Batman Effect

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Mickey Kaus over on Slate http://slate.msn.com/id/2108682/ who is generally a moron called tech following brilliant. And no, it is not, brilliant it is stupid. Can you find all the stupidity?

The Batman Effect
October 29, 2004 02:23 PM

http://www.truthlaidbear.com/archives/2004/10/29/the_batman_effect.php#001525

So there's another Bin Laden tape out, the first in a long while.

This could be seen as an attempt by Bin Laden to influence the election against Bush; his mocking comments towards the President certainly make it come off that way.

But I don't think it will work, because of a theory I'll call "The Batman Effect".

Batman is constantly trying to put the Joker out of business for good. But if you haven't noticed, he generally never quite manages. The Joker is never, ever truly vanquished; he'll always be back for more.

But when the Joker's on the loose again, you don't stop to think "Damn, Batman still hasn't managed to get rid of this guy, we better find somebody else." You don't say "get me Aquaman on the phone." You think about the only guy who actually does something about the Joker, even if it hasn't been a permanent solution: the only guy who's been able to do the clown some damage and set back his schemes a ways.

You put up the damned Bat Signal and hope that Batman answers the call.

Bush is Batman to Bin Laden's Joker. And the American public isn't going to dump Batman just because he hasn't won the final battle with the Joker yet.

Bottom line: Bin Laden probably just gave the election to Bush. Not because of anything in particular he said: but simply because he lives, and Americans will realize that the lunatic has escaped from Arkham Asylum yet again...

[David Dunham]

1. Bush is the idiot who let bin Laden get away in 2001.

[Gyre]

2. This guy's theory is just that.

Asshat w/no cover and a mediocre imagination.

Gyre

[Domitan]

3. Unfortunately

there are many analysts who feel the same way including those from BBC and Guardian. Never underestimate the stupidity of the public.

[Shadowen]

4. Actually...

There's a few reasons for it.

1) Joker always has a backup plan to get out of the Asylum.

2) Batman never kills if he can help it. He doesn't consider himself a vigilante, but a crimefighter, and he's been deputized by Gotham's police force.

3) There's a theory that another reason Batman never kills is that he knows he could and no one would fault him for it, but if he killed all the big bad villains he went up against, his life would be empty afterwards--at least until the next supervillain comes along. The police generally don't need help with the common crooks, it's the mad superhumans they have trouble with.

You may notice that none of these three apply to Bush.