Posted on 09/08/2009 11:21:08 AM PDT by Nachum
ETL posted a link from Amazon above.
Film Producer Accuses NEA of Enlisting Artists to Push Obama's Domestic Agenda
FoxNews.com ^ | August 28, 2009 | Joshua Rhett Miller
Posted on 09/01/2009 8:30:28 AM EDT by ETL
"Courrielche said officials on the hour-long call -- including NEA Director of Communications Yosi Sergant and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons -- encouraged the artists on the line to create works of art in their respective fields related to health care, energy and the environment.
"What I heard was a well thought-out pitch to encourage artists to create art on these issues," Courrielche told FOXNews.com. "We were told we were consulted for a reason, and they specifically stated those issues as the issues we should focus on, to plant the seed. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see what they're attempting to do."
The word volunteerism was never used," Courrielche said. "Service was the word being used and it was in specific areas, those being health care, energy and the environment."
Courrielche said the now ubiquitous Obama "Hope" poster by artist Shepard Fairey and musician will.i.am's "Yes We Can" song and music video were offered as "shining examples" of the artist group's clear impact on Obama's landslide election."
nothing like being in love with ones self is there.
Ha! So it is about the cult of Obama. What is this country coming to? The White House does it’s little Obama promotion and then tries to tell us we’re paranoid.
“Does the NEA get a commission for pimping his books?”
No, just lots of political influence and taxpayer dollars.
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
http://ken-carroll.com/2008/06/08/is-teaching-a-subversive-activity/
Ayres’ Small Schools
I thought this was about education, not Obama. Do these people ever stop lying?
"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop
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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)
"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.
When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.
While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.
In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.
The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.
In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."
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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.
(snip)
In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.
The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).
http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html
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From The Gateway Pundit, June 26, 2008:
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner and Weatherman Pal Under the Bus
Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism when the SDS broke up and the Weathermen terror group was formed.
Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) [not Communist Party USA] chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.
Yesterday, Klonsky was posting a blog on the Obama website:
But, that was yesterday.
Today [June, 2008] his blog was removed from the Obama website.
Comrade Klonsky is no longer with us.
Obama Throws Maoist Hardliner and Weatherman Pal Under the Bus:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-throws-maoist-hardliner-and.html
Here, give them both versions:
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2006/10/the_ant_and_the.html
The Obama Nation, by Jerome Corsi.
Fleeced, by Dick Morris.
The Case Against Barack Obama, by David Freddoso
Culture of Corruption by Michelle Malkin.
Help them down load the speaches for thier IPods.
It’s all about Obama. Everything.
Setting up a "Dear Leader" in America. Color me flabbergsted!.
vaudine
Don’t forget to learn ‘em about the 57 states.
So when do they start distributing the the “The Quotes of President Obama” aka “The Little Blue Book” to students and the Party, er, DEMOCRAT Party faithful?
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