Posted by
Far_view on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:25:20 AM
There is really nothing new under the Sun. The
news that
Obama operatives were trying to get NEA funded artists to put out
material that would support the Obama agenda harkens back to Emperor
Augustus when he was still the Triumvir Octavian when Octavian was
vying with Marc Antony for control of the Roman Republic. I was just
listening to a
History of Rome podcast about this time period and apparently Octavian's "publicist" (for want of a better term)
Maecenas enlisted Roman poets and artists (such as the author of the Aeneid,
Virgil)
to produce material in support of Octavian. I'm not saying that Obama
is trying to become Emperor, but you can draw your own conclusions...