George Will: NEA Call for ‘Recovery Agenda’ Art Likely Broke Some Laws

"I don't know how many laws that breaks but I'm sure there are some."

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September 6, 2009 at 2:29 pm - ABC News
Dateline: Washington, DC
Andy from Beaverton   September 6th, 2009 - 2:33 pm

If G W Bush was going to do what Obama is planning, the left would be apoplectic.

Travis   September 6th, 2009 - 2:36 pm

The “S” sort of reminds me of something else though.

Bradley   September 6th, 2009 - 2:39 pm

YESS WE CAN

dontflagmebro   September 6th, 2009 - 2:46 pm

That sign is Nazi SS Font? What the…. fail the vote is what it should be called.

Cough Into Your Elbow and Don't Shake Your Dorque on the Floor   September 6th, 2009 - 2:55 pm

——-THE LEFT LUNATIC FRINGE – They’re in a Frenzy.——-

Roger   September 6th, 2009 - 2:59 pm

I dont know why that other guest was laughing, but I dont think its funny!! (I dont know his name) but that is scarry when someone LOL’s at goerge will!! So Goerge Will is stupid now???? Freaking A, read the reasons for the constitution!! The reasons for it are as sure as the speed of gravity!! LIFE DIDNT BEGIN IN THE 1960’s!!

Let's Just Break a Few Laws   September 6th, 2009 - 3:05 pm

Senator Brain Damaged and Senator Brain Dead making up a list of laws to break.

http://www.daylife.com/photo/03Z9f7n2nX9nN?q=Barack+Obama

dontflagmebro   September 6th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

George Will is inside the Beltway. He is totally disconnected to the citizens except the upper crust beltway RINO’s. Media uses him as a lapdog when they need a moderate weak to represent all of the right.

Doug Ramsey   September 6th, 2009 - 4:09 pm

Yeah, the Nazi-styled ‘S’. What’s wrong with these designers, not only does the sign
look awful but next they’ll put up signs that say ‘HEIL TO THE CHIEF’!

Terrible design, by the way. Looks like it was done on Photoshop by a newbie.

Billy-Mays-From-The-Grave   September 6th, 2009 - 4:10 pm

Perhaps we can rename it Truth or Pravada?

N Waff   September 6th, 2009 - 4:43 pm

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The NEA is now the Obama Propoganda Administration
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Barry   September 6th, 2009 - 4:45 pm

Abolish the NEA – both of them!

Liberty Jane   September 6th, 2009 - 5:41 pm

I grew up watching network news as a child in the 1970’s. I remember seeing images of cities burning, people running and chanting, general hysteria. In the background were always huge images of their dear leaders. *That* to me was how it was to live in a totalitarian society. Chaos, fear, and capricious violence.

I can’t tell you how much it makes my skin crawl and the hair stand on the back of my neck to see any blown-up images of our new dear leader. And the video shown in the school in Utah – with his image and asking kids “how they can serve him”.

Do young people today just have no sense of what this kind of imagery is all about? Do the deaths of millions of Chinese, Russians, Cubans, Koreans, and Vietnamese mean nothing? I’m afraid I do know the answer — it’s all relative if it’s for the “greater good”.

I for one am going to keep a close eye on the NEA.

Jennifer   September 6th, 2009 - 6:27 pm

This cracks me up. Fox News has been proven to be repeating Bush white house directives of how to present the news and what subjects to focus on each day (ie propaganda) as ‘news’ for 8 years. Very effective as propaganda. And you guys are getting concerned about some artists splashing paint around or making a song that supports health care reform – if artists agree with the president why should they not be free to make art supporting that ? Remember the 80s when the right wing was successful in getting artists de-funded from NEA grants because they made art that ‘insulted’ right wing beliefs such as once that questioned religion, had nudity etc.? If the artists themselves WANT to support Obama (and I think you will find as a generalization that more artists are liberals, anarchists and socialists than conservative republicans as a whole) then I believe they have a right to do that. NEA funding should not be doled out because of political beliefs. If someone finds that you must support Obama to get NEA funding, then that would be a big story, but this is small peanuts.

Jennifer   September 6th, 2009 - 6:32 pm

PS I highly doubt this conference call broke ANY laws. The NEA was started in the 1930s by FDR as a way to fund arts in the great depression. It was very political back then and funded many public art projects that were all about recovering from that economic crisis, bringing up the spirits of the people, documenting rural poverty (so that people in the cities would see it and support legislation to help said people) etc.. Most of those famous ‘great depression’ photographs you see published now are from those original projects, as are many murals and paintings in public buildings around the country.

