Rush Limmbaugh Says WB and Obama Names DKR Villain "Bane" to Hurt Romney

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So I just read a tweet followed by a link to an article that claims Obama and WB are conspiring to associate the villain Bane in The Dark Knight Rises with Bain Capital to sway voters against Romney. This is such a ludicrous and brain dead statement but it hurts me to know there are people who will actually believe this. Small quote followed by some links. The absurdity of this is almost laughable but then I remember people actually listen to him.

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?

Main article

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/rus...in-ban/#utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Limbaugh webpage with transcript

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/17/the_batman_campaign
 
They have been scheming this for years, damn liberal media, trying to control the minds of our youth.
*Angrily waves shotgun in air"


On a real note, it's obviously stupid, as is almost everything that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth. Bane has been around since his appearance in 93', and is not some recent creation.
 
Honestly, I bet at least one person out there makes the connection because they are dumb. And that is why not everyone should be able to vote
 
Jesus tapdancing Christ, I can't tell which is more preposterous, him thinking a movie that's been in production for years based on character which is even older than that is specifically in place to undermine a candidate that was effectively chosen mere months ago OR that he knows better but expects his listeners to be too stupid to realize it...
 
Just to clarify, I think Rush is saying the Obama team waited to drop this news alongside the movie hype, not conspired for 20 years with the creators of Batman. Either way it's ridiculous, but how clever that would be if they actually planned it!

And I still have no idea what Bane is saying in the trailers.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Just to clarify, I think Rush is saying the Obama team waited to drop this news alongside the movie hype, not conspired for 20 years with the creators of Batman. Either way it's ridiculous, but how clever that would be if they actually planned it!

And I still have no idea what Bane is saying in the trailers.[/QUOTE]

Bane: "I'm Gotham's Recknoning."

Bane: "Your punishment must be more severe."
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Just to clarify, I think Rush is saying the Obama team waited to drop this news alongside the movie hype, not conspired for 20 years with the creators of Batman. Either way it's ridiculous, but how clever that would be if they actually planned it!

And I still have no idea what Bane is saying in the trailers.[/QUOTE]

That may be true but he does not exactly back away from saying it was planned long ago and he specifically states he wonders if it was no "accident" they are calling him Bane. That is basically saying it was done on purpose by WB. While it may be more digestible to think he is saying Obama is jumping on the opportunity to tie these 2 separate things together by chance he does not really word it that way.

" 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?"

This is basically saying that WB/Nolan or whoever named him Bane for the sole reason to tie it to Romney.

"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."

Who exactly is saying this? Um Rush it is YOU that is saying this.

He then cites some article that may have been the start of this whole thing. I need to find it. Basically saying Bane is actually like the Occupy Wall Street guy and Batman is the rich guy protecting everyone, which would be Romney. I am not sure though until I find it. Either way it is a ridiculous analogy.
 
Could explain why they picked Bane for the movie. :D

Seriously, though... of all the options for the movie... Bane? Really? Interesting character in the comics, but if you can only devote 2 hours to his entire story arch... bleh.

Give me a nice Hugo Strange story. That'd be fun.
 
Amusing that Rush can't even describe the villain correctly because if he could, I'm sure even more anti-Romney symbolism could have been "found" like sex in a Disney movie.

Same old pandering, throw-crap-at-the-masses-and-watch-them-eat-it-up rhetoric every other political pundit utilizes.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']Could explain why they picked Bane for the movie. :D

Seriously, though... of all the options for the movie... Bane? Really? Interesting character in the comics, but if you can only devote 2 hours to his entire story arch... bleh.

Give me a nice Hugo Strange story. That'd be fun.[/QUOTE]

Bane is actually a character that a lot of people really don't know a whole lot about. Considering Batman & Robin and the 2 recent Arkham games treated him like a muscle-bound idiot is really not being true to the source material. Bane is actually ridiculously smart, or at least he was initially.

Also, the whole Bane Capital analogy is pretty weak. They started working on the movie since what, 2009? 2010? You'd really have to have known long in advance that this was a thing, in addition to knowing that Romney would 100% be the candidate.

But I just have to ask who threw the first stone about this? Democrats or Republicans? Because I really don't know, nor do I give a fuck. And I'm sure a lot of people don't, either.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Bane is actually a character that a lot of people really don't know a whole lot about. Considering Batman & Robin and the 2 recent Arkham games treated him like a muscle-bound idiot is really not being true to the source material. Bane is actually ridiculously smart, or at least he was initially.[/QUOTE]

Batman & Robin and the two Arkham games (even B:TAS, B:TBATB and The Batman) are great examples of why Bane doesn't work as a short-term villain.

