I'll have to wait for later when they update the Rush 24/7 part of the site with the day's news, but shockingly Rush read a media bit about the passing FC this weekend for his morning update today. I'll post a link when it comes up, but i'm sure as Rush has allmost ignored the fandom for all the years he's been around, you'll see all sorts of furry blogs once they get wind of it whining about the "Right-Wing" bias against freedom of expression and sexualty.

Of course that only means it might catch more of his attention...I'd love to hear Rush take some calls from some of the more "Out there" furries who can't keep their month shut when the media reports on a typical fandom thing. Hell maybe EbonLupis or whatever his name in might call!

Comic fucking gold. I must be breaking some rule of the galaxy somewhere as I'm black, lower middle class, right wing, voted for Bush and think the NAACP is a bad running joke over the last 20 years..and furry.

And the thread title is pretty much what you'll see, should furries take notice. They will take this as if Rush went to FC and interviewed and harassed furries themselfs when it was a local CA paper.

Maybe some furry will threaten Rush with a lawsuit too. Then we can have the harsh light of day cast onto the fandom in a way never before dreamed, because while you don't normaly talk about ongoing litagation I guess, a lawsuit from a furry is a joke.

Holey moley. Words are failing me here! Drama ahoy!

It's up!

From Rush's site..

Guess what, folks? This weekend, 1700 people, all of them animal lovers, are expected to gather at the “furry” convention San Jose, California.

The “furries,” for those who don’t know — and I sincerely hope that that’s most of you — are people who love animals so much that they “take on their identities and sometimes dress up like" their animals. You heard right. These humans take on the identities of the animals they love, and sometimes dress up like them. It allows adults — grown-up human beings — this is a quote: “a place to act out their inter-species fantasies.”

Lee Strom is one of the Furry Convention’s founding fathers. He says, “Just because it’s weird, it’s still perfectly normal to the people involved in it.” He's 36. He wants to be a raccoon! (laughing) The convention will have workshops for the furries; puppetry, costume-making, writing about mythical creatures – and here’s one I think oughta be videotaped -- a workshop on “furry anatomy.” (whispering) Can you find it? Can you find it?

Apparently some furries, uh, aren’t waiting until the convention starts this weekend to act out their "inter-species fantasies." A reporter caught up with Katie Matthew, 20, “prancing through the lobby” of a hotel dressed as a fox. She was prancing with other adults dressed as goats, tigers and other creatures. Katie likes “the fun of dressing up and escaping into her made-up animal character, which she calls Shadow.”

Okay, folks. I have only one question. With a war going on and the tragedy of the tsunami. Isn’t this furry convention too festive and too costly? That’s a real fur-ball for you liberals, eh? Ha! Ha! Shut 'em down! Shut 'em down! It's perverted!

Link to the media bit he got it from
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=419505

This is on the Rush 24/7 part of the site, so I don't know if this will work or not..

http://mfile.akamai.com/5020/wma/rushlimb.download.akamai.com/5020/clips/05/01/MU011905.asx

That's it? That's all he says? Wow, that's disappointing. I knew, of course, he would think it was perverted and blame it on liberals (Because OMG LIBERALS DESTROY AMERICA AND APPLE PIE WITH YIFF) but I was hoping for one of his full-blown retarded rants. Rush

Katie Matthew, 20, “prancing through the lobby” of a hotel dressed as a fox.

That's it? That's all he says? Wow, that's disappointing. I knew, of course, he would think it was perverted and blame it on liberals (Because OMG LIBERALS DESTROY AMERICA AND APPLE PIE WITH YIFF) but I was hoping for one of his full-blown retarded rants. Rush

He does think it's perverted Meat. It doesn't seem so in print, but he does.

Katie Matthew, 20, “prancing through the lobby” of a hotel dressed as a fox.

Well... least that bit got my interest ... =) But I am too lazy to look up who is this "Shaddow" ....

Hoil, nice fox lay-dee with the thee-eng! Not with the fang hurt! Oy!

my respect for Rush has doubled.

Alas 0 X 2 = 0.

Yes, 2 will respond, but unlike Rush, no one will give a damn.

Why does that fox-bear thing have a cherry sticking out of it's head and bat wings? Is this some cornucopia of LiveJournal mind?

