Drudge has a story claiming the following:

Two congressional Democrats called Wednesday for an investigation into recent activities by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, suggesting that efforts by the Republican chairman of the private nonprofit to add more conservative programs onto PBS may violate federal law.

He refers specifically to Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., and Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich.

They called recent actions taken by CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson “disturbing'’ and “extremely troubling.'’

Maybe it’s all just a ploy to make people think PBS is now a fair and balanced public broadcasting organization.

Laura Gottlieb observes the discrimination this way:

I see, so it’s FINE for PBS to openly promote NPR, the self-proclaimed socialist radio hub of the United States; and it’s OK for C[sic]BS to openly run issue-advocacy programs for John Kerry. But hire more conservatives…Oh no! That’s a violation of federal law. We must investigate!

The PRM:

Just another fine example of spoiled brat partisan politics by the Democrats in congress. They obviously feel like PBS is their “ball” and since others now want to play with it they are simply going to try to take their ball and go home.

PunditGuy says it’s more of the same:

All the Democrats know is obstruction. They will lose in 2006. They’ll lose the presidency in 2008…someone over there has to wake up and understand that Americans don’t elect people who complain, who point fingers, and don’t have solutions.

The Western Standard calls it a double standard.

Their view of the American public excludes the millions who don’t share the socialist-type vision of outfits like PBS. If you don’t “relate to the message”, you basically don’t exist and have no opinion worth expressing apparently.

McGeeHee thinks it has to be a joke.

On the other hand, Karen wants you to sign a petition to keep the liberal bias. Or something like that.

When right-wingers call for “balance”, what they really mean is that they don’t want liberals to have a voice at all — whether it’s in the classroom, or on television. In fact, conservatives used to call for the complete dismantling of public television, in part because of its supposed bias, but mostly out of the general principle that it’s not the government’s business to fund television programs. As I’ve said before, conservatism has become something very different than it was when I was conservative — it used to be about freedom, and getting the government out of our lives. (And, if you haven’t noticed, I’m still a strong civil libertarian.) Now, it seems to be all about imposing a right-wing form of political correctness on everybody else.