Even if you take out the original Venom storyline (which, of course, laid the ground work for introducing Bane, even if they didn't know it at the time), Introducing Bane, his backstory (heh, "back") and everything showing what a methodological genius he is took nearly a year's worth of Batman comics (across multiple titles) to tell. As excited as I am to see this movie (have my IMAX Marathon tickets already!), I'm weary of how they'll be able to handle Bane.
 
I'm going to guess that Bane in TDKR is
basically what Batman would've become if he had gone down Ra's Al Ghul's path. That's how it'll bring in all 3 movies into showing Wayne's development v. Bane's, whereas Bane took his time in planning an attack whereas Ra's was hasty.
 
We'll see. While I try not to be one of those "Oh noes! They made Batman's cape .2 inches longer! They've ruined my childhood!" people, the idea of Bane
being tied with Ra's early in his development... meh. Of course, the movie Ra's is a joke compared to the comic version, so who knows?

What a lot of people don't get/don't know about Bane, you seemed to have picked up on in your plan for the movie at the very least. Whereas Bruce was victimized by a criminal when he was little and he trained his childhood/young adulthood to fight criminals, using fear as his weapon. Bane, meanwhile, was victimized by the justice system (or, at least, the version of it on his home island. Where Bruce's parent's death "trapped" him into his life as the Batman, the death of Bane's father *literally* trapped him into a criminal life. Bane's captivity forced him to learn survival - but, unlike Bruce's more noble (if not selfish) intentions, Bane's schooling was more basic survival, neither noble nor selfish. Finally, where Bruce uses fear as his weapon, Bane's mindset is that he can destroy fear.

The idea of Bane being the anti-Bruce is a good one... but that's a lot to fit into one movie.
 
The weird thing is, these movies are fundamentally conservative. In this movie, Bane is part of the 99%. Rush should be touting how the popularity of these movies are endemic of people's desire for conservative governance, the way Dirty Harry and 80's action movies were endemic of people's love for Reagan.
 
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How stupid lol

Bain Capital isn't some evil corporation or anything, and Mitt hasn't been with them for a realllllly long time. The fact Bain even gets brought up and slandered just shows how retarded the mud slinging really is.

Pretty weak if you ask me.
 
[quote name='murphyspub']The weird thing is, these movies are fundamentally conservative. In this movie, Bane is part of the 99%. Rush should be touting how the popularity of these movies are endemic of people's desire for conservative governance, the way Dirty Harry and 80's action movies were endemic of people's love for Reagan.[/QUOTE]

I doubt Rush has seen it, either. I doubt he will see it, considering he has that coclear implant.
 
Saint'sRow911;9802142 said:
How stupid lol

Bain Capital isn't some evil corporation or anything, and Mitt hasn't been with them for a realllllly long time. The fact Bain even gets brought up and slandered just shows how retarded the mud slinging really is.

Pretty weak if you ask me.
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It may not be "evil" (evil is a loaded word) but Bain capital has made things much worse for many middle class Americans (while yes, making things marginally better for a few foreign workers)
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Jesus tapdancing Christ, I can't tell which is more preposterous, him thinking a movie that's been in production for years based on character which is even older than that is specifically in place to undermine a candidate that was effectively chosen mere months ago OR that he knows better but expects his listeners to be too stupid to realize it...[/QUOTE]

I don't think this is surprising. They think Obama's birth in Hawaii was faked so long ago and his ascension to US president was orchestrated since then. These guys are mental midgets.

BTW, this POS sang "Barack the Magic Negro." No he's not a racist dipshit at all. Anyone who listens to this guys is a closet racist if not an overt one.
 
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Awesome!:applause:
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Just to clarify, I think Rush is saying the Obama team waited to drop this news alongside the movie hype, not conspired for 20 years with the creators of Batman. Either way it's ridiculous, but how clever that would be if they actually planned it!

And I still have no idea what Bane is saying in the trailers.[/QUOTE]

I think it's fair to assert that Obama conspired with DC to make Bane/Bain. I mean, if his birth announcement had to be falsified with the knowledge that it would "prove" his US birth since he was obviously born on Krypton and is an alien that can warp reality around himself to the extent that he knew he would face Romney in this election and thus got Christopher Nolan to make the first couple of movies just so he'd have an excuse to put this one out as well. In the alternate non-Obama universe, Christopher Nolan is a nun secretly struggling with sexual identity.

