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    Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.

    NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal

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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    Ah, it's a lonely job. Christ, find Obama a brother, shoot in black and white, raise Kruschev from the dead and be done with it! I mean, is there ever a picture of the President in the Oval Office doing the Happy Dance or lighting a fart? #barackobama
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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    Where are all of the Obama on the crapper shots the American public is clamoring for?
    Get on it Souza, you hack! #barackobama
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    Image of joefuntime joefuntime
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    um, its a small office. i think you're being 100% paranoid. where should he stand, in front of the desk? on it? #barackobama
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.

    I haven't seen one like this yet... #barackobama
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    10/28/09


    @Lizawithazee: Or this. #barackobama
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    Image of mrbrownthumb mrbrownthumb
    10/28/09

    @Lizawithazee: Image from obamamessiah.blogspot.com
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    Image of blix blix
    10/29/09

    @mrbrownthumb: Heh! Good one. #barackobama
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    They also did the same thing (JFK at Window burdened with leadership, probably during the Missle Crisis) for the opening credits of both West Wing and Commander in Chief . #barackobama
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    All he needs now is a mobbed up dad. #barackobama
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    10/28/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: heh #barackobama
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Dear White House Flickr Feed: Enough With the Hagiography. Thanks.
    Call me when they get a photo of Biden peeking his head out of the little door under Obama's desk. #barackobama
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/28/09

    @scroll_lock: That will be cute, but I'd give up my Social Security for him riding Macaroni around the front lawn. #barackobama
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/28/09

    @ampersandparade: Or drop-kicking Socks to Pluto for peeing in his shoe. #barackobama
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    10/28/09

    @BettyCrocker: @ampersandparade: Or picking up a visiting Dubya by the ears. #barackobama
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/28/09

    @ampersandparade:

    Are you younger than 40? You aren't getting Social Security! #barackobama
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    Blah blah blah. The NEA budget is something like .0001% of the national budget. We give far less money (not just proportionally, but on a dollar basis) to artists through the NEA than most other industrialized countries give their artists. The budget for the NEA is like $150 million a year. The budget for the arts in Britain is over 2 billion pounds.

    This is such a non-issue.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    There is no story here. A conference call to "encourage artists to make art about Public Service" is not a promise of funding for said art, or any other work, by the people participating in this conference call.

    The NEA will probably remain the same toothless, inoffensive organization it has been for years -- primarily funding folk art and dull "worthy" arts education-y stuff. The biggest likely change will be the return of throwing small sums at individual artists who might, maybe, make something controversial once in a while, just so everyone in the office can feel a little relevant and brave again.
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    Image of Lance Uppercut Lance Uppercut
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    No, the issue was that they were telling artists to promote pro-obama/Democrat issues through their federally subsidized art. Which technically is a no-no.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    09/21/09

    @Lance Uppercut: Are they asking them to promote these topics in a fashion positive towards the administration, or are they requesting that artists just bring these topics to the table? There's a subtle difference there and I'm not certain that anyone here has enough information to be doing anything above or beyond raising an eyebrow right now - a couple commenters here have already jumped to the concept that the artists are meant to be "celebrating" universal health care, but similar past initiatives haven't explictly forced artists to look at these issues in a favorable-to-the-govt manner and I am not sure there's reason to think that here.

    Of course, if you think giving the guidelines or requests at all is coercion or would only interest artists who are pro-Obama (or Bush or whomever past president), then the debate is over.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    SO bloody 1990, Pareene. Makes sense that we'll have to go through all this shit again, cyclically. Breitbart and his awful "Big Hollywood" site gets to judge what's patriotic art! I understand fundraising for a national monument venerating "Red Dawn" is underway.
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    Image of braak braak
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    This doesn't seem hugely interesting. I don't think you can do art on a contentious issue without it being partisan, somehow. And is there a comparable amount of rejection by the NEA of arts groups that are on the conservative end of the spectrum?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/21/09

    @braak: I think the problem here is probably that the people being asked to convene on this conference call were all pro-Obama.

    It's not explicitly stated that either the NEA or the Whitehouse asked for this to happen. But for this NOT to have been made explicitly a bipartisan grouping is a pretty huge oversight for either organization to make.
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    Image of braak braak
    09/21/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Yeah, I guess. But it seems that arts organizations in the country were, by and large, pretty pro-Obama in the first place.
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    09/21/09

    @braak: Well, which isn't so bad if it just happens inadvertently. But since this conference call was organized specifically, and these candidates selected specifically, then it becomes much more stringently looked at.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/21/09

    In reply to NEA In Encouraging Artists to Make Art Scandal
    All art invites discussion, whether it's "Girl With A Pearl Earring" or "Girl With A Pearl Necklace: Ashley, Honey Is That You?".

    Even those boring, dangly airborne mobile sculptures in primary colors which look like they belong in an office lobby or hanging over the bananas at Whole Foods are controversial, as in "Will it decapitate me when it falls, or merely maim me?"

    Public art should be accessible to the public. That probably means no vajayjays. But nipples are another matter altogether.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/08/09

    In reply to Barack Obama's Art Brigades Are Coming for You
    Mr. Drudge should read this for purely conspiratorial reasons, not to be well informed, of course.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    09/09/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Dammit!

    [www.washingtonmonthly.com]
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    09/08/09

    In reply to Barack Obama's Art Brigades Are Coming for You
    Would Drudge be upset if the NEA were producing "Obama is Hitler" works?
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