MICKEY KAUS: “Lynne Munson’s suggested NEA apology is a whole lot better than actual National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman’s actual statement, which is just a tad unapologetic and defensive about the Breitbart.com conference call scoop. . . . It’s obviously not just the fault of the one NEA official who participated in the call and has now been relieved of his assignment, but rather a problem in the culture of the incoming Obamaites–at least the incoming Obamaites who are sufficiently low-level and unwonkish to be assigned to the NEA. Maybe Landesman should order a viewing of The Lives of Others to underscore to them what (in admittedly extreme form) people who worry about politicizing funding for the arts are worried about.”