This just in: Rush Limbaugh is an idiot, and political pundits make outrageous statements so that people will pay attention to them. A transcript from his show yesterday:
RUSH: Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights Up, same thing. Do you know the name of the villain in this movie? 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’s now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date’s been known, summer 2012 for a long time. 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 Bane?
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So, anyway, this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there’s now a discussion out there as to whether or not this is purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It’s gonna have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is gonna be huge. A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they’re gonna hear Bane in the movie and they’re gonna associate Bain. 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, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, “Oh, yeah, I know who that is.” (laughing) There are some people who think it’ll work. Others think you’re really underestimating the American people to think that will work. [RushLimbaugh.com via Gawker]
Oh, El Rushbo. You make me embarrassed that I used that same lazy observation as a deliberately-sh*tty joke three months ago.
Barack “The Dark Knight” Obama is pissed about the way Mitt Romney’s been running Bane Capital. #lazypoliticaljokes
— Vince Mancini (@Filmdrunk) May 22, 2012
If anyone in politics was smart (and they’re not), the big story here would be that Rush Limbaugh called anyone who sees The Dark Knight Rises (ha, the Dark Knight Lights Up, good one, grandpa) “brain-dead.” Jesus, man, tread lightly. Have you seen what the nerd hordes do to people , who even so much as question the Dark Knight’s greatness, even in jest? I haven’t seen it yet, and I’m already scared that I may not love it, just for what they might do to me (if I’m not back tomorrow, tell my porn I love her). To put it in right-wing radio terms, The Dark Knight is the nerd’s Ronald Reagan.
As an aside, do people ever consider the part of Rush Limbaugh’s show where it’s just him, speaking into a microphone, often without any guests, for like three hours at a time? He’s literally just sitting there talking to himself for hours, like a hobo high on paint thinner. I feel people never point out what an inherently nutty format that is. I know it’s entertainment, but it’s not healthy. It’s like if I just went on TV every afternoon and had a seizure.
(As a further aside, and not as a boast because these certainly weren’t my finest moments, but Gawker’s joke about this was that the real conspiracy was that Bane’s mask looks like sideways goatse, which was also on FilmDrunk three months ago. I think I stole it from a commenter.).
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In Rush’s defense, he’s high on a potent cocktail of Oxycontin and boner pills, not paint thinner.
I mean, honestly, like that fat tub of goo would ever buy something with the word “thinner” in it.
That’th why he alwayth getth to catht the firtht thtone, thilly.
Rush is right. Not Limbaugh though, f*ck that guy.
This guy is NOTHING like Tom Sawyer.
Today’s Tom Sawyer get’s high on you. Not Oxy.
you know, I think I WILL choose freewill after all!
Rush has probably worn a groove into his copy of Who’s Nailin’ Palin?
(like Rush, I make so little sense on so many levels)
im pretty sure limbaugh is on to something. in 1993, Chuck Dixon and the other Batman comic book writers were very well connected with the Muslim Socialist Global Illuminati and very well could have been planning a long term strategy to discredit potential Republican challengers to their then gestating political Trojan Horse (Barack Hussein Obama, natch). I assume whoever Romney picks as a running mate will have made their fortune at a company called Doomsday, or some other shitty villain from the early 90′s. I mean there’s pretty much no other way to explain this coincidence.
PHALANX/CARNAGE 2012 NOW MORE THAN EVER
ooh nice. those are some nice shitty villains from the early 90′s.
In 1997 when “Batman & Robin” was released featuring the character Bane, Romney was CEO of Bain Captial.
That’s what he says today. But he could retroactively retire to, oh, 1992 at any moment.