Shane99   September 6th, 2009 - 6:40 pm

JENNIFER Your a NUT!!!! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST All the same. PROOF VAN JONES.

dontflagmebro   September 6th, 2009 - 7:02 pm

They must of been watching movies on the SS Gestapo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_G3tQS4SEA

Lifeofthemind   September 6th, 2009 - 7:12 pm

The defense of the Left has two parts.
1) We got away with something 75 years ago when the government was 1/10th its present size and the dangers of state controlled art were not understood.
2) All the laws, rules and regulations that have been enacted in the intervening period to prohibit this don’t apply to us. It is only wrong if Republicans do it.

Jennifer   September 6th, 2009 - 7:20 pm

Shane – Typical of your side that you can only name call and red bait – not debate. Your Bush was a coke head and drunk in his youth, but it didn’t seem to get in the way of his being loved by conservatives later — what does that say about the right and who they choose to vilify ? Personally I would rather support a man with political idealism about social justice in his past than one who was a self centered drug taking drunk as a youth.

Lifeofthemind   September 6th, 2009 - 7:26 pm

Pssst Jennifer, the “self centered drug taking” person was Barry.
Despite efforts to scrub his past some information has got out.

Roger   September 6th, 2009 - 7:32 pm

Tell it to your shrink Jennifer!
PS, while you are in the waiting room read a history book!!!

Web Runner   September 6th, 2009 - 7:45 pm

To Jennifer,
You are a moonbat and nobody
believes a word you say. You are speaking
to the wrong crowd. The Van Jones symposium
has just left the building and so should you.

If you believe any of what Van Jones espouses
then you too are a communist and unworthy to
live in this country (USA) which I doubt you do!

MarkD   September 6th, 2009 - 7:51 pm

They shoulda killed the NEA when they had the chance. This is soo much worse than the crosses in the urine.

Dred Scott   September 6th, 2009 - 9:05 pm

Van Jones hollers smears, lies and distortions of what he said. Let’s go to the videotape, Sports Fans…

IdahoGal   September 6th, 2009 - 9:43 pm

** Typical of your side that you can only name call and red bait – not debate.**

When did this become “your side” “my side” – aren’t we all in this together? And do you really think you’re doing anything else but name calling and throwing insults?

And, why are we funding the arts now? Why are we funding NPR? There is absolutely no reason for it. And if you don’t think NPR is political, you’re pretty naive.

Chilloutyo   September 6th, 2009 - 10:17 pm

Web Runner, I am a lifelong hard-core anti-communist and, through some study of many different countries (including the US), have figured out that roughly 10-20% of the population of any free society has been sucked into some variation of the secular communist/green/socialist/progressive religion. I believe that Jennifer not only lives in this country, but that there are about 30-60 million others here that are pretty much like her. Luckily, there is an approximately equal number of anti-communists/libertarians/freedom lovers, with most others being somewhere else in between. Communists/greens/socialists/progressives are almost all moral relativists and thus cannot lie or be hypocritical (in their own mind), since they cannot believe anything is absolutely true (except for what their leadership says is true (regardless of whether their statements directly contradict what they said previously)).

Trying to convince people like Jennifer to change her mind is like being a Rabbi trying to convince the Pope to convert to Judaism…it ain’t happening! If they take over, they know this about their opposition…hence the proclivity of communists/etc. to build re-education camps and Gulags for those who disagree with them. I am of a mind to use similar measures to stop them from predominating.

Hunter S Thompson   September 6th, 2009 - 10:26 pm

Up at the White House today, the shark ethic prevails – eat the wounded.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Baracky boy is steeped in stupidity, a new example every single day.

QA_NJ   September 6th, 2009 - 11:23 pm

“And you guys are getting concerned about some artists splashing paint around or making a song that supports health care reform – if artists agree with the president why should they not be free to make art supporting that ?”

BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING PAID BY THE GOVERNMENT USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS. You don’t do that with taxpayer money and, as George Will points out, it was likely illegal. That’s something everyone who works in government knows or should know. It’s why tax exempt organizations can’t promote particular candidates or political agendas. The critical difference is that Fox News is not paid for by your tax dollars. If those artists want to spend their own money to support Barack Obama’s agenda, that’s fine. Using taxpayer money for politics. Not fine. Probably illegal.

stacy   September 6th, 2009 - 11:30 pm

I think the graphic designer of the poster is really hip to what is going on. There is definitely a nazi feel to the Heath Care Now poster. Ha Ha. Jokes on the NEA. Can somebody wake me when they start to let Michelle speak?? Because THAT is going to be REALLY good!!! She is going to make Hillary look like a sheep dog! These political brides from hell are setting back feminism 50 years. Can you be like Mary Tyler Moore and ‘make it on your own’ sisters? I mean come on!

stacy   September 6th, 2009 - 11:33 pm

Thank you QA_NJ for spelling it out for Jennifer. It’s Illegal and just plain icky. Sorry Jens.

perhapstoday   September 7th, 2009 - 12:06 am

I love it. Notice the big “YES” in the Yes, we can for healthcare.

