October 5, 2009: More on Obama's NEA Fail
Remember when the Obama administration used the National Endowment for the Arts to further its agenda? It was a big, big failure of the Obama administration. Some might even call it a scandal...
Patrick Courrielche at Big Government is still doing an amazing job at uncovering the details and putting the puzzle pieces together:
A few days ago I received a call from my cousin. He’d been hearing some chatter from the family about something happening with a series of NEA articles that I’d written for Big Hollywood and wanted to find out from the horse’s mouth what was going on. His question was simple and concise.
“What did the White House do wrong,” he asked.
“The White House attempted to use federal agencies for political gain,” I blurted out.
And that is The Big Truth in a nutshell. A moment of clarity hit me, and as with most eureka moments, a path of how to explain this big truth came into sight. The full story needed to be told – including possible collusion, the White House’s novel mode of operation, and the eventual cover-up – to fully understand and illuminate the government’s intention with their arts effort.
Up until now, I have not discussed Sergant’s former job in the White House Office of Public Engagement, where Buffy Wicks currently resides, because the story had to develop to understand the significance. I also haven’t discussed the email that I received from Michael Skolnik, the moderator of the call, immediately after the publication of the original conference call article – an email that attempted to revise history and the role of the NEA and the White House in the meeting. And what has yet to be discussed is the White House’s recent ability to set up an ArtistCorps, brought into existence with less than 20 words in the Serve America Act.
A deeper look into the build up to the August 10th meeting and the aftermath of the release of my article will be explored here. This is The Big Truth.
That's just the beginning of an expansive and amazingly detailed article. READ IT ALL - you'll be happy you did.
