Sometime after Obama is out of office....

If the NEA pushing the administration's agenda isn't illegal, it should be.

And if Bush was squeezing the NEA like this, liberals would be demanding laws to prevent it from happening.

It's so ironic: artists who walk around lecturing the rest of us about not conforming and how money shouldn't matter sure fall in line fast when it's their paycheck that's being threatened.

"The first necessity was to spread our ideas among as many people as possible. Propaganda should go well ahead of organization and gather together the human material for the latter to work up."
-Mein Kampf

"...it is advisable first to propagate and publicly expound the ideas on which the movement is founded."
-Mein Kampf

Would Hollywood have fallen in to line if Bush had asked them for this?

No. They would have run screaming and snarling to the nearest MSNBC reporter.

Community Service? Where have I heard that before (Hint: Germany circa 1933).

It's not what he asked the networks to say. It's that he asked the networks to do it.

If this was George Bush doing this, ,you'd be saying something very, very different right now.

And that's part of the point and part of why people are reacting the way they are.

But stay in your cushy bubble. Keep acting stupid.

Would Hollywood have been so casual if the Bush Administration had "asked" them for something like this?

Answer: it would have been a headline story reading "Bush Attacks First Amendment, Demands Networks Conform".

Liberals trying to tell us otherwise is the bigger point in all of this.

He thinks he's Jesus. His supporters sure treat him that way.

And they're kind of right thinking that way. Who's going to stop him?

Question: Would Hollywood moguls have been so nonchalant if the Bush administration had asked them for something like this?