NEA, Obama and Statist Art

Stalin did it. Mao did it. It was done in Communist East Germany. Hussein did it. The little demented pot belly dictator of N Korea is doing it. Could you imagine what would have happened if GW did it? What is it? It is using artists, writers, actors and such to push Obama's Statist agenda. In August our Dear Leader had a conference call with the National Endowment for the Arts and the White House Office of Public Engagement (WTF?) and United We Serve (Obama's campaign troops under a new name, that continues the campaign after the election, kind of like the Ministry of Propaganda), was, according to a film producer, Patrick Courrielche, for the purpose of exploring "how the Arts can be used for a positive change".

There are American artists, writers, actors willing to put their respective crafts in the service of the State? That reminds you of what? This conference call was to enlist the artistic community into Obama's Ministry of Propaganda. Aren't artists to reflect the human spirit, create beauty, express freedom and the like?

Of course the followers of our Dear Leader deny this:
NEA: “This call was not a means to promote any legislative agenda and any suggestions to that end are simply false. “
WH: “[T]he Aug. 10 teleconference ‘was not meant to promote any legislative agenda.’”

Here are some quotes from the conference call:
Buffy Wicks (Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement):
“I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda… we need you, and we’re going to need your help, and we’re going to come at you with some specific asks here… We’re actually running the government… We need your guys’ help to promote this.
I’m actually in the White House and working towards furthering this agenda, this very aggressive agenda… we need you, and we’re going to need your help, and we’re going to come at you with some specific asks here.”

NELLIE ABERNATHY: We are really looking at reaching a new brand of people… We have 12 [do-it-yourself toolkits] that really allow people who are more self-directed who say I have a need in my community that I want to address, and it’s not necessarily attractive to me to go and serve soup at the existing soup kitchen with 80-year-old women… we are really looking at reaching a new brand of people." Yeah, she wants to serve the poor, just not do it personally. I'm mean really, the great un-washed and all.

YOSI SERGANT: "Whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know… My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities’ utilities and bring them to the table." My ask? Say what?

gaaarg...what is said, and what is said is said in this administration...Don't they know that everything is recorded? Then they deny it was said. Say what? To think that the creative community could have so bowed down to the messiah, the One who will lower the oceans and lower the planet's temperature, will give up artistic integrity to serve the State, give up freedom and liberty. Do they really think that if they embrace this, do they realize that same State will eventually allow them to only create what the State says, then what?