*Rush Limbaugh has had a revelation.
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The Clear Channel radio personality said in Tuesday’s broadcast that the folks behind Warner Bros‘ “The Dark Knight Rises” are subconsciously trying to turn audiences away from Mitt Romney by naming the film’s villain “Bane,” as in Romney’s former employer: Bain Capital.
The conservative host says that moviegoers — especially “a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd” – are “gonna hear Bane in the movie and they’re gonna associate Bain. 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, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie… There are some people who think it’ll work. Others think you’re really underestimating the American people to think that will work.”
Limbaugh adds: “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.”
Batman comics introduced Bane in 1993. Actor Robert Swenson played the villain in the 1997 film “Batman & Robin” that starred George Clooney.
Wow! Just wow! How do you tie a comic book villain to subliminal campaign messages? If he is alluding to Obama being Batman and Bane being Bain then I would think he would like Bane. He is the one that broke Batman’s back in the comics.
Rush it didn’t happen in the 90′s when Romney ran for office and it won’t happen here.
Shut up Rush and go take your meds!! What an idiot!!!
He is a delusional person.
Rush just found out how much of an ass he made of himself, so he is now blaming it on the Dems.
“And yet, here I am, supposedly articulating a conspiracy between the comic book creators and the Obama campaign that somehow they created this villain with the same name as Romney’s private equity company. No, all I said yesterday was that the Democrats are going to try to make that linkage.”
And this after they have him on video saying something else. Is he really that stupid?
I knew for a long time that Rush was a dunce. His own mother said he couldn’t pass a single class taken in college. Maybe that’s why he confused “Bain” with “Bane.” The character was also created twenty years ago, long before Romney dreamed of running for the White House.
I heard Rush himself admitting that he doesn’t read a lot. He would just skim over the headlines of the papers in the morning. Anyone who really listens to him knows that he is not an informed person and only talks off the top of his head.
Keep in mind that Rush is primarily a Circus Barker, you know the guy who stands outside the tent and makes outrageous claims about the half-man half-woman freak. At least that is his excuse for the outrageous comments and controversy he has stirred in the past. With the asinine comments he has made regarding the villian in the new batman movie being purposely named BANE as a reflection on the Character of Candidate Romney with the BAIN connection in mind has proven to be not just controversial but dangerous.
The problem is the people inside his tent who don’t get the fact that they’ve been had. They take what he barks as reporting and believe his fiction verbatim. The argument may be that Rush is not responsible for his unintelligent audience. But he knows they are unintelligent. He preys on this sad fact like a vulture would carrion.
Now we have another slaughter of innocense in Colo. Is it coincidental that it was at the premiere of the Batman movie Rush specifies in his comments? I believe this deranged man will prove to be a follower of Rush’s program and a White Supremist Militia type of person plaquing our country. I submit, he knew exactly what he was doing. And we have bigmouth Rush to thank for it. You cannot yell “Fire” in a crowded theater has long been the test of Free Speech. Rush should be held accountable for incitement.