it to the US Attorney's office or to a Private Lawyer who will file a lawsuit Pro-Bono to stop an out of control Executive Branch from ignoring the laws and Constitutional Restraints of the USA.
I wrote comments which were not posted!
Your a ding dong. That rings a bell!
Propaganda art is vile but art just the same. Artists are under the delusion that what they do never does harm when in fact art more often than not props up the power structure. This is true all the way back to antiquity, be that power structure religion or the state. When it is not propping up the power structure artists create works for the wealthy or commercial interests. Rarely is art produced for any other reasons.
No, I didn't mean to imply they're full of it, just that I don't know what policies/actions taken by BO they were referring to. USArmyMom cleared it up for me later on in the thread.
The White House reeks from the unmistakable rotten stench of Communism. Time for a 2nd American Revolution to defeat tyranny and regain our liberty.
Obama needs to be impeached.
If the R's can take back control of the house and senate they need to begin impeachment proceedings. This is an unconstitutional and illegitimate govt with its dozens of czars.
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Folks….this group is a lost cause. Nothing will shut them down, but they do need to be marginalized. This group has been lost to the liberal machine grinding down the minds of our student generations in universities around the country. THAT is where the battle needs to be fought. We need to challenge the liberal belief systems being implanted daily there. These loons are not going to have there minds changed, that is of course, if they ever loose suction on the government nipple…in that case, if they actually have to go out and earn a living being involved in a business that HAS to turn a PROFIT to ensure its survival, then that dose of life reality might inject some sense into their clouded minds. Save that, they are lost forever.
Thanks for proving my point so completely. And nice try with the phony link.
Rush is now calling attention to this. These sites are now the news. Funny what can happen in nine scant months. Andrew, may your reign be long and prosperous.
I have no use for the NEA.
This is an "insiders' job if there ever was one. There is no doubt that this has all of the earmarks of the ObamaNation at work. The Arts community has downed the Kool Aid and now they are in lock-step with this administration's mantra of " Convert the Masses" Obama's media blitz is all a part of this media hype. Scarey stuff folks.
Yesterday I looked at some of the pics on Hotair of obama prostituting himself on tv and one thing I noticed is that when obama is asked a probing question that could put him in a compromising position or look like the incompetent that he is he starts smiling and laughing. Then he proceeds to lie like a child unconvincingly. No person in America, other than his bootlicking sycophants, believes he was unaware of ACORNS criminal activities or that they were the number one story last week and probably for the next few weeks. Obama was ACORNS attorney when he was a street agitator for ACORN. Dig deeper and undoubtedly it will be uncovered that obama is a co-conspirator in this crime syndicate.
ANY artist or any arts organization who responds to the call from the White House to create political art for this administration or for that matter ANY administration or political party is guilty of producing PROPAGANDA. Now this is just fine and dandy AS LONG AS WE CALL A SPADE A SPADE. PROPAGANDA IS NOT ART. THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS NO BUSINESS WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTING WITH THESE POLITICAL GROUPS IN ANY WAY. THE HOPE POSTER WAS PROPAGANDA NOT ART. AS A CRITICAL ART ASSESSMENT, ONE WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT IT IS OBVIOUSLY DERIVATIVE OF ANDY WARHOL AND CERTAINLY DOES NOT MEET THE CRITERIA OF ORIGINAL ART. IT IS PROPAGANDA. AND BAD
PROPAGANDA AT THAT. IT DOES NOT DESERVE ANY RECOGNITION AS ART. NOT BY THE NEA AND NOT BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC. The NEA should lose its funding since they have sold out to political pressure and do no longer represent the interests of real art or real artists. They are now nothing more than political pawns.
Artists who respond to the call from the Obama administration or any administration to create art for political purposes must realize that they and their work will be shunned by real artists and galleries as well. They will be regarded as sell outs to political pressure and their work will NOT EVEN QUALIFY AS ART. They will however get invited to the White House for a beer. Maybe.
[...] EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda. [...]
Impeachment is premature at this point. Remember all the "Impeach Bush" folks? All they did was make themselves look stupid. As much as it puts a bad taste in my mouth, he's still our president, and while we disagree with his policies, he hasn't done anything that's impeachable yet. We have freedom of speech, and if we elect ourselves into communism, it's our own damn fault for not working harder to prevent it. Have you seen the Glenn Beck ad the DNC is playing on tv? Bush apparently had 42 czars himself. Obama hasn't lied under oath, committed genocide, or broken the law.