First words out of the devil’s mouth in Genesis 3:1. “Yea, hath God said…” Perfect! Like a ouija board. Its a “yes, yes” board. Positive! I guess the Book runs 4,000 years ahead of the news media.

Who cares about poor, supposedly? The Dems, the rich, the Clintons and Judas Isacariot.

John 12:4 “Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,

5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

hath she kept this.”

Again, the Book runs 2,000 years ahead of modern news. It becomes quite simple when you study TYPES.

Furthermore, you have healthcare right now, coveters. You can go to a doctor anytime you want in this country. Just pick up the phone book and make an appt. Free loaders.

Obammasmomma   September 7th, 2009 - 12:12 am

“Your Bush was a coke head and drunk in his youth”

And? What about Barry Soteros….Hussein….whatever its name is. He was a crack head who is a bastard child, he came from a white whore who gettoed it up with blacks back in the 60’s! His father was a drunken, killing, Muslim who lost his legs because he was a drunk. Plus he was married which makes him an adultering, fornicating, muslim. Just like Mohammed. Barry’s mother was a white trash whore who posed naked back then. Barry = Pharaoh.

Gandhi's Fist   September 7th, 2009 - 1:31 am

Did anyone else notice on the story graphic that the “S” in the word Yes and the “R” in the word care look suspiciously like the SS insignia from the collar of a 1940s era German SS officer. If you flip the “R” horizontally, that is.

Talk about subliminal advertising for the Demonazis!

POed Taxpayer   September 7th, 2009 - 2:29 am

Travis September 6th, 2009 – 2:36 pm
The “S” sort of reminds me of something else though.

I have a book on nazi occult and the “S” is a rune and means victory!!

Seig Heil!!!!!

WEELASSIE   September 7th, 2009 - 3:07 am

Jennifer obviously has diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain which are very strict requirements for democratic voters. She also apparently has not seen the article written by a coke head friend of Obama when Barry was a disco dancer. According to Obama’s friend they were coked up every night at the disco club. He even provided a picture of the annointed one in a skintight snakeskin disco outfit and Barry was also wearing 6inch ladies high heels with platform soles. So Jennifer…try to get some proof before you open your pie hole and let your belly rumber.

Laughing   September 7th, 2009 - 5:06 am

jennifer = van jones
Just another “truther “, with not an ounce of knowledge – just non educated, vile, ignorance.
There is nothing subliminal about the poster – the demoncrats are unintelligent, as well as uncreative with their zeal for ultimate power. They had to copy, from the Third reich. Art was considered to be one of the most important elements to strengthening the Third Reich and purifying the nation. Political aims and artistic expression became one. The task of art in the Third Reich was to shape the population’s attitudes by carrying political messages with stereotyped concepts and art forms. I predict that just like the third reich – this regime will also fail as miserably.

NoMoBama   September 7th, 2009 - 7:48 am

I can guarantee that Pres. Opompous’ NEA broke laws lobbying for their messiah…using taxpayer cash. Now…who is going to prosecute? Will the Republicans finally man up and apply pressure?

Shane99   September 7th, 2009 - 8:02 am

Hey jennifer are you going to help us Vet all the Leftist Czars? Here’s a hint CASS SUNSTEIN a Communist. He wrote the great novel (DEMOCRACY AND THE PROBLEM OF FREE SPEECH). Sounds like something right up your ally. LOL! Poor little Marxist can’t control anything anymore. No wonder you guys are so angry all the time. LOL! MARXIST=DEMOCRATS=TERRORIST. All the same ask Van Jones and ELF. USA USA USA!!! Isn’t free speech great jennifer?

Robespierre   September 8th, 2009 - 11:25 am

end both NEAs.
the Art and the Education.
shrink government.