Ka… Boom
Prepare your chinos for a shittening, ‘Murca:
Batman is called ‘The Dark Knight’. Barack Obama has dark skin. Bane & Romney are both incomprehensible white dudes. Cesar Romero was the best Joker of all. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
Let’s connect the dots here people. Romney co-founded Bain Capital in 1984. Nine years later DC Comics introduced Bane, at a time when Obama was clearly becoming a player in Chicago politics. Chicago is not coincidentally the city on which Gotham is based. Obama heard about the upcoming production of Batman and Robin and asked his friend Bill Ayers to get in touch with his “Jew friends” out in Hollywood and put Joel Schumacher, thus ensuring the movie would be a clusterfuck and have Batfans calling for a new interpretation of Bane for years to come. After becoming a Senator he found about a “reboot” of the Batman series under the guidance of Christopher Nolan. As a huge fan of Memento, he thought this had real potential to influence the mindless folks who go to summer blockbusters. So once again he had Ayers contact Hollywood and suggested some themes that would aid his rise to the Presidency. The first was how fear can destroy a community, allowing the worst traits of human nature to take control of society, which was certainly a concern in post-9/11 America. He needed a more hopeful message for 2008, and with the financial crisis looming, the idea of a white knight rising from the chaos to shine a light on “Gotham” and it lead it to a better tomorrow. To make the message more subtle, he had the white knight be dragged down by the corruption, leaving Batman as the hero the city needs. Obama could portray himself as both in the campaign, the one we deserve and the one we need. However, Rome can’t be built in a day, and knowing this, he foresaw a significant challenge to his reelection. It was clear that Mitt Romney would be the man to emerge from a flawed field of candidates, and his history as an evil investor at Bain would be his primary weakness. And so, Bane had to be the villain in the third installment. It all makes sense when you think about it.
I should have proofed that. Holy shit.
No need to proofread that. In fact, if you’d scattered in some all-caps words at random, it’d be perfect.
Douche Limbag
This is seriously clearing the way for the inevitable Romney/Crazy Quilt GOP ticket. You heard it here first.
It was about time someone picked up the Ross Perot crazy guantlet. (It’s a mitten.)
Don’t MAKE me picture Biden in a Robin uniform.
It’s time we had a movie about Joe the Plumber P.I. and his search for the missing siblings Bertha and Sir Tifficate.
Would Bertha’s last name be The Plumber, too, or would she be using a married name?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Rush is fat
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I don’t agree with his Batman killing policies. But, I do agree with his Hines Ward killing policies
Bane 2012
+1
Comparing the presidential election and Batman is stupid. Romney is more comparable to Wayne than Bane.
Not to be outdone, Marvel has just created a new super villain called “Morman”.
His secret weapon is the giant trampoline he keeps out in his backyard for his kids.
Who am I kidding. It’s no secret. All the neighborhood kids know about it now.
Kolob’s #1 Dad!
I’m no fan of Rush, but I’m pretty sure he is responding to a stupid comparison made by leftists on the internets, and that the creator of Bane in the comics has publicly shunned the comparison as such.
It’s actually pretty obvious from a reading of that transcript that he is responding to a comparison already made, and just ruminating that people are so stupidly Pavlovian that the homonym will influence their political choices.
That’s not an insignificant concern, as much stupider things influence the “Independents” (read illiterates) that are undecided in the months leading up to any national election.
They are not illiterate. They just don’t care. As long as they get cable and gas is cheap, they don’t really care about one way or another.
Cheap gas? Cheap cable? Fuck yeah, who’s running on that platform? They’ve got my vote.
Is he? because I tried to read the transcript and figure out the context, and I got nothing. It just seemed like he was rambling. Not that I would be surprised if an equally stupid leftist pundit had come up with it, they’re basically the same thing.
Rush is reactionary if you haven’t noticed. He is usually responding to something. And yes the lefties have already started jumping all over the Bain Bane thing.
If all he’d said was, “The villain in the biggest movie of the year is named Bane, Democrats are making a big issue of the Republican candidate’s time at a company named Bain, others have pointed this out before and it might have some subliminal effect on voters,” which is sort of what that second paragraph is saying, sure. But implying there’s some sort of left-wing strategy involved, even hinting at it, is pure stupidity and trolling.
