The Obama Administration has finally conceded that a conference call between a White House official and artists through the NEA, in which the latter were encouraged to produce propaganda supporting Obama’s domestic agenda, was “inappropriate”.

An August 10, 2009 National Endowment for the Arts conference call in which artists were asked to help support President Obama’s agenda — a call that at least one good government group called “inappropriate” — has prompted the White House to issue new guidelines to prevent such a call from ever happening again.

“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. “To the extent there was any misunderstanding about what the NEA may do to support the national service initiative, we will correct it. We regret any comments on the call that may have been misunderstood or troubled other participants. We are fully committed to the NEA’s historic mission, and we will take all steps necessary to ensure that there is no further cause for questions or concerns about that commitment.”…

After listening to the transcript and the audio posted at the conservative website BigHollywood.Breitbart.com — secretly recorded by Los Angeles filmmaker Patrick Couriellech — Melanie Sloan, executive director of the good-government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), told ABC News that the call was “disturbing.”

“Government agencies are not supposed to be engaged in political activities,” Sloan said. “Here, because they didn’t veer off into ‘This is about the election,’ where you’d get into violations of the Hatch Act, it’s not illegal. But it doesn’t look good — it looks terrible. It’s inappropriate.”

The White House was attempting to use the National Endowment for the Arts, already a waste of taxpayer money, in order to create pro-Obama propaganda. Essentially, the Obama Administration wanted to create a Department of Propaganda, funded by the American taxpayers.

Normally this would warrant Congressional investigations, but Barack Obama’s cronies are in control of Congress and wouldn’t investigate the White House even if it admitted to selling secrets to the Russians. So the most we’ll get is a few stories on Fox News, Jake Tapper’s blog, and the Washington Times.

Most transparent administration, and most open and ethical Congress, evuh.

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