UpRoxx: Rush Limbaugh: ‘Dark Knight’s’ Bane Is Part Of An Elaborate Anti-Romney Hollywood Conspiracy'

[PCS]

He dropped the one mob boss from the roof. Broke stuff for sure on that one. :geek:

[Dictator]

Whose legs did he break? .

The Mob boss played by Eric Roberts.

[Bang]

Batman operates outside the law, and is unfettered by it as a result.

Everything he DOES is illegal.

One of the interesting facets of the Batman mythos is the dynamic between Commissioner Gordon and the rest of the city's politicians. Gordon knows Batman is a criminal, but he also knows he does things his officers can't, and stops catastrophe.. so he looks the other way at all the things Batman does to bring down the bad guy. Meanwhile politicians run on platforms of bringing the vigilante in, the police are under orders to arrest him, and as much as they try, he kicks their ass and they can't.

the one thing that always sticks in my mind is that there is absolutely no WAY that most of the crooks he takes down will ever be convicted. Any lawyer would be able to tear Batman apart as a credible anything in regards to catching them for the justice system to try. He illegally obtains evidence all the time, everything he does would be tossed out in 5 minutes.

~Bang

[No Excuses]

I'm going to have to agree with stevemcqueen on this one. Rush is an idiot. Yes he found a niche market that he could exploit but it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to get that mouth breathing lunatic fringe base to hang on your every word. You just have to memorize various code words and phrases and follow some pretty simple algorithms on how to spin whatever news comes out. That doesn't mean the guy is a genius.

Rush's base isn't fringe. I don't think his listening base soaks up everything he says as literal truth. But he's good at riling them up. Little by little, chipping away at their common sense.

[Tulane Skins Fan]

The Mob boss played by Eric Roberts.

Ahh....

It could go either way!

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

I'm going to have to agree with stevemcqueen on this one. Rush is an idiot. Yes he found a niche market that he could exploit but it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to get that mouth breathing lunatic fringe base to hang on your every word. You just have to memorize various code words and phrases and follow some pretty simple algorithms on how to spin whatever news comes out. That doesn't mean the guy is a genius.

No, but he is the most important Republican in the world today. Bar none.

[pjfootballer]

Can someone just once and for all bring a couple of guys with white coats and and a wrap around jacket for Mr. Limbaugh as soon as possible? Looney Toons wants their moniker back Rush. And is Rush really your birth name? I doubt it. Only he, can twist a movie to fit his political agenda.

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Now those liberal hollywood elites need to create a movie about a conservative talk show host who is secretly a socialist, homosexual, pedophile vampire who hunts middle America for easy meals. Make him look and sound just like Rush.

Don't forget racist.

[PCS]

Meanwhile,on MSNBC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/rachel-maddow-rush-limbaugh_n_1682254.html

"Conspiracy is deep and has a lot of foresight—decades of foresight," Maddow said.

Maddow continued to mock Limbaugh and said that "Gone With The Wind" was "an early salvo of the clean energy movement." She added, "the character Apollo Creed from the Rocky movies is proof that the moon landing was a fake."

Maddow said that the modern American right has a tendency to fashion conspiracy theories. "The modern American right is hermetically sealed in a media universe that lets in no natural light and no air," Maddow said. "They breathe in only their own exhalations. And in that sealed, self-referential, oxygen-deprived environment, the modern American right has become addicted to conspiracy theories, which mostly is hilarious, but occassionally it has real world consequences."

The Rush response mentioned in the link above.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/18/world_on_fire_over_batman_and_el_rushbo

I never said that the villain was created by the comic book character creator to be part of the 2012 campaign. I never said that at all. Everybody's out there running around saying I got this giant conspiracy theory that the Batman people, the creators, the comic book creators, created this thing to campaign against Romney. I never said that. I didn't say there was a conspiracy. I said the Democrats were going to use it, which they are. Jon Stewart's harping on it.

[Larry]

I didn't say there was a conspiracy. I said the Democrats were going to use it, which they are. Jon Stewart's harping on it.

:secret: Actually, Rush, Jon Stewart is harping on you.