Cervantes   September 8th, 2009 - 12:40 pm

Shoot, I need some of that NEA money. I already worked out a kid friendly jingle sure to massage pre_pubescent minds into easily formed mush.
*Sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouseketeers* He’s the leader of the movement made for his country! B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A, ala ahkbar! al ahkbar! He’s the man, who is a God that tells us all what to think, B-A-R-A-C-K O-B-A-M-A!

William Z   September 8th, 2009 - 12:41 pm

“When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html

Philster   September 8th, 2009 - 12:52 pm

The real shame here is the damage done to the arts. France does this sort of thing- the government pays artists for pro-socialist (and thus pro-French) propaganda. But who really cares about French art anymore? It’s all a bunch of crap that can’t exist without the government subsidy. We’re all focused on the politics of this but it will be a real shame if Obama and his minions manage to destroy the arts in America.

And BTW, “Obama and His Minions” would be a great name for a band.

Rodney   September 8th, 2009 - 12:52 pm

Dear Jennifer,
Our new president has admitted to smoking CRACK. So much for Bush being a coke head. Better that than a CRACKHEAD. Not quite sure Barack Hussein Obama has stopped smoking crack yet.

LDC   September 8th, 2009 - 12:56 pm

A whole bunch of us conservatives don’t give a flip what Will says these days. Too long inside the Beltway.

DW   September 8th, 2009 - 1:19 pm

I’m with Robespierre. This wouldn’t even be a problem if the government didn’t subsidize the arts.
We wouldn’t have our tax dollars going to obscene, pornographic art projects conceived by perverts.

Michael   September 8th, 2009 - 1:19 pm

Jennifer,

Ignore the wingnuts and crazies, but I must point out that you are still wrong. While I disagree that Fox News was guilty of “repeating Bush white house directives of how to present the news and what subjects to focus on each day (ie propaganda) as ‘news’ for 8 years”, the main difference between Fox News and the NEA is that Fox News is not funded by the government. If you do not want to support it, you’re not forced to through taxation.

Thank you for pointing out the fact that the NEA has been used as a method of promulgating government propaganda since the 1930s. But just because it was conceived by FDR during the 1930s still does not make it right- it is still a total anathema to the constitution.

gobnait   September 8th, 2009 - 1:22 pm

Andrea Mitchell-please follow your husband into oblivion. Stick a fork in, honey, you are done.

Marsha   September 8th, 2009 - 1:25 pm

Everybody better wake up. Listen to yourselves playing right into their hands. Don’t you get it? They want us divided. Both Parties have been guilty of taking this Country from Freedom to Fascism. We have to STOP thinking of ourselves as Republican or Democrats but, rather as Americans. If we continue to remain divided we ALL will forfeit that which our founders fought so hard to give us FREEDOM. United we stand, divided we fall.
We need to vote in all new people starting locally then statewide and finally nationally.

gobnait   September 8th, 2009 - 1:26 pm

Jennifer: How are you enjoying your first visit to our planet?

Zieg Heil Obama   September 8th, 2009 - 1:28 pm

Obama is Hitler. They both used every means of subterfuge, indoctrination and crisis exploitation to attempt fundamental changes in their countries, against the majority will and against constitutional precepts. Hitler employed all the best artists, film makers and designers to make the world’s most powerful logo and brand…. he permeated every sector of society with his image. He went into classrooms, hospitals, wherever he could show his love for the people, Hitler did it, just as Obama is. The dirty work was left for others. Thugs, whether they be political hacks, community organizers, union meatheads…all the same… intimidation, character assassination and physical harm are the calling cards, and they are the same today…. we are in the early stages of what was Germany in 1934…

Pal Adino   September 8th, 2009 - 1:28 pm

I hate to be in the position of defending GW Bush but the Koolaid drinkers like Jennifer just are so politically bigoted I can’t take it. Obama was drug taking, drug dealing twit who sold drugs to other kids in his youth [it is in his book Jennifer] but you won’t admit that and hold him accountable but you will indict the entire life of GW Bush simple by the wave of your hand because he drank too much and snorted cocaine.

Geez just another Koolaid drinker.

If a person makes good with their life I don’t hold their youth against them and I hope that people would not hold mine against me as I have done more good than any bad of my youth. I may not agree with Obama’s politics but I admire that he gave up drugs and drug dealing just as I respect a younger GW Bush for turning his life around.

Erik   September 8th, 2009 - 1:28 pm

A full-blown fascist cult of personality? In America? YES WE CAN!

Chris   September 8th, 2009 - 1:31 pm

Jennifer. You can say it over and over, but that doesn’t make it true. The facts/statistics show, that Fox is more nuetral in it’s news reporting than is CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Fox is even more neutral in it’s reporting than most of the countries major newspapers.

