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Propaganda, Health Care and ACORN: Full Context of NEA Conference Call Reveals Disturbing Pattern by John Nolte At first glance, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) conference call of August 10th, 2009 sounds innocent enough because it’s supposedly been organized by Michael Skolnik, political director for Russell Simmons and someone not officially associated with any government agency. Skolnik appears to be acting independently as a concerned citizen and to have taken it upon himself to gather together a group of artists and art organizations hoping to move them towards “national service.” And how nice of the White House, the...

On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries”: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to attend a conference call scheduled for Monday August 10th hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve. The call would include “a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, taste-makers, leaders or just plain cool people to join together and work together to promote a more civically engaged America and celebrate how...

In the "just plain bizarre" category, some "dude," as our colleague Chris Cillizza, a.k.a, "the Fix," tells us, got on today's conference call with Hillary Clinton's chief campaign strategist Mark Penn, communications director Howard Wolfson and deputy communications director Phil Singer and asked whether Clinton could "talk sexy" in her ads so he could "pinch the squid.". The unidentified man then said he thought Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has "nice ears." Needless to say, the conference call crasher was ignored

We're about to enter another of the regular blogger conference calls held by John McCain. This will, of course, be the first since his surprisingly strong victory over Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican field. He starts off by noting that he is "obviously very pleased" with the results. McCain credits his straight talk on the stump in New Hampshire. He has nothing much to offer for the Democratic Party result, maybe one of the few who haven't opined on it. McCain tells a story about hardening his resolve in a summer trip to Iraq with Lindsey Graham....

Save the Date: FreedomWorks Conference Call Thursday July 19th at 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific! Please join us for a conference call with FreedomWorks members, supporters, bloggers and other small government advocates as we talk about the 110th Congress at mid-session, and the presidential race for 2008. As you know, since the Democrats have taken over Congress, there has been a lot of talk about raising taxes, supporting bad energy policy, expanding socialized medicine and spending more of your hard-earned dollars. Call in on July 19th to find out what is in store for the rest of the session. We will...

I just got off a great conference call with Tad Devine, Stan Greenberg, Joe Lockhart and Doug Sosnik about the latest Democracy Corps poll. Our guys sounded very confident... NOTES: Stan Greenberg Latest Democracy Corps Poll shows 49 Kerry - 47 Bush They see 47 as a ceiling for Bush. Other polls all show the same ceiling for Bush: 47 47 47 47 47 ... All other polls are the same except for Battleground Poll. Battleground is the outlier, but they were the most wrong in 2000, and had but Bush +5 over Gore. Key states are stable for Kerry....

The Kerry folks are having a press conference right now via teleconference responding to Bush's speech in NJ this afternoon about terrorism/foreign policy. To join the conference dial 800-471-6718, then enter the passcode: 1016- 4018 On the conference call will be Joe Lockhart (campaign advisor), Susan Rice (kerry fopo advisor), Tad Devine (campaign advisor) and Karen Breitweiser (9/11 widow working with Kerry campaign)

(CNSNews.com) - Two of Sen. John Kerry's surrogates on Monday accused President Bush of politicizing the military strategy in Iraq, but when a reporter asked how the senator's plan would be better than Bush's, a Kerry aide promptly halted the discussion. The episode took place during a 2:15 p.m. conference call that featured two military advisers to the Kerry campaign. They spoke about a press report that suggested the United States would hold off on any major combat operations in Iraq until after the Nov. 2 election. At the start of the question-and-answer portion of the call, Agence France-Presse reporter...

More than 2500 MoveOn-sponsored "Bush-Bashing" House Parties are being held around the country. From their website: "On the evening of December 7th, 2003, thousands of people around the country will gather to watch and discuss the new documentary Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. Together, we'll strengthen the MoveOn community, get the truth out, and raise some money to make sure that people in key battleground states know the real story about how we went to war."