Bum Rush

In the wake of last week's revelation that (excepting Janet's halftime teat) 99.9 percent of FCC complaints originate with the professional bluenose lobby—in this case the Parents Television Council—Atrios is calling on his hordes of readers to turn the tables by flooding the FCC with complaints about Rush Limbaugh's use of the word "addadictomy" (say it out loud) to describe a sex change operation.

Now, if Limbaugh were known for his frequent calls for FCC censorship of other media, there'd be a certain poetic justice here. But when, rather obviously prompted by fears of FCC fines, Clear Channel dropped Howard Stern, Limbaugh was one of the people who spoke out against it. He seems a poor target for this sort of thing, and in any event these "retaliatory" moves invariably become tu quoque fodder for yet futher escalations of the media control wars.