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Tom Hardy as "Bane" in "The Dark Knight Rises"
UPDATED 2:50 PM ET ON WEDNESDAY: Right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh is now insisting that he wasn't proposing a giant Batman/Bane/Bain conspiracy theory on his show yesterday. POLITICO reports, today he told his listeners:
“I never said that the villain was created by the comic book character creator to be part of the 2012 campaign,” Limbaugh said, referring to Bane, who was created in 1993. “I never said that at all. And everybody’s out there running around, thinking I got this giant conspiracy.… I didn’t say there was a conspiracy. I said the Democrats were going to use it.”
Original post follows, including a transcript of what Limbaugh said yesterday. You can make the call.
Also, Rachel Maddow has responded to Limbaugh's attempt to spin this over on The Maddow Blog.
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Rush Limbaugh thinks the Obama campaign is working with Batman... no, really. Earlier today on his radio show, Limbaugh pontificated the following:
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?
Let's discuss a few things here. Firstly, Bane is neither fire-breathing nor four-eyed.
You'd also have to believe that in January of 2011 when Warner Bros. announced the villains for writer/director Chris Nolan's third and final Batman film, that was actually the beginning of a plot to try and keep Mitt Romney from making it to the White House. A plot that was somehow hatched nearly five months before Mitt Romney announced he was getting into the 2012 race on June 2, 2011. Or maybe the plot really began back in 1993 when Bane made his debut as the newest Batman foe in Batman: Vengeance of Bain #1.
This sounds like a mystery perfect for the pages of Detective Comics, the 75-year-old record-breaking comic title featuring... you guessed it. Batman.
Rachel Maddow gave us a fantastic take on this story on her show, tonight.
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Good ol' Rush...never one to pass up a chance to spew on his latest take of yet another in the long Limbaugh history of "conspiracy" theories.
Where would the right-wing be without their prime mouthpiece?
Probably better off than they are now...but that's just a guess.
O'Donnell called himself a "practical European socialist" in a 2005 interview.[2] Despite regularly expressing support for regulated capitalism and mixed economies, O'Donnell again declared himself a "socialist" on the November 6, 2010 Morning Joe show, stating: "I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to 'progressive'. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I lie to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals."[28] On the 1 August 2011 episode of The Last Word, O'Donnell further explained, "I have been calling myself a socialist ever since I first read the definition of socialism in the first economics class I took in college."
O'Donnell called himself a "practical European socialist" in a 2005 interview.[2] Despite regularly expressing support for regulated capitalism and mixed economies, O'Donnell again declared himself a "socialist" on the November 6, 2010 Morning Joe show, stating: "I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to 'progressive'. Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist. I lie to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals."[28] On the 1 August 2011 episode of The Last Word, O'Donnell further explained, "I have been calling myself a socialist ever since I first read the definition of socialism in the first economics class I took in college."
so what.
veterans health care system is socialist. if socialistic health care is good enough for our soldiers and veterans out there "preserving our way of life", then maybe the rest of us can tolerate a mixed economy with a little bit of socialism too.
those bogey men terms(socialism)don't resonate anymore.
WDinDallas...
Were you trying to make a point of some kind relevant to the subject of this blog?
It's pretty evident you failed...miserably.
And posting it twice won't help your cause, either.
Limbaugh and his fellow insightful conservative analysts are absolutely right. Bane ... Bain ... it's so obvious. So glad to see that someone is on the ball and paying attention to this insidious attempt to subliminally influence the populace.
Furthermore, J.R.R. Tolkien was obviously a left-wing clairvoyant, as he otherwise would not have referred to the One Ring as "Isildur's Bane" and the Balrog as "Durin's Bane".
In fact, who is responsible for the word "bane" being introduced into the English language to begin with? Karl Marx?
Poor,poor Lawrence, how bad it must hurt your ego that a dropout drug user is kicking your arse daily. Keep the attacks flowing, it warms our hearts to know Rush OWNS YOU, NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?
Feeding idiocy to the idiots gets you ratings, reporting the news gets you... whats the word... RESPECT.
What are you retarded to go into such a foolish tirade~~~~~from Montana!
Rush doesn't even own himself. Ken, what planet are you from?
I can’t believe I was your 4th and 5th comment. I didn’t know you had so many followers………..Again, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahhahahaahaha
Ah, I see we have one of Boss Humbaugh's® acolytes...
Might have to look that word up, however...
No focus on whether what Lawrence says is true, just a silly junior high regression...
After what your overlarded leader said about that young coed last year, I'm wondering how you have the nerve to show up here...
Think about it Ken. You weren't worth a comment any higher.
The real story, if there is one here at all, is that the Dark Knight is crushing a narcissistic, Evangelical type. Works for me.
Dang, if that's the theme, I just might have to haul arse over to the theater in the ol' police interceptor...
Of course disabusing the crazies of their delusions might be a bit "anti-Machiavellian." They're easier to spot if they're foaming at the mouth...
I wonder if there were any neolithic cultures as weird as this- with drug crazed witch doctors making pronouncements in response to any random free associative notion that popped into their heads.
For those interested, here is the January 1993 first issue of the "Vengeance of Bane" comic book where Bane is introduced as an evil nemesis of Batman. (link)
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More info on Bane in Wikipedia: (link)
Yeah, all witch doctors are crazed and always make pronouncements, or they would be out of a job!
Is there no network or group of folks out there that can correct the illiteracy of Rush? Bane is a word and so is Bain. No educated person would ever think two words that sounded alike mean the same thing.
That's why we spell them differently, Rush!
Obviously he never heard of homonyms.
With supporters like Rush Limbaugh Romney should hide.
Rush and the republicans have lost their minds. Or more plainly they are suffering from a terrible case of Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Oh dear God how do you go against this type of totally insane behavior? The sheeple she refers to believe everything Rush and Fox News says. They believe it because this is what they want to believe not what is real. No matter how much you show them the truth they will believe the conspiracy theories because this is what they want to believe. Just like they believe everything in the Bible because it is all "true" in their minds. I fear for all the sane people in this country if Mittens becomes our president. Obviously Rush has never seen the comment "bane of my existence" which would fit perfectly with a nemesis for Batman.
And Mitt Romney is the "bane" of the existence of those who lost their jobs when Bain bought companies were shut down.
Yes, Rush is losing it! But drugs always catch up to those addicts sooner or later. He is obviously brain-damaged from trying to drug all his insecurities! He obviously just has too many!
Rush's employers need to get him to start peeing in a cup before they allow him to go on the air. It's scary if he isn't on something and he actually thinks like this. At least the drugs would be an excuse.
Rush's employers need to get him to start peeing in a cup before they allow him to go on the air. It's scary if he isn't on something and he actually thinks like this. At least the drugs would be an excuse.
Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney, and all of the Republican tribe have stepped into anti-Christianism with their lies and buying up the US government.
A person would have to be mentally ill to vote republican.
It's true. and very sad. why can't our friends and neighbors shake off this illness? lets try and help them.
A really sad take on the quote(s) is that Limbaugh may have been implying that since the movie was coming out anyway, the Dems are trying to make an 'innocent' company look bad in an attempt to tar Romney. As if the only reason Dems would bring up Bain.Cap. is because people may have watched the movie and wrongly associate a negative feeling to the term. Just focusing on "make-believe controversy" and "I said (they) were going to use it"
In light of the horrific assualt in mask and black and helmet of a truely deranged individual at the Dark Knight viewing in Colorado, this image needs to come down off this blog! It's inappropriate. We've had our chuckles. TAKE IT DOWN NOW.