Rush isn't such a bad guy, liberals have their Bahgdad bobs too, but regardless, it was a bit sad that this hasn't had more done on it..

I honestly don't listen enough to know who Blackberry is. Then again, I foresee more emails than phone calls. Remember we're talking furries here.

Lee Strom is one of the Furry Convention’s founding fathers. He says, “Just because it’s weird, it’s still perfectly normal to the people involved in it.”

But, hell, I'm all for him giving the furries a razz, especially if he ever takes a surf through VCL or the like. Unfortunately, it would be likely to bring unwanted fire onto the entire fandom, but at least it might help turn a few rocks over and whomp the bugs living under them.... get the furries thinking that, yeah, they are worse than Trekkies... Klingon cleavage included.

Furries are Trekkies with rabbit ears.

Not to discount or downplay the contribution to the fandom by the 'suiters
and pawpeteers; they are on average impressive performers and craftsmen,
often designing and building their own mascot-style costumes--- many of them
ranging up to a thousand dollars in cost to make; this is not a hobby for
shallow pockets--- and performing in them for conventions, parties,
children's hospitals and related charities. One of the best known puppeting
groups regularly performs in a four-hour live webcast show, and also
performs each week for a children's charity known as "give kids the world."

The fandom does, as you noted, have a fascination with the animal kingdom,
and this is reflected in other charitable work that the various conventions
do, such as holding fundraisers for various wildlife preserves, animal
shelters, pet rescue organizations and the like

Unfortunately such spastics seem to be part and parcel with any sort of
"fandom" you care to organize. Build it and they shall come, I suppose.
Trust me on this, the freakiest thing you might see at an Anthropomorphic
convention passes as the status quo at your average Anime convention or
ComicCon. If you think not, here are a couple of words for Mr. Snerdley to
google for your next show: "Hentai, Ecchi, yaoi and Bukkake." Cross
reference those with "tentacle" for a **really** entertaining afternoon.

And even though there are many people out there who call themselves "furry
fans" who behave in a deplorable and deviant fashion, even though the rest
of the fandom cannot possibly legally control them or be held responsible
for their actions, allow me to apologize for their existence, on behalf of
all the other fans out here who just want to read their "Captain Carrot"
comic books and be left in peace.

And please try to have a little empathy. After all, we fans have furry
freaks---- and you have Howard Stern.

Dear Mr. Limbaugh;

GAR GAR GAR GAR GAR

RHJunior
Christian conservative
anthropomorphics fan

Probably not, since they're more likely to go from CBS to Comedy Central to G4 to SpikeTV to FOX affiliates airing Rikki Lake.. then maybe to the adult pay-per-view channels.

Hmm... maybe we need a poster charting the progression of furrydom and borrowing McD's slogan, "I'm lovin' it!"

You wonder if he writes to relieve the pain and help convince himself there's nothing really futile about being a 'Christian conservative anthropomorphics fan'?

Hey, ease off on Rush. He's just a big harmless lovable fuzzball, dammit.

I always love it when they go from "HURR HURR HURR... WIL U YIFF W ME @ TEH FOX FARM?" to "My good sir, I am compelled to inform you forthwith that your view on furries is a tad skewed, and it would be my priveledge.. nay.. my duty to inform you if the errors of your mistaken notions."

I always love it when they go from "HURR HURR HURR... WIL U YIFF W ME @ TEH FOX FARM?" to "My good sir, I am compelled to inform you forthwith that your view on furries is a tad skewed, and it would be my priveledge.. nay.. my duty to inform you if the errors of your mistaken notions."

So you bitch when they're badly spoken, and you bitch when they're well spoken. Any time you don't bitch at them, or is this a deliberately no win scenario?

Hey, ease off on Rush. He's just a big harmless lovable fuzzball, dammit.

And anyone who is an avid enthusiast of Percoset and other narcotic painkillers can't be all bad in my book :)

*goes doctor shopping*

Latest update: Tonight's (1/20/05) episode of Dennis Miller took a swipe at furries too. I have a screen cap, but I cannot fiddle with ftp as easily as I did with a Mac. Mitch, email me so I can send the pic to you, ok?

So you bitch when they're badly spoken, and you bitch when they're well spoken. Any time you don't bitch at them, or is this a deliberately no win scenario?