That being said, the moment Obama paints himself into a corner, start the impeachment hearings. I have a strong feeling that if we give the Democrats enough rope, they'll hang themselves.
[...] the Obama administration use the National Endowment for the Arts to try to gin up some support for health care and cap and trade in a recent conference [...]
Hey, don't worry about a little taxpayer-funded political advertising and propaganda for Big Brother.
Do not question the Ministry of Truth, or it's off to Room 101 with you.
Enjoying that Hope and Change yet Comrades??
"You can fool some of the people all the time, some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time."
-Abraham Lincoln
Google PAINSCOURT
traitor Noun
a person who betrays friends, country, a cause, etc.
Obama is a person. Check!
Betrays friends: India, Honduras, Poland, UK, Czec. Rep., Israel ("shoot their planes down"), Eastern Europe. Check!
Betrays Country: Abusing his Executive Power ( Barney Frank said so, not me). Sided with Al Qaeda by addressing their grievances: Closing Gitmo, siding with the Palestinians, dropping prosecution against terrorists, easing restrictions against the shoe bomber, investigating CIA agents that prevented attacks, asked Iraq during campaign to hold off on their plans so he could get credit if he wins, purposely delaying decisions on A-Stan, instituted dangerous rules of engagements for our troops, his circle of friends and mentors are ALL ANTI-AMERICAN and some are even terrorists, has labeled folks who believe in the Constitution as "right wing extremists" and "domestic terrorists". Said the Constitution is "fundamentally flawed" i.e. needs "changing" or "transforming". Refuses to show documentation required by the Constitution to prove eligibility. Seizing banks, auto companies, regulating pay and who runs said companies, regulates their advertising budgets (see Chrysler), has Czars and advisers that want to enforce sterilizations, forced abortions, give rights to animals, institute Sharia law under certain circumstances, decide who lives and dies i.e. Complete Lives System, give authority to the President to decide on laws not the courts, wants a "civilian security force" just as "strong, just as well funded as the military". We already have that and it's the right to bear arms and militias. He supports infanticide thus makes him an accomplice to murder. Check!
He's a traitor, his Czars are traitors, many in Congress are traitors, many judges are traitors and hell you sound like a traitor, polo.
That bell you hear is the nurse letting you know it's time for your lithium.
If you need propaganda to make people believe in your policies, then your policies are not worth believing in.
Brad Engelhard-Oakville,CT.
No thinking allowed.
It should be Goa 'uld not Goal…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa%27uld
you've seen the eyes flash when caught in a lie, and the lies just keep coming on stronger.
=];oD
I am a real artist…..and I am appalled…..the arts have been unbearably politicized for a long time now but this is the last straw…..it is against freedom which is the essence of being an artist….these people are adolescent minded and soulless….REVOLUTION ON ALL FRONTS !! Bring back BEAUTY, HUMILITY,INDIVIDUALITY !!arrrghh**##^@%@ this is nothing but Socialist Realism recycled by idiots
PS thank you very much Patrick. You have a mind and a soul and you can write !
This whole episode is disgusting … and unsurprising. The NEA should be dissolved. But, I think it's important to be scrupulously accurate in reporting and commenting on things such as this conference call. I don't know if anyone else has made this point, but I'm thinking that people may be misunderstanding what is being said in this key quote:
“And so I’m hoping that through this group, and the goal of all this, and the goal of this phone call, is through this group we can create a stronger community amongst ourselves to get involved in things we’re passionate about as we did during the campaign. But to continue to get involved in those things, to support some of the President’s initiatives, but also to do things that we are passionate about and to push the President and push his administration…“
Many here are interpreting the word "push" in that last sentence to mean "promote." But given the context, I think it's more likely that the speaker means "put pressure" on the President and the administration to do things that "we" (the "arts community") want done. Sort of a quid pro quo thing: Let's support the President and his initiatives, and then let's also pressure him to give us things we want (e.g., more NEA grants).
It doesn't make the whole thing less nefarious or intolerable, but I think this is a more reasonable way of reading this quote. I'm just concerned our credibility is maintained on every aspect of this and other issues raised here.
Comparing apples to oranges won't work and if you are all for complete honesty & disclosure then what is your major malfunction.
This article is about the NEA not Acorn.
