Those wacky gals at the National Organization for Women are at it again... sending letters trying to stop CNN from adding Rush Limbaugh to its on-camera roster.

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Editor’s Note: We’re all at the beach, too. This column was written by the summer intern. We apologize for the demented tone of such immature sexist rantings. We wouldn’t have run it, but he started screaming "The First Amendment Rules" at the top of his lungs. We bought him every version of "Stairway to Heaven" ever recorded and sent him back to school.

Those wacky gals at the National Organization for Women (NOW) are at it again. While all but the Feministas and Margaret Carlson are at the beach in bikinis, the press-release-a-day sisterhood is busy sending letters trying to stop CNN from adding Rush Limbaugh to its on-camera roster.

The wisdom around town is that Fox News Network is scooping up CNN’s audience because a lot of good conservative folks — including some we know but won’t name — haven’t been feeling all that warm and fuzzy of late about CNN’s liberal bias. You know, it’s some of those people who think the United Nations is either bad or boring or both, hasn’t been worth that many news stories in the last decade and probably isn’t going to name Ted Turner Secretary General no matter how much he gives. (Have you ever wondered how weird the title "Secretary General" is?)

Anyway, CNN’s talking to Rush, he says he’s listening, and if they put this together, he’ll get the gazillion dollars he’s worth to liven up CNN’s airwaves. Let’s face it, his neckties alone are good for several points.

Since Rush already has an audience of 20 million a week for his radio show, many may ask why the word warriors of NOW have their camo knickers in such a twist. Here, we may have some insight. NOW has a new president, but the old one keeps getting most of the airtime — like Clinton in the early days of the Bush administration — so maybe the new one’s envious. An alternate possibility is that Rush might forget to mention NOW if he’s not frequently attacked, and that would be bad for NOW’s fundraising.

While the aforementioned wisdom around town can often make its own truth, we think CNN’s problem is a lot more basic than conservative flight. Has the network ever thought of hiring anyone with his or her original hair color? Why doesn’t John King hire a streaker to run back and forth behind his White House lawn position? Why can’t J-Lo interview Senator Lieberman about all that nasty stuff in the movies? Why can’t Silent Bob have a show?

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