Newly disclosed emails link White House directly to NEA politicalization scandal

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Oct 30, 2009

He played on "House", a program I quit watching, when during the campaigns, they put up an Obama sticker in a bathroom scene, and then non-citizen Hugh Laurie slammed Bush on Jay Leno...

I'm fed up with rich Hollywoodies trying to influence our kids, using their fame to do it.

Oct 30, 2009

ive read all the pieces and want to know who is doing your fact checking!?

"all hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for President Obama"

The list that Washington Times & Big Hollywood posted shows that not one of the people on that call have ever received federal dollars. In fact, it shows they aren't even eligible. When you listen to the tapes, the examples they give are 'Blood Donation' and 'Recycling'... how is that "pushing Obama's agenda'

These emails show that a political appointee is in contact with the White House... where is the scandal there?

Oct 30, 2009

"i call bs" - your excuse is a bit of a stretch to say the least. The whitehouse and NEA clearly tried to use fed money to fund their propaganda. Key word here is TRIED - they got caught before they could make it happen. But you keep on pulling that wool over you own eyes. You just tell yourself what ever you need justify it. After all, you probably voted for this sorry excuse for a president. Wouldn't want to admit a fault on our own part now would we?

Oct 30, 2009

Yosi Sergant is a moron. Anyone who would write an English sentence such as, "Any chance you can hop on for 5 minutes and intro with Nellie and I?” is an idiot!

Oct 30, 2009

i call bs is absolutely right. There's nothing here at all. The White House is not in any way trying to seize control of the banking industry, or to take over major portions of automobvile manufacturing, nor is it waging a PR war against FOX news, nor is it supporting ACORN or even thinking about bringing communists like Van Jones into the govt. It's all untrue. And the President certainly isn't apologizing al over the world for America, and the communist party of the USA doesn't in any way enthusiastically support Obama.
Yep, nothing to see here. Move along.

Oct 30, 2009

Hugh Laurie, Kaplen Modi and his peeps can kiss my grits.

Oct 30, 2009

Every time I think this administration can't get any more crooked they come up with something that blows me away. Transparency, what a joke. A bunch of chicago thugs with massive egos.

Oct 30, 2009

More Obama....

The constant lying.
The staggering arrogance.
The dangerous narcissism.
The astounding incompetence.

The Obama Buffoon wants to put as much of the private economy under government control as possible to create his nanny state utopia where he is the boy king.

Let's continue to stand strong against Obama in every way and get Congress out of the hands of the insane Pelosi and Reid in 2010.

Obama is a smug, smirking con man. Nothing more.

Oct 30, 2009

How can you keep making excuses for this obamanation? This admin. walks a tightrope each day with their Chicago thug mentality and marxist ideology. Wake up people..one day soon we will be called U.S.of Obama, with no liberties like Cuba, China & Venezuela! Just you watch!

Oct 30, 2009

This is like a bunch of children playing and emailing each other. I cannot believe we voted for these incompetent self serving buffoons.
2010 and 12 cannot come soon enough. I am changing my vote!

Oct 30, 2009

They should all be water boarded..twice..and then properly hung. Don't you think?

Oct 30, 2009

The White House using tax payer dollars and the NEA for propaganda is a scandal so where the heck are the mainstream stories about it? Even those that adore Obama should be uneasy over this grab for control.

Oct 30, 2009

Amerika you deserve everything you get w/ this Marxists; now all of you in Taxichusettes move into Kalifornikation and us Texans will live w/our ancient archaic ways.........

Oct 30, 2009

i cal bs, Get your head out of the sand. It's denial like yours that has put his country in the situation its in. This has been on the radar for quite a while which is the reason Yosi Sergant is no loner in his position at the White House. There is none so blind as he who will not see.

Oct 30, 2009

I agree with bobc. I stopped watching "The Good Wife" after the first episode when the daughter had an Obama poster in her room. Could the media be any more transparent in their endorsement of this administration?

Oct 30, 2009

How is that hope and change working out for you? can't wait till 2010...then this marxist will be kept in check.

Oct 30, 2009

Everyone knows Obama was trying to fix the NEA when George Bush came by and broke it again. If you disagree with me you are a racist. Obama is a great guy on television.

Oct 30, 2009

Do you hold the same disdain for former SNL actress Victoria Jackson and actors Chuck Norris and Jon Voigt, who tirelessly interject themselves into supporting Republican candidates and policies?

