Rush Limbaugh, Bane and Mitt!?

[Silcc69]

It looks like Rush Limbaugh (http://www.mediaite.com/power-grid/person/?q=Rush+Limbaugh) is yet another political pundit (http://www.mediaite.com/online/political-analysts-are-now-seriously-linking-romneys-bain-to-the-dark-knight-rises-villain/) taking time out of his life to seriously consider the political ramifications of the villain in the new Batman movie being named “Bane” which just so happens to sound the same as the corporation Mitt Romney used to run. But Limbaugh isn’t just concerned about the effect. He’s also asking the important question; “Why?” After pretending that he didn’t know the name of the film (Come on, Rush. We know you’ve got your IMAX tickets reserved! Everyone does!), Limbaugh asked his listeners if this “coincidence” could possibly be an accident.
Holy conspiracy theory, Batman!
RELATED: Political Analysts Are Now Seriously Linking Romney’s Bain To The Dark Knight Rises Villain (http://www.mediaite.com/online/political-analysts-are-now-seriously-linking-romneys-bain-to-the-dark-knight-rises-villain/)
From Limbaugh’s radio show (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/17/the_batman_campaign):

“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 Bain?
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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.”
The implication here, if I’m correct (which I’ve occasionally not been), seems to be that the Obama team purposefully made up the Bain controversy knowing that people would confuse the two.
Why stop there?! If sneaky Democrats could put guns in Mexico purely as a long conspiracy to make American guns illegal (http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/20/the_purpose_of_fast_and_furious), who’s to say this whole Bane character isn’t part of a brilliant Lib plot?
I know what you’re saying. You’re saying, “Jon. I’m a Batman expert. I know that Bane was created way back in 1993.” Well, think about it, reader? What year was the year Mitt Romney first start thinking about getting into politics? 1993 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_romney#1994_U.S._senatorial_campaign)!

“By 1993, Romney had been thinking about entering politics, partly based upon Ann’s urging and partly to follow in his father’s footsteps.”
They’ve been plotting this the whole time!
You may think I’m crazy, but just wait till the 2016 election when the Democrats are fully prepared to destroy dark horse GOP candidate Sen. Thomas A. Twoface.
Listen to the Limbaugh clip below:


http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-do-you-think-that-it-is-accidental-that-the-new-batman-villain-is-named-bane/

[Stavros]

For an alternative view try this:

Imagine that you are a child billionaire, orphaned in a mugging that goes terribly wrong. You decide to devote yourself to making sure that no one else will suffer as you did. But how? Do you open a series of outreach centres, hire probation workers, sponsor rehabilitation schemes? Or do you put on a rubber suit and prowl the streets at night, clobbering members of the underclass until they promise to stop breaking the law?

The answer goes to the heart of Batman’s most terrible secret – not his true identity as Bruce Wayne, playboy industrialist, but the fact that he’s secretly, wonderfully Right-wing. And it’s a secret that is now being exposed by one of the year’s biggest movies. In The Dark Knight Rises, British director Christopher Nolan explicitly casts Batman as the plutocrats’ champion, forced to defend his city against the impoverished victims of depression and globalisation. The ostensible villain may be Tom Hardy’s hulking, monstrous Bane, but the uprising he inspires is essentially Occupy Gotham City, if the “99 Per Cent” used shotguns rather than megaphones.



Full article is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9405999/How-the-Dark-Knight-Rises-reveals-Batmans-Conservative-soul.html

[Odelay]

If it really was a conspiracy, wouldn't they have given the villain a soviet sounding last name like "Kapital" - with a backwards K?

[Willie Escalade]

They're REALLY reaching now.

And the only time I listen to Rush is when he appears on Family Guy.