Yosi Sergant

Another one bites the dust, sort of.

Yosi Sergant has resigned from his NEA post.

Sergant served as the Communications Director of the National Endowment for the Arts. More specifically, his title was "New Media and Special Projects Advisor."

Now he's out of that position.

From the Washington Post:

The National Endowment for the Arts has reassigned former communications director Yosi Sergant, who had become the latest target of FOX News talk show host Glenn Beck.

Acting NEA communications director Victoria Hutter said Thursday that Sergant had left the communications post. The move came after he had come under attack from Beck, a conservative commentator who accused Sergant of attempting to use taxpayer money to fund art to support the president's initiatives.

Sergant's reassignment came after the resignation last weekend of environmental adviser Van Jones, who had been criticized for weeks by Beck.

The talk show host accused Sergant of arranging an August conference call with the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve to recruit artists to create works in support of Obama policies. The NEA has denied that the call was inappropriate, and the White House has said that it did not force Sergant's reassignment.

The Post makes it sound like Sergant was a victim.

He wasn't.

There are consequences when one uses the NEA as a political arm for Obama and his administration's agenda. Such an inappropriate/illegal use of taxpayer dollars to fund political work is good reason for a "reassignment."

Does this move make the NEA scandal go away?

Patrick Courrielche, who's been doing the real work on this story, not Beck, doesn't believe that Sergant's reassignment adequately addresses the matter.

Responding to NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman's statement that Sergant "acted 'unilaterally and without the approval or authorization' from his superior," Courrielche explains that throwing Sergant under the bus won't cut it.

Before moving on, there are still issues that need to be addressed. The NEA and the White House both have more explaining to do.

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