The NEA's Partisan Work For Obama

Editorial - September 6th, 2009 - Wasington Times

When the Obama administration launched its United We Serve volunteerism program earlier this summer, it was all about building playgrounds, caring for wounded veterans and reading to homeless children. Weeks later, the Obama White House, the National Endowment for the Arts and United We Serve have revealed the actual agenda -- backing the administration's political priorities with coordinated propaganda, perhaps boosted by millions in stimulus cash.

This story is at the root of much of the concern about Obama's planned "talk with students" scheduled for later today. The Obama administration, using radical extremists like Yosi Sergant, director of communications for the NEA, is working with government agencies in ways that are totally corrupt to politicize our government. These radical left wing groups, a group in which I include the NEA, are being permitted to spend government money in ways that are clearly against the Constitution. The American taxpayer is being required to fund actions that are inconsistent with half the population. If you just looked at taxpayers, the actions are in opposition to the vast majority of taxpayers.

Yet Obama and his minions see nothing wrong with it. They also see nothing wrong with lying about what they are doing. The term liar is considered unacceptable in political discourse. Yet when someone denies taking an action that they clearly took, what else can it be called? Yosi Seargeant lied. Pure and simple. And the Obama White House is lying when they deny they are politicizing his speech to children.