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Posted on 11/01/2009 2:38:24 PM PST by opentalk
It seems Rocco Landesman, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, didn't get the memo, literally.
On September 22, stung by controversy over the administration's effort to turn the arts community into proselytizers of its very special brand of hope and change, the White House issued a stern warning to all government agencies: Keep politics out of the arts.
White House denied that was ever the intent. Many in the media, as is their wont, took the Obama administration at their word.
But not the website Big Government (which broke the story) and the Washington Times. They demonstrated that from the earliest days of the presidential transition, Barack Obama's political operation sought to entrench the arts community in its "outreach" operations. Bill Ivey, Obama's transition adviser on the arts, admitted in June: "I wanted to see some real connection between administration objectives and the capacity of all the cultural actors in government. I made some progress. I got some agreement."
That "progress" mostly came in the form of enlisting arts groups - groups that received stimulus money - in Obama's national-service agenda.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Dont they mean Obamao
“Good art” praising our fuhrer will be rewarded.
“Bad art” criticizing our fuhrer will be punished.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Communism . . .
Everywhere you go . . . . . .
Doo Dee Dah, Doo Dee Dah, Doo Dee DahDah Dah . . . .
National Endowment for the Farts.
Well I guess this just might be a good reason for the next Republican president to just go ahead and zero the old NEA right out, know wahm sayin?
ObaMao Zombie
Has a certain ‘Ring’ , don’t You Think?
It’s Obamunism (tm).
And was anyone surprised. IMO, the NEA needs to be entirely shut down. If I were president, one of my first acts would be to shut it down completely. Our tax dollars, particularly in a bad economy, should not have one penny wasted on the “arts”.
Isn't this the phenomenon that triggers Øbasms among the intellectualoids?
Or am I confusing it with Øbamnanism?
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