I mean shit, it's OBVIOUS!
 
[quote name='dohdough']
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Sad part is, there are probably a few people on this forum who think he really is Superman...
 
[quote name='joeboosauce']BTW, this POS sang "Barack the Magic Negro." No he's not a racist dipshit at all. Anyone who listens to this guys is a closet racist if not an overt one.[/QUOTE]

Not true. Someone who does parody skits for his show made and sang in an Al Sharpton voice.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']Including the person who posted it.[/QUOTE]
Went over your head huh? Not surprised there!

[quote name='KingBroly']Not true. Someone who does parody skits for his show made and sang in an Al Sharpton voice.[/QUOTE]
Yeah...that makes it soooo much better. Get fucked.:booty:
 
You do know that that was originally the title of an editorial in the L.A. Times before Rush's guy made it into a parody, don't you? Or do you just want to ignore that fact because it doesn't fit your pre-conceived notions if it was actually a liberal editor who came up with that idea first before a conservative talk-show host you disagree with?
 
[quote name='soonersfan60']You do know that that was originally the title of an editorial in the L.A. Times before Rush's guy made it into a parody, don't you? Or do you just want to ignore that fact because it doesn't fit your pre-conceived notions if it was actually a liberal editor who came up with that idea first before a conservative talk-show host you disagree with?[/QUOTE]

Its almost as if the context was completely different...

I guess disseminating the "magic negro" phenomenon is exactly the same as making fun of Obama and Sharpton using racially loaded metaphors on a show that is overtly racist and a song that was written by someone that wanted to be the head of an organization that pushes racist policies simply because of the use of characterising Obama as a magic negro.

edit: Hell, isn't it a conservative meme to call Obama the Messiah? Or maybe Rush should've been condemning the racists within his own flock as well? But no. It's those on the left that are the "real" racists because they acknowledge that race exists.

You can get fucked too.
 
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It's Bain Capital. The name of the company already draws to mind the image of Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom sitting at the head the table with his hands steepled and a shrewd grin on his face.
 
Playing a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" the year a historic political event (2008 election) that means so much to a people and a culture is racist and offensive, FACT. Pussy circumstances be damned
 
Just curious if you thought it was racist and offensive for the L.A. Times editorial writer to pen a piece called "Barack the Magic Negro" during the year a historic political event (2008 election) that means so much to a people and a culture...

As an observer and lurker in this and many .vs threads, the hipocrisy always is very rich and thick on both sides.
 
Assuming this is the original article, it's simply comparing Obama to the many "magic negro" characters which have been in film.
 
Quit falling for the Subject Change Tactic, guys. Notice we're no longer making fun of a homophobe who can't grasp homonyms.

It's too bad Batman Begins didn't come out in 2000. You know, because Al Gore was running, which SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE RA'S AL GHUL I'M SURE YOU'LL ALL AGREE.

CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN!
 
[quote name='soonersfan60']Just curious if you thought it was racist and offensive for the L.A. Times editorial writer to pen a piece called "Barack the Magic Negro" during the year a historic political event (2008 election) that means so much to a people and a culture...

As an observer and lurker in this and many .vs threads, the hipocrisy always is very rich and thick on both sides.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I find that offensive too. I realize they're trying to make a sarcastic point in the unreal expectations people had for him, but sometimes you step back and wonder if being clever is worth being offensive. Limbaugh was brought up, so I criticized him. I don't let partisanship blind me in calling out shit.
 
[quote name='Strell']Quit falling for the Subject Change Tactic, guys. Notice we're no longer making fun of a homophobe who can't grasp homonyms.

It's too bad Batman Begins didn't come out in 2000. You know, because Al Gore was running, which SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE RA'S AL GHUL I'M SURE YOU'LL ALL AGREE.

CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN![/QUOTE]

:booty: http://gifsoup.com/OTczNjIy
 
[quote name='RealDeals']Yeah, I find that offensive too. I realize they're trying to make a sarcastic point in the unreal expectations people had for him, but sometimes you step back and wonder if being clever is worth being offensive. Limbaugh was brought up, so I criticized him. I don't let partisanship blind me in calling out shit.[/QUOTE]

Just checking for consistency, because I've watched at least a few people go over the edge. I think alot of people just do it for attention, though.
 
[quote name='dohdough']Went over your head huh? Not surprised there!


Yeah...that makes it soooo much better. Get fucked.:booty:[/QUOTE]

I'm not saying it's better. I'm just correcting the issue since you're a half-assed twit who doesn't know how to think for himself by buying into propaganda. Go fuck yourself you piece of shit. I'm sick of your shit and so is everyone else. You act like a broken record and aren't worth listening to anymore.
 