[...] Times has yet caught whiff of the latest scandal blowing around. I’m talking about the Obama administration holding conference calls with recipients of National Endowment of the Arts gran…, and asking for a little payback in the helpful form of some friendly propaganda. Powerline [...]
It already is news, genious.
You think that it's not news unless it's on MSNBC? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but your propaganda "news" sources don't carry news anymore. They do carry water for Obama though.
[...] suppose this should not be a surprise. If the federal government funds art and other expressive endeavors, [...]
Thank all those soldiers for me. I feel terrible for them.
I was lucky that I decided to get out of the military the last time a President -Clinton- was elected that hated the military
[...] the allegations are emanating from the ACORN slayers at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, which has a transcript of the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public [...]
[...] More scandal from the Obama White House…Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan …. [...]
"Alec Guinness brilliantly portrayed the moment of clarity when he contemplated the bridge he had built for the Japanese over the River Kwai and said, "What have I done?"" — from American Thinker
We need to force all these useful idiots to watch "Bridge Over the River Kwai" and watch their expressions during this scene. Their expression will let us know if they are past the point of no return. If they have an epiphany, there may be hope. Otherwise, they aren't worth the time it would take to remove the implanted thoughts of the left.
[...] or something posting By Patrick, on September 21st, 2009 I am, of course, referring to this story here. The reason I do not believe that this is a huge breaking story is this; first this story has [...]
[...] Let’s take a look at what we know. According to information obtained by Andrew Breitbart’s website, during the conference call with artistic groups identified as being “supportive of the [...]
—Imagery is a very powerful tool—
You damn skippy, it is. You can easily create a whole generation of zombie zero children with suggestive imagery. The children begin nagging parents constantly. A fair number of parents give up in utter frustration and no longer resist the most benevolent one.
The strong fight. If anyone still believes that the socialist democrats in congress support free thinking, wake up. They are gone. Good point, FOSS. As much as I dislike -I am being nice- our president – I'm gagging a bit typing this- I am not quite at the point of his being pure evil……..but, I'm getting there.
Andrew Breitbart, you are preforming yeoman service to this country. You sir, are a true patriot and can share my foxhole anytime. I'll just dig the grenade sump a little deeper.
[...] Big Hollywood – EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
Sadly, I've had people tell me already that they are "untroubled" by the NEA story, that it is "old" news. I shake my head in worry at people like that. How can they be so foolish as to ignore the truth?
Because thats exactly what they are. Useful idiots. But their usefullness is usually short lived. They haven't the common sense or wherewithall to last too long in anything.
I must say again, Joseph Goebbels and other leftist propagandist would be so proud.
[...] on whether this fashion apex was subsidized by the NEA agitprop factory that Breitbart’s about to detonate. Big Hollywood actually flagged the story in August without it getting the kind of attention it [...]
I went to college and watched my creative and artistic talents, my future career, die, because of intolerant liberals. They don't even want to associate with conservatives. With the white house controlling the NEA, the economy being destroyed by the white house, and every gallery near campus locked down by these neo-fascist artsy types, it's no wonder there's so many liberal artists and so few conservative ones. Conservative artists can't get circulation.. it's gotta change..
I went to college and watched my creative and artistic talents go to waste, my future career, die, because of intolerant liberals. They don't even want to associate with conservatives. With the white house controlling the NEA, the economy being destroyed by the white house, and every gallery near campus locked down by these neo-fascist artsy types, it's no wonder there's so many liberal artists and so few conservative ones. Conservative artists can't get circulation.. it's gotta change..
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[...] White House and NEA Employees Illegally Push Partisan Agenda Patrick Courrielche , Big Hollywood: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda Cogent Nirvana: ALARMING: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
[...] and fluoride in the water. If interested in what conservatives are excited about today, check out Big Hollywood. For a reality check, see The Anonymous Liberal. Posted in Barack Obama, Blogosphere. RSS. [...]