So you bitch when they're badly spoken, and you bitch when they're well spoken. Any time you don't bitch at them, or is this a deliberately no win scenario?

No, what I'm saying is it's always funny to see furries go from textfucking to attempting to sound erudite whenever they're trying to convince someone that furry doesn't deserve it's bad image.... going from descriptions of giving a horse a handjob to trying to sound like Charles Dickens.

Cant say anyuthing about Rush, and though this is dated it' says everything you need top know about him.

http://www.bushflash.com/nazi.html


Later

IceCat

How about 'Mouse's Law' where anyone caught citing 'Godwin's Law' gets their testicles concaved with a nine iron. 2nd offence - "Donkey Deathmatch" where you stand directly behind a donkey as I whip its ass with a bull whip - hopefully inciting a skull fracturing , mule-kicking frenzy

So, what this means in practical terms:

• If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it wasn't necessary or germane without it necessarily being an insult, it's probably about time for the thread to end.
  
• If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it was vaguely related but is basically being used as an insult, the speaker can be considered to be flaming and not debating.
  
• If someone brings up Nazis in any conversation that has been going on too long for one of the parties, it can be used as a fair excuse to end the thread and declare victory for the other side.

Cant say anyuthing about Rush, and though this is dated it' says everything you need top know about him.

http://www.bushflash.com/nazi.html


Later

IceCat

Ever hear of Godwin's Law, friend?

Mismention of Nazism simply proves to me that the speaker has no sense of history outside the years of 1939 to 1945.

As for the making fun of Rush... it's rather pathetic. A slightly higher borw Rush-bash would be a passage from Al Franken's book, not a flash which talks about the size of his ass and photoshops him next to Hitler.

Can we please go back to talking about how the fandumb got a one-two punch from the mainstream media this week? That's the topic.

Can we please go back to talking about how the fandumb got a one-two punch from the mainstream media this week? That's the topic.

Hirtes on topic... not spewing forth disgusting diatribes and oozing pustules of hatred from every pore... what's next? A coherent Collins post?

I'm comin' 'Lizabeth! I'm comin'!

Godwin's Law exists as a statement of general Usenet culture and the typical flow of threads. It simply states that: a growing thread has a constantly increasing probability that someone will mention Nazis. This off-topic mention of Nazis will generally drive the thread off-topic and kill it. There exists a misconception that Godwin's Law mandates a thread be closed once a participant mentions Nazis, or else you'll go to Internet Jail.

Godwin's Law exists as a statement of general Usenet culture and the typical flow of threads. It simply states that: a growing thread has a constantly increasing probability that someone will mention Nazis. This off-topic mention of Nazis will generally drive the thread off-topic and kill it. There exists a misconception that Godwin's Law mandates a thread be closed once a participant mentions Nazis, or else you'll go to Internet Jail.

As for the making fun of Rush... it's rather pathetic. A slightly higher borw Rush-bash would be a passage from Al Franken's book, not a flash which talks about the size of his ass and photoshops him next to Hitler.

I don't see you complaining about Nazi catgirls!

That's a Nazi werewolf boy, FYI. And I am a giant Hellsing faggot.

I don't see you complaining about Nazi catgirls!

Art Spiegelman might. ;)

I don't see you complaining about Nazi catgirls!

I would complain about Nazi catgirls, but only if they threw me in an oven. There is a fine line between kinky and genocidal.

In October 1944, the Sonderkommando team at Birkenau learned that the Germans intended to gas them. At the camps, an underground movement had been planning a general uprising for some time, but it never happened. The remaining Sonderkommandos decided to take their fate into their own hands, and, on October 7, the group in charge of the third crematorium at the camp, the Birkenau Three Sonderkommando, rebelled. They attacked the SS with makeshift weapons: stones, axes, hammers, other work tools and homemade grenades. They caught the SS guards by surprise, overpowered them and blew up a crematorium. At this stage they were joined by the Birkenau One Kommando, which also overpowered their guards and broke out of the compound. The revolt ended in failure. There was no mass uprising, and within a short time the Germans succeeded in capturing and killing almost all the escapees.

Hey it's Octan. Hello Octan.

So why does he say "perverted," you ask? No idea. But he doesn't sound like he really means it at all.

Hey it's Octan. Hello Octan.

http://www.squeep.com/~steve/rush_limbaugh_on_fc2005.mp3