So here's a link to the other
great conservative commentator on popular music, Scott Johnson of Powerline, talking today about Joan Baez....
It's a short essay, but is packed with evidence (from the Education Intelligence Agency) of NEA's multi-tentacled reach, from a $ 250,000 grant to the
Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice («which has migrated to the University of Colorado at Boulder, which received another quarter million in direct funding,» says Peterson) to $ 100,000 for Media Matters, «a group that attacks
conservative groups and
commentators» and $ 35,000 for «the anti-accountability group,» FairTest.