Wow. I cannot believe that with over hundreds of comments, and thousands of insults thrown out here no one has mentioned the fact that NO MONEY changed hands here. The NEA has not given a single artist a grant since the Jessie Helms debacle in the mid 90's. I am curious what kind of art you folks do enjoy, Thomas Kinkade? Most artists are free-thinkers and love their country just as much as the next person. They are being asked to "push" what they want to see happen. Do you want a change in our healthcare system, or are you exceedingly happy with the way that it runs now? I think most of these artists will produce artwork that has a mind behind it, and not just mindless "Propaganda" as it has been suggested. Again, I think for it to be called propaganda, money should change hands. No one is getting rich here trying illustrate a point. I cannot believe how angry some of you folks are. You lost, get over it. You are finally feeling what I had to endure for eight terribly long years. Show me a smoking gun, and some facts or get off the porch. I think this is the same kind of mindless fear instilling, catering to the lowest common denominator stuff that Rush and Beck are doing. The NEA supports big organizations, – art groups, not individual artists. Yosi is a good man, I want to hear his reasons for being reassigned.
[...] Breitbart’s Big Hollywood has a bunch of new articles up today regarding the NEA efforts to push Pres. Obama’s agenda through propaganda: Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on [...]
[...] UPDATE: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
Wow. I cannot believe that with over hundreds of comments and thousands of insults thrown out that no one has mentioned the simple fact that NO MONEY changed hands here. Oh, and another important fact that some of you great art patrons out there should enjoy is that individual artists cannot get funding from the NEA. This was established by another brilliant Republican, Jessie Helms. Who instead of fixing a broken system, took away any opportunity for any rising artist almost twenty years ago. What kind of artists do you folks enjoy, Thomas Kinkade? When Yosi was asking for artists to "push" for what they wanted to see happen in Healthcare or Environmental Energy Reform, I doubt these artists would just mindlessly crank out what you imply the leftist liberals want. Most artists I know love this country just as much as their neighbor, and are not the mindless sheep that is so often being implied. Are you happy with your healthcare as it is? I wouldn't mind seeing some art suggest a positive change. Before anyone else is crucified on this site, I think someone should find a smoking gun. I think a lot of the people posting are just now smelling the effects of the worst presidency we've ever had. No, I'm not talking about this administration. He hasn't been in office long enough to cause the kind of trouble that we're dealing with now. And seriously, if you all believe that artists really should receive no money from the NEA, please put your money where your mouth is and go out and buy an original work of art from an artist. If that were to ever happen, the NEA would be redundant.
or another shoe to dodge!
[...] Conservatives have no right to be outraged over Obama’s attempt to propagandize the National Endowment for the Arts because George W. Bush created the Faith Based Initiatives [...]
looks like somebody is going to be doing some #frogmarching soon
Nice post Stephen. Seems they can dish it out, but don't give them any facts back. I'm with you on the lobbyists, follow the money.
Finally someone with some sense. I think anything that frightens them must be a Nazi or Socialist idea.
Thanks for bringing up the transparency reference. I wonder why that term was never used in the last administration?
And putting this nation to war in a country that had nothing to do with 911 isn't justifiable for impeachment?
I made a poster of Czar Carter (self-appointed)
[img]http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/290uCAR...
You are a typical jerk. When our children go into the Armed Services, they are young and brave and patriotic, then some marxist friend maker, like Obama, comes along and with his lack of leadership makes unsafe decisions and when we know that Libya's leader is singing the praises of, "our Islamic African President of the USA, and he brags about how it was necessary for Obama to lie to the voters, well you betcha, a second thought about being a sitting duck because of Obama's ignorance and maybe even disinterest might concern everyone including our Military. You smug scum.
OPPS (Error) try this link Pic of self-appointed Racisum Czar http://bit.ly/3k58Zg
Our elected Congress should serve 2 terms. One in office and one in prison.
I love the photo of the diminutive Yosi Sergant whispering sweet nothings in Obama's ear while wearing a T-shirt screaming "OBAMA IS MY HOMEBOY", a parody on the "Jesus Is My Homeboy" shirts. Quite a statement from a guy who was quoted thusly in LA Weekly last September:
The article goes on to document how Sergant was the inspiration for Shepard Fairey's "HOPE" poster, and we are visually introduced to Sergant by a photo of him sitting in front of a wall covered with the posters.
But he's "nobody's billboard."
On the other hand, maybe I should be more broadminded about what Sergant might have meant. After all, he was later quoted as saying:
Maybe what Sergant meant is that he's MORE than just a billboard — he's a cult member, happily submitting.
It is ironic that being an artist I can see that there is a problem out there, and I want to create art to address it. The funny thing is that the problem I see is that people won't admit there is a problem with our healthcare system, and that it needs to change. Wow, Yosi didn't even call me and I thought of that all on my own. We're not all mindless sheep. Stop insulting someone and come up with some constructive solution.
