'Artists' as Servants of Power

JAMES TARANTO: Artists As Servants Of Power: The Obama administration remakes the National Endowment for the Arts. Now that their side is in power, however, that adversary attitude stands exposed as a sham. The so-called oppositional artists are only too willing to act as handmaidens of the powerful. We backhandedly salute the Obama administration for exposing this. Meanwhile, as with Van Jones and Acorn, the mainstream media have had little to say about this scandal. The New York Times hasn’t even reported it at all. What we said about artists in the preceding paragraph applies to the so-called adversary press as well. Indeed. The Instapundit  Yes, when our bravely transgressive and largely government financed artistic elite go on about 'speaking truth to power,' they are not just being presumptuously arrogant, they are also often being just plain dishonest. More often than not they are just repeating partisan talking points. Rendition under Bush = screams of anguished outrage Rendition under Obama = silence Warrantless wire taps under Bush = hand ringing over our precious personal freedoms Warrantless wire taps under Obama = silence And so on.

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