PBS not liberal enough

It is a well-known fact that PBS has been oozing liberal bias and programming pretty much since its inception. With years of Bill Moyers, Jim Lehrer, etc., on the air, PBS has been quite the taxpayer-funded mouthpiece of the left. Factor in children's programming that pounds home socialist messages, and it's impossible to dispute the leftward tilt of PBS. Matter of fact, one of my fellow bloggers has a PublicBS Watch blog set up that documents (among other things) PBS' crap.

Well, if you ask two liberal House members, it just isn't liberal enough over at PBS.

Two Democrats are calling for an investigation into the new chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, and his efforts to add a little balance to the PBS menu, especially since PBS' ratings have been in the toilet (almost as bad as those of MSNBC). Representatives David Obey and John Dingell seem to think it's against the law to "censor" programming. They thusly expose the left's belief that anytime a liberal is not allowed to present their point of view whenever they want ad nauseum, it's censorship. So does Barney get to start dropping F-bombs, now that there's supposed to be no censorship? Maybe we can watch Tinky Winky polish Dipsy's putter for all the world to see! Oh, the new possibilities!

You know, these liberals have a point! I mean, aside from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, MTV, VH1, Reuters, the AP, BBC, Air America, and nearly every MSM daily newspaper in the country...just how in the hell is a lib to get his (unpopular) message out there? A watered-down PBS won't help them!

By the way, notice that one of the liberals' favorite cause celebre, the Fairness Doctrine, is being ignored by them? Granted, the Fairness Doctrine isn't in effect anymore, but I find their hypocrisy telling. I mean, they want commercial radio stations to be forced to air liberal messages if it has conservative messages...but that same level of "balance" does not apply to government-owned broadcasts?? "Hi, Mr. Pot...I'm Mr. Kettle!"

For the record, I think PBS should be de-funded. It's nothing more than state-owned broadcasting. Don't we call that "propaganda" in other countries?