The reason people like you go after Fox is because they don’t give free time to a liberal president to explain his socialistic style healthcare plan, like ABC, who you probably think is the best news information available.

Remember Jennifer, saying it over and over doesn’t make it the truth…Chris

Bob   September 8th, 2009 - 1:39 pm

“I highly doubt any laws were broken”

What is the basis for this monumental leap of logic? Are you suggesting there are
no laws against such behavior? Or are you suggesting, that like Kennedy and
Chappaquidick, just because he killed a girl, doesnt mean he isnt a good guy.

This is whats wrong with America, – the ability to reason.

Capn Jack   September 8th, 2009 - 1:40 pm

These guys don’t seem to want to do things above board and in the open. Perhaps a little civil disobedience is in order, they don’t seem to understand anything else. We can take our cues right from their playbook. Frankly I don’t think being a nice guy is working. Time to change tatics.

Jimi   September 8th, 2009 - 1:40 pm

Laws are made to be either broken or ignored. Congress’ best trick is to pass laws then to gut enforcement funds. Or, the executive branch does it’s own run-around with “signing statements” which are extra-constitutional.

Can you say, “do as I say, not as I do”???

If Mr. and Mrs. America ever wake up, they will discover their precious country has been pulled out from underneath their Nike shoes.

That, I expect will only happen after the fact. Americans are not that smart. If they were, they never would have put a socialist community organizer in office.

P.T. Barnum was right.

CATHERINE   September 8th, 2009 - 1:41 pm

ANNOUNCEMENT:

GEORGE W. BUSH WILL BE SPEAKING TO ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN IN AMERICA AND THEY WILL HAVE TO WRITE ESSAYS ON HOW THEY CAN HELP SUPPORT GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY’S AGENDA

OH MY GOSH – THE WORLD WOULD STOP…………..

AND THE LIBERALS WHINE ON AND ON AND ON………….

THIS ADMINISTRATION TURNED THE DEMOCRATS INTO STUPID CULT FIGURES – WE WILL NOT LET HIM WORK ON OUR CHILDREN………………

Lisa   September 8th, 2009 - 1:42 pm

I just have one thing to say to the Obamabots:

Open the garage door BEFORE you start the car!

Dave   September 8th, 2009 - 1:42 pm

The hammer and sickle could be used without a peep by the media even though it represented 20 times the deaths,all because it was those silly Goyim who were killed.

retrocon   September 8th, 2009 - 1:51 pm

Again, i point to Stalin and “Socialist Realism” art.

Using Art to drive the political agenda of one party is clearly propoganda…

Chinese Communists use it also…

C’mon folks, it’s a way to lie to the public and make socialism look like the utopia of “everyman”…

If it were that utopia? People from every country would NOT have migrated here from those utopias over the years.

The biggest problem of a liberal is their inability to factor in the past when contemplating the future.

John   September 8th, 2009 - 1:54 pm

Haha – the funny thing is that you moron Conservative Nazis can complain all you want but Obama is not going away. How do you think the rest of the country felt for the last 8 years? Who cares what you think? Bush certainly didn’t care what people thought when he ruled with an iron fist…

nostromo   September 8th, 2009 - 1:57 pm

In the days of princes and barons the laws were enacted to keep the serfs and peasants in line. No one expected the aristocracy to have to follow them. Today, of course, no one expects Democrats or liberals to follow the laws they made to trip up conservatives. How much more will the people take?

Hank   September 8th, 2009 - 2:02 pm

Yes, the NEA is helping support the president. And Bush turned the Pentagon into a nouveau-fascist wing of the State Department. Take your pick – who’s worse?

bernard3   September 8th, 2009 - 2:06 pm

Obama is a community organizer He thinks like one and to defeat him you need to think like he does. He is selling this crap sandwich and we have to reveal that it is crap. Attack the past, future,and whatever the moment we are in. Disparage the things that the administration is doing to the citizens. You get it? His lack of Love for his country, his lack of knowledge in our true History etc….

keith   September 8th, 2009 - 2:08 pm

Barack Husein Obama will be the 12th Imam. breed in a mulim country, went the pakistan for unknown reason(terrorist training) college paid for by the one he bowed down too,went to a racist america hating church for 20 years,and by 2012 america will be the well the 12th imam climbs out of to be named by velvet jacket.down with the great satan which is what Obama is doing.

bernard3   September 8th, 2009 - 2:12 pm

Oh and by the way, Hugo Chavez just endorsed Obama as his best bud by saying “We must help Obama” and then he decided to shut down some more radio stations. This is true.

