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Title: Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call
Post by: bijou on September 21, 2009, 09:31:38 AM

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On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries”:

    On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to attend a conference call scheduled for Monday August 10th hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve. The call would include “a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, taste-makers, leaders or just plain cool people to join together and work together to promote a more civically engaged America and celebrate how the arts can be used for a positive change!”

The email invite came directly from Yosi Sergant, then-Director of Communications at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and it advised this hand-picked group that the call was about laying “a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.”

Courrielche describes the call this way:

    Backed by the full weight of President Barack Obama’s call to service and the institutional weight of the NEA, the conference call was billed as an opportunity for those in the art community to inspire service in four key categories, and at the top of the list were “health care” and “energy and environment.” The service was to be attached to the President’s United We Serve campaign, a nationwide federal initiative to make service a way of life for all Americans.

    It sounded, how should I phrase it…unusual, that the NEA would invite the art community to a meeting to discuss issues currently under vehement national debate. I decided to call in, and what I heard concerned me.

Within 48 hours of this phone call, 21 arts organizations endorsed President Obama’s health-care reform plan. Within days, Rock the Vote started an all out blitz that included a “health care design contest.”  ...

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mflynnjnolte/2009/09/20/pregame-report-the-nea-conference-call/#more-230454

Respite for ACORN and misery for the NEA?

Title: Re: Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call
Post by: thundley4 on September 21, 2009, 09:48:03 AM

I'd rather keep the heat on ACORN until their chestnuts are fully roasted.  :-)

Title: Re: Pregame Report: The NEA Conference Call
Post by: bijou on September 21, 2009, 09:49:54 AM

Quote from: thundley4 on September 21, 2009, 09:48:03 AM

I'd rather keep the heat on ACORN until their chestnuts are fully roasted.  :-)

I read somewhere that there are further Acorn revelations later this week.