[quote name='Strell']Quit falling for the Subject Change Tactic, guys. Notice we're no longer making fun of a homophobe who can't grasp homonyms.

It's too bad Batman Begins didn't come out in 2000. You know, because Al Gore was running, which SOUNDS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE RA'S AL GHUL I'M SURE YOU'LL ALL AGREE.

CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING HOLLYWOOD PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN![/QUOTE]

Actually... it makes sense.
Bane (Bain/Romney/Republicans) working with Ra's Al Ghul (Al Gore/Democrats) to destroy Gotham (America).
 
Broly accusing someone of acting like a one trick pony is pretty ironic. He has been posting the party line and nothing else for years now.

Clak,

As for the magic negro thing, that is part of the game. "We're not saying it/they said it first", despite the context being different.
 
This story had me cracking up yesterday. Not fucking funny anymore. If it comes out that Rush's bullshit ranting caused this guy to lose him marbles... He'll face some serious fall out.

That or he'll just blame the liberals and use this as a reason why we need more guns in our society.

Victims and their families are in my thoughts and prayers. So tragic.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I'm not saying it's better. I'm just correcting the issue since you're a half-assed twit who doesn't know how to think for himself by buying into propaganda. Go fuck yourself you piece of shit. I'm sick of your shit and so is everyone else. You act like a broken record and aren't worth listening to anymore.[/QUOTE]

How does dohdough buy into propaganda? He typically says the exact opposite of propaganda.

I think he's a little extreme at times, but on the whole he has a valid viewpoint that cannot be ignored no matter how uncomfortable it makes you.
 
I'm really emberassed at the mainstream media for picking up and following this story.

Why put it on your front page MSNBC? It just gives a false air of credibility to his stupid rants.

Then, the whole thing will turn into a game of telephone:
"Limbaugh said Bane is supposed to be an attack on Romney"
"Some guy said the bad guy in that batman movie is Romney"
"I heard Obama made em put Romney in that Batman movie to get beat up."
"That Obama guy is Batman"
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I'm not saying it's better. I'm just correcting the issue since you're a half-assed twit who doesn't know how to think for himself by buying into propaganda. Go fuck yourself you piece of shit. I'm sick of your shit and so is everyone else. You act like a broken record and aren't worth listening to anymore.[/QUOTE]
You're adorable. I'm going to explain the punchline just so you don't feel left out. I'm guessing that's where your hostility comes from.

nasum made a reference to Obama being from Krypton as a joke. I posted a the cover of Action Comics #9 from the New 52 series to play off of his joke because it features a black Superman that also happens the be the POTUS. IRhari then made a triple d'entendre referring to people thinking he'll solve all our problems, is a savior, or the ultimate foreigner, which also plays off nasum's original joke. Your snark is for the defense of some seriously overt racism. But hey, some folks just like being racist.

Now of course you didn't say it's better because then you'd have to apply some critical thought and be accountable for your comments. The only reason why you're "sick of my shit" is because I consistently beat you to the punch when ex-pousing/-posing your ideology and you don't have anything better to say.

And lulz @propaganda.

tl;dr:
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[quote name='soonersfan60']Just curious if you thought it was racist and offensive for the L.A. Times editorial writer to pen a piece called "Barack the Magic Negro" during the year a historic political event (2008 election) that means so much to a people and a culture...

As an observer and lurker in this and many .vs threads, the hipocrisy always is very rich and thick on both sides.[/QUOTE]

WHO CARES who brought it up first? Of course its bad if anyone else said it. BUT, we are talkign about delusional, drug chomping, hypocrite (throw out the keys), RACIST Rush Lim-baaaaaa. Rush is a racist and his constant promotion of this is nothing but racist. WHY would you defend him? Do I smell a racist defender of the almighty Lim-baa? Man, his audience is do f-ing ignorant.
 
[quote name='KingBroly']I'm not saying it's better. I'm just correcting the issue since you're a half-assed twit who doesn't know how to think for himself by buying into propaganda. Go fuck yourself you piece of shit. I'm sick of your shit and so is everyone else. You act like a broken record and aren't worth listening to anymore.[/QUOTE]

Look who's talking. Apparently, you don't what propaganda is. So, he didn't sing it but shamelessly promoted it because it was the closest he could come to enacting his wet dream: to say "$$$$er" in the public arena. His audience loves that shit.
 
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