No Time For Sergants

If an Admin official resigns in the forest but the LA Times doesn't cover it, does it make a sound?  It does if Patterico is listening.

Well, it is not as if Los Angeles has any interest in or connection to the arts community...

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[Ranger]

One other little point that I just learned http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/09/24/10152/>today:

“Sergant, a public relations professional from Los Angeles, had come to Washington to work in the Office of Public Engagement at the White House. He moved to the NEA in May and was reassigned from his post as communications director two weeks ago after coming under fire from conservative Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck.”

Makes one think that maybe he was sent to the NEA with the specific mission to politicize it.

[Mustang0302]

Poor Sergant Moonbat. He thought he was flying toward the bright lights of fame, fortune and power.

Dumb bastard nearly flew into a drive-in screen instead.

[For every Yosi Sergeant there are a oh, I hate to contemplate.]

The tip of the friggen' iceberg that America is being driven upon.
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[JM Hanes]

I read right over that Ranger! In other words, Buffy Wicks' White House co-worker was installed at the NEA.

Emblematic Obama ops. Install publicly defensible figureheads, and then staff their offices, agencies and departments with folks who connect to the WH independently. That, and the commissars, of course.

[Ranger]

And, isn't this a coincidence; Sergant moves from the Office of Public Engagement at the White House to NEA in May, and on http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/24/fox-news-months-prior-to-nea-conf-call-white-house-met-with-60-artists-to-promote-the-administrations-agenda/>May 12 there is the first meeting where artists were “challenged to come up with promising and attractive ideas about how artists can work to promote the administration’s agenda.”

Sounds more like Sergant was sent to the NEA by Jerrett to integrate it completely into the White House's political operation.

[Neo]

Despite all this evidence and a request in writing by 28 GOP senators -- and despite the fact the U.S. Senate voted 83-7 on Sept. 14 to block ACORN from bidding for any more federal grant money -- "Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is refusing to hold a Senate hearing on ACORN's activities," the National Republican Senatorial Committee complained Wednesday.

Mr. Reid replied additional investigations might distract lawmakers from addressing more important matters, including health care and economic recovery.

So much for the fight against waste, fraud and abuse.

[Their own evil is going to rot them.]

The Democrats' Flood of Fraud' and their 'Drums of Slavers'.
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[Ranger]

That, and the commissars, of course.

Posted by: JM Hanes | September 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Yes, we should all start using commissar instead of czar when referring to Obama's efforts to get around the constitution on advise and consent.

[Persia is Popping.]

Hey, is that Patterico post by our DrJ? I like Patterico's response to him in the comments that the ACORN lawsuit's silliness has gotten the attention of the administration. er Ad Ministration.
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[bishop]

I call them 'zampolit' as in political officer as the late Comrade Putin, played
by Peter Firth, in Hunt for Red October.
It's a different DRJ

[I'm squatting at Thomas Fuller's lately.]

OK, thanks, b; I should read Patterico more, but don't have to, because you and Tom do.
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[The IAEA. Yeah, that's the ticket.]

OK, now I can be mad at Bush for not taking out the Persian nukes and solving problems for both administrations and now I can be mad at the Israelis for not taking out the Persian nukes already, and now I can be mad at----oh forget it; I'm gonna go sob in Brezinski's beer.
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[DrJ]

Hey, is that Patterico post by our DrJ?

No, though this is a somewhat common confusion.

[Something in common.]

I'd say the confusion reflects credit on both DrsJ.
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[Pagar]

"additional investigations might " show that every Democrat politician owes their current position to ACORN.

[Pofarmer]

"additional investigations might " show that every Democrat politician owes their current position to ACORN.

Yes, I'd say the Democrats would be balls deep in the swamp and swatting alligators if that ever got started. The Carnahan's are tied at the hip with SEIU, I sure wish we could knock them down a few pegs.

[Rocco]

Patrick Courrieleche, one of the artists on the call, first wrote about the experience on the blog Big Hollywood. Courrieleche, 39, of Los Angeles, said the ubiquitous Obama "Hope" poster by artist Shepard Fairey and musician will.i.am's "Yes We Can" song and music video were offered as examples of the artist group's clear impact on Obama's landslide election.