John   September 8th, 2009 - 2:15 pm

Haha, nice one Keith!! Way to show what a bunch of blithering idiots the conservatives are these days! You even managed to throw racism and religious bashing into one comment – let’s not continue to reinforce those stereotypes!! Whoo!!!

John   September 8th, 2009 - 2:17 pm

Bernard (aka the smart one) – Chavez no likey Obama. If you read a credible news source for once you might realize this.

Snertly   September 8th, 2009 - 2:28 pm

If you think this is something Bush43 would have never done, ask yourself what, exactly, was Bush43 doing on the morning of 9/11/01 as the planes hit the World Trade Center.

Back to the Constitution   September 8th, 2009 - 2:31 pm

Obama agreed to let the Communist Chinese celebrate their slaughter of millions of innocent Chinese on the White House thru a flag raising ceremony Sept 20! This is only the beginning! When will America wake up???

Paul Revere   September 8th, 2009 - 2:34 pm

We are going to pound the left and its liberal policies into oblivion. We are going to expose the liberal lies and the liberal propaganda. We will give no quarter. September 12, 2009, Washington, DC. Be there or be no where

Jim   September 8th, 2009 - 2:35 pm

Andy from Beaverton: If G W Bush was going to do what Obama is planning, the left would be apoplectic.

Hee did – they were.
………………………………………………………………
“When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings” When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings

John   September 8th, 2009 - 2:37 pm

The only religion we liberals like to bash is Christianity
and we run to the rescue if somebody even mentions muslim or islam
And conservative Keith is a racist because he pointed out that Obama
was islamic, which I think is a very negative thing, therefore you
guys are all racists by pointing out that Obama was born muslim.

CKA in Red State USA   September 8th, 2009 - 2:41 pm

“Laws! We don’t need no stinking laws!”

Thus sayeth Obama and his thugocracy, but especially his recreation of the October Revolution in the White House.

But wonder why such Marxists and Leninists would still use the word “czar”? Maybe because it’s derived from “Caesar”?

Why not call Obama’s czars what they really are, in his parlance: Commissars?

John   September 8th, 2009 - 2:41 pm

Nice job posting with the same name as me. I guess you ran out of excuses and weak defenses… what are you 12 years old?

chris   September 8th, 2009 - 2:41 pm

Simple solution… get govt out of where it doesn’t belong.

It should be funding “the arts” as much as it should be funding prozac for nancy… both good conceptually… but lots of problems once you get involved.

John   September 8th, 2009 - 2:45 pm

I can’t say I blame you cowards though. You must all feel as powerless as we did when GW was on his throne. It’s ironic that you’re now criticizing Obama for “breaking laws” when Bush made it clear that the laws did not apply to him and anyone who tried to stop him would be thrown under the FBI’s jurisdiction for “terrorism”. Speaking of which, Paul Revere’s comment sounds like a threat…

kmichaels   September 8th, 2009 - 2:46 pm

BTW, Bush gave a speech in ONE SCHOOL and it was
not broadcast to STUDENTS, it was in the news viewed
by PARENTS.

Hardly the same thing. And yes, top Democrats
biitched and moaned and wanted investigations.

kmichaels   September 8th, 2009 - 2:49 pm

Hey John, which law did Bush make
clear did not apply to him.

I bet whatever you say in response
if you were not too gutless to respond
will end up being a lie.

Jimmy D   September 8th, 2009 - 2:50 pm

Obama’s Downfall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NWtBhSp74I

ppdurk   September 8th, 2009 - 2:50 pm

@Jennifer, I do not believe that Fox News is funded by my tax dollars as the NEA is. What is wrong with you liberals that you can’t ever argue facts, you have to stick out your tongue and say “but YOU did it too”, even though you are usually wrong about that. We Americans need to demand that our tax dollars not be used to promote either party.

kmichaels   September 8th, 2009 - 2:54 pm

Hey, idiot John, did you feel powerless as a US citizen under Bush?
But now you feel in power under Obama.

God, you are such a dope. It seems the correct answer is
that you should not be dependent upon the government
to have your own personal power.

But then, you are a dumbarse government dependent type
so maybe your power is derived from some wishy washy government.

CHRI$ DODD   September 8th, 2009 - 2:57 pm

Laws were broken when Teddy and I created the “WAITRESS SANDWICH” too – http://sonsoftherepublic.blogspot.com/search?q=dodd

SO WHAT? THE MEDIA LOVE US!

