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1. #1
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm, et said:

   Rule 1 from the new guidelines: DON’T GET CAUGHT.

2. #2
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 pm, spaceycakes said:

   Heh. Stealing from Dexter Morgan’s code!

3. #3
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:02 pm, rjbjrirish said:

   Rule #2: Don’t put anything in writing. If it isn’t written, it never happened.

4. #4
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Hangfire said:

   A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

5. #5
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm, RedDog said:

   Jail time baby. And take The One with you. These people are so hubristic and arrogant that they have no concept of morality or the rule of law. Truly dangerous creatures.

   “Asks”? Can’t they just say “requests”? Or is that neo commie-speak?

6. #6
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

   Democrats philosophy: If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying. And it’s only cheating if you get caught.

   It’s so blatantly wrong and yet very few in the fringe media (formerly MSM) care. This country is no longer GOING to hell in a hand basket – we are already there.

7. #7
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm, BuckeyeSam said:

   Rule #3: No conference calls. Communication solely by face-to-face encounters.

8. #8
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm, tre said:

   Rule #3: We will STILL fund only art that glorifies Obama. Art that does not glorify him will be “lost”, “misplaced”, or “the money ran out.”

9. #9
   On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pm, tre said:

   Buckeye, I guess mine is now “Rule #3.5.1-A”

10. #10
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm, J S Ragman said:

    I suppose the one advantage to dealing with a bunch of hair-splitting, word-parsing, nuance-meistering, litigious, political correctionists is that they are easily hoist on their own petard.

11. #11
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm, J S Ragman said:

    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 pm, Hangfire said:
    A verbal agreement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

    Thanks, Yogi.

12. #12
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    I support art that is so unpopular it depends on the government to exist.

    Thank W for the funding, by the way.

13. #13
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm, Flyoverman said:

    As was pointed out last night, imagine if Bush had been caught using the NEA to promote The War on Terror or The Surge.

    Oh, the outrage at the perversion of the NEA……. /sarc

14. #14
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:28 pm, John Deaux said:

    RSS,

    Ready to denounce Byrd yet?

15. #15
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:32 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Thank W for the funding, by the way.

    I’m sorry, I must have missed that day in civics class where we learned that the executive branch writes the budget and appropriations laws.

16. #16
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm, fred5676 said:

    email to all tele-conferees:

    The next “meeting” will be held at 11 PM on the 3rd sub-level of the garage at 11oo K street.

    Remember, no name badges.

17. #17
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Chris Matthews went into spasms of joy when he heard that Barack Obama was well endowed.

18. #18
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    RSS,

    Ready to denounce Byrd yet?

    I denounce him to the extent that he was a backwards bigot for much of his life, but he’s long since renounced those beliefs and associations, so I have no problem with him being in my party. How’s that?

19. #19
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Compare Robert Byrd to Jesse Helms, who as recently as 1991 boycotted Nelson Mandela’s speech to Congress, and never regretted it, but was still hailed as a hero when he died last year.

20. #20
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm, Hangfire said:

    I’ll take one Jesse Helms to a dozen of your Robert Byrds.

21. #21
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm, verogolfer said:

    I have a hunch these writers and artists will drop the phrase about speaking truth to power. Perhaps to licking the boots of power.

22. #22
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 4:57 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was also on the call, and thanked the artists “for being on the call and just a deep deep appreciation for all the work you all put into the campaign for the two-plus years we all worked together.”

    Obama has an ARMY of people working every angle possible to push his agenda. And he’s doing it with our money. Which is the root of the problem.

    As far as these new “guidelines”… all that means is “do the same thing people…. just don’t come out and say it in public.”

    And no one in the Justice Dept or any other federal agency is willing to go after him on these actions. This President is as slimy as any grease-ball to ever come out of Chicago. He needs to be perp-walked out of the White House in irons.

    America should be ashamed that it let this happen.

23. #23
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Red State Skeptic said:

    Compare Robert Byrd to Jesse Helms, who as recently as 1991 boycotted Nelson Mandela’s speech to Congress, and never regretted it, but was still hailed as a hero when he died last year.

    Yeah. Well I happen to know many people from S. Africa. And yes some still live there. That new government is probably the most CORRUPT government on earth. So quite frankly, boycotting Mandella isn’t exactly a bad thing to do.

24. #24
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    So quite frankly, boycotting Mandella isn’t exactly a bad thing to do.

    We’re talking about 1991 here, three years before he was even elected President. Are you that naive as to why Jesse Helms decided to boycott such a prominent symbol of racial harmony?

25. #25
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm, tbear44 said:

    “Asks”? Can’t they just say “requests”? Or is that neo commie-speak?

    Heh. Don’t you mean axe? Oooops. Raaaaaaaaaacist.

