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Limbaugh says Bane is anti-Romney propoganda
Never change, Rush. Never change.
There are so many hilarious things wrong with this, from the not understanding Bane has existed for two decades and has been in another Batman movie, not understanding what 'Bane' means, and the fact that Nolan's Batman's movies always seemed to have a conservative bent to me.
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You know, after thinking on it, I am pretty sure that "Rush Limbaugh" is a character Rush Limbaugh plays in public.
@Irdgck I think you underestimate the level of drugs that Rush Limbaugh uses.
I mean, I know people can be crazy, but... no, I just can't get that anyone smart enough to be this kind of a public persona could seriously believe all these things, as opposed to faking it because there's cash in it.
He thinks Bane has four eyes and breathes fire. Where did that come from?
And it's still not as delusional as saying the problem with Bain is "a make-believe controversy".
Lrdgck - plenty of influential people ate balls to the wall crazy though . I mean what would be the point of faking this? Nobody will really take this stuff seriously. Plus at best he riles up stupid Romney supporters, who are already riled up.
Malk - best mental image. Limbaugh going to the NPR station wearing a Bane mask yelling "I will break you!!"
Limbaugh definitely believes what he says, but he's said before that he plays himself for television.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie -- what is it, the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it 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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LIMBAUGH: Anyway, so this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there's now discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful, and whether or not it will influence voters. It's going to have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is going to be huge, lot of people are going to see the movie. And it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd. And they're going to hear "Bane" in the movie, and they are going to associate Bain. And 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, not Bain Capital, but Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie --"Oh yeah, I know who that is." There are some people who think it will work. There are some people think it will work. Others think -- "You're really underestimating the American people who think that will work.
I like how he thinks 'rises' and 'lights up' means the same thing. Also, I like how he thinks people will assume Obama would mean a Batman villain when talking about Bain Capital and somehow Nolan is the one underestimating Americans.
People like Rush Limbaugh are the bane of political civility.
No glenn
puns are not the wayne
C'mon, Juan. There's no need to rush.
^^ Hush, you.
Ugh that hurt so much it left me a bruce
WMG: Rush Limbaugh is Tiamat.
I hear you can kill Tiamat in Final Fantasy I, by casting BANE.
but that would be a dick move.
Shitty puns aside, the fact that Limbaugh thinks he can glibly dismiss the actual issue as a "make-believe controversy" and redirect people's attention to getting mad about a stupid Batman comparison really bothers me. So let's talk about the heart of the problem for a second.
Which is: Romney is shady as hell. Encouraging people to lie, sinking most of his fortune into tax dodges (instead of putting it back in the US economy), getting most of that fortune from ridiculous business practices like buying companies and effectively strip-mining them and loading them up with debt to pay out to Bain, stealing people's pensions, and basically screwing people over.
He claims not to have technically broken any laws, but even if that's true (and we only have his word and two tax returns to prove it) he has screwed over so many it's frightening to think what he'd do with the opportunity to affect the entire nation.
Trickle-down economics wouldn't actually be that bad if rich people actually reinvested their wealth in the U.S. economy.
Unfortunately, that wealth instead goes into things like Cayman Island bank accounts and Swiss bank accounts.
Americans can't actually get those anymore, though I don't think the ones that already exist are going anywhere.
I think what happened is that Swiss bank accounts are no longer completely private.
Yes, but because of that and the fact that US taxes foreign income for its citizens, they no longer let US citizens open accounts.
The fundamental problem would still remain, though. People with a million times the median wealth don't spend anywhere near a million times the median person; a lot of that money's going to be in a savings account or something. Which is reasonable, but policy keeps being crafted with the opposite assumption, that "the rich are the job creators" and we just need to tax them less or give them fewer restrictions and then they'll stimulate the economy.
I never said it wouldn't be bad.
I just said it would be less bad.
You're perfectly right in that giving more people smaller amounts of money makes for a much healthier economy than concentrating wealth among few people. While it's true that wealthy people do donate a lot of their money, that's still less than more Average Joes injecting their own money through their needs and wants into the economy.
>Swiss bank accounts
>insert rant about Gnomes of Zürich, lack of humour and toll booths here
The problem with Rush and related tardbaskets is that they don't just view everything through a dichotomous culture war lens, they drag other people into it. I'm wondering if Spec Ops: The Line won't be politicized in the same way sooner or later.
I mostly remember Zurich as being part of a late medieval/early Renaissance war, notable because the HRE and the French actually fucking teamed up to take down the Swiss Confederates (and with the aid of a former Swiss confederate, too).
The Swiss Confederates won, which was pretty much a miracle considering that they had the combined might on the Habsburgs and the French breathing down their necks. Granted, the Swiss have long been famous for the quality of their basic infantryman, and that's going to swing a battle more effectively than the best knights or the best cannon.
I like how he seems to not get that the Nolan series is rather conservative/Batman isn't supposed to be a wholly positive protagonist (take your pick).
Though I thought, initially, that Limbaugh would like Bane. After all, he's an oversized, drug-addicted relic of the 90s.
Don't make false comparisons.
Bane had some good stories in the 2000s too.
Yes, but I can't really picture Limbaugh acting as a surrogate father figure for a stab happy lesbian.
wait what
What juan said.
From Gail Simone's run on Secret Six. Blah blah blah Bane decides to dad it up with Scandal Savage, Vandal Savage's daughter.