As I’m an Independent, I’m curious to know what stupid things you think influence my vote. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
HarryW, he was responding to the discussion that was already out there, as described by a couple blog posts in the Washington Times and the Washington Examiner… that’s the “discussion” and “the thought is” that he’s referring to in the second paragraph.
It’s a stupid idea floated out there, but not by Rush… he was just commenting out on how stupid it was… and that “the pop culture crowd”… that doesnt really pay much attention to politics generally, could easily fall for it from simply name association…. and a lot of uninformed people vote, and base their votes on a whole host of stupid reasoning.
Washington Times blog article:
[www.washingtontimes.com]
Washington EXaminer editorial it references:
[washingtonexaminer.com]
Late at night, when all good people are asleep and dreaming, a chubby vigilante, woozy with the delusions of oxycodone and hydrocodone, patrols the streets, on the prowl for enemies of the system that’s not quite in place yet; Yes kiddies! it’s mild-mannered millionaire Rush Limbaugh’s alter ego Beguiler-Man and his cloned sidekick, Cart-Before-the-Horse-Boy!
Also, don’t forget that the last Batman movie was politicized among the pundits (on both sides, but beginning on the Left) as an apologia for George W. Bush’s antiterror policies. Politics with the uninformed is largely subliminal merely by the fact that they are non-readers, which has a high correlation with being a non-thinker.
This has been going on ever since Adam West and Burt Ward were accused of promoting a gay agenda back in the 60s.
As for the Gawker thing, I’d say “Great minds think alike” but that would require Gawker adding a great mind other than Drew.
I read/listen to neither anymore, but isn’t Gawker just the Rush for a different set of people?
I like how he pretends not to know the name of the movie in an attempt to be above it. “The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is.” I’m sure he had the name of the movie written on a napkin right in front of him while he was spitting that morning’s omelet all over his microphone.
He also had a plate of biscuits and gravy shaped like a sideways goatse as a touchstone.
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Romney can really score points here if he comes out and says, “The crappy Bane in ‘Batman & Robin,’ that’s Obama’s Bane. The awesome looking Tom Hardy Bane? That’s Romney’s Bane.”
Wait, then who’s Catwoman? Crazy Eyes Bachmann?
If you’re gonna’ come up with crazy theories, then you REALLY need to just go for it.
Bachmann strikes me more as a cat lady than a Catwoman.
Stallonewolf with the win.
My condolences on the loss of your son Sage Stallonewolf, by the way.
“A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they’re gonna hear Bane in the movie and they’re gonna associate Bain.”
I think that this rant is pure jealously. The “braindead” Batman audience far outnumbers the “braindead” Limbaugh audience. These are the people that have been calling our President “Osama” for four years.
What about the overlap between those two audiences?
Somewhere in a basement apartment, a middle-aged man is desperately trying to decide who he loves more — Batman or El Rushbo.
I’m sure there’s a huge overlap, roughly the size of Oklahoma.
Of course! It all makes so much sense! Romney has been hiding his bank accounts in Santa Prisca this whole time. How could we not have seen this before? #9/11wasaninsidejob.
In defense of Romney, democrats already had Romney as Bane in Facebook forwards weeks ago. So, as always, both are idiots.
And Batman backwards is Namtab…
Something to think about
Hobo’s high on pain thinner make more sense than Rush
Vince, there was a video on Buzzfeed the other day that used the llama/Lautner side-by-side. I think it was called “things that can’t be unseen.” I didn’t see any credit to FD.
That one wasn’t mine. I don’t know who created that one.
Isn’t Bane a guy who leads a bunch of Occupy Wall Street type people against the rich in Gotham and the day is saved by a billionaire?
And batman is from DC comics. Is that like washington dc? You dont even need to read between the lines anymore people.
He’s so bane I bet he thinks the movie’s about Mitt. Dont you dont you star fucker.
No one will ever read this.