26. #26
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm, Hannibal said:

    Isn’t that just special! Red State Septic goes back to 2004 to find a $18 million increase that Bush gave to the NEA, so it’s Bush’s fault. How about the $50 million that Obama handed out to the NEA in stimulus money alone? That was just a sweetener for the $145 million that was already in the 2009 budget.

27. #27
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm, Hannibal said:

    RSS also ignores the fact that +90% of the posters on this site in general principle oppose all funding to the NEA and like organizations.

    I oppose funding to ACORN and similar organizations left or right. I do not agree that is an appropriate use of tax payer dollars and opens these groups up to corruption.

    I think the past 9 months have proven my point regarding corruption.

28. #28
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Isn’t that just special! Red State Septic goes back to 2004 to find a $18 million increase that Bush gave to the NEA, so it’s Bush’s fault.

    Not saying that at all. Just rubbing it in that your erstwhile hero has a hand in it.

29. #29
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:27 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Just rubbing it in that your erstwhile hero has a hand in it.

    What one gleans from this comment is:

    1) The view that The Left has of a Chief Administrator. He is a Central Authority. Separation of Powers? What’s that?

    2) The Lemmings on the Left assume, as they are, that we MUST also be in lock step with everything the Party or the Dear Leader wants.

    Interesting view…..

30. #30
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm, spaceycakes said:

    1991 boycotted Nelson Mandela’s speech to Congress, and never regretted it

    Me too; on both counts.

    Symbol of racial harmony? To whom? White liberals?

31. #31
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm, SHoward said:

    Nelson Mandella was a die-hard communist before he was out of prison, and probably before he went in.

    I would have boycotted him on that alone.

    BTW, Oceana had plenty of artwork supporting Big Brother. So who are we to disapprove?

32. #32
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm, Major O said:

    but he’s long since renounced those beliefs and associations,

    Robert Byrd did? Really? When? When it was no longer politically viable to be openly racist. That man is a racist and was vocal about his hatred of people of my race during EVERY SIGNIFICANT ADVANCE of race relations. Only AFTER the tide turned against him did he “recant” and that’s just what I’ve been told. Never read his huge book on how he changed his views and apologized to all of us black folks for his complicit hand in the murder, oppression and hatred toward us. Oh wait, he didn’t write one. And lest we forget, he has voted against nearly every major black nominee for high office, including Thurgood Marshall (and, of course Clarence Thomas and Janice Rogers Brown), so please spare us the lectures about Jesse Helms.

    Ah but Bush “hates Black people” and Joe Wilson is the face of the KKK today so lets just focus on that.

    Pathetic.

33. #33
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm, happy2behere said:

    Why is it that art has to be so cliche’ nowdays? Pushing an agenda, pushing the envelope, is just so…pushy.

34. #34
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:11 pm, chapoutier said:

    Didn’t Rove get in trouble for politicizing federal agencies when his aide gave that powerpoint to the GSA?

    Is this much different?

35. #35
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    I denounce him to the extent that he was a backwards bigot for much of his life, but he’s long since renounced those beliefs and associations, so I have no problem with him being in my party. How’s that?

    Excuse me, RSS. But once a klansman, always a klansman. It’s like being a “former” alcoholic. You’re still an alcoholic, you’re just not drinking at this particular point in time. A “former” klansman just isn’t burning crosses at this particular point in time.

    AA members refer to themselves as alcoholics, because they know they can slip at anytime. It takes a certain amount of will power to remain sober.

    As for “Sheets” Byrd, he may have renounced the KKK, may not have a membership card or paid any dues, but he’s still a klansman. In an interview in 2001, he used the “N” word more than once. What did Jesse Jackson (and the other self-righteous race-baiters) do? Why nothing! They should have demanded he resign. But, since he was a democrat, it was glossed over and no one (except the intelligent people) cared.

    Oh well. You can have “Sheets” Byrd in your party. Since the democrats have always been, and always will be, the party of slavery, anti-civil rights, and segragation.

36. #36
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On September 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

    Are you that naive as to why Jesse Helms decided to boycott such a prominent symbol of racial harmony?

    A “prominent symbol of racial harmony?” Are you kidding me? Mandella was a terrorist. That’s like saying Arafat was a “prominent symbol of religious harmony” in the Mid East.

    ECS

37. #37
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm, chapoutier said:

    Mandella was a terrorist.

    According to whom, exactly? The Apartheid South African government that charged him as such?

38. #38
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm, Truesoldier said:

    “The point of the call was to encourage voluntary participation in a national service initiative by the arts community,” White House spokesman Bill Burton told ABC News.

    Yeah sure it was, that is why you have Mr. Segeant saying to bear with them as they are stel working throught the legal langauge to ensure that they don’t get in trouble for talking to eachother. It sounded to me like they knew what they were doing was wrong, but they were just looking for a way to get around the law.

