Rush Limbaugh: Batman villain was named Bane to hurt Mitt Romney

[adamgreer]

Rush must be back on the oxycontin again to say nonsense like this.

You can't make this stuff up...

Rush Limbaugh says that moviegoers � especially �a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd� � are �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� There are some people who think it�ll work. Others think you�re really underestimating the American people to think that will work.� Limbaugh adds: �You may think it�s ridiculous, I�m just telling you this is the kind of stuff the Obama team is lining up. The kind of people who would draw this comparison are the kind of people that they are campaigning to. These are the kind of people that they are attempting to appeal to.�




Rush Limbaugh: Batman Villain Was Named �Bane� To Hurt Mitt Romney

[Jordan Catalano]

Wow. Chris Nolan wrote this screenplay, what almost two years ago? He must be an F'in psychic!

[Wynbish]

And Bane first appeared in the Batman world in 1993.

[adamgreer]

Not even that! The character of Bane was introduced in the comic books back in 1993. Whoever was writing them must have known this film would be released in 2012 and that Mitt Romney was pre-destined to be the Republican nominee in 2012! Impressive!!

Perhaps the name Bane was added retroactively?

[Jordan Catalano]

Damn, that Obama and him being alive in 1993 and knowing about this and sitting on it until now when he could use it at just the right time to make people think what they think when they're thinking about Batman!

[Addison D.]

Cool. I hope it works.

[Wynbish]

"I must defeat Bane. Alfred, bring me my magical underwear!"

[Mr Roxy]

A bit of a stretch if I do say so myself.

[Addison D.]

I bet Green Lantern did it.

[jasonf]

"Perhaps the name Bane was added retroactively?"

Can I nominate this for quote of the year?

[Playbilly]

I HATE RUSH! That said....when Bane has his big speech in The Dark Knight Rises....he sounds Just Like Rush!!

The drug addict ought a be upset by that. Especially since criticizing a movie he hasn't seen is nothing new.

BAIN MATTERS!!!

(and yes, I've seen the movie)

[FindingNamo]

This movie is going to be the Bain of Mitt's existence.

[strummergirl]

Bane notoriously, and this has made him a polarizing character since, broke Batman's back in the Knightfall trilogy. Great analogy, Rush. And if it happens in the movie I am sure he and his minions will think the opposite just like when the Tea Party put Joker makeup on Obama.

[GlindatheGood22]

I thought for sure the link would lead to an Onion article. Delighted to find that's not the case.

[romantico]

Over at Deadline they point out Batman comics introduced Bane in 1993. Actor Robert Swenson played the villain in the 1997 film Batman & Robin that starred George Clooney.However, Rush is having none of it. Don't bring facts into this conversation!

THE NEWSROOM Criticized Rush this week and Rush trashed the show and told people to watch another show at the same time. Now Rush is mad at Batman and telling his listeners not to see probably the biggest film of the year. (LOL)

The comments are really priceless.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/rush-limbaugh-dark-knight-bain-ban/#more-302520

By the way, Rachel's take down on El Rushbo was excellent!

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maddow-rips-limbaugh-for-claiming-that-batman-villain-name-bane-not-accidental/

[jasonf]

Don't these rightwing blowhards ever get tired of hearing their own blathering idiocy?

[romantico]

Rush himself says he is an ENTERTAINER. So, why would ANYONE get their news from an ENTERTAINER? Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are entertainers who do political satire and I honestly think this is what Rush thinks he is. In order to political satire you first have to know and understand what satire is. The only one on the Conservative said who is great at satire is Victoria Jackson. Has anyone heard her? She plays this crazy character who would ordinarily scare the sh*t out of me but then I realize NO ONE is that nuts and then just laugh at her. Oh, and she sings songs that rhyme on a ukulele.HILARIOUS!

[Wynbish]

Let's not forget that Bane was created by DC Comics. As in Washington DC. As in Obama.

[FindingNamo]

Bain, (Bain) makes a man take things over
Bain, (Bain) makes Mitt lose, he's hard to swallow
Bain, (Bain) he wasn't there but that rings hollow
Bain, (Bain)

[romantico]

[brdlwyr]

Rush may be an enternainer, but thousands rely on him for daily political information. It is just an ugly time in American politics!

[JoeKv99]

We've know for a long time Obama has some sort of time machine. If he can travel back to 1962 and place phony birth announcements in Hawaiian papers to try to fool people about his Kenyan Birth, obviously he can travel to 1993 to create a Batman Villain that makes Mitt look bad.

[adamgreer]

Was Rush the one who said the Muppets movie was Democratic propoganda because the villain was an oil baron, or was that another Republican crazy?

[JoeKv99]

That was Rush

[Wynbish]

The biggest crime here is that Tom Hardy's face is covered up.

[tazber]

It's also absurd for him to trash the movie as being anti-republican since the hero is a billionaire.