[aszumilo]

Originally Posted by Rush View Post

I didn't say there was a conspiracy. I said the Democrats were going to use it, which they are. Jon Stewart's harping on it.

:secret: Actually, Rush, Jon Stewart is harping on you.

Maybe he should shut his fat mouth and quit giving the Democrats ideas?

[Going Commando]

Rush is such an embarrassment for conservatives and is constantly giving liberals arrows for the quiver.

[Hubbs]

What a clown. i believe he described Bane as a guy who "breathes fire" and literally "has four eyes", neither of which are true, which shows just how much he knows about what the **** he's talking about.

It's a conspiracy, I tells ya!

[Henry]

I said the Democrats were going to use it, which they are.

Well they sure as hell will NOW, ya big dufus.

[Jumbo]

Batman operates outside the law, and is unfettered by it as a result.

Everything he DOES is illegal.~Bang

Still a wimp :pfft: and always will be, compared to his predecessor (Bob Kane's admitted inspiration and one of my earliest heroes). :cool:

[Bang]

A man after me own heart. The Shadow is definitely one of the coolest characters around.

:cloud9:

~Bang

[Momma There Goes That Man]

Batman operates outside the law, and is unfettered by it as a result.

Everything he DOES is illegal.

One of the interesting facets of the Batman mythos is the dynamic between Commissioner Gordon and the rest of the city's politicians. Gordon knows Batman is a criminal, but he also knows he does things his officers can't, and stops catastrophe.. so he looks the other way at all the things Batman does to bring down the bad guy. Meanwhile politicians run on platforms of bringing the vigilante in, the police are under orders to arrest him, and as much as they try, he kicks their ass and they can't.

the one thing that always sticks in my mind is that there is absolutely no WAY that most of the crooks he takes down will ever be convicted. Any lawyer would be able to tear Batman apart as a credible anything in regards to catching them for the justice system to try. He illegally obtains evidence all the time, everything he does would be tossed out in 5 minutes.

~Bang

Thats why they never worry about convicting them and just lock all the villians up in Arkham for benig crazy lol...

[Bang]

Well, there's also the side of it that says Batman creates the freaks and monstrously evil villains simply by being there.

~Bang

[Prosperity]

Batman operates outside the law, and is unfettered by it as a result.

Everything he DOES is illegal.

One of the interesting facets of the Batman mythos is the dynamic between Commissioner Gordon and the rest of the city's politicians. Gordon knows Batman is a criminal, but he also knows he does things his officers can't, and stops catastrophe.. so he looks the other way at all the things Batman does to bring down the bad guy. Meanwhile politicians run on platforms of bringing the vigilante in, the police are under orders to arrest him, and as much as they try, he kicks their ass and they can't.

the one thing that always sticks in my mind is that there is absolutely no WAY that most of the crooks he takes down will ever be convicted. Any lawyer would be able to tear Batman apart as a credible anything in regards to catching them for the justice system to try. He illegally obtains evidence all the time, everything he does would be tossed out in 5 minutes.

~Bang

interesting legal tidbit:

the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to private citizens, only the government. In real life the government could very well use evidence that a private citizen obtained even if it was in violation of 4th amendment privacy rights.

[Momma There Goes That Man]

Well, there's also the side of it that says Batman creates the freaks and monstrously evil villains simply by being there.

~Bang

Yep, Order/balance vs anarchy/chaos. They exist because of each other.

[Thinking Skins]

Well, there's also the side of it that says Batman creates the freaks and monstrously evil villains simply by being there.

~Bang

Thats always the thing that gets me about superhero movies (except superman which I hate for other reasons). Most of the time there's no real explanation why all of a sudden there's the emergence of super-villans. Were people not getting super angry before there was a Batman or a Spider Man?

[Burgold]

Thats always the thing that gets me about superhero movies (except superman which I hate for other reasons). Most of the time there's no real explanation why all of a sudden there's the emergence of super-villans. Were people not getting super angry before there was a Batman or a Spider Man?

