Newly disclosed emails link White House directly to NEA politicalization scandal

washington examiner ^ | 10/30/09 | Mark Tapscott

[dangerdoc]

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.

The emails reveal that Modi worked with now-former NEA national communications director Yosif Sargant in planning the August 10 conference call that was first revealed by Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood.com web site. Participants in the conference call were encouraged to use their talents to generate public support for the Obama agenda in Congress.

Here are four of the most illustrative emails, according to Judicial Watch:

· August 10, 2009, 10:23 am. Email from Yosi Sergant to Kalpen Modi: “[The call is] organized by me…I’d ask you to come on and give the exact spiel you gave on Saturday. Walk them through the WH Arts Policy. They won’t know it. Then I will take them into United We Serve and the NEA.”

· August 10, 2009, 10:29 am. Email from Kalpen Modi to Yosi Sergant: “Oy. This would be awesome to be a part of. Let me know if you think it’s going long, or maybe I can get someone from here to do it if I can’t because of the Social Security mtg.”

· August 10, 2009, 11:04 am. Email from Kalpen Modi to Yosi Sergant: “Let me see if we can move Social Sec by a few mins. Agreed, it would be great to be on the call and helpful for us also.”

· August 10, 2009, 1:37 pm. Email from Yosi Sergant to Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement: “We have an important call at 2pm for UWS (United We Serve) and the Arts with my peeps. Indie producers around the country. Kal can’t join the call. Any chance you can hop on for 5 minutes and intro with Nellie and I?”

[dangerdoc]

He should have stuck with House.

[MNlurker]

Kind of hard to come back from suicides...including the career suicides in two areas now! LOL

[fullchroma]

LOL. I love how they wrote him off.

[BenLurkin]

If a scandal takes place in the White House and it isn't reported on CNN — does it make a sound?

[a fool in paradise]

Transparency.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lead story on tonight’s Nightly News...

[stylecouncilor]

Kumar ping.

[GeronL]

This guy is a nothing. Throw him to the wolves. Satiate our hunger for blood for a few hours. *evil grin*

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Under the bus!

[GeronL]

Under the bus and hit every tire.

[b4its2late]

Then stopped, and put in reverse, then in drive again........

[WilliamofCarmichael]

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) . . . artists to create propaganda for President Obama

Socialist realism in America direct from Stalin's U.S.S.R.!

[GeronL]

peel out on him too

[Logical me]

NEA. Just another part of the King Obama and the communists RAT Party control of their empire. All hail the King!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

this should be in front page news ping.

[444Flyer]

“associate director of public engagement”=Minister of Propaganda

[444Flyer]

From the above picture at MindReign:

"In 1944 US soldiers received a copy of 'What is Propaganda?' before entering Germany. It explained the impact Nazi propaganda had on the German people. The information was designed to assist the US soldier in dealing with a brainwashed and morally bankrupt people. This pamphlet gives a snapshot of life in Germany at the end of WW2.

Most propaganda in Germany was produced by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Joseph Goebbels was placed in charge of this ministry shortly after Hitler took power in 1933.

All journalists, writers, and artists were required to register with one of the Ministry's subordinate chambers for the press, fine arts, music, theater, film, literature, or radio. The reprint of this rare book will be welcomed by scholars of the period as an indispensable primary source offering a valuable perspective on the formation and development of Nazi ideology."

[444Flyer]

Yosi Sargent and his 'friend'.

[444Flyer]

Sargent=Sergant

[stylin19a]

doesn’t take long to stink when you run with skunks