Beck on How the White House is Using the NEA (& Your Tax $) for Propaganda (VIDEO)

Today, Glenn had artist Pat Courrielche on to discuss the recent NEA conference call with the White House, calling on all artists to use their media to promote all of Obama’s agenda items. Pat recorded the phone conference because he felt uncomfortable with what they were asking. I’m just going to let you watch the segment, and will display below Pat’s write-up about this whole affair below from this article:

“What does it mean when a government official evades the truth?

On August 25th, I published an article discussing a conference call hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve that invited a group of art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”

In the article I argued that it was not the role of the National Endowment for the Arts to use the arts to address specific issues, especially those of “health care” and “energy and environment” that are being vehemently debated nationally. I also clearly indicated that I was invited by the NEA and questioned their involvement in a meeting of this nature.

Two days later an article was published in the Washington Times that referenced my account of the conference call. Kerry Picket reported in the article that she “asked the NEA for a copy of the invitation to the conference call, but Communications Director for the NEA Yosi Sergant told us that they were not the ones who sent out the invitations for the conference call.” Picket continues, “Mr. Sergant directed us to the Corporation for National and Community Service as the body that sent out the invitations.”

Well, someone is playing loose with the facts. And let me say clearly here and now, it is not I. As can be clearly seen here, the invitation not only came from the National Endowment for the Arts, but from Sergant himself.”

This should truly frighten all of us. I URGE you all to go read Pat’s article here and check out his own invitation to the call, and what artwork has been produced as a result of this co-mingling of interests. Folks, the WHITE HOUSE itself was IN on the conference call! And Sargent says to be patient while they learn how to legally post government site on Facebook, and how to communicate on Twitter legally? Are they kidding us? What is happening????

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