So much of the liberal media’s spin is about creating an anti-Republican momentum, or in this era an anti-Trump momentum. Take Politico’s Friday story headlined “President’s arts and humanities committee resigns over Trump’s Charlottesville response.”
Edward-Isaac Dovere began:
Another advisory group is walking away from President Donald Trump after his equivocation on neo-Nazis and white supremacists, with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities resigning en masse Friday morning.
“We cannot sit idly by, the way that your West Wing advisors have, without speaking out against your words and actions,” members write in a joint letter to Trump obtained by POLITICO, which ends by calling on the president to resign if he does not see a problem with what’s happened this week.
Liberals are tweeting this around with “Holy crap” reactions....without listing the signatories. It's the "president's arts council" all right...the last president's.
But how dramatic is this if they were all appointed by Obama, and are a conga line of Obama supporters? There, in paragraph three, we learn these are liberals: “Members include artist Chuck Close, actor Kal Penn, author Jhumpa Lahri and Vicki Kennedy, widow of former Sen. Ted Kennedy.” Penn (real name: Kalpen Modi), now acting as a White House press secretary on the ABC drama Designated Survivor, worked as an aide under Valerie Jarrett for two and a half years in the Obama White House. Lahiri was given the National Humanities Medal by President Obama and signed a letter against Trump's six-nation travel ban earlier this year.
The committee also included:
-- Minnesota state senator Richard Cohen (Democrat of St. Paul);
-- Fred Goldring, a HuffPost contributor who boasts of creating the Obama "Yes We Can" campaign ad of 2008;
-- Chicago investor Howard Gottlieb, who donated $100,000 to Obama's inauguration festivities in 2009;
-- Anne Luzzatto, who led the Obama-Biden transition team staffing up the NEA, in addition to working in the Clinton White House;
-- Tennis Channel chief executive Ken Solomon, who raised $2.7 million for Obama's two presidential campaigns;
-- Caroline "Kim" Taylor, Boston Symphony Orchestra trustee and wife of liberal singer James Taylor;
-- Andrew Weinstein, the Finance Chair of the Democratic Party of Florida;
-- Jill Udall, wife of Sen. Tom Udall (Democrat of New Mexico);
-- Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young, who boasts of being a proud, 20-year member of the ACLU.
Then, late in the story, there’s this: “The 17-member committee was appointed by President Barack Obama and hasn't met under Trump, but has continued work on some of its programs.” But it's "Trump's committee" abandoning Trump?
One might expect this Obama-approved arts panel to turn on Trump once his budget proposed zeroing out funds for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But look how far afield these liberals go in their statement denouncing Trump like a committee of liberals:
You have threatened nuclear war while gutting diplomacy funding. The Administration pulled out of the Paris agreement, filed an amicus brief undermining the Civil Rights Act, and attacked our brave trans service members. You have subverted equal protections, and are committed to banning Muslims and refugee women & children from our great country. This does not unify the nation we all love. We know the importance of open and free dialogue through our work in the cultural diplomacy realm, most recently with the first-ever US Government arts and culture delegation to Cuba, a country without the same First Amendment protections we enjoy here. Your words and actions push us all further away from the freedoms we are guaranteed.
Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions. We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too.
Liberals always assume that if you are in favor or the arts and the humanities, then you must be a liberal. Conservatives are presumed to be anti-art and anti-humanity.