Just curious.

Oct 30, 2009

Anyone who didn't know the White House was involved in this is either an idiot or fooling themselves. This White House has its dirty mitts in every pie they can find. Anything to get the agenda passed and another four years in the White House. Voter fraud and blatant theft are not off the table.

Oct 30, 2009

They probbly don't even know that's illegal.

Oct 30, 2009

When will we ever learn. First it was "art" that mocked the values of the vast majority of Americans--the people paying for these abominations. I'm speaking of the so-called Piss Christ and Mapplethorpe's perversions. Real art celebrates the values of the tribe rather than mock them. Since art that mocks our tribe is about the only thing the NEA produces, the organization is a total fraud and US taxpayers should not be forced to pay for it. If there is to be an NEA, let Israel pay for it.

Oct 30, 2009

I wouldn't think you'd have to tell a NEA grant recipient to hustle for a liberal administration. Isn't that included in the package for free?

Oct 30, 2009

The Democrats are intent on ruling everything. They are open about their plans and they do not mind throwing it in our faces.

Pelosi refused to allow citizens to attend the health care bill introduction at the Capitol. That building belongs to us. What makes her think she can host a private event there?

http://www.onebigdog.net/pelosi-locks-americans-out-of-their-building/

Oct 30, 2009

"how is that "pushing Obama's agenda'"... One of Yosi Sargent's specific "asks" is that artists create work that promotes the President and his policies. He even helps them through the brainstorm process, mentioning health care, the environment, etc.

One doesn't need to look far to find recent art work popping up in support of the Public Option. (Not to mention that sleazy spot on the Julia Louis Dreyfus show about the number of uninsured -- which doesn't even correlate to Obama's updated number).

Let me break it down for you simply:
NEA = Yosi Sargent
White House = Buffy Wicks and Kalpen Modi. Throw in Russell Simmons' guy.

Oct 30, 2009

Shut them all down now. Lets start with PBS and NPR these are just a few of the liberal/socailist propaganda machines... Frankly I'm tired of funding them with my hard earned tax dollars

Oct 30, 2009

Oy. It won't surprise me if he is gone from the administration by Monday... and it also won't surprise me if he blames racism for this unfair treatment.

Oct 30, 2009

How do we like that "hope and change" now?
Change from a democracy to borderline communism, with little hope for the future.

Oct 30, 2009

OBAMA IS THE WORST EXAMPLE OF A PRESIDENT EVER, HE IS A JOKE, HE IS MAKING THE USA INTO A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, SOON WE WILL ALL BE WORKING IN THE RICE FIELDS LIVING IN HUTS

Oct 30, 2009

Tip of the iceberg. Much of the MSM was involved in the deception of America also.

Oct 30, 2009

Obama: "Hello, I'm not a President but I play one on TV."

Oct 30, 2009

And Bush was supposed to be the one who was corrupt???

Man, talk about setting new standards for illegal and unethical behavior.

Oct 30, 2009

this is a propoganda website not news --- same with Big Hollywood and The Moonies owned Washington times.

this is more bs meant to "enrage" the peasants into voting Conservative ... fake news for the stupid

Oct 30, 2009

OH NO the white house had people asking the arts to promote Recycling and Blood Donations --- and not paying them.

Unlike the Bush Administration that DID pay people to promote WH propoganda on the air.

LOL

Boy you have to be REALLY stupid to be taken in by Big Hollywood / Drudge / this craptastic website.

Oct 30, 2009

It will be a happy day when the treasonous communists infesting "our" tyrannical government are dragged, kicking and screaming, before the Patriot Tribunals to be charged with crimes against WE THE PEOPLE.

Oct 30, 2009

Say, AvgJoe, he has little choice pulling wool over his eyes. What else would sheeple do? Hmmm . . .

Oct 30, 2009

Kalpen's jewish....never would've guessed...oy

Oct 30, 2009

Thank you, come again.

Oct 30, 2009

@AJ Simkatu- Don't speak disparagingly of Chuck Norris. He will flying kick you in the head if you say something else. I would vote for Chuck N. for President of the US or Texas.

Oct 30, 2009

I want to know what kind of Social Security meeting this Kalpen Modi person was attending. It better have been about his and nothing about mine or yours.

Oct 30, 2009

This is the problem with actors getting involved in politics when they are so DUMB to figured out that what they are doing are illegal.

