Audio: the White House and the NEA are caught working together to push Obama’s agenda

This is a very big story just breaking today at Andrew Breitbart’s two websites: Big Hollywood and Big Government. He has a post at each site that chronicles how the Obama Administration and the National Endowment for the Arts (think taxpayer dollars) worked together to encourage pro-Obama artists to push the president’s health care, energy, education, and environmental agendas. Here’s a portion:

Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?

That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?”

The question still requires debate but the facts do not.

The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable.

But some have claimed that the invite and passages, pulled from the conference call that inspired the article, were taken out of context. Context is what I intend to establish here.

On August 10th, the National Endowment for the Arts, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and the Corporation for National and Community Service hosted a conference call with a handpicked arts group. This arts group played a key role in Obama’s arts effort during his election campaign, as declared by the organizers of the call, and many on the call played a role in the now famous Obama Hope poster.

Much of the talk on the conference call was a build up to what the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was specifically asking of this group. In the following segment, Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, clearly identifies this arts group as a pro-Obama collective and warns them of some “specific asks” that will be delivered later in the meeting.

Please head on over the the post and listen to the audio. In it you’ll hear Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement who works with Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett, for those who are unfamiliar, is essentially Barack Obama’s second brain and was the one who recruited Van Jones, the self avowed communist who had to resign from his position of Green Jobs Czar because of his radical views. It becomes clear in the conference call that the White House via Wicks and the NEA are working together to get the artists to help them promote the president’s agenda through their art.

This whole thing is very important because not only does it illustrate an inappropriate use of the administration’s power by directing a department that is supposed to using taxpayer dollars to promote the arts for the good of the everyone and not promote the president’s political agenda, but it also illustrates how the mainstream media has once again refused to report the corrupt goings-on in this administration.

For a lot more information and background on this explosive report, head on over to the Media Mythbusters wiki and get all lowdown.

A fellow Wizbanger, Lorie Byrd, posted about this as well at Wizbang.

Update: Here’s the transcript from the conference call.  If you read it, you’ll see how the organizers asked the participants to actively work to advance Obama’s domestic agenda through their art.  Yosi Sargent talked about the impact the Hope poster had in the campaign.

You’ll remember it was a poster that was highly manipulative. The majority of the American voters got swept up into the emotion and bought into Obama’s Hopenchange instead of investigating the man.  Since Obama still does not have any thing else to offer except false hopes and empty emotions, eight months later his administration has no option but to continue to push those things.

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