White House Advisor Kareem Dale: "At The White House...We Love MSNBC"

Kareem Dale also said that "for far too long in this country, arts has been the program in this country that is cut when things get difficult. For far too long in this country, arts have been an afterthought. For far too long in this country, arts have been treated as second class. … And for far too long, the arts have not been considered integral to building a prosperous and viable society." This is a load of hooey. Let me translate what Kareem is actually saying. He is actually saying that Obama is expanding federal government funding of artists who cannot, despite government copyright and other protections of their work, succeed on the merits. Arts are not an afterthought in America. America is the world's leader in cinema, television, music, and so forth. However, those arts are not federally funded so of course Dale would not consider those arts. To qualify as an art apparently you need to produce works that have no value in an economy and that can only exist if taxpayer money is spent to support them.
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