Posted on 09/21/2009 4:49:55 PM PDT by BigKahuna
Back in the days of Joseph Stalin, that madman and his cabal made good use of the talents of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who had a natural ability to take the Soviet inclination to turn art and bend it to the will of the country's communist rulers and produce cinematic works that glorified Soviet accomplishment.
... Now, I'm not saying that Barack Obama is in any way similar to Joseph Stalin or Ivan the Terrible (especially Ivan, who'd have a peasant's head hacked off just for blinking the wrong way), but I'm sure one can see the parallels between Stalin and Obama when it comes to trying to "control the message," so to speak. And it certainly seems that that desire is being read loud and clear by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which has been caught out in a number of Obama-supporting lies the last several weeks.
… Showing an email trail between the White House that runs through the NEA and then out to what the sender of the email (one Yosi Sergant, who was coordinating with White House staffer Buffy Wicks...hey, where do artists and leftists come up with their names, by the way?) called all the "artists, producers...and just plain, cool people!" to the table to discuss how best to aid the President in selling his message to the masses.
Eisenstein did much the same for Stalin. What a pity that the folks over at the NEA can't even see the dangers involved in letting the organs of the state begin to do the same to their own organization. As for me; give me a painting of several dogs sitting around a poker table and smoking cigars any day of the week over what passes for "art" nowadays.
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“Now, I’m not saying that Barack Obama is in any way similar to Joseph Stalin or Ivan the Terrible (especially Ivan, who’d have a peasant’s head hacked off just for blinking the wrong way”
Give him some time! He’s only been Our Dear Leader for a handful of months. He will relish the time when it comes. All tyrants do, Hussein is no different.
How true!
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