More hot water for Rove: There’s a new outbreak of Republican corruption, and this time it’s not in the energy sector or the Pentagon, it’s at the top of the public broadcasting bureaucracy.

Is nothing sacred to these people?

According to the New York Times, Ken Tomlinson, who is a friend and philosophical fellow traveler of Karl Rove, was ousted on Friday from the board of directors of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. The termination was the result of an internal investigation into Tomlinson’s efforts to turn PBS and NPR into outlets of Fox News and, by extension, the Bush White House Communications Office.

In true Bush failing-upward style, Tomlinson will keep his other, even more powerful job. At least for now, he remains head of the Ministry of Propaganda, otherwise known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the government’s foreign broadcasting operations, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Martí, Radio Sawa and al-Hurra.

But Tomlinson is also in hot water at the BBG, where a separate, even more serious investigation has been looking into allegations he misused funds and hired unqualified cronies.

And here’s where it gets interesting: Investigators into the BBG allegations recently siezed Tomlinson’s email records and found a trove of messages back and forth between Kenny Boy II and his buddies at the White House, including Karl Rove. The contents of those emails could spell more trouble for the White House.