Well frast of all, here ya go, skippy. Now that's a reference to the PEW poll. If you want a link to the actual poll itself, loosen your skate helmet and your drool cup, slow down on the keyboard, have Mom answer the door, the Pizza Guy is here and send me $50.00. Or, google it yourself.
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Sorry we don't have the 64 color box of crayons available here for you. We're trying to cut costs.
Next……..
Don't bet on it. This is social and political subversion with a pretty face and voice.
Not yet treason…but it certainly is CULTURAL SUBVERSION!
This country is being deceived and will be brought to its knees by "O" and the ones around him. Even when confronted with the evidence that they are being manipulated.
Whew…talk about a circle jerk. You assholes are a hoot! Keep it up, please…the more you orons keep bitching and moaning about imaginary boogeyman, the more you illustrate how batshit crazy you douchebags are.
Hmmmm…well the site administrators can pound sand up their lily white asses. What a bunch of ignorant mongoloids.
Nice article. Such a sad state we are in. But I must say, I don't look to "artists" to form my political opinions.
Art as propaganda. Propaganda as art. Who'da thunk it could happen here?
We're at the point that lies are truth, or at least, better than truth. Even if 75% of us finally wake up to what's happening to our country, it won't matter.
He'll pull a Putin, change the voting laws and we'll have no peaceful avenue for recourse.
(Sorry for re-post – didn't think I was logged in…)
[...] when it comes to tracking their expenditures. What is most disturbing, however, is the news today (Read Patrick Courrielche’s Column) that the NEA is using our funds to support the political agenda of a single politician. The [...]
This is where I will diverge from that point of view. I have been paying into Social Security since I was 14. OK, OK I never declared my paper route…… I don't really consider it socialism. I payed for it. It's mine. It's the fact that congress has always used it as a coffee fund, not to mention, giving it away to illegals.
I'm watching Clinton right now on TV talking about the healthcare system and how he believes Obama can make it happen. Lets hope that our fractured economy somehow brings itself together
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[...] Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan … [...]
[...] National and Community Service hosted a conference call with a group of artists they handpicked. As Patrick Courrielche explains, “[t]his arts group played a key role in Obama’s arts effort during his election campaign, [...]
[...] National and Community Service hosted a conference call with a group of artists they handpicked. As Patrick Courrielche explains, “[t]his arts group played a key role in Obama’s arts effort during his election campaign, as [...]
Eh, she has been ranting this way through three accounts with ten different names already, practically always on the breitbart.com news articles. Half the time I think she just works down a list of pre-made "Republicans are hate-filled racists!" comments. Besides we hating all blacks and hating Barry only because he is black, we also hate the poor and women too. Etc. Go figure.
This was a very intresting blog, i will add it to my favo.
One question: Where was all your outrage when Bush&Co. were busy politicizing practically EVERY aspect of the government? When Karl Rove was running the most efficient propaganda machine since Dr. Goebels?
They were selling war, tax cuts for the rich, and theocracy. Obama's selling the concept of public service and engagement.
I'm sorry, but "had something to do with 9/11" isn't the only justification for military action.
So no, it is not grounds for impeachment.
No, you are just another parrot squawking "LOOK! BUNNIES!!!" to divert attention.
[...] Read More and listen to the audio tapes: [...]
[...] Explosive New Audio Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisian Agenda written by Patrick Courrielche. Patrick Courrielche is a filmmaker, marketer, and art community consultant based in Los Angeles. [...]
[...] Big Government.com and Andrew Breitbart strikes again, this time via BIG HOLLYWOOD! [...]
[...] EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
Freemen beware. There are only two kinds of Democrats – those that would be masters and those that would be slaves.
Administrations past and present have always used the arts to forward their political agenda. Big deal.
Though I do enjoy everyone here making their tin-foiled hats.
You need to revisit your history books. The "ultimate end effect" is that propagandizing turned citizens into sheep and helped disguise what Hitler and Stalin were doing. Thus your "hidden secret prisons" and "fearmongering". And "suddenly" it was too late.
[...] Roger Kimball comments with distaste on the Obama Administration’s communication plans revealed by Big Hollywood’s NEA as Propaganda Ministry scoop. [...]
