Tomlinson broke the law

Internal investigators for the Corporation for Public Broadcast report that former CPB head Ken Tomlinson broke the law when he influenced PBS programming and paid a consultant without telling the board.

Tomlinson, a long-time conservative activist who reportedly coordinated his efforts with White House aide Karl Rove, had already stepped aside as chairman and has now resigned from the board because of the report. However, he had managed to install as his replacement another Republican partisan. And he has inflicted plenty of damage on the public broadcasting entities he was supposed to be protecting from political pressure.

Sounds like a candidate for a Presidential Medal of Freedom.