Oct 30, 2009

AJ Simkatu said "Do you hold the same disdain for former SNL actress Victoria Jackson and actors Chuck Norris and Jon Voigt, who tirelessly interject themselves into supporting Republican candidates and policies?"

Um, AJ, Jackson and Norris are doing all that on their own time and dime, not ours. What part of taxpayer-funded policy propaganda don't you understand?

Oct 30, 2009

I love how Yosi tries to sound refined by writing, "intro with Nellie and I," when "me" is the correct word. He thought that would be too pedestrian. I adore ignorant elitists--they crack me up!

Oct 30, 2009

AJ Simkatu,
Please tell me you are not trying to use an individual’s right to support fund raising efforts (regardless of their party affiliation) for a candidate as the justification for allowing this kind of gross misappropriation of tax payer dollars. As taken from its own website, the NEA was:
“Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Arts Endowment is the largest annual national funder of the arts…”
The keywords here being INDEPENDENT agency of the federal government…meaning that it should remain non-partisan for everyone to enjoy. This is not to say the artists themselves cannot choose their preferred medium to discuss political commentary, but leave the nudges from the White House out of it!

Oct 30, 2009

Wow, Anti-Semitism and racist jokes in a right-wing comment thread that happens to involve Jews and people of color!

I'm absolutely shocked! Who would ever expect such a thing?

Oct 30, 2009

I would be a worse President. I would have a hit squad and their mission would be to search out and exterminate Liberals, Hollywood Idiots, Judges who legislate from the bench, all PETA, all ACLU pigs and the entire lot of MSM slobbering morons. Cut California from the US Territories, give it to these idiots, let them fend for themselves.
The pretender, his cronies, and all the other liberal leeches and lechers can move to Cuba or Venezuela. Once they get there they will see how sweet it was back home. Then don't let them back.

Oct 30, 2009

AJ Simkatu are you a moron? Norris and others you mentioned aren't on the public payroll, nitwit. Federal bureaucrats aren't supposed to be partisan. It's pure partisan propaganda. They should resign better yet fired.
I suspect you are a government school graduate. It figures, just another mindless moron.

Oct 30, 2009

It is time to begin a real boycott. Pick the TIMEs Magazine. The strategy is. 1.) Build massive shared email data base to forward newsletter about boycott, 2.) Identify every advertiser in the magazine and begin a boycott of the advertisers, 3.) email the boycott details to every advertiser, 4.) Buy the magazine to increase the production and delivery costs to the magazine company, 5.) their ad revenue will drop significantly but, they will have to print to fulfill the subscriber demand. Higher overhead costs, decreased income from ads, - THIS WILL SEND A MESSAGE - Anyone interested - I'll do all the work from here - we need to build a data base of recipients.

Oct 30, 2009

"oy" should tip one off to these UNAMERICAN scumbags,but very,very typical.

Oct 30, 2009

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Oct 30, 2009

Kal Penn's brother is Pulin Modi who works for PETA.

Oct 30, 2009

Americans are individuals who do not respond to marching in step to a master's cadence. What has happened to liberals? They used to be for individual freedom but now thet are all about collective groupthink and conformity of thought. Essentially they have become the people they used to hate.

Oct 30, 2009

"I wouldn't think you'd have to tell a NEA grant recipient to hustle for a liberal administration. Isn't that included in the package for free?"

So true. It would be as redundant as asking ABC/CBS/NBC to try and slant stories in favor of the liberal agenda. That is already job 1 in the MSM.
It's the Age of Obama as per Gwen Ifill.

Oct 30, 2009

We should pray for the enemies of God, liberty, and justice that God would open their eyes to the Truth.

Oct 30, 2009

I have seen no commentary on the grammar used by now-former NEA national COMMUNICATIONS director Yosif Sargant,in his 10AUG email:
"any chance you can hop on for 5 minutes and intro with Nelli & 'I' "

Oct 30, 2009

The administration lies so much, surrounds itself with minions who also lie, that they probably don't even know they are doing it. They even seem to be able to create new ways to lie....my guess is they could probably take a lie detector test and pass it with flying colors. They are truly frightening.

Oct 30, 2009

SEND THIS RADICAL MUSLIM PACKING!

Oct 30, 2009

Is that a Jewish or English "oy"? If the former it is misused, if the latter it'd be an odd form of pretension.

As a right wing Hebrew, I am offended by both this fascist act and the misuse of this word.

