Comments on: Left Doesn’t Mind When Gov’t Takes Over Art… When Dems Are In Charge

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:30:16 +0000

This sounds like an Orwellian way of saying Ministry of Propaganda.

By: Praying

Praying — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:58:20 +0000

the liberal propaganda outlets of NPR and PBS. I actually used to listen to that rot – thank goodness I grew up! How can they try to enact the “unfairness doctrine” when the government is PAYING for NPR and PBS? When will the American public finally wake up? Or are they all to busy watching “dancing with the stars” or some such rot?

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:58:48 +0000

n/t

By: Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:55:16 +0000

If that’s not an oxymoron, what is?

By: jonnot

jonnot — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:41:26 +0000

what happens when a meglomaniac begins fiddling with “state-controlled” arts programs. Witness the art and architecture of Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Anything that deviated from the proscribed norm was deemed “decedant” and their creators were often jailed–or worse. How so many are now willing to step-aside and accept anything that “…comes from above” is beyond me. This country is rolling over and playing dead!

By: kat

kat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:46:29 +0000

The government (BHO) to stop adding people to the federal payroll. Art Czar, Global Warming Czar, etc. All that says to me is spending more that we don’t have. I don’t even need to get into the next level about whether they should be involved in the arts or not.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:34:19 +0000

I want the federal government OUT of the arts in EVERY way.

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:29:29 +0000

like what passes for “art” in the federally funded arts programs. My state emulated the federal stupidity with a 1% for Art program for public facilities. We have warehouses full of that crap because nobody can stand to look at it and won’t have it on their walls.

By: itdiehard

itdiehard — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:19:22 +0000

Is Chris Matthews new movie title…

By: PD

PD — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:18:35 +0000

I’m not sure what the problem is. The point of this new position, assuming it’s more than a rumor, would not be to increase the federal role in the arts or to tell artists “what to do,” but to coordinate the involvement that the federal government already has in arts funding and sponsorship, and to give the federal role in the arts some increased visibility and official backing.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:14:58 +0000

I think Chris Matthews already got that grant. But he is calling his film “A Man, Some Cream, And a New Pair of Pants.”

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:49:03 +0000

for the BHO docu-drama:
“A man, a dream, a trainwreck”

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:23:16 +0000

The government paid “artists” to do all kinds of stuff from the statuary around the Hoover Dam to government notices and, especially, WWII propaganda posters. There’s some outfit on the net that reproduces a lot of them and I had my office decorated with Artists Project posters dealing with labor and safety issues. Some of them are pretty cool if you’re into that School of Soviet Realism style.

Yep, we have seen the future and it works!