Obamamammajamma   September 8th, 2009 - 3:01 pm

If you want real art, watch the old “Clutch Cargo” cartoon. You will soon realize that our president has “Clutch Cargo Mouth”. What concerns me is who is is little pal, Skipper?

OBAMANATION by NOTRE DAME   September 8th, 2009 - 3:02 pm

Fight Back! http://www.ProjectSycamore.com

HERE'S SOME ART   September 8th, 2009 - 3:03 pm

If only we had a Justice Department that cared. Obama’s Justice Department has decided against prosecuting a case of Black Panthers intimidating white voters during the election last November. Caught on video, but of no interest to Eric Holder. So i guess this illegal effort here won’t be on the radar either.

HERE’S some art for you, Obama:

http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com

HERE’S some art for you, Obama:

http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com

HERE’S some art for you, Obama:

http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com

smokehouse   September 8th, 2009 - 3:04 pm

Liberals like Jennifer don’t realize that they will get their ass kicked by the communists in the White House also. They think their elitists and above everyone when in fact they are nothing more than “useful idiots.”

Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE   September 8th, 2009 - 3:05 pm

Laws were broken at CHAPPAQUIDDICK too – http://www.FATBOY.cc

But it’s O.K.

HERE'S SOME ART   September 8th, 2009 - 3:15 pm

If only we had a Justice Department that cared. Obama’s Justice Department has decided against prosecuting a case of Black Panthers intimidating white voters during the election last November. Caught on video, but of no interest to Eric Holder. So i guess this illegal effort here won’t be on the radar either.

HERE’S some art for you, Obama:

http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com

Joseph   September 8th, 2009 - 3:20 pm

John,
Your shift just started and you were assigned to this thread?

faced   September 8th, 2009 - 3:22 pm

John you said, “I can’t say I blame you cowards though. You must all feel as powerless as we did when GW was on his throne.” Wrong, we are feeling quite powerful. 2010 we will b even stronger

Walter   September 8th, 2009 - 3:29 pm

There is a humanitarian organization in CA supported by progressive citizens of America collecting funds to help mexican cancer patients to cross the border and get medical help with Obama “public option”. If you would like to help, please email and send $$$.

Finbar   September 8th, 2009 - 3:49 pm

Bob wrote: “This is whats wrong with America, – the ability to reason.”

This is what’s wrong with Leftists in America – the INability to reason.

FIFY

Markg   September 8th, 2009 - 3:51 pm

First off as a Conservative I was never totally in agreement with G W Bush. He was more right-of-moderate. Yes he was a better choice over Limosine -Liberal Al Gore. Art is in the eye of the beholder. One man’s art is another man’s junk. Obama is an empty suit. Voted present and never had any executive government experience. The Presidency is not an aprenticeship program! Jennifer, hang in there, as you get older you become more conservative.

Derk   September 8th, 2009 - 4:12 pm

this proves that the only thing more stupid than a Republican is another Republican. George Will, you have officially lost credibility for hate-mongering about an irrelevant issue at a time when we have serious issues on the table.
And to rebuff your ridiculous statement: compared to the laws that George W. Bush broke, and the one’s he created that have restricted all of our freedoms this issue is about as tepid as a baby’s bath water.
Shame on you.

robert bluejacket   September 8th, 2009 - 4:13 pm

Re: The ’smear’ against Van Jones.

Any time you tell the truth about a communist it automaticaly becomes a smear.

Mark   September 8th, 2009 - 4:19 pm

The stench passed off as “Law Enforcement” enables this swill.

NeoConVet   September 8th, 2009 - 4:45 pm

The smell of STATE controlled (& paid for) propoganda and called art?! Kinda like Stalin only wanting the worker displayed with a communist flag in hand! This like so many things emitting from the WH smells.
I gguess there is a Czar for approved art?

Dick Tuck   September 8th, 2009 - 4:47 pm

Sure is fun watching the march of Messaih and the Obots turn into a slow motion train wreck. Drain the Swamp in 2010 !!!

Fen   September 8th, 2009 - 5:08 pm

Derk: “this proves that the only thing more stupid than a Republican is another Republican.”

Bets that the only reason Derk is a Lefty is because he beleives they are “smarter” than the right. And you’ve got to love his line of argument, its so “sophisticated”.

crushingcommies   September 8th, 2009 - 5:19 pm

I love reading the posts from liberals, progessives, communist, socialist,
or whatever name they hide behind these days. It is truly like reading assignments from 4th graders. They have the same feel. That is because liberalism/Communism, is a mental disorder. Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermLike spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave. A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do. A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do.And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state as liberals do. the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government. The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind. When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious

So defeat them, maim them, destroy them when possible, but pitty them like you would anyone with a disease, we are Americans a some of these folks can be helped. The others must be destroyed, there is no way around that.

