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Oh, yeah? Tell that to Juanes and company. Of course, they're useful idiots (at best), but let's not quibble.
I don't understand that post. It has today's date on it but it includes phrases like "politicization of the NEA and the attempt to convert it into a partisan body." That makes it sound like this is something that didn't already happen a very long time ago.
If you're keeping score:
The NEA has little to do with education and more to do with indoctrination.
The NAACP doesn't care about all colored people.
The NOW will actively work to destroy any woman that doesn't fit their orthodoxy.
The AARP knows which political party is paying top dollar for their support.
Tom, the NEA the linked post refers to is the National Endowment for the Arts, not the National Education Association. In either case, I agree with you that both agencies have been politicized to the nth degree for a long time. It's just this administration's attempt to take advantage of the fact that most artists are very poorly educated about politics, and have been indoctrinated by Leftist idiots for years.
Leftists will say why is the right complaining when they didn't complain when conservative presidents tried to manipulate the NEA to support things they deemed appropriate and slammed things they didn't deem appropriate.
Leftists would be wrong if they said that.
The right never wanted the NEA to exist at all and tried to reduce funding because they were unable to put it out of existence.
I have had a running argument with my liberal friend because I have never wanted the NEA to exist. She would say in a country as rich as we are there is no excuse not to have a huge government support for the arts. And I would always answer, that if people liked certain arts, they should support them. I don't want the government choosing what should be considered good art. They often would choose what I don't want to support. I don't mind local support in cities and states. But what one administration likes I might not like. And though I would like to wish that the administration could be kept out of it, you can see that if they are providing the money, they are going to have a say. Thus anger at homosexual photography,no matter how artistic it is, for example.
So now we come to proving me correct. We now have a communist behaving president who wants to coopt our arts funding to bend it to propaganda for his program. How does this differ from Castro?
Thanks for the tip, Elemaza. I obviously bailed on the article too soon.
I should probably turn down the sensitivity on the BS detector.
The NEA, like many talented people from all branches of the arts, has an unfortunate history of support and intimate relations with leftist causes and radical elements. The NEA is not shy about its stance either -- it has no reason to be in the environment it has existed in since its inception. I'm of the belief that an artist can never divorce his/her political beliefs from his/her oeuvre (lifework) anymore that one's decisions can be divorced from one's worldview. It's impossible: you write, paint, perform, create those things that are in your head and imagination, but your brain and its ideas don't exist in a vacuum. An artist may camouflage his beliefs or skirt around a position for personal or other reasons, like the rest of humanity, but the totality of their work will always reflect what they think and how they really are. For anyone to pretend otherwise is ludricous; being a closet socialist still means being a socialist. While we can admire the artist's work, we need to realize that it stems from his/her beliefs in the final analysis.
Artists of all sorts are extremely sensitive to matters of fashion and image. They are under tremendous pressure to be "hip," "cool," etc. at any cost, and if they're not that way, there IS a price to pay. They know that. This has a great deal to do with their behavior and public posture. What matters is the perception, the image; what is actually true or real is secondary, not to say moot.
= So basically by the time Obama is finished ... we'll be Cuba, but with more food and toilet paper.
Mr. Mojito,
yeah, but with none of that extra plush scented toilet paper. We'll only have that 60 grit kind.
No Mr. Mojito and Val. We'll be using The Herald and be as "smart" as the Cubans in Cuba.
Porque en Cuba, todos los culos saben leer.
In the communist joke book there was one about if communism took over the Sahara, we'd soon be hearing of a shortage of sound.
So, don't count your food or toilet paper....