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September 21, 2009

NEA/Obama Administration Target of Next Breitbart Corruption Probe?

It sure looks that way.

The President had a certain amount of plausible deniability when he tried to claim he didn't know how deeply corrupt ACORN was. After all he has only acted as a lawyer and trainer for them over a number of years.

But if someone in the White House is illegally using public funds to further the Administration's political agenda, we may just have the start of something here far worse than we ever could have imagined...

Update: Big Hollywood has the audio and transcripts of a highly politicized call between carefully-selected pro-Obama artists and artist groups, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This is apparently a direct effort by the Obama White House to contract out political propaganda favorable to their policy initiatives.

What was said on the call seems irrefutable. What laws were broken (if any) remains to be seen.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at September 21, 2009 12:46 AM
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Particularly since we also have "Obama 2.0" and the first serious attempts to repeal the 22nd Amendment. This is an all-out war on the Republic.

Posted by: Jonathan Nolan at September 21, 2009 02:13 AM

Far worse than you could have ever imagined, perhaps. I have no illusions about the potential depths of human depravity, nor about the moral or ethical status of the current administration. It has none of either. So there is very little that Barry Lackwit or his minions could attempt that would be worse than I could ever imagine.

Posted by: wolfwalker at September 21, 2009 07:41 AM

AWESOME!!! Somebody is finally exposing Bush's Faith Based Initiatives program!!! SWEET!!! Unfortunately...that was considered legal by your "other" set of laws.

I'm intrigued. I'm sure it will be amusing. At least you had 60,000 tea-baggers and birthers who thought those ACORN videos were somewhat important.

Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 21, 2009 09:00 AM

"we may just have the start of something here far worse than we ever could have imagined..."

I don't know - I can imagine pretty bad. Check out http://www.usdebtclock.org/ We're heading toward a crash that'll make the Great Depression look like the "Good ole days". The Fed will debase the currency in a futile attempt to maintain the entitlements by money printing; wiping out the savings of those who tried to plan responsibly. When reality finally dawns, they'll abandon those social contracts as well as the old currency. The currency replacement will be the "coup de grace" for whatever is left of our savings.

Remember, in the 1930's the U.S. was still mainly an agrarian economy. My mother's family had a family farm to move back to during the First Great Depression. I don't have that option.

The US dollar's failure will drive the world to a new standard reserve currency or a "world currency". I tell my wife that I hope I'm just a crazy old man, but at this point I don't see how it turns out any other way...

Posted by: Diogenes Online at September 21, 2009 09:17 AM

I read the article and there is a point to be made. How much tax-payer money has been funneled every year through the Faith Based Initiatives Program to the Family research Council to thrown that Value Voters meeting held every year. I noticed no Democrats are ever invited. You may be on to something.

Posted by: Lipiwitz at September 21, 2009 09:32 AM

>>"Somebody is finally exposing Bush's Faith Based Initiatives program!!! SWEET!!! Unfortunately...that was considered legal by your "other" set of laws."


It was "considered legal" by the American courts. To you those probably represent another set of laws.

Posted by: Steve at September 21, 2009 09:57 AM

>>"How much tax-payer money has been funneled every year through the Faith Based Initiatives Program to the Family research Council"

Shouldn't you have an answer to your moronic questions BEFORE you pose them, pedophile?

Posted by: Steve at September 21, 2009 10:00 AM

Here's a newsflash.


"The head of a community reform organization faces sentencing after pleading no contest to two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor in Torrance County. Ben McGartland of Albuquerque, head of the New Mexico chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, was charged in July in state District Court in Estancia with 10 counts, including second-degree criminal sexual penetration of a minor, three counts of criminal sexual contact, attempt to commit a felony, kidnapping, concealing identity, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana."


Since Timmy Evans is still posting here I guess he has not been busted. Yet.

Posted by: Steve at September 21, 2009 10:30 AM

The NEA should be abolished. The Constitution's only reference to the Arts was in Article I, Section 8,

[8] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

It specifically gives only one avenue to promote progress os science and useful arts, which does not include funding.

If we followed the Constitution, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

lipowitz - if you truly believe that government funding of faith-based organizations was bad, then you should be just as appaled by the politicization of the NEA. Bush is gone - move on.

Posted by: SouthernRoots at September 21, 2009 11:34 AM

"If we followed the Constitution, we wouldn't be having this discussion."

Constitution?? We have a Constitution? Who knew...

Certainly our current ruling class in D.C. doesn't.

Posted by: Diogenes online at September 21, 2009 12:03 PM

Um, Lip,
I'm not real certain I can find a common point between your "progressive" friends in the .gov using a taxpayer-funded department of gov to further spread their propaganda and any money that was voted to a PRIVATE non-profit by Congress. Can you enlighten me?

DIdn't think so.

Posted by: emdfl at September 21, 2009 02:27 PM

Lipiwitz is really getting desperate with the pivot and distract strategy.

Hey, look over there, BUNNIES!!!!

ACORN and Owebama's pitiful performance has put him over the edge.

Posted by: daleyrocks at September 21, 2009 06:51 PM

If Federal employees participated, wouldn't that involve the Hatch Act?

Posted by: mark l at September 22, 2009 08:40 AM

With Holder as AG, this goes nowhere.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 23, 2009 01:47 PM