Umm, really – you conservatives are getting riled up about the National Endowment of the Arts? Wow. Learn to prioritize your scandals. This is a pointless non-scandal. Now, politically based hiring and firing at the DOJ by Monica "assistant to I do not recall Gonzalez" Goodling fired US attorneys for political purposes. THAT is an abuse of power. Falsifying evidence to start a war against Iraq, THAT is an abuse of office. Jailing protesters for the T-Shirts they wore, THAT is fascist.
Lord help us if partisans on both sides refuse to look at history, and understand the idiocy of their statements.
Also, if Congress authorizes a war (as they did in both Iraq and Afghanistan), then what is the war crime? Congress made it legal because only THEY have the power to declare war … and they did! So, why are u not mad at Congress?
As a point of fact, Congress has made no formal declaration of war in almost 70 years. The last war authorized by congress was in 1941 after Peal Harbor was bombed. Look it up.
The current "wars" in Iraq & Afghanistan are officially called "extended military engagements". Both were supported by congressional resolutions, but President Bush did not require any authorization from congress to send forces into battle in either case.
Many people believe that the current policy of entering into "informal wars" is deliberately intended to avoid constitutional requirements as well as the obligation of US-signed treaties that govern treatment of prisoners & other internationally-defined rules of war.
Roberto Gonzalez said as much in his testimony before congress in 2006:
GONZALES: There was not a war declaration, either in connection with Al Qaida or in Iraq. It was an authorization to use military force. I only want to clarify that, because there are implications. Obviously, when you talk about a war declaration, you're possibly talking about affecting treaties, diplomatic relations. And so there is a distinction in law and in practice. And we're not talking about a war declaration. This is an authorization only to use military force.
[...] an administrator of the call, encouraged those listening to “pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s [...]
What's more dismaying: The blatant co-opting of government programs for domestic agitprop, or a senior administration members inability to understand the difference between "ask" and "request"?
Thank you to Patrick, Hannah, & James among others for your work. Keep it up & way to go biggov!! Any time the MSM has egg on their face, it is a great day!!
And What About Violations Of The Old Rules?…
Jake Tapper of ABC reports that, in response to the NEA conference call scandal, wherein a collection of artists who receive federal money were deputized by the NEA and White House [transcript] to produce propaganda for HopeNChange, the White House……
This concept of steering thought patterns in one direction only simultaneously locking out any differing concepts,that those who disagree stand out and are immediately discouraged is the standard process dictators, sociopaths, control freaks, use to force (in a such a tender considerate moderated inferences) only one plan for the MASSES. (That won't include church goers, either!)
Exercise and get your goose step clear!
[...] So, now the White House has issued “new guidelines” in the wake of the “inappropriate” political lobbying call coordinated by the National Endowment for the Arts and exposed by Patrick Courrielche . [...]
[...] White House and NEA Employees Illegally Push Partisan Agenda Patrick Courrielche, Big Hollywood: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda and The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion? Cogent Nirvana: ALARMING: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO [...]
[...] UPDATE: Patrick Courrielche has more here. [...]
*ALERT*
Under Obama:
Takeover – Banking
Takeover – Auto
Takeover – Energy (pending)
Takeover – Healthcare (pending)
Propaganda – NEA
Propaganda – Legacy Media (zero scrutiny, free reign to appear on all programs)
Propaganda – College & University Faculty (not new, persistently socialist)
Propaganda – 9-11 becomes day of “service” / “Serv.gov” indoctrinating, “organizing” youth, poor
Propaganda – The Stimulus Bill: a honeypot of goodies designed to preserve Democrat incumbency
DEBT: $11,000,000,000,000 with $10,000,000,000,000 anticipated adds over 10 years
What is even left to absorb?
Make that,
*RED ALERT*
[...] heard the audio from the now-infamous NEA call that asks for sympathetic artists to allow their skills to be co-opted by the administration so [...]
we need to pay down the national debt….
[...] After Big Hollywood puts the audio online. [...]
[...] conservative artist on the call complained that the NEA was breaking tradition by mixing politics and the arts, and the NEA — and the [...]
No to your question. Fascism needs to Control Everything. Those it cannot control must be jailed or killed.
This isn't the first time that the arts were employed by the state to push its agenda. The last significant time was in Germany, 1930's on. Leni Riefenstahl worked for the Party; all the arts were summoned to promote the aims of the Party. If you were an artist (painter, sculptor, writer,…) in Germany then, and you didn't support the Party line, you didn't art.
