Posted on 09/27/2009 5:17:31 AM PDT by Man50D
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman and the White House finally responded to a controversial effort by political appointees of both the White House and the NEA to "leverage" government funding of the arts into cultural support for the administration's legislative agenda.
This is the short version of the Obama administration's position: Nothing bad happened. The rogue employee who didn't do anything bad has been relieved of his duties (and has now resigned). In an effort to make sure that the same "nothing bad" never happens again, the administration has distributed a memo and provided some new training on how not to do "nothing bad."
The facts are simple and public. During the transition, President Obama's top arts adviser made it clear that his ambition was for the arts to become an integral part of the West Wing. After the inauguration, meetings of artists and political activists at the White House explicitly discussed how to keep the arts community in campaign mode to back Mr. Obama's legislative agenda. An NEA grants official, Mario Garcia Durham, was at one such meeting for which the attendee list is public.
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Hand.... Cookie Jar...... You’re a wacist!!!
Just how stupid does the current administration think we are? (rhetorical)
Most of those who voted, voted for them. You decide.
Remember the Clinton Administration? The media helped downplay every negative story to emerge.
With Obama, the media has perfected the art by simply ignoring the stories.
Eddie Murphy in Raw about getting caught red-handed cheating on girlfriend:
It wasn’t me.
If you say it enough, she’ll start to believe it.
I suppose they can be as arrogant as they are because the MSM receives their daily talking points from the obama administration and the DNC.
They didn’t count on the number of “non-koolaid” drinkers.
We need a ‘brand new conversation’ about how to get Obama out of office.
Propagandists Unite!...to prop up this lightweight-socialist con-man. (Thanks for posting)
First reaction by Marxist with caught in cookie jar is to laugh it off. Second is to stonewall. Third is to lie.
The good news is that these tactics don’t seem to be working for Onada as they once did.
I want to see a valid birth certificate right now! That issue is not going away anytime soon.
They’re shape shifters. They’ll never stop, they’ll just morph the effort into new channels.
Fourth is someone gets stopped by a total stranger while jogging and told that their cat is dead (which turns out to be true) and that their children could be next.
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