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MICKEY KAUS: ?Lynne Munson?s suggested NEA apology is a whole lot better than actual National Endow?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: “Lynne Munson’s suggested NEA apology is a whole lot better than actual National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman’s actual statement, which is just a tad unapologetic and defensive about the Breitbart.com conference call scoop. . . . It’s obviously not just the fault of the one NEA official who participated in the call and has now been relieved of his assignment, but rather a problem in the culture of the incoming Obamaites–at least the incoming Obamaites who are sufficiently low-level and unwonkish to be assigned to the NEA. Maybe Landesman should order a viewing of The Lives of Others to underscore to them what (in admittedly extreme form) people who worry about politicizing funding for the arts are worried about.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).