August 27, 2009 4:50 PM
National Endowment for the Arts promoting propaganda?
I know some of you are very interested in the National Endowment for the Arts propaganda overture I reported on yesterday.
This is a BIG story we are not hearing about from the Government-Controlled Media - who are busy today preparing Ted Kennedy for sainthood. Here is a round-up of alternative-sourced links today:
Politicizing the NEA? I'm Shocked. [Lynne Munson]
National Review Online Blogs - ‎44 minutes ago‎No really, I am. At least a little -- by the brazenness described in filmmaker Patrick Courrielche's account of a recent conference call between ...Is the National Endowment for the Arts flirting with propaganda?
Examiner.com - ‎2 hours ago‎by producing propaganda for the Nazi regime Through the years, plenty of governments have paid artists to sing the praises of the politically powerful and ...Artists to be used as tools of the Obama Administration?
Examiner.com - ‎20 hours ago‎Maintaining distinctions between the creative arts and governmental goals was never an issue to the Soviets. The lines were blurred; arts became an ...Obama's NEA: Pushing Artists to be Political
Reason Online - - ‎22 hours ago‎A few weeks ago at Reason.com, Patrick Courrielche wrote about the art community's seemingly uncritical embrace of Barack Obama. Since that piece appeared, ...NEA Assembling Artists for Propaganda Machine?!
Gawker - - ‎Aug 26, 2009‎By Andrew Belonsky , 5:27 AM on Wed Aug 26 2009, 1670 views The call, he says, included the nea's Director of Communications, Yosi Sergant, ...
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Comments
The Gawker website linked in a leftwing site ridiculing as paranoid and or desperate the types of issues you put forth on this site, including the idea that Obama and the NEA would do any such conspiratorial dance as you have suggested. i would remove the link if I were you.
Larry F Philadelphia, Pa
[Thanks for your concern, Larry -
I have no way to remove links at another site. And I really don't mind them sending readers here. Who knows? Perhaps someone will change their mind :)]
Posted by: Larry Feld | September 4, 2009 3:43 AM
