Well here's a surprise: Dems want to protect the Public Broadcasting System from any kind of accountability in return for it's massive taxpayer subsidy. Yes, PBS should be free to promote anti- Bush, anti-conservative viewpoints morning, noon and night without interference.
And some people say there is no left wing theocracy imposing their views on the rest of us?
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story: "The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will begin an internal review of political monitoring of PBS programming in response to Democratic complaints, the CPB's inspector general said Thursday.
Reps. David Obey and John Dingell have asked for the review into several actions by CPB board chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, a Republican, including the hiring of a consultant to review the guests on the show 'Now With Bill Moyers.'
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The New York Times reported last week that the consultant kept track of 'anti-Bush,' 'anti-business' and 'anti-Tom DeLay' guests on the show. Moyers has left the show and now hosts 'Wide Angle' on PBS.
In their letter to Konz on Wednesday, Obey, D-Wis., and Dingell, D-Mich., said Tomlinson's actions may have violated the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which bans interference by federal officials over public programming. The CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation funded by Congress, provides funds for PBS.
"Congress intended that the CPB serve as a shield rather than a source of political interference into public broadcasting," they wrote.
The lawmakers also questioned Tomlinson's decision to secure corporate money to fund the "Journal Editorial Report," hosted by the editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial page, and pressing PBS into distributing it.
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