Oct 30, 2009

ALL LIBERALS MUST HANG!

Oct 30, 2009

death to hollywood...
save your money for retirement...

Oct 30, 2009

Mr. Televangelist and his concern for Right wing anti-Semitic comments. Like the left wing is not more anti-Semitic; where can one start?
1) Stalin's Doctor Plot. Kill all the Jews in Soviet Union.
2) Communists murder of tens of thousands of Jews in Soviet Union.
3) The gross anti-Semites of the Socialist European Countries like Norway. The constant attack on Israel; aka Jews. Should we mention the things that they stole from the returning Norwegian Jews after WWII?
4) The anti-Semites in the left wing churches and organizations. Unlike the right wing Churches that support Jews.
5) Just the general anti-Semites on the Left; part of their socialist agenda.

Oct 30, 2009

THIS MAN IN OUR wHITE HOUSE MUST BE STOPPED NOW! I REFUSE TO WATCH THE LEFT WING MEDIA. I REFUSE TO WATCH ANY OF THE HOLLYWOOD NUTS. SINCE OBAMBBA TOOK OFFICE, EVERY CHANNEL IS NOTHING BUT BLACKS. WE CANNOT TURN ON THE T V, WITHOUT BLACK FACES ON EVERY STATION.
THIS SO CALLED PREZ. SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND THEN PUT IN PRISON, ALONG WITH PELOISE, REID, RANGEL, CONYERS, MAXINE WATTERS, JUST TO NAME A FEW.

Oct 30, 2009

Worst. Marxist. President. Ever.
Time for a coup. Wake up, people.

Oct 30, 2009

We need to get an exterminator into the WH and this administration quick! The roaches are crawling out of every nook and cranny!

Oct 30, 2009

"The emails reveal that Modi worked with now-former NEA national communications director Yosif Sargant in planning the August 10 conference call" He did all this work in less than 3 hours and wasn't even able to participate in the call. From what I read he was requested to participate and "give the exact spiel" he had already given somewhere else. So what showed that he worked on the planning? This is definately a no news article .......

Oct 30, 2009

The President of the United States of America is above the law - he CANNOT be touched. Even if proof came out that there is fraud and linked to Obama, no one can touch him. He is the most powerful person in the world. He controls the FBI, the CIA and all other gov't agencies, they answer to him. However, he will answer to us in 2012 !

Oct 30, 2009

To:rjp3
If you got your head out of your third point of contact..and quit drinking the Kool-aid, you would see this Chicago Hood destroying our country..if you like his form of Government move the hell to Cuba....

Oct 30, 2009

Thank goodness for whistleblowers, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Andy Breitbart and the Tea Party Patriots who are watching every move this President makes now that they have FINALLY woken up. He going to be a very disappointed little dictator-in-training-pants when his agenda is smashed into tiny pieces and he finds himself on the White House lawn with his suitcase in his hands. 2012 is coming.

Oct 30, 2009

"Any chance you can hop on for 5 minutes and intro with Nellie and I?"
with Nellie and me. These White House people are a bunch of poorly schooled dopes.

Oct 30, 2009

Everything they do is to expand power. Obama won't be satisfied until he's dictator for life. He is the single most dangerous man in our lifetimes, a modern day Hitler.

Oct 30, 2009

These comment boards are inhabited by a sorry group of angry lemmings with a truly laughable grasp of history and logic. Now go ahead, rip me with more of your semi-literate bile...

Oct 30, 2009

Obama-shahada...'I'm not tired'..."I'm all fired up and ready to go'...

Can someone show him the door...

Oct 30, 2009

This is a scary time for America. We have a President who willingly hires known communists and who is a master at propaganda.

Oct 30, 2009

Oooh, Dennis D, brilliant point!! You sure do know a lot about politics and history! You even spell "propaganda" correctly! Kudos for taking your marching orders so effectively!

Oct 30, 2009

This guy will be neutered in the 2010 elections just like Clinton was. Clinton had a big liberal agenda as well in his first two years in office - this agenda woke up the conservatives and they took over the House and Senate. History is repeating itself. Obama will "become" more moderate (like he campaigned) when the Congress is taken back by the right next year. Relax people... this is why the two-party system still works and our system of government, however imperfect, is still the best system. My 2 cents...

