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August 02, 2009
Obama WASTES Tax Payers Dollars To Fund Underground Gay Art Houses
A dancer performs a nude routine for "The Symmetry Project" as part of a San Francisco dance group that has received emergency funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
Stimulus Bill Funds Go to Art Houses Showing 'Pervert' Revues, Underground Pornography
Talk about a stimulus package.
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, ( a gay and lesbian film house), which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
"When you spend so much money in a short amount of time ... you're going to have nonsense like this, and that's why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
Williams said such support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage the recession.
"When taxpayers see this, they realize that's just a bunch of hot air," he told FOXNews.com.
Some members of Congress raised alarms as the stimulus bill was being drafted and approved, but President Obama, while admitting there were problems with the $787 billion legislation, stressed the need for immediate action to resuscitate the economy.
"We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary," Obama said at the time.
One project that has received past NEA funding and stands to get an additional boost from a $25,000 stimulus grant is "The Symmetry Project," a dance piece by choreographer Jess Curtis.
The show depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience," according to a description offered on Curtis' Web site.
In the flesh — and there's a lot of it — it amounts to two people writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the altogether.
Curtis said that diminished support from regular funders like San Francisco Grants for the Arts "would mean lots less work and less ability to organize ... to get the work out in front of people." He said the NEA funding will help keep his art afloat.
"I think art is an incredibly important part of our culture and our life and ... that it's very much appropriate that our government should be supporting it," he told FOXNews.com.
Wild Thing's comment......
Disgusting, This misuse of money goes beyond corruption. This is in Nancy Pelosi's area. Her voters, so she must be the one that forced this one to be paid by we tax payers. sheesh
Totally disgusting people!!!
....Thank you Richard for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at August 2, 2009 06:40 AM
Comments
He's surrounded himself with that 'art'!!!
What happened to their troll, Helen Thomas, too brash for them???
Posted by: Jack at August 2, 2009 12:13 PM
Anything that attacks American values is what they are after. This sickness the left calls 'art' is about as close as they can come. Sadly, the American People are paying for this crap. Hope and change must be working for these perverts.
Posted by: Mark at August 2, 2009 02:16 PM
Jack, oh my gosh, LOL too funny.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 2, 2009 06:41 PM
Mark, it isn't even sexy, it is so sickening.
Your right about anything that attacks
American values.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 2, 2009 06:43 PM
I am not sure that you can blame this one on Obama. The core homosexual in the D.C. civil service community are always trying to divert money to their culture. Any time the Government trys to fund "the arts" I think that this is what you are going to get. They diverted money to Maplethorp during the Reagan administration.
Posted by: Avitar at August 3, 2009 02:19 PM
