President Bush is almost exactly like Batman. He's a real-life superhero.

[monomach]

They'll print anything in the WSJ.

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121694247343482821.html

There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

"The Dark Knight," then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year's "300," "The Dark Knight" is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for beans.

Conversely, time after time, left-wing films about the war on terror -- films like "In The Valley of Elah," "Rendition" and "Redacted" -- which preach moral equivalence and advocate surrender, that disrespect the military and their mission, that seem unable to distinguish the difference between America and Islamo-fascism, have bombed more spectacularly than Operation Shock and Awe.

[Demeter]

1. In Which Case, I'd Take Heath Ledger's Joker Any Day of the Week

Because make-up washes off, but evil goes down to the bones.

[EV_Ares]

6. I can't even read that crap. I like your analysis of the make-up washing off and evil

going down to the bones because that is where evil is in these neo-cons and all you have to do is look at the results of their work for the last 7 plus years. We, our children, grandchildren and all the rest will be paying big-time for the evil-doers work; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfwcitz and the rest of them for who knows how long. The media was accomplices as well.

[geckosfeet]

2. ,,, and like many 6 year old minds, the author fails to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

[rasputin1952]

3. The WSJ's Editorial section has become little more than a comic book...

I suppose that is why they can relate in such a way.

bush=Batman...yeah, right. For one thing, Batman has a hard time justifying killing, bush gets a twinkle in his eye when people die. Right there, we understand the differences between the two.

I just wish bush were as fictional as Batman...perhaps there would be far less discord in this world...I think he is more like the Joker, merely someone hell bent on creating chaos and misery.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. Did this guy even *see* the movie? *SPOILERS*

Good grief!

Batman does not give the power of spying to himself, he gives it to the guy that despises the tactic.
He didn't say "Well, I'll only keep this until I don't need it anymore." He set it up to be destroyed immediately after its one time use. If he were like Bush, he would have kept it forever, granted the power only to himself and told Fox that he needed it to bring order to the world.

Even at the end, he does not break his last rule, no matter how bad the criminal is. Throughout the whole movie, people tell him that sometimes you have to be willing to break your own rules and the Joker was looking forward to that. But he did not.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Oh yeah! And Batman puts *himself* in harms way.

Bush is more like the joker, throwing his henchmen at Batman to avoid confrontation himself.

[Danger Mouse]

12. You've pretty much nailed it. Batman would find Bush disgusting.

[CJCRANE]

7. WSJ is now a blatant Murdoch rag nt

[EV_Ares]

8. Actually the paper is one of the best. The Opinion page is a totally separate matter, the most

right-wing rag in the US. John Harwood formerly from the WSJ and now on the staff of the NY Times explained it well one time. In your newspapers the opinion pages and the rest of the paper are totally separate and example editors and writers of the journal and the times have all worked for one or the other at times.

I get the WSJ and never bother to read the opinion page, there is no use and to me it would be laughable if not sickening in the fact that you know there is a following for that page.

[underpants]

9. They aren' the only ones-Glenn Beck had this nonsense on last night and check out this google search

The Caped Decider?
New York Times, United States - 13 hours ago
... by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. ...

Wall Street Journal Is Batman's 'Dark Night' Bush or Cheney?
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 25, 2008
In today's Wall Street Journal, Andrew Klavan discusses "What Bush and Batman Have In Common." His thoughts: There seems to me no question that the Batman ...

Is the Dark Knight pro-Bush?
The Phoenix, MA - 13 hours ago
... in fact, a thinly-veiled tribute to President George W. Bush, who, in Klavan's mind, is another leader who, like Batman in this film, has done what has ...

[monomach]

10. Man, I must have really misunderstood this movie or something. nt

[Danger Mouse]

11. George W. Bush is to Batman as Adolph Hitler is to the Silver Surfer.

Or something.

[slampoet]

13. Bush is like Batman. They are Both GAY!

and the WSJ is too dumb to notice.

[monomach]

15. Gay?

I'd say the 60's tv show Batman could have been a closet case with Robin and his tights, but the chimp-in-chief?

Maybe one of DU's gay posters could explain that part to me?

[slampoet]

16. Bush was a member of a church that specifically catered to ex-gays.

[sourmilk]

14. Why bother reading anything KKKlavan writes?

He's a friggin' nutjob, period.

Now, Dick Cheney as the Penguin....there's an obvious case for THAT.

[baldguy]

17. They almost got it right.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

[WinkyDink]

18. The writer DOES know Batman is fiction, no?

[underpants]

19. What is Bush?

:shrug:

[WinkyDink]

22. An all-too-real psychopathic mass murderer?

[PfcHammer]

20. Mighty Mouse perhaps

Batman, no.

[Tarc]

21. Has there been any response to this nuttiness from the director, actors, etc...?

I'd love to see a concrete refutation to this Batman <3's Bush horseshit.