{"id":696,"date":"2009-09-21T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-09-21T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T19:52:14","slug":"learning-from-the-nea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/696\/learning-from-the-nea\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Talking Points?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has made a habit out of its secret dealings with outside groups, including unions.\u00a0 However, now it appears that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/pcourrielche\/2009\/08\/25\/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche\/\" target=\"_blank\">scheming to promote<\/a> the President&#8217;s agenda.\u00a0 One would think that White House talking points wouldn&#8217;t be the best muse, but let us not underestimate the power of &#8220;hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/weblogs\/watercooler\/2009\/sep\/01\/official-dishonesty-national-endowment-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washington Times<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/pcourrielche\/2009\/08\/25\/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart<\/a>, the NEA and the Administration set up a conference call to encourage artists around the U.S. to channel their creativity &#8230; with the help of the White House Office of Public Engagement.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse, when confronted by reporters, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/pcourrielche\/2009\/08\/31\/contradictions-are-revealing-politicizing-the-nea\/\" target=\"_blank\">NEA lied<\/a> about setting up the conference call.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/weblogs\/watercooler\/2009\/sep\/01\/official-dishonesty-national-endowment-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is the transcript. The Director who misled reporters did not resign, but has <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/jjmnolte\/2009\/09\/10\/breaking-nea-asks-communications-director-yosi-sergant-to-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\">instead been reassigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/bighollywood.breitbart.com\/pcourrielche\/2009\/08\/25\/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Courrielche<\/a> of Breitbart wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to take part in a conference call that invited a group of rising artist and art community luminaries &#8216;to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda \u2013 health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has made a habit out of its secret dealings with outside groups, including unions.\u00a0 However, now it appears that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is scheming to promote the President&#8217;s agenda.\u00a0 One would think that White House talking points wouldn&#8217;t be the best muse, but let us not underestimate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,44],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-nea","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}