Shepard Fairey used his guerilla art, peppered with marxist and communist symbols and propaganda, to sway a generation. Now his propaganda art portrays Bush with a Hitler moustache while naming another of Mao, "THE BELOVED PREMIER, WE ARE BLINDED BY YOUR MAJESTY"

The man became famous vandalizing other peoples property. Everytime I see a beautiful building covered in gang related grafitti, I thank Shepard Fairey. Now his propaganda art is being used to indoctrinate our children.

If you liked the "HOPE" poster, wait till you see "CLEAN ENERGY FOR AMERICA". It mimics "HOPE" in color and style but one thing completely different is a logo in the bottom hand right corner. Please note the cogged wheel surrounding a red rose, two leafs and two hands...all symbols of socialism.

Brings a warm feeling to my heart when I think about all the little ones "Doing what they can for Obama"!

[MayBee]

Who honestly thinks these people didn't sit down behind computers throughout the summer of 2008 and enter fake names and prepaid Visa card numbers into the Obama donors website?

[Ignatz]

--Hey, is that Patterico post by our DrJ? I like Patterico's response to him in the comments that the ACORN lawsuit's silliness has gotten the attention of the administration.--

DRJ at Patterico is a her.
Did yeoman's, and very fair, work on the Ramos-Campion case.

[Rocco]

Worships Mao

[Rocco]

Bush is Hitler...Good Guy!

[Porchlight]

Holy cow Rocco, is that logo for real?

What's really amazing is that they'd take a legal risk at NEA in order to, essentially, preach to the choir. The arty crowd is already solidly in Obama's bag and "transgressive" art ain't going to move the needle with the non-Obama fans.

[Fresh Air]

Jonah Goldberg was really onto something. Those liberal fascism smiley-faces should be tacked up all over the place.

[Rocco]

a logo in the bottom hand right corner

Jeeez, that's not even a typo, must be the french in me.

[Ignatz]

Must be the italic in you :)

[Jane]

Now you've done it Rocco!

Move the page along.

[Rocco]

Should of left well enough alone...I'm sorry everyone!

That's a poster Shepard titled "Bayonettes", but he used it in a smaller logo on the "CLEAN ENERGY FOR AMERICA" poster which should be a big hit in the schools I would think?

[Jane]

OT - Paul Kirk's nomination to Senate to replace Kennedy will not be delayed. Dukakis appointed Judge Tom Connolly said so, just this afternoon.

In other news. Vikki Kennedy is lending John Kerry Ted's cane to use for his hip surgery. The first thing that came to mind when I heard that is Kerry is about to divorce Teresa for Vicki - she is younger and has the right amount of money. (I know, I really am evil.)

[Ignatz]

BTW, Rocco, thanks for those images. Never knew who this Fairey was before.

If Joe McCarthy wasn't right before (and he largely was) he'd sure be right now.
We're being governed by a good number of outright communists and fellow travelers.

[Rocco]

Welcome Ignatz...when I think about Obama's first homework assignment for the kids, the only logical conclusion is indoctrination.

Please forgive me for posting this pic, I show it only for comparison.

[Porchlight]

Jiminy crickets, that windmill poster is creepy. What's going on at the top of the image - are those supposed to be clouds, or Arctic ice floes, or something?

[JM Hanes]

Porchlight:

"What's really amazing is that they'd take a legal risk at NEA in order to, essentially, preach to the choir."

Community Organizing 'R Us. While I don't really see it as "code" in the NEA conference call, I was struck by explicit references to the artistic community as a "collective." I think it's a double dynamic, there are the people who want/need to feel as though they are part of something larger (I felt pretty good at the DC Tea Party!), and there are people who are really trying to organize a community of followers so they can lay claim to the mantle of leadership.

What amazes me how just how extensive a choir folks like Buffy and Yosi seem to assume they've got -- that and the fact that they regard the prohibition on continuing to campaign from the White House as a legal technicality which a little lip service is enough to overcome.

[Rocco]

Here's the pdf he offers for free on his website, that's his mo, offer stickers free in the hopes that the little ones will fire up their printers...for Obama of course.

Look around, check out his print gallery and note that he's a good and obedient Comrade, he already has a book, "Art For Obama" on the first page.

