Yosi Sergant, Obama Administration Aide Demoted: Glenn Beck Strikes Again

Yosi Sergant, Administration Aide Demoted: Glenn Beck Strikes Again
September 10, 2009

UPDATE: The NEA has updated their statement to emphasize that Yosi Sargent remains with the agency, but in a different position: "As regards Yosi Sergant, he has not left the National Endowment for the Arts. He remains with the agency, although not as director of communications."

Sources familiar with the situation say that the move represents a significant step down and was the result of the controversy. Discussion about his new duties is still ongoing.

Glenn Beck has struck again.

Yosi Sergant, who recently popped up on Beck's radar for his involvement in a conference call on national service, has been asked to resign as communications director by the National Endowment for the Arts, sources familiar with the move tell the Huffington Post.

At issue was an August conference call in which the NEA encouraged select artists to participate in an administration project dubbed "United We Serve" and led by the first lady.

Beck attacked Sergant and the NEA on his Fox News talk show, accusing the agency of propaganda efforts similar to those used by Nazi Germany. And now Sergant has been tossed overboard, making him Beck's second victim in his campaign to rid the administration of perceived radicals, socialists, communists, fascists, anarchists and all other manner of nefarious influences.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/glenn-beck-strikes-again_n_281986.html


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After Targeting Van Jones, Glenn Beck Takes His shot at Hip-Hop Activist Yosi Sergant
By Jeff Chang
September 11, 2009

Glenn Beck uses smear attacks to push for White House staffer Yosi Sergant's resignation for organizing artists to support Obama's national service program.

Are you mad yet? You should be. Glenn Beck has now taken down Yosi Sergant, the second hip-hop activist to be targeted in the Obama administration in a week.

Last night the 34-year old communications director at the National Endowment For The Arts was asked to resign from his position. (As of press time, it was not clear if Sergant would be remain at the NEA in a lesser role or resign from the agency entirely.)

Why? Because he was trying to organize artists to support President Obama's national service program, United We Serve. If your next question is: so what? That was ours too. But Glenn Beck compared the effort to "Nazi propaganda."

(Just sick -- especially since Sergant, a Jewish American, has worked as an activist for peace in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.)

http://www.alternet.org/politics/142564/after_targeting_van_jones%2C_glenn_beck_takes_his_shot_at_hip-hop_activist_yosi_sergant_


Yosi Sergant

and the one about Obama being confident on health care despite Republicans who "see this as a replay of 1993-1994.".....

but the one I liked the most was the one about how much of an asshole Joe Wilson is.




















Oh...but wait. Those were not threads you started......



Sorry, I forgot, you only post whatever negative articles you can find in where one might want to conclude that something, anything bad that ocurred, is Obama's fault.

Oh yeah....and I'm mad, alright.

I sorry you don't think the targets of ultra-right hate mongers should be supported and defended. If this offends you, I do not apologize and really don't give a flying fruck.

It appears that concepts such as solidarity and civil liberties have no meaning for you.

Once they have their foot in the door they just won't leave unless you eject and reject them.

cause if you have, you never post any stories about them,
unless whatever it is they did, reflects badly on how Obama is/has handled it.

Other than that, you are MIA.

You ought to try that sometime. What a novel concept!

You wrote: "So have you ejected and rejected the Far Right yet.....you never post any stories about them"

What the frick do you think the two stories I just posted were about?

Never heard of Glenn Beck and his attacks on Obama's appointments?

Are you sober?

dozens of smear jobs you post?
:rofl:

Does anyone stop to think that none of these people are career, hard core politicians who are not used to getting death threats? I rather doubt that these folks foresaw these types of threats when they took the job.

Unlike the President they're not under the protection of the Secret Service.

If I left the safety of my job, and a relatively anonymous life to work in the White House, and suddenly I was getting death threats, and hate mail, I'd be very worried about my family. I'd quit too.

But no one thinks about the stresses that folks are put under. All they think about is a made for TV conflict of who won, and who lost the latest political fist fight.



*edited for typo.

Shameful

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/2632

fucking spine.