It’s being reported that Yosi Sergant, who was director of communications for the National Endowment for the Arts until he was reassigned this month in the wake of the controversy, offered his resignation Thursday afternoon, the NEA said in a written statement.

This is the clown that held the conference call that told the artsy people they were learning how to deal with the administration without getting in trouble, and they the artists needed to start creating art supporting Obama’s radical agenda.

“His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately,” the statement read.

Sergant was one of several officials on an hour-long conference call on Aug. 10 hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve, a nationwide initiative launched by President Obama to increase volunteerism.

The official participants — including Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Buffy Wicks and Michael Skolnik, political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons — sought focused efforts by the approximately 75 artists on the call to produce works of art that supported the Obama administration’s agenda in areas like health care, energy and environment, education and community renewal.

White House officials announced earlier this week that steps would be taken to prevent a recurrence of the call after critics, including one of the artists on the call, labeled it a “well thought-out pitch” to encourage artists to create art on those issues.

This is VERY good news! This guy was trying to give lessons on how to get around the usual ways of getting NEA grants.

The whole story can be read here.

—>Gardie

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