Posted on 11/12/2010 4:17:00 AM PST by Suvroc10
The US government under Obama, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, recently used US taxpayer money to fund a conference that accused the US military of atrocities. Only coming to light in the last several days because of an intrepid professor by the name of Penelope Blake, the anti-American conference was held over the summer in Hawaii and was known by the misleadingly benign title "History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War." Since this story broke, there have been rightful calls to withhold funding to the NEH, and Professor Blake herself appeared on Hannity last night to discuss the recent, breaking developments in this sordid saga. This story is a good illustration of the fact that oversight over where federal money is going should be tightened, as well as that US taxpayer dollars can sometimes be misused for anti-American propaganda.
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Americans should stand behind Professor Blake totally....if (like that’s a possibility) she is “punished” for her actions we should alert the newly formed Congress of her plight and make sure Hannity uses his show to shine the light on this unamerican activity. Make it a weekly thing if necessary!
This is getting really confusing. Are there 57 states, 54 states or 50 states?
state of confusion.
NAMES PLEASE.....Inquiring minds want to know who it is that is sliming our Military and revising History?
If foreigners, that is to be expected, though why they should be part of an "American" agency is questionable; if US Citizens, then they MUST BE EXPOSED and held accountable...regardless of who they are!
Doonju forget the $$$$$$$$$$$$!
FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Who is paying for this $hit??
Soros $? A-rab $$? Saudi $???
Withhold?
Defund National EVERYTHING!
Oversight is a code word for "partisan bickering" or grandstanding, if you can remember certain works of "art" that were the targets of outrage by certain well-known senators.
This is a distraction from what Congress should be doing, and it gives the opposition ammunition that can be used effectively in the next election. Nobody wins an argument when it's over "art" or "literature" or the meaning of poetry.
If Americans wish to support controversial works of art, conferences on the Holocaust, performances of plays depicting historic figures as demons and similar public outrages, let them do so with their own money just as they would pay for cable TV or a ticket to the movies.
Where is the justification for establishing and funding--with tax dollars--organizations which are by their very nature redundant to privately-funded groups whose own narrow interests fail to attract a large following?
Whenever we have the government getting its grubby hands into culture, there will be only a small percentage of the population that actually benefits while the rest of us pay and grumble.
Congress needs to reassess the value to society of NEH, NEA and perhaps the granddaddy of all "cultural" institutions, the Smithsonian. It's entirely possible they've outlived their usefulness.
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Call your Congressman and Senators and VFW to protest this.
you mean we funded it?
Sounds like it
There was a period early on when he had the rock star status and they all wanted to be standing next to him for the photo-ops but once the guy started implementing policy, they didn't want any part of it. Remember Sarkozy? Sarkozy was the first to break away, then Angela Merkel did. The Russians have been playing us for saps for who knows how long as have the ChiComs, and now the South Koreans have finally figured out that their economy is gonna go down the tubes if they listen to Obama. The press is finally reporting this and he's blaming the press because all they're doing is reporting he's intervening. Now listen to this. Obama had a press conference, Seoul, South Korea, and he continued after that answer, he said, "It's just a bunch of world leaders sitting around intervening ... But what's remarkable is that in each of these successive summits we've actually made real progress." Then he said this.
OBAMA: The United States obviously has a special role to play on the international stage. Regardless of who is president, we are a very large, very wealthy, very powerful country. We have had outsized influence over world affairs --
RUSH: Did you hear that?
OBAMA: -- for a century now.
RUSH: Did you hear that?
OBAMA: Aaaand you are now seeing a situation in which a whole host of other countries are doing very well and coming into their own, and naturally they are going to be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas, and that's a healthy thing.
RUSH: The US "had outsized influence over world affairs for a century now." This is our president at an economic summit of the 20 most powerful economic countries, and he's telling the world that we have had "an outsized influence over world affairs for a century now," and it's been time that stopped! It's good that these other countries are "coming into their own, be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas. It's a healthy thing" that we are in decline. It's a healthy thing that we are no longer the number one influence. Could he put it any plainer? Who among you can still doubt that Obama is secretly pleased with America's diminished position in the world, that he is happily presiding over the decline? He is thrilled at having our wings clipped! You can't say it any plainer. He can't say it any plainer than emphasized said it in this meeting and in recent meetings.
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