All Your Art Are Belong To Us

Pajamas Media ^ | September 21, 2009 | Andrew Klavan

[opentalk]

There is so very much to be disgusted by here that it’s hard to know what to gag on first. The NEA is the largest single funder of art in the country.
The transcripts prove, despite the earlier denials and obfuscations of the participants, that officials from the White House, the National Endowment of the Arts and a federally overseen initiative called United We Serve joined in hosting a conference call on August 10th with a group of artists. The point of the call was to cajole these artists into making artistic propaganda in support of President Barack Obama’s agenda.

[opentalk]

Oh, but that’s not the half of it. Go here and take a look at the legislation that authorized and created the NEA in the first place, its founding document as it were. Read its original principles and mission: how the arts are for ALL Americans, how the NEA is there to nurture freedom of thought, imagination and inquiry. In fact, just for fun, see if you can find a single proposition in this document that the NEA did not violate, corrupt and/or betray in the course of this phone call.

I have always believed that art is one of the most powerful tools we have in the search for spiritual truth, a form of communication that can, at its best, reach into the deepest part of the human soul. The Communists, and other tyrants, always understood that. Why do you think they always arrested and silenced the artists first?

No need for that here, thanks very much. Already largely corrupted by the ideology they’ve learned in our universities, our artists are standing by to take Big Brother’s call.

[SampleMan]

Art has a long history of supporting "progressives".

[Dixie Yooper]

How sad that our entire art community’s only source of inspiration is of a failed political leader.

[KarlInOhio]

How many "artists" are supported by the NEA who should have jobs as assistant french fry grease cleaners? How many real artists have been bumped from the art market because they are unwilling to follow the NEA rules and are unable to sell their art because so much of the art world is poisoned by NEA money?

[Yo-Yo]

The only thing I find shocking is that the White House had to hold a conference call to get these “artists” to support the Obama Agenda.

I kinda thought they’d do that on their own anyway.

[Brilliant]

I’m not sure if Obama is trying to imitate CA which bankrupted the state by wasteful funding of the arts or Roosevelt who kept the Depression going for ten years by pretending that spending on the arts was a stimulus.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is there no agency uncontaminated by this slime ?

[relictele]

Here’s an NEA poster child

(warning nudity and adult language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck89kh2vht8

[paulycy]

[opentalk]

Was the ugly red dress a display of something else? In hindsight you start to question everything.