The man who was Hipster-In-chief

Artists, idealists, genuine cultural producers just don’t mesh with the worker bee world of cover your ass/ do as little as possible without getting caught/risk management; immersed in all that square shit they are simply out of their element. Case in point: Yosi Sergant, the LA publicist who coordinated a youth-centric arts front for the Obama election campaign, attached the word “Hope” to a poster, then rewarded with a White House appointment to the National Endowment for the Arts famously fell as canon fodder to Glen Beck et al. Sergant is back in LA and for the first time since his conference call fired up right wing haters he’s spoken out in a comprehensive overview of his ascension-and getting thrown under the bus-today on
USC blog Neon Tommy.

Sergant is sincere in admitting to a naivety about the political milieu( “I’d never worked in government before. Where’s the handbook? “) holds no grudge that no one had his back, and modestly regrets the lost potential that was in his grasp, telling reporter Hillel Aron “my big disappointment is that I know I could have done an amazing job at that agency.” We’re thinking his skills, ambition-and his new game of life takes no prisoners experience- will get him there again.