Film Producer Accuses NEA of Enlisting Artists to Push Obama's Domestic Agenda
FoxNews.com ^ | August 28, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller
Posted on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:30:28 AM by ETL
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Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment.
"What I heard was a well thought-out pitch to encourage artists to create art on these issues," Courrielche told FOXNews.com. "We were told we were consulted for a reason, and they specifically stated those issues as the issues we should focus on, to plant the seed. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what they're attempting to do."
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"The word volunteerism was never used," Courrielche said. "Service was the word being used and it was in specific areas, those being health care, energy and the environment."
Courrielche said the now ubiquitous Obama "Hope" poster by artist Shepard Fairey and musician will.i.am's "Yes We Can" song and music video were offered as "shining examples" of the artist group's clear impact on Obama's landslide election.
The "potential propaganda machine," Courrielche said, is concerning on many levels.
"The issue that troubles me the most is that the NEA was set up to promote the arts," he said. "If you have a meeting where you're trying to set up a machine that does your bidding, a propaganda machine, that's not what the National Endowment for Arts is for."
Recently there was a quote (paraphrased) re: ‘Anything that happens in Washington was intended from the offset/beginning to do.’.
Many things have been set in motion ... that are later utilized in ways, that for all intents and purposes were not the original purpose.
For every legislation ... there is a purpose for possible good and a opening through for possible bad.
It is my opinion that there is a side of true consideration and well doing and a side of winning at any cost.
The well meaning side frequently is stymied and even diverted into evil by the career bureaucrats that are perpetually in office and are essentially communists and autocrats. A Republican President has to fight the embedded enemies. Reagan dd just that. It worked ... most of the time. Bus yielded on some issues badly. Mo.
Sad to say.
Reread Orwell's “1984”. Revisionist history, doublespeak, tyranny and fear, lies are truth, etc. etc.ect.