Yosi Sargant and Shepard Fairey are joined at the hip.

[bishop]

Forget it Jane, like VanDerLeun says' sometimes you can't be cynical enough'
with this crew

[macphisto]

the top-of-the-poster stuff is a terribly distorted map projection of the continents.

[Porchlight]

that and the fact that they regard the prohibition on continuing to campaign from the White House as a legal technicality which a little lip service is enough to overcome.

For sure. That attitude seems to be completely endemic to the current WH.

[Porchlight]

the top-of-the-poster stuff is a terribly distorted map projection of the continents.

Thanks macphisto, that's what I thought initially, but it looked so out of whack I thought I must be wrong.

[Captain Hate]

Yeah Jane; I don't think anybody here can say anything offensive enough about Jean-Fraud. That bit about borrowing Fat Turdie's cane for his ass surgery (how appropriate; although does this mean he might have to sacrifice his wind-surfing activities? Oh the humanity!) shows either that he's too cheap even with Tereeeeeeezzzza's dead husband's loot, she's cut him off or that he wants something that's been stressed tested to be able to support an SUV.

[clarice]

jmh, if one demonizes one's opponents enough there are no felt restrictions on the tactics used to defeat them. That's a feature of these kinds of operations.

[rse]

Most of us on this site still get our information from print and know enough history to appreciate the iconography.

These posters would be a powerful lure though to today's largely aliterate students who have been taught to write about themselves and their feelings and have little factual knowledge to ground their reactions.

You can just hear Bill Ayers and Sargent agreeing that "we can seduce and bind them with our images". No wonder it is such a fight to teach reading effectively.

[Rocco]

I did resize them so that probably distorted some images.

[Foo Bar]

"No Time for a Quick Google Search" would be a better title for this post.

Patterico and TM have made the mistake of assuming that everything that appears on the L.A. Times site shows up in their search archive. In fact, it appears that L.A. Times blog posts do not.

There were at least 2 LAT blog posts this month which covered the Yosi Sergant story.

I can understand TM making the mistake of assuming that Patterico was right about this. It's harder for me to understand Patterico making this mistake again after I corrected him a few weeks ago regarding the LAT coverage of the Van Jones story (where, again, an LAT blog post had mentioned the story). I even told him in an email how to use a site-specific Google search to augment his search of the LAT archives, but it appears that he failed to learn this lesson, despite my efforts.

[Rocco]

And now I have an art project myself...paint the sons bedroom. Once again, sorry for the italics and see ya a bit later.

[Jim Ryan]

The newspaper did not cover the story. The newspaper company put it in its blog. It belonged in the newspaper.

[MayBee]

My kids have some Obey shirts. They wear them ironically, because they are such obvious propaganda.

[Ignatz]

Foo Bar,

You often make good catches and usually they effect some fundamental aspect of the issue.
This one however is pretty picayune and tendentious.

[JM Hanes]

Foo Bar:

IMO, "coverage" is what shows up in news articles and in print, not under online blogger bylines, archived or not. In fact, New York Times bloggers seem to be charged with handling the news the Times' editorial board thinks unfit for print. Frankly, I'm not sure thumbnail paragraphs buried on back pages should qualify as bona fide coverage either, but that's just me.

[rse]

Maybee,

How would your kids feel if they had some classmates wearing them though because they believed in a cause or the leadership advocating the message?

I imagine your kids learn more history and politics at your dinner table and driving in the car than they've ever learned at school.

It's very disillusioning to a teenager to recognize that their teachers and fellow students aren't very aware of the world around them.

It's fun that yours get the irony. Mine love the Iowahawk satires. They just can't cite it as an example in English class.

[MayBee]

rse-

Aside from our home life, my kids have been lucky enough to have some really interesting Social Studies/Government teachers who actually like real debate. Not all of them, but enough that my kids feel shockingly comfortable discussing things in class.
Their true political heroes are Matt Stone and Trey Parker, though. Nothing is sacred.

[Stephanie]

[They just can't cite it as an example in English class.]

Italics don't work on italics, do they...

