Yosi Sergant : The Next Van Jones?

"Those liberal artists","self-esteem' based educational system" or "smarter"........

Please!! Can you sound anymore insecure?

Opinions fueled by lifelong bitterness doesn't help anything.

ABC should be ashamed of themselves. You use Glenn Beck as your resourse? Why aren't you doing the research on your own. You people are useless and you wonder why your ratings are down and continue to go down? WHY Don't you have people that are willing to ask the tough questions and actually report the truth? Americans are AWAKE and ALIVE never to be asleep again. Don't you get it yet? The propaganda you spread is appauling and disgusting.

These 'artists' are really the product of the 'self-esteem' based educational system where everyone is considered 'smarter' than average.

Isn't this basically bribing and blackmailing? Support Obama and his madman egotism and we'll fund you?

Strict and immediate legal action against any and all of these people will put an end to this. A year in the slammer for these 'squakers' would set good precedence.

Reading the various transcripts and listening to clips of the call, what is most interesting is how ignorant these various officials at the NEA and the White House sound. "Specific Asks" "Really Cool" "Really Honored" It's like the cast of Dawson's Creek is running the country.

Bush never politicized the NEA? Please. He just worked hard with others to defund it.

Amen, Kathy! President Obama, with his incessant speeches and public appearances is beginning to remind me of those vile statues and mega wall-portraits that we've seen in corrupt regimes where the "dear Leader" can't quite get enough of himself...a leader that has to keep reminding his country just who is in control. YUCK! Our country is far more than just the President, and Obama seems to have become much too full of himself. He and many others in Washington are totally tone deaf and that is pretty scary. I'm glad that the country is turning up the volume because it seems that is what it will take to have Washington, D.C. hear us.

I guess your going to blame Glenn Beck for the Acorn scandals too.
Where is your coverage??
Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own actions?
MSM wonders why their ratings are tanking.
Sorry, America IS waking up!!

er-uh Yunji you might want to correct the storyline. Why mention Beck in the first graph? it was Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog that broke the story, Beck eventually carried the story. This is why most Americans are distrustful of the media, i.e., the complete story is not told. what happened to writing a story with Who, What, Where, When, Why and How?
Who broke the story? Big Hollywood
When did they break the story?
Why did they report on this?
Where was it reported?
How did they find out?

I m going to disregard the foolish comment by Canuck. Having lived in the LA and dealt with NEA, what Yosi did was reprehensible and NOT in keeping with the mandate of the NEA.

BECK had NOTHING to do with this story. BIG HOLLYWOOD broke this attempt to enlist the arts community to become propogandist for Obama's political agenda. Good Riddance Yosi. The more we shed the spotlight on the truth of what this admin is doing, the better.

Bush NEVER politicized the NEA. Can you imagine if he had asked artists to create works that supported the war in Iraq. Lefties would be vituperative.

Canadian just perusing by, why all of a sudden all this paranoia towards Obama? The man had to do all the financial bail-outs because of the mess he walked into. All top economists and I mean all the top economists understood that bail-out was the only way to make the US not topple into a severe depression and to avoid dragging other countries like mine in with it. I'm grateful for what Obama did, besides he can only go for the lesser of two evils.

About this Yosi guy, clearly you folks don't think he had malice in what he was trying to do. Yes its wrong, heck even I can see that a Politicized art can be used in nefarious ways. Accessibility, and education of the arts is what they should stick to ... but how quick are we to forget how the last administration politicized everything it touched ... including the CIA and the Pentagon. BTW, Beck is the type that will do anything for money believe me. His entire act is a sham, mostly everything out of his mouth is a lie or an extreme hyperbole, and his stories are not consistant.

MSM doesn't pick this up as these aren't sourced right, and aside the extreme tangent of a government conspiracy there is no other angle to twist it. An objective person like me can see he over-reached but since he is new at the job and an artsy break boundaries type of person he should be reminded ... for god sakes its art it won't kill anyone lets not get our collective panties in a bunch and turn it into a Watergate.

Obama surrounds himself with such a target rich environment, so many targets, so little time. But the Right bloggers are taking them out one at a time, only doing the job the MSM won't do,

"appears to be saying", What the hell are you talking about? He did encourage them to create art for furthering the Obama cause. Why can not a liberal press call it fairly???

I am an artist and this man needed to go.

Liberals think they have a lock on the creative community and it just isn't so.

Many of us are independent and some are even conservative but we are forced to keep a low profile because of people like Yosi.

And again, this was not Glen Beck's doing. Nor did he or Breitbart or others twist the truth. Yosi went down on his own soundbites, his email, and his attempt to cover it up.

Again, he may be a good man, but this action was pretty lame and he deserved to lose his position over it.

I figured the next Van Jones would take a little while to screw up and out himself, but if you read the transcript of the call, it is pretty disgusting how a government agency is being used to help a president's party politically. They knew that what they were doing and talking about was immoral or at the very least on the edge and that more than anything else should say that they need to be canned, not just reassigned. There are more people than Sergant involved in this, it isn't over yet, which is how it is different than Van Jones. The thing left to find out with the Jones appointment was who in the admin ok'd him being appointed without the vetting that is done for every other administration employee.

Tim, I called him a hack, and I stand by my comments. I do not know him, but he sure acted like a political hack by politicizing the NEA. That department should not be used to promote a President's agenda. Coming from someone who sounds like he is in the artist community per your comment, I would expect you to be equally offended that a President would want to abuse the NEA like this for his political gain. Maybe Yosi has done great things. I know he was partly behind the Hope poster that has been credited for helping Obama win the election and per you comment, I am sure he has done other great things for artists, but these comments and his implications were just plain wrong. And I don't see how an artist could defend him.

All I know is that I'm getting mighty sick of seeing Obama's face and hearing Obama's voice. Does the man realize that not everyone's in love with him?

Yosi Sergant is not a "political hack" as some on here have stated. I know him personally and he is a man of character and creative genius - without question one of the best things that has ever happened to artists and our community. Glenn Beck - to make a buck - twists the truth and attempts to appeal to your baser instincts. Recipe for a better country: more Yosi Sergants and fewer Glenn Becks.

can't Obama find anyone with normal, mainstream views and beliefs to head up prominent agencies and positions? Does he have any friends who aren't radical or have fringe, unpopular views? This character Obama is really scary.