Another direct link to White House on NEA propaganda scandal

Hot Air ^ | October 30, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Kalpen Modi, the star of the Harold and Kumar Go To movies and the TV series House, made a big splash when he put aside his Hollywood career to take a White House position as “director of public engagement,” which everyone assumed would be more or less a liaison to Hollywood as an adjunct social secretary. Unfortunately for Modi, he apparently didn’t stick to those duties. According to new documents released as part of a FOIA request, Modi helped plan the notorious NEA call conducted by Yosi Sergant that attempted to link NEA grants with support for the Obama agenda, another direct link to the White House in the scandal:

Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for President Obama, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

[RobinMasters]

Ping.

[GeronL]

Kumar is about to be roadkill. Under that bus.

[BenLurkin]

[GOP Poet]

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[Viking2002]

The ties between radical Leftists and that vapid Hollywood slop has existed for decades. But Americans in general have become so desensitized to embodying a core set of civil and political ethics, they've become ambivalent, as though it's an acceptable and expected part of society now.

Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.