Yin and Yang. Everything has to balance out. Ya get a good guy... somewhere there must be shadow. And from the emerge... Batm... Daredevil!

[Momma There Goes That Man]

Thats always the thing that gets me about superhero movies (except superman which I hate for other reasons). Most of the time there's no real explanation why all of a sudden there's the emergence of super-villans. Were people not getting super angry before there was a Batman or a Spider Man?

Well Gordon talked in Batman Begins about criminal escalation. Cops get kevlar, criminals get armor piercing rounds. Cops get semi autos, criminals get automatics. Then of course Batman emerges and then Joker does. In the TDK it sorts of speaks to the Joker being there simply to upset the established order and represent chaos to Batman's order.

However, in most cases, it is all just a random coincidence of horrible experiments gone wrong that created Spiderman, Lizard, Dr Oc etc at the same time. Or in the case of Iron Man, seeing Iron Man produces people that want that technology for themselves(at least in the movies)

It is pretty convenient for the most part...

[thebluefood]

Still a wimp :pfft: and always will be, compared to his predecessor (Bob Kane's admitted inspiration and one of my earliest heroes). :cool:

[Bliz]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/07/limbaughs-dark-knight-rises-comments-bizarre-says-nolan/

Christopher Nolan is unfazed by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s accusation that the “Batman” filmmaker’s choice of Bane as the villain of his upcoming movie was a jab at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s former company, Bain Capital.

“I’m not sure how to address something that bizarre, to be honest. I really don’t have an answer for it. It’s a very particular comment to make,” Nolan said Wednesday at the London premiere of his final “Batman” installment, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Actor Morgan Freeman, who plays Lucius Fox in the film, also called Limbaugh’s contention “ridiculous.”

“Chris wrote a fictional story that didn’t have any political thoughts in mind, so it’s like art or something you know, it’s all in the mind of the beholder,” Freeman said.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., took to Twitter Wednesday to weigh in on the controversy by proposing a “bipartisan” solution, writing, “There needs to be a bipartisan effort to find Rush a new job.”

Limbaugh’s comments angered Batfans so much so that the radio host said the backlash he received was a bigger than the reaction over “the Fluke thing,” referring to when he called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” after she testified before House Democrats on health insurance coverage for birth control.

Gee Rush. Do you suppose you might have gotten just a little extra backlash not just for your idiocy, but also for this jab?

“This movie, the audience is going to be huge, [a] lot of people are going to see the movie. And it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd,”

[Bang]

Thats always the thing that gets me about superhero movies (except superman which I hate for other reasons). Most of the time there's no real explanation why all of a sudden there's the emergence of super-villans. Were people not getting super angry before there was a Batman or a Spider Man?

there are times that I show just how much of a geek I am..

None of Batman's earliest and longest lived villains are anything super.. the Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Riddler have no powers at all. The first one he had with any powers was Clayface, who actually began as an actor who used a magic cream to alter his appearance.. not the slimy monster they later turned him into. He did battle "the Monster Men" in his second issue, which were a cross between Frankenstein and King Kong, complete with finale atop the tallest building battling biplanes. He fought a vampire early on, too... but he tracked it to Transylvania (of course) after it kidnapped Bruce wayne's girlfriend. (He killed all of these monsters, and the scientist that made the Monster men. Batman really didn't mind using a gun in those first few issues... the Monster Man that he had shot up while it is on top of the tower, he ended up lassoing it's neck and hanging it to death from his plane.

the Marvel-verse is exactly as you say, all of sudden an explosion in super everything,, but consider they were born in the early 60s.. the atomic age, the space race, the technological advances of world war 2 becoming more ingrained in daily life... every hero except Thor and the X men get their powers from some sort of fantastic science gone wrong.. and Captain America, who's science went right, and drugs.. Giant Man / Ant man and the Wasp each take pills to grow and shrink, and the writers changed that later in the 60s because it created a bad perception...

Villains, too. Science experiments gone awry ... drugs.. (Kraven gets his powers from drinking a potion he makes from sacred jungle plants... so does the Black Panther.. he has to eat the leaf in the sacred grove... hmm)

~Bang