The National Endowment for the Arts' Communications Director Yosi Sargent, is out of a job. This former Obama campaign worker hosted a conference call last month, where he represented the NEA and pushed artists to produce work that supports Obama's agenda. He was pushing the creation of a coalition between the NEA, the White House, and artists.
The NEA is supposed to be apolitical. By using it to try and further their own political agenda, the Obama regime is breaking one of the NEA's founding principles - that art is supposed to be a free expression by the artist. It is not supposed to be a tool of the government arm of the left wing kook fringe.
It is not clear if Sargent was speaking on his own, or at direction of the White House. Frankly, it doesn't matter - he is an official of the Obama Administration.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a strongly worded letter to Obama on Sep. 8 asking for clarification on this issue:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM110_090910_nea_letter.html
I have seen no indication that he has received a reply - he won't, the Obama regime just ignores what it doesn't want to address.
Update - (9/22) - It has come out in the past few days that an employee of the White House Office of Engagement, Buffy Wicks, actually coordinated and ran the August 10 phone call in question. She directed the call and its content, and actively lobbied the artist representatives participating to use their craft to push forward Obama's social agenda - naming specific programs they could help with. Biggovernment.com has audio and transcripts of the phone calls. Disgusting ... Obama trying to use the NEA to spit out propaganda to help push his agenda on us. Illegal? Probably ...
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