James Taranto, WSJ’s Best of the Web: What we found peculiar about [Chairman Rocco Landesman’s] statement, however, was its punctiliousness in referring to the NEA man involved. His name is Yosi Sergant, but you wouldn’t know it from the Landesman
Press release from U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee: Enzi Leads GOP HELP Committee Inquiry Into Alleged NEA Political Activity WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member
The former NEA Director of Communications acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell. Washington Times: STATEMENT FROM NEA CHAIRMAN ROCCO LANDESMAN September 22, 2009 As chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts,
“What the hell is a political PR agency doing on a conference call for artists in the first place? “Are we talking art, or are we talking professional political campaign ads?” Ace of Spades: A bit of backstory. Before the
Jake Tapper of ABC News: White House officials say they are enacting specific steps to make sure such a call never happens again. Today White House officials are meeting with the chiefs of staff of the executive branch agencies to
Watch CBS Videos Online Obama on Jimmy Carter: “I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election… So the American people I think gave me this extraordinary honor and that tells you I think a
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Kerry Picket at the Washington Times reports today: The Obama administration apparently met with 60 artists and creative organizers as early as May 12 according to an online document (downloadable)by the Pratt Center for Community Development, State Voices, Arlene Goldbard,
John Podhoretz in the Weekly Standard: “[T]he system around which the motion-picture business has oriented itself almost since its creation in the early years of the last century–the star system, which it largely invented–has finally reached its end.” “The eight
My guess is that all the questions were about ACORN, Van Jones and the National Endowment for the Arts scandals, which CNN obviously knows nothing about.
George Will in today’s Washington Post: “Did the White House initiate the conference call-cum-political pep rally? Or, even worse, did the NEA, an independent agency, spontaneously politicize itself? Something that reads awfully like an invitation went from Sergant’s NEA e-mail
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From Cosby’s Facebook page: I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public
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Washington Times Editorial: National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman owes American taxpayers an explanation. Last month, a top NEA official gathered artists and arts organizations in a conference call that also included a White House official and clearly
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A quote from Oliver Stone’s soccer body, Hugo Chavez: “The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” Chavez said in an interview with Le Figaro[.] … “What was it if not genocide?
Glenn Reynolds posted this traffic-cam pic from today’s Tea Party gathering in DC: Glenn and Andrew Breitbart are both scheduled to speak at today’s Quincy, Illinois Tea Party. Big Government is all over today’s events. Just keep scrolling.
FoxNews.com: The National Endowment for the Arts has reassigned its communications director following his participation in a controversial conference call last month, FOX News has learned. But the organization isn’t saying what job Yosi Sergant now holds. “Can’t comment on