Calling on the NEA isn't as sinister as what the Nazis did, but the aims sure seem similar: "let's me and you artists turn out lots of stuff that makes us look good and the other guys look bad".
You do realize that it was Bush who started that right? I realize facts are inconvenient for you.
These people are just full of themselves, or at least they are full of "something"
[...] response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for conference [...]
The Boomers are a narcissistic bunch. They truly believe the world will no longer be worth living in after they're gone. That's why they're hellbent on f-ing everything up before they go.
Conservative Blogosphere Wins Again, White House Issues New NEA Guidelines
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/0...
[...] response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for conference [...]
[...] of some very offensive art at times (remember the “Piss Christ”). Now however, Obama’s White House is clearly using the NEA to advance his political agenda which is illegal. It is time to shut down Obama’s ministry of propaganda before it becomes [...]
[...] Source: bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/09/21/explosi… [...]
[...] Read The Story [...]
[...] at the feet of Republicans. Patrick Courrielche does a fine job of detailing the key events of this story, On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, [...]
[...] response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for conference [...]
[...] response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines for conference [...]
[...] has put a link to the entire call transcript and audio for people to decide for themselves. His new article itself is pretty startling as well. This has prompted the White House to release this [...]
[...] White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda **NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** [...]
[...] EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
[...] The National Endowment For Barack. Apparently, it’s not enough that the majority of the media fawn over 0bama. Now they want the National Endowment for the Arts to get in the act, too. This is a huge story that involves YOUR tax dollars promoting a political agenda…yet again! Andrew Breitbart & Glenn Beck (LOVE these guys!) have been exposing the relationship between the NEA and the 0bama administration. This is an outrage: White House Using NEA To Push Partisan Agenda [...]
[...] kowtowers, bumnuzzlers and bootlicks working in the government art field today — people like Buffy Wicks, Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik. They will keep you up to date on all the hot new policy trends and enemy lists, and what your [...]
[...] Agenda Ed Driscoll, Pajamas Media: Artistic License Indeed Patrick Courrielche, Big Hollywood: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda and The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion? Cogent Nirvana: ALARMING: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO [...]
[...] nurturing of a cult of personality around Obama, replete with aggressive recruitment of artists for propagandizing on his behalf, and you have all the ingredients you need for a little righteous right-wing [...]
[...] I heard news that the National Endowment for the Arts has apparently become the agitprop organ of the White House, I naturally thought to myself, “Sure, recruiting artists to serve the party is pretty [...]
[...] his administration has employed the National Endowment for the Arts as his propaganda arm – which should have everyone outraged. update : Yosi Sergant has been thrown under the bus . [...]
[...] Arts (NEA). And once again, an Andrew Breitbart Web site blew the cover off. At BigHollywood.com, Patrick Courrielche, an artist and NEA grant recipient, released a full transcript of an August conference call hosted [...]
[...] the new Breitbart Web site BigGovernment.com broke more corruption news by releasing an audio recording and transcript of a controversial conference call that took place [...]
[...] this was not the end of th NEA scandal. Patrick Courrielche has now reported the Buffy Wicks, from the White House Office of Public engagement, was the one who [...]
[...] this was not the end of th NEA scandal. Patrick Courrielche has now reported the Buffy Wicks, from the White House Office of Public engagement, was the one who [...]
It's truly amazing, the paranoia of conservatives. Takes my breath away. When the conf. call first started, I was in the mind frame of Courrielche and was thinking,"Artists are not going to do anybody's political bidding. They're rebellious by nature." As I listened to the whole thing, it became clear that what they're trying to do is make it easier for people who want to help out in THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES with stuff like helping in a soup kitchen, cleaning off gang graffiti, maintaining park trails, taking food to home-bound elderly, etc. Many people want to help with things like that but don't know where to go or how to get started or how they can help improve their community. Only at the end, that one woman asked about helping with policy issues but was deflected away by Nellie Abernathy. People who want to help in their communities…. this is threatening to conservatives??
