Administration wants NEA to push his agenda

The Obama Administration is attempting to use the government-supported NEA and the "Arts Community" to push his agenda. -

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"Discussed throughout the conference call was a hope that this group would be one that would carry on past the United We Serve campaign to support the President’s initiatives and those issues for which the group was passionate...

"Through providing guidelines to the art community on what topics to discuss and providing them a step-by-step instruction to apply their art form to these issues, the "nation’s largest annual funder of the arts" is attempting to direct imagery, songs, films, and literature that could create the illusion of a national consensus….

"This is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand new conversation. We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally?...Bear with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely…"

 

For fiscal year 2009, NEA received taxpayer funding of $155 million.

I guess the administration doesn't want all that money to go to waste :thumbs:

 

So they could help Obama twice as much?

Both the Third Reich and the Soviets used artwork and film effectively. It's easy to see how it stirred up the population, especially since there were few alternatives to the popular media of that time.