DFHs Need Not Apply

by digby

Guess what?

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.

Perhaps not coincidentally, both Sergant and Van Jones – Beck’s first takedown – have roots in on-the-ground organizing and were tightly connected with the grassroots progressive community.

The NEA wouldn’t comment on Sergant’s situation specifically, saying that it was a confidential personnel matter.

The White House did not come to Sergant’s defense but says it was not involved in asking him to leave. “The White House did not ask for Mr. Sergant’s resignation,” administration spokesman Shin Inouye told HuffPost.

Sargent probably joined the boy scouts as a kid, which every knows is a quasi Nazi organization modeled on the Hitler youth.

The others at the top of Beck’s hit list will probably fare much better. Sunstein, a favorite of many conservatives, was confirmed yesterday. The others are establishment figures with social standing in the Village. If Beck wants to continue to take “commie” scalps he should probably concentrate on DFHs. They are sitting ducks.

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