39. #39
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Ah, yes; apartheid SA government.

    I hate it when Africa does that.

40. #40
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm, TigerLady said:

    NJ-Aviator said:
    Buffy Wicks, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was also on the call, and thanked the artists “for being on the call and just a deep deep appreciation for all the work you all put into the campaign for the two-plus years we all worked together.”

    I got a laugh out of Rush yesterday when he called her Buffy the Walmart Killer.

41. #41
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm, rusty_armor said:

    For a long time now, Congress critters have had to have a law to keep them from wrongdoing.

    Now the Waffle in Chief needs a law to keep him from using his cabinet officers from politiking on the job.

    Damn we need more laws, I tell you!!

42. #42
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm, KCK said:

    As an artist, myself, I depend on the free market for my trade. The NEA has indeed shot itself in the foot by funding projects that don’t appeal to Americans.

    Art has the office of leading in culture. Not in politics, though. That’s for the graphics folks.

    The Obama administration couldn’t insult fine artists more, IMO. He is using the NEA for his own reasons, and the focus is supposed to be art! Typically, everything is about him.

    FDR used the WPA to employ artists, too. Complaints were made regarding the political nature of some projects. Unfortunately, the precedent was set…

    I’ll add that Laura Bush did a great job with NEA and White House arts support. I followed the link above about Masters, and it didn’t uncover crappy art. Very much the opposite.

43. #43
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Did we save that giant statue they pulled down in Iraq? A bit of hammering here, a blowtorch there, and we could have a giant Obama statue on the White House Lawn.

44. #44
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm, shooter said:

    4:02 pm, rjbjrirish said:
    Rule #2: Don’t put anything in writing.

    Isn’t that Browners fav?

    It is already an “unwritten rule” at most obamabot offices and homes, jus ax Valerie &/or Wm Ayers, they’re good at it.

45. #45
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    I intend to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over …

    Yeah right.

    This guy sure doesn’t have Clinton’s lying skills.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

46. #46
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Are you that naive as to why Jesse Helms decided to boycott such a prominent symbol of racial harmony?

    I’d say it had something to do with these positions of Mandela’s ANC:
    

    Our primary responsibility is to unite and mobilize society behind the transformation agenda

    A Unified, Equitable and Integrated National Health System that benefits all South Africans

    In defence of Affirmative Action

    Improving education is a task for everyone

    A manifesto for the masses

    Sounds a lot like Karl Marx and/or Barack Obama … Would you say opposition to Barack Obama is because of his race?

    Get a life.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

47. #47
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    On September 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm, chapoutier said:

    Mandella was a terrorist.

    According to whom, exactly?

    Actually, according to Mandela himself:
    

    “I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation.”

    I’m sure bin Laden’s thugs think their deeds are planned the same way. Oh, and Weather Underground as well.

    I’m not passing judgment personally, but Mandela has proudly admitted to terrorism to forward his agenda. Would you suggest we freedom-loving Americans do the same to forward ours?

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

48. #48
    On September 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm, chapoutier said:

    Would you suggest we freedom-loving Americans do the same to forward ours?

    Would you consider the Boston Tea Party terrorism?

49. #49
    On September 23rd, 2009 at 7:21 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I’m sorry, I must have missed that day in civics class where we learned that the executive branch writes the budget and appropriations laws.

    I bet you read about the VETO; Presidents who are more interested in “Getting Along” than standing for principal do not use it enough.If shutting down government is what it takes to kill these phony creations then lets us hope SOMEONE does it.

    We need a broad ax to the Federal Government. The National Endowment for Obama/Arts, whatever, never should have been.

50. #50
    On September 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Red State Skeptic said:

    So quite frankly, boycotting Mandella isn’t exactly a bad thing to do.

    We’re talking about 1991 here, three years before he was even elected President. Are you that naive as to why Jesse Helms decided to boycott such a prominent symbol of racial harmony?

    Maybe you should go back to the late 80′s after Mandela was released and take a look at the violence that ensued.

    I don’t know exactly what Helms’ motive was. If it was simply because Mandela was black, then Helms is (was) a racist jack-ass.

    My point is not Helms motive but the issue of boycotting Mandela. Because based on what I know about his past, he was not always a bastion of piece and racial unity. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to call him a terrorist, he and his associates took part in acts that, at the very least, bordered on it.

    Yes, S.African blacks had cause to rise up, but they became (even in the late 80′s) as bad as their oppressors. And what followed… to this day… is continued chaos.

51. #51
    On September 23rd, 2009 at 11:54 am, CO2 Producer said:

    I wonder how much funding I could get to complete my Surrealist painting tentatively titled Take a Number: No Amnesty for a Photosynthesized Collective in a Crowded Waiting Room?