beta_plus: Rush is getting ridiculous on this one. For crying out loud, The Dark Knight was a defense of the Bush's War on Terror.

The one thing that gives me pause is when, in the Dark Knight, Batman prevents Dent from torturing the thug. Batman understands he's a vigialante. But were he to allow his tactics to infect our legitimate public servants, any hope of rooting out institutionalized corruption would be lost. It's also why he didn't want the copycats.

To me, it's a repudiation of Bush's wars and all their trappings.

Aarontology: Republicans just don't believe in linear time, do they?

It's more of a wibbly-wobbly herpy-derpy ball of... stuff.

FlashHarry: palladiate: I always thought Bane as a leftist anarchist. He empowered the dispossessed, wanted to break the wealthy, and take down the police state. Bane would have targeted Bain for destruction.

that's pretty much what dixon said. and he said romney is more like batman - a delusional, secluded billionaire.

Can a dog carrier fit on top of the batmobile?

Rann Xerox: FlashHarry: palladiate: I always thought Bane as a leftist anarchist. He empowered the dispossessed, wanted to break the wealthy, and take down the police state. Bane would have targeted Bain for destruction.

that's pretty much what dixon said. and he said romney is more like batman - a delusional, secluded billionaire.

Can a dog carrier fit on top of the batmobile?

Republicans are such experts on space and time that they think that IF Stephen Hawking were born in England, that he would have been dead by now because of their terrible health system over there.

Also, how else do you explain Romney's having 2 completely opposite opinions on every issue? He is both for gay marriage and against it, pro choice and pro life, etc...

Romney is an expert at quantum physics and is demonstrating the schrodinger's cat paradox.

vernonFL: Republicans are such experts on space and time that they think that IF Stephen Hawking were born in England, that he would have been dead by now because of their terrible health system over there.

Also, how else do you explain Romney's having 2 completely opposite opinions on every issue? He is both for gay marriage and against it, pro choice and pro life, etc...

Romney is an expert at quantum physics and is demonstrating the schrodinger's cat paradox.

Well. Romney does believe himself to be deserving, nay, destined to rule the country. In his mind, he is...

The Master.

/Limbaugh would be a fat, incompetent Dalek. Full of hate for EVERYTHING that is different...

jcb274: IOKIYTGDB

I want that on a T-shirt.

FirstNationalBastard: As long as Chuck Dixon doesn't go all wingnut in his writing, he's a decent comic book writer.

why DOES comic book writing seem to attract so many right-wingers like Frank Miller, Todd Mcfarland, Dixon and Graham, and at least after his divorce, Dave Sims?

BojanglesPaladin: JerseyTim: See, this is the craziest part of Limbaugh's comments. The Dark Knight was essentially an allegory for the War on Terror with Batman playing the role of George W. Bush. He was the president we deserve, not the one we need right now. It's no coincidence that The Dark Knight Rises takes place eight years later.


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Actually, this is one posited by MANY reviewers of both TDK and TDKR. But I know, liberal conspiracy, liberal bias in the media, liberal, liberal, liberal. Can't be trusted. But ask yourself, when Batman uses the sonar / phone device in TDK, isn't that exactly like something out of the Patriot Act? Wasn't the hesitation from Lucius Fox in parallel to our collective "Well, shiat, I dunno, spying on citizens in one hand, bad terrorists on the other"? Dude, if you let your partisan hack shillery down from that tree house for one damn minute.... you'd see that you were the one who needs the joker meme graphic.

Erix: If TDKR was planned to bring down Romney, that means they were planning on him winning the primary. However, since they obviously started filming well before the primaries were over, TDKR was probably just one prong of a complex attack on all potential primary winners.

My question is, which other movies are out there that would have been good attacks on other potential winners?

Is the Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man a thinly veiled jab at Newt?

Was Snow White and the Huntsman made to boost liberal favorite Jon Hunstman?

Is Total Recall an attempt to re-energize the voters after the failed recall in Wisconsin?


Ice Age: Continental Drift was clearly an attack on Bachmann who thinks the world is only 6000 years old.

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/quik n dirtay

+1 Quick and delicious.

I am collecting the Romney / Bane and Romney / Two-face image URLs and loading them into HootSuite to barrage Facebook all day every day over the next week.

NateGrey: Rush wants to see the mortgage records for Obama's house and hospital records from when Michelle worked there.

Da fuq?

Republicans are morons.

I would really be interested in seeing the Madrassa attendance records of Barack Hussein Obama. And for that matter, I want to see the lunch menu records for the exact days Obama WAS there. I want to know exactly how many pounds of dog meat Obama actually consumed by comparing the lunch menu records with local kennel invoices sent to that madrassa.

Jodeo: Rush Limbaugh responds to all this nonsense.
(new window, not that you'll really bother).

So he says: "Do you think that it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire breathing four eyed whatever it is villain in this movie is named Bain [sic]?"

And today he denies he said anything of the sort.

No wonder he's a Romney guy. Except when he wasn't.

themindiswatching: Have people ever thought for a second that maybe movies are for entertainment and not for projecting your beliefs?

/wait, I think I answered my own question.

Remember the questions about Star Wars Ep 2 and 3 being a commentary on Bush? Idiots on both sides thought so without considering that Lucas is an apolitical money grubbing whore who molests our inner child's memories. A memory pedophile.

Magorn: FirstNationalBastard: As long as Chuck Dixon doesn't go all wingnut in his writing, he's a decent comic book writer.

why DOES comic book writing seem to attract so many right-wingers like Frank Miller, Todd Mcfarland, Dixon and Graham, and at least after his divorce, Dave Sims?

For the same reason it attracts liberals like Jerry Siegel, William Marston, Stan Lee, Denny O'Neil, Alan Moore, J. Michael Straczynski, Marc Guggenheim, and Mark Millar.

Because comics are f*cking awesome.

I_C_Weener: themindiswatching: Have people ever thought for a second that maybe movies are for entertainment and not for projecting your beliefs?

/wait, I think I answered my own question.

Remember the questions about Star Wars Ep 2 and 3 being a commentary on Bush? Idiots on both sides thought so without considering that Lucas is an apolitical money grubbing whore who molests our inner child's memories. A memory pedophile.

I believe the term is retroactive pedophile.

BojanglesPaladin: Although I understand Chris Nolan has stated that that was not his intent? That it is an audience inference, not a director inmplication?

Yeah, it's also just a coincidence that Bane is leading an army of unwashed Occupy protestors in an assault on rich people in TDKR.

I don't know whether Nolan himself is a conservative or if he's just tapping into the conservative themes of the character, but the messages are there.