Update on NEA story

Remember the White House co-opting the National Endowment for the Arts? Noticed the link the NEA has on their site promoting the White House health care plan on their website? Here's more:

Watchdogs Wary of Early Push by White House to 'Politicize' NEA

The White House convened a meeting of 60 artists to help push the president's domestic agenda in May, months before a controversial conference call with artists in August led to the reassignment and, on Thursday, the resignation of the communications director of the National Endowment for the Arts.

In what some critics are calling a "troubling" early effort by the Obama administration to politicize the NEA, rappers, dancers, writers and other activists from around the country were invited to a May 12 session next door to the White House, where they were "challenged to come up with promising and attractive ideas about how artists can work for the administration's agenda," according to a report written by organizers of the meeting...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/watchdogs-wary-early-push-white-house-politicize-nea/