It's truly amazing, the paranoia of conservatives. Takes my breath away. When the conf. call first started, I was in the mind frame of Courrielche and was thinking,"Artists are not going to do anybody's political bidding. They're rebellious by nature." As I listened to the whole thing, it became clear that what they're trying to do is make it easier for people who want to help out in THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES with stuff like helping in a soup kitchen, cleaning off gang graffiti, maintaining park trails, taking food to home-bound elderly, etc. Many people want to help with things like that but don't know where to go or how to get started or how they can help improve their community. Only at the end, that one woman asked about helping with policy issues but was deflected away by Nellie Abernathy. People who want to help in their communities…. this is threatening to conservatives??
That quote from Scripture comes to mind,. "…strains at a gnat and swallows a camel" You protesters would have more credulity if you had spent more time criticizing the Bush high crimes.
Intense. A direct attempt to use the NEA for openly political purposes. The arrogance.
Surely they understand that this is wrong? Or are they so blinded by their sense of self-righteous superiority that it just does not matter?
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/ne...
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/ne...
Do you really believe this? Please. If the Bush administration had encouraged artist to coordinate their efforts to promote the war on terror you would have trouble containing the vomit in your mouth. Really, this article hit me with all the logical force of a weak fart. The tapes and other actions of this cabal of "artists" and administrators speaks for itself. The political actions the bureaucratic are pretty troubling, but at least propaganda is something that we can expect from a dirigiste administration. The "artists" should be ill with themselves though. How pathetic. These are not artists…these are spirit-sick, confused hacks.
[...] the NEA and Buffy Wicks? Evidently it's the next target of the same people who exposed ACORN. LINK I don't know much about it, anyone here know more about [...]
[...] stated in an earlier post, every federal employee on the call understood that they were asking an extremely partisan, [...]
now that we are aware of all this corruption,what do we do about it? that seems to be the eight hundred lb. gorilla in the room. i cant think of any other time in history we were more vulnerable to outside influences than we are right now. this cannot be avoided. political correctness is the battlefield, the truth is our shield.
[...] thing that both groups overlooked was what the Obama administraton has done with the National Endowment for the Arts (the tax-payer funded organizaton that pays for public art [...]
[...] RESPONSE TO NEA CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT: Throwing Yosi Sergant Under the Bus Isn’t an Answer and EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda and The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion? Patterico’s Pontifications, Big [...]
[...] full transcript of the call is here; the more outrageous excerpts are quoted here. MR. SKOLNIK: All right. So we [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] just create art, music, and drama advocating self-sufficiency, free markets, and small government. Ooh, I almost missed this: Ashton [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] Like the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly left-of-center group: Education, health, environment, the economy and lastly — almost as an afterthought as some kind of “bi-partisan” cover – support for military families. [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] Like the NEA story, Once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] the NEA story, once again we see the same buzzwords pop up; suggested topics pitched to an overwhelmingly [...]
[...] Using your tax dollars to buy art work pushing Obama’s agenda. [...]
[...] list of specific asks. Top three in the EIF memo: Education, health, environment… Top three in the NEA conference calls: Health care, education, [...]
[...] I cannot believe the… self-indulging sense of importance Rocco Landesman and member of Obama’s administration have. Truly, I cannot. However, I guess the follow isn’t too far fetched from a group that asked artists to shill for the administration. [...]
[...] http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/09/21/explosive-new-audio-reveals-white-house-us... [...]
[...] Lifson The latest Breitbart blockbuster has been released. The huge post by Patrick Courrielche on BigGovernment.com includes comprehensive transcripts and audios, as [...]
[...] contaminating our art with government sponsored [...]
[...] notice silence so thorough you can hear the crickets chirp over any mention of the Obama White House looking to use NEA monies for the promulgation of Obama-propaganda. As Ed Morrissey notes: Former [...]
[...] gaping jaws of big government? It must have been from the state-controlled media. Meanwhile, the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the White House, has become little more than a Goebbels-styled propaganda [...]
[...] gaping jaws of big government? It must have been from the state-controlled media. Meanwhile, the National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the White House, has become little more than a Goebbels-styled propaganda [...]
[...] EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda [...]
[...] BIG HOLLYWOOD investigative reporter Patrick Courrielche asks: “Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?” Well, yes. [...]
[...] work designed by either Shephard Fairey, or Justin Kemerling. (By the way, Kemerling was on the NEA Conference Call exposed by Patrick Courrielche here at Big Hollywood. I wonder if he created this artwork before [...]
[...] publicly funded “journalism” to government propaganda. The Obama Administration has already taken steps to co-opt the arts. I’d like them to stay far, far away from my daily [...]
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