Is The Dark Knight Anti-Romney?
The most anticipated movie for quite some time, The Dark Knight Rises, is only a couple days away from release. With the opening on the horizon, the film is getting coverage from nearly every media outlet imaginable. It has even been discussed on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
The Dark Knight Rises features the main antagonist Bane, which, according to Limbaugh, is more than a coincidence. Mitt Romney’s former private-equity firm was named Bain Capital, and Limbaugh suggested that Bane was intentionally chosen to be used in this film just to sway voters from the GOP.
“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.”
Bane has existed as a character since 1993 when he first appeared in the Batman Comics. However, the decision to use Bane in the new installment of The Dark Knight series came only in 2011. Is it possible that Bane was only used to make a link to Bain Capital?
- [via Business Insider]
You dumb fucks have created a strawman argument against Rush here.
He’s not saying, “It’s a liberal plot to associate Bane with Bain!!!11!!11”
He’s saying that even if it were not intentionally done by the people who made the movie, the Bain/Bane will still be in people’s subconscious. I doubt this will have much of an effect on the election but let’s not pretend like words don’t matter.
12 years ago at 10:24 amI would agree, if not for the last couple sentences. I think the phrase “it’ll work” implies a deliberate act.
12 years ago at 11:40 amSubliminal messages have been proven to have no significant effect on the human mind. Take a lap.
12 years ago at 11:41 am^ You’re right, they affect the human subconcious.. if you don’t think subliminal messaging doesn’t play a part in our everyday lives, I seriously doubt your intelligence. I’m not talking about the priest’s boner in a Disney movie either, I’m talking about simple ideals about the economy, what’s right and wrong, even gender roles that are driven home by advertisements and TV everyday.
12 years ago at 2:35 pmsorry, meant if you think subliminal messaging doesn’t**, fuck you and your laps though.
12 years ago at 2:36 pmSubliminal messages do work but only once they pass a certain threshold. For example, movie theatres used to flash subliminal pictures of popcorn and soda during the movie to get you to buy some. It worked and thus it was later banned.
12 years ago at 10:03 amRush is a fucking idiot and always has been
12 years ago at 10:30 amSchwarzenegger was elected Gov in Cal off of the Terminator platform. It’ll only help Mitt4Tits!
12 years ago at 10:35 amLet me tell you some advice I learned from The Office:
“Don’t be an idiot. So, anytime I’m about to (type) something, I ask myself, ‘would an idiot (type) this? If this answer is ‘yes’, then I do not do that thing.”
What an utterly ridiculous theory to even dignify by responding to. For God’s sake, the first Dark Kni.ght was one of the most G.W.O.T.-sympathetic films of the last decade. My God, I hate Republican pundits, because they make the rest of us look like we have Downs.
12 years ago at 11:30 am^
12 years ago at 1:40 pmWell, to be fair, they often represent the portion of the party that actually has downs.
Reagan was right when he said not to bring the religious right into the party. They’re a fucking plague.
12 years ago at 1:41 pmRush is really running out of shit to talk about.
12 years ago at 11:55 amThis seems unlikely especially considering TDK had conservative undertones: Batman using Patriot Act like resources to locate the Joker…
12 years ago at 12:08 pmThis is the stupidest thing I’ve heard all day. Anyone who makes that connection should be allowed to vote. That is all.
12 years ago at 12:16 pmshouldn’t*
12 years ago at 12:22 pmBane was an actual Batman villain and this movie was made well before Romney became the Republican presidential candidate. Let’s cut this conspiracy theory shit out before we start sounding like 9/11 truthers.
12 years ago at 12:20 pmThis is the stupidest conspiracy I’ve ever read
12 years ago at 12:41 pmBane was a comic book character that debuted in 93. (And probably the rest of our generation saw him in the 90’s cartoon, or the one shitty Batman movie he was in, also well before the name Bain was relevant in the political world)
12 years ago at 12:48 pmIn every sense of the word, this is reaching. Rush must really be desperate to stir up some edgy controversial political agenda right now. NF