Anyways, why not? If a teacher dares to flag something as out of bounds even though it supports the argument of the paper my kids give the teacher fits and go to the department chair. So far the teacher has been slapped down by the chair... inappropriate use of supporting arguments is what they are grading for not the content of the argument. Works like a charm.

[Stephanie]

[They just can't cite it as an example in English class.]

Italics don't work on italics, do they...

Anyways, why not? If a teacher dares to flag something as out of bounds even though it supports the argument of the paper my kids give the teacher fits and go to the department chair. So far the teacher has been slapped down by the chair... inappropriate use of supporting arguments is what they are grading for not the content of the argument. Works like a charm.

[Stephanie]

Well that was strange. the comment box isn't emptying after the comment posts... sorry guys.

[bgates]

Patterico and TM have made the mistake of assuming that everything that appears on the L.A. Times site shows up in their search archive.

Foo Bar has made the mistake of assuming that the "it" at the end of the phrase "an Admin official resigns in the forest but the LA Times doesn't cover it" means something besides "resignation".

Just curious, what search terms did you use to find the blog entry? It would be useful to find the stuff that the LA Times doesn't want me to.

[PeterUk]

Interesting to note,that the centre of the logo is the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) symbol.

[centralcal]

I see Breitbart now has a "Legal Defense and Discovery Fund" set up.

Love the humor! Discovery, indeed - could be quite interesting.

[rse]

They have a few AP teachers they trust enough to be forthcoming but in general there's an assumption among the teachers, students, and parents that only "fascists" would have a problem with this administration and its policies.

That's a quote from the Principal's coffee where parents complained that the principal had let parent complaints interfere with a schoolwide broadcast of "our" President's message.

When an IB teacher asserted on parents night that anyone who believed that BO was a socialist didn't understand socialism, the parents literally groaned that anyone could be so poorly informed.

If both sides are reasonably well informed and want to learn and simply value different things, you can have a great discussion. It's hard to have that discussion if the teacher or students cannot fathom how little they really know.

It's hard to say "No, I understand socialism, sir. Did you know he was a candidate of the New Party?"

[Foo Bar]

Foo Bar has made the mistake of assuming that the "it" at the end of the phrase "an Admin official resigns in the forest but the LA Times doesn't cover it" means something besides "resignation".

Oh?

They had a reported resignation as communications director 2 weeks ago and a mention of the resignation today.

Just curious, what search terms did you use to find the blog entry?

site:latimes.com "yosi sergant"

[Terry Gain]

I think the notion that you can fight al Qaeda and the Taliban from remote bases is daft. Yes, if they train in easily identifiable training camps you can attack them. Surely they'll live and train in populated areas where they can't be isolated and attacked without impermissible collateral damage.

[Rocco]

Here's some pics at an opening of a hip hop restaurant opened a year ago in Hollywood. Kirsten Dunst, Yosi Sargant and...who's that with Yosi? Why it's Shep again!

[Rocco]

Of course, President Obama would probably say he's NOT trying to indoctrinate the children.

[Rocco]

I wonder if the LA Times covered this story?

[Jane]

Rocco,

You are so on a roll!

[JM Hanes]

Checked out that post Rocco, and darned if I can recall right wingers claiming that publicly posting pro-Obama propaganda qualified as vandalism, do you?

[Rocco]

I think the gist of that story is that Fairey owned the building where the alleged anti-ACORN grafitti was placed. The chickens have come home to roost!

Irony...he's been arrested 15 times for vandalizing other people's property. He claims he paste's his stickers to the empty electrical boxes under traffic lights or the back of signs, never on text. Doesn't matter to me, it's still vandalism. What worries me is the audience groups like the NEA target.

Now Shepard's already released a free pfd of his climate poster with that marxist symbol on it. Our tax dollars are funding government organizations who are using marxist propaganda to subliminally brainwash our kids. Here's another poster. This one is truth!

[rse]

Thanks Rocco.

I just showed those pumpkins to some high schoolers and they're all in stitches.

[PD]

darned if I can recall right wingers claiming that publicly posting pro-Obama propaganda qualified as vandalism

Me, either. I think this is an instance of making stuff up.

[Rocco]

You're welcome rse, you had the best line of the thread IMO, "Did you know he was a candidate of the New Party?"