William   September 8th, 2009 - 5:28 pm

I completely agree that Jennifer is a loon. I would bet my left testical that she either went to government school and then was brain washed by a marxist professor.

Obammasmamma is also correct…the fact that he came from white trash whoring around with a married muslim is root of his anger…Barry the Bastard child…LOL

FastFacts   September 8th, 2009 - 5:29 pm

Thanks to Glenn Beck and http://www.americanparchment.com for allowing us to hear the first conference with the NEA. This is despicable and they will do anything to pass this agenda and we must stand up against them.

arvadadan   September 8th, 2009 - 5:38 pm

Get to know where Obama is coming from see

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/barack_obama_red_diaper_baby_1.html

Adam Smith   September 8th, 2009 - 5:38 pm

The government and the Democrat party are one and the same.

Think about that America for a moment. Your government does not care what your personal positions are on what it does. It is going to continue to do whatever is necessary to ensure that the ideologues that have infiltrated over the last 20 years will continue to rob this country blind and begin to enslave you, the proletariat.

The Repulicans are a joke as an “opposition” party and have done nothing but contribute to this mess. Really they are no more than the more moderate wing of the Dems. Imagine a real constitutional conservative that has a member of his campaign recruited from La Raza? If the addled John Mclame is the best they can do, they need to go also.

It is time for real change. We are now approaching $450,000 of total outstanding US Govt. liabilities per HOUSEHLD IN THIS COUNTRY!!!

ENOUGH!!!

Joel Weymouth   September 8th, 2009 - 6:17 pm

What we are seeing is politics performed by Chicago thugs who have historically been totally corrupt – remember the Chicago political machine supported Al Capone against the Treasury Department. The Constitution is dead, we now have a government that is a mixture of Chicago, East Africa (a’la Idi Amin), and a banana republic. BTW, the smirking punk is Lannie Davis, he was one of Clinton’s stooges. To demonstrate how twisted the left is: I think I will create a work of art, I will get a picture or figurine of Barack Obama, and I will immerse it in urine: and ask for an NEA grant. I am here in Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, and I will put it on the sidewalk in front of the State Capitol. And then watch them come unglued. I will probably be dead in a week-because the left are a bunch of jackbooted thugs. As you recall, Robert Mappelthorpe did that to a crucifix, but that is okay because leftists hate the true God but love their demi-god who is as twisted and perverted as they are. They say man creates a god in his own image. We see this phenomenon with what the left and MSM has done with Obama.

Scottyk   September 8th, 2009 - 6:20 pm

Bush had 6 years. Nancy had the last 2.

XrayEye   September 8th, 2009 - 6:25 pm

Chains we can believe in.. Yes we con!

Joel Weymouth   September 8th, 2009 - 6:30 pm

“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5 (”Recovery Act”) recognizes that the nonprofit arts industry is an important sector of the economy”.. That is a direct quote. Excuse – non-profit is an important part of the economy. My heavens have no clue about business. And it is hard to believe we have 70+ million so stupid to vote for these morons. What is an integral part of the economy is manufacturing, information, and finance…if art were ever a means of creating jobs – then there would be no such thing as a “starving artist”.

TC   September 21st, 2009 - 11:37 am

oh Jennifer – HUGE difference in the two men: one grew up and QUIT doing those things, the other .. well he’s moved on to pushing his chit upon us. One should support a man who is WORKING FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY not pushing his socialist ideology ONTO us. The working folk in the country.

He wants to take MY wealth and give it to someone who has less? well they better get a job, cuz I DONT give up MY money. And that includes paying for THEIR healthcare.

StillTitled   September 22nd, 2009 - 12:33 pm

Though I agree with Will’s initial assessment, I took exception with his characterization of art and subsequent conclusions. Yosi Sergant’s behavior was ambiguous at best, but it does not follow that art is as he says it is or that we should, as a result, undermine and starve the NEA.

http://stilltitled.com/post/191220611/the-george-will-art-conspiracy

[...] OK—now given the fact that the NEA is an independent agency of the United States federal government (independent being the operative word here), the NEA shouldn’t be bringing ANYONE together to “speak with the government”. In the words of George Will, “I don’t know how many laws that breaks”. [...]

[...] George Will recently observed, “I don’t know how many laws that breaks but I’m sure there are [...]

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