Oct 30, 2009

To NotInsane
Why rip you? You are simply following the Rules Of Order for the liberal mindset: Throw out accusations without providing a modicum of evidence, and finish with insults. This is what counts as debate for the left. To top it all off, you even set yourself up as a potential victim, ready for the big, bad meanies to "rip" you. Relax--Nancy, Harry, and BO will give you an "A" for your post.

Oct 30, 2009

"AJ Simkatu says: Do you hold the same disdain for former SNL actress Victoria Jackson and actors Chuck Norris and Jon Voigt, who tirelessly interject themselves into supporting Republican candidates and policies?"

Get a clue AJ, last time I checked none of these people were trying to use my tax dollars behind my back to support a moron like we have in the White House.

Oct 30, 2009

my man hussein, er barry, er obama, er i guess it doesnt matter eh..

next time you guys hire a president, do some digging, especially when he baits you with his race not to

muslim tactics and you wont see for some time also on the deceiver's agenda, but he'll have many accomplices and you wont see it like little base stuff like this

stupid ignorant me. trouble is im not:)

Oct 30, 2009

test

Oct 30, 2009

Obama is a fraud and a socialist moron. It's time to stand up...and throw down!

Oct 31, 2009

No wonder he was shot in the head in his last House episode

Oct 31, 2009

"Kaplen Modi and his peeps can kiss my grits." "They should all be water boarded..twice..and then properly hung. Don't you think?" "I stopped watching "The Good Wife" after the first episode when the daughter had an Obama poster in her room." "SOON WE WILL ALL BE WORKING IN THE RICE FIELDS LIVING IN HUTS" "ALL LIBERALS MUST HANG!"... haha what a bunch of morons... go back to the woods you stupid red necks.

Oct 31, 2009

Obama is a Red Diaper Baby. Raised in an American Communist household to lead the revolution. Where were the MSM, Fox or Washington Times articles examining his grandfather's journey from Kansas to Washington to Hawaii? Why did they go to Washington State in the 1950s to become part of a community well-known for its Communist ties? Why did he then move the family to the new state of Hawaii when the party had put out a call for members to move there to establish a beachead? Fox and the Washington Times only go so far in giving us the real story behind Obama. Check out David Horowitz's website discoverthenetworks.com also check out http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/barack_obama_red_diaper_baby_1.html

Oct 31, 2009

Billy Bob has given the typical liberal response. No thought, no idea what's really going on, no clue whatsoever of the massive taxes and socialism that's coming. Just a childish tantrum, calling those who oppose Obama's policies 'red necks'. Billy Bob: When, not if, but WHEN taxes on the 'rich' go up to 75%, and those folks, along with their businesses (yes, those evil capitalists who create JOBS) have had enough and leave America...you and your liberal buddies will be stuck with a $120 trillion bill (do the math!) that you'll never be able to pay off. You'll be effectively working for the US government for the rest of your life.

Send Obama packing in 2010. Enough of this liberal nonsense. These folks simply don't understand a darn thing.

Nov 2, 2009

I just love hollywood leftist hype. Why don't you bunch of holier than art thou's come down to the real world for real change.

Nov 2, 2009

I just have 1 question. Why do we need to pass this so called health care reform bill right now? what's the hurry? It won't even take effect till 2013 ( coincidentally 1 yr into Obama's 2nd term) If it is such a crisis why not implement it in 2010 right after it's signed???? (assuming it passes)
I think the real reason the bill has over 1,900 pages can be described with 1 word..... obfuscation!

Nov 2, 2009

RJP3; Don't you have a spell checker?????
Just say'n

Nov 2, 2009

The triumph of Conservative views over progressive and liberal radicals will come about because of the unalterably narcissistic view of radicals. “I think thus, therefore it is true.” Delusion is their bread and butter. The best thing that has happened with this “two generations” too early leap to power is that they have finally nudged the silent majority. Mr. Sunstein’s “nudge” theory is finally coming true in an unexpected way. He has nudged us into activity. Upon resumption of sanity in Washington through the ballot boxes of America, the agenda can become swift and permanent. Abolish and outlaw any government contributions to those areas of life in America that are not explicitly delineated in the Constitution.

Nov 2, 2009

Geez, what a great role model this guy is...he plays a stoner in just about every movie he appears in. But, that is par for the course in Barry O's regime.

Nov 3, 2009

Many talented people in the arts, have been passed over for a grant or gig because they balked when expected to produce Rivera-esque murals depicting The One as the planet's Savior.

Nov 3, 2009

BillyBob,make your peace with God

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