Limbaugh: Batman villain ‘Bane’ could be conspiracy to defeat Romney

[Playinghardball]

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday suggested that Hollywood liberals have been plotting for years to release the third and final Batman movie before the election in 2012 with a villain who’s name sounds like GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s former company, Bain Capital.

“Do you know the name of the villain in this movie?” Limbaugh asked his listeners. “Bane. The villain in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is named Bane. B-A-N-E. What is the name of the venture capital firm that Romney ran and around which there is now this make-believe controversy? Bain.”

“The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date has been known — summer 2012 — for a long time,” he added. “Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, what-ever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?”

“And now there’s discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It’s going to have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is going to be huge. A lot of people are going to see the movie, and it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertaining the pop-culture crowd. And they’re going to hear ‘Bane’ in the movie and they’re going to associate ‘Bain’ and the thought is that when they start paying attention to the campaign later in the year and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain — not Bain Capital — Romney and Bain that these people will think back to the bad man.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/17/limbaugh-batman-villain-bane-could-be-conspiracy-to-defeat-romney/

[pnwmom]

1. You mean "Bain Radio's Rush Limbaugh," right?

One of the many talk radio blowhards Romney/Bain bought when they bought Clear Channel Communications.

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. It's not Liberal Hollywood.. it's a message from GOD!

Rush.. God doesn't want Mitt as President and will do EVERYTHING to prevent it....


The Stupid it burns...

[Bluzmann57]

3. Obviously logic and limbaugh are strangers to each other

His own words say that this film was due to be released this summer, the summer of 2012. Now when the film was wrapped up, does he really think they knew romney would for sure be the repuke candidate? All I can say is what a dumbass. Mega dippies (as in dip shit) to you rush.

[11 Bravo]

14. The last time Limbaugh had a logical thought he could still see his own dick without using a mirror.

(I believe he was 14 at the time.)

[LibAsHell]

4. It's true

This conspiracy was started by the liberals in the 80s with the precise plan of releasing this movie in 2012 to counter Romney.

[WilliamPitt]

5. God damn it.

I made the Bain/Bane joke/comparison on facebook three weeks ago.

Anyone who uses it from now on owes me a dollar.

[flakey_foont]

6. Is this man on drugs?

Oh, wait! He is..

[Politicalboi]

7. It's obvious they did it that way

The writers knew of a Bain since Rmoney has been running for 5 years now. And the movie must have been made just after the primaries ended, because how else would they know to use "Bane".


Using a lot of ROFL this week.

[Blue Owl]

8. Ru$h has entered the realm of the bainal

n/t

[mucifer]

9. It is pretty damn funny that he got that name.

Hopefully the movie will be very popular and the name will stick.

Can wait for the doctored youtube clips

[Phlem]

10. Glad Dumb Ass brought attention to this.

Thanks for the help!



-p

[flakey_foont]

11. Here's how it works

from Batman's Bane to Romney's Bain and all the damage it is doing to his campaign
so we have BAIN DAMAGE, but add an R and we have BRAIN DAMAGE, from Pink Floyd's
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, which you can play in synch to the Wizard of Oz,,
and the Wizard of Oz was a famous American novel, and so was Tom Sawyer, which is a song by the
band Rush...so that means,, I have no idea, but makes as much sense as Mr. L's screed

[Politicalboi]

13. Could be

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

[mountain grammy]

12. thanks so much for the good laugh...

I loved the connection, rush is definitely on the stuff again... too funny

[boxman15]

15. Ugh, I'm getting sick of the political discussions behind The Dark Knight Rises already.

And it's not even out yet.

The idea that a Batman villain created in the early 1990s was incorporated into a movie written in 2010 to serve as a criticism of Mitt Romney in the middle of a debate about Bain Capital in July 2012 is absurd.

I've also seen many reviewers/bloggers comment that the movie is anti-Occupy Wall Street. Again, the movie was written in 2010, before Occupy. Bain's rise is more similar to someone like Hitler, who manipulated a populist movement with mostly legitimate concerns to his advantage or other, more recent, brutal figures like Osama bin Laden.

I've also seen many reviewers/bloggers comment that Batman represents President Obama: once a figure of hope, he's been misunderstood and outcast by his society by being blamed for something he didn't do (killing Harvey Dent/causing the Great Recession). But a villain that threatens his society (Bane/Romney) causes him to rise up again and fight for his values once more.

These are the least insane ideas I've seen, too.

What Christopher Nolan has said he does with the Batman universe and Gotham is to: 1. Create a great movie and 2. use the movies to mirror American society and simply raise questions. They don't take sides. The Dark Knight raised questions about whether the ends justify the means in the War on Terror. They did not take sides, though, and that's a good thing. The movies are not overtly political. They're about a rich dude in a mask and cape with a cool car who fights bad guys. Questions about society are in the background and add to the realism of Nolan's Gotham.

It looks like, judging from reviews and interviews with Nolan, that The Dark Knight Rises simply raises questions in the background again. Do the rich have too much power and control? Do the ends justify the means in the War on Terror? Are populist movements like Occupy Wall Street or the Arab Spring too easily susceptible to manipulation? They don't answer them, though, and that's the way it should be.

[Hippo_Tron]

17. +1000

[DCBob]

16. I hope so..

That would be so f'king brilliant!

[Phlem]

18. Besides

The "Bane" in Batman "Arkham City" for PC, way cooler than this movie's version Bane.

-p

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Could be. I've always thought Jabba The Hutt was part of a conspiracy to make Limbtits seem

sympathetic.

[TheKentuckian]

20. Way to turn that desperation up way past 11!!1!!1!

Holy shit that is lame.