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The Clear Channel radio personality said in today’s broadcast that the makers of Warner Bros‘ The Dark Knight Rises are surreptitiously trying to brainwash audiences by naming the film’s villain “Bane.” You know, like Mitt Romney’s former employer: Bain Capital. Rush Limbaugh 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.
You can find the transcript on Limbaugh’s website. Here’s the audio, captured by Media Matters, a progressive watchdog group:
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Chuck Dixon was playing the very long game.
That’s right, thanks for reminding me: Bane WAS created by a conservative. (Some sources say Nolan’s a conservative, too; it’s actually hard to read his politics based on his work, which is probably intentional ).
Admittedly, Joel Schumacher, who FIRST brought the character to the big screen in 1997′s BATMAN AND ROBIN,may NOT be a republican.
So, he thinks the person who would vote based on some subliminal name-association strategy is more idiotic than the person who believes Obama’s doing it in the first place?
Brilliant comment.
And now TODAY he says he didn’t say anything about a conspiracy??!!
He denies all of it??!!
Wow, he must have found his hidden stash of
oxycontin!
Lol! seriously? wow. Bane has been a character for years. he has nothing, I REPEAT, nothing, to do with politics in the united states. this guy is a complete idiot if he truly believes a comic book character conceived almost a decade prior is being used to smear the name of a political candidate…
I love how just when you think Rush has proved how stupid he is – he finds one more way. I love this guy, he is endless hours of entertainment. If I were doing home health care I would wish everyone was as entertaining as this guy. Crazy old men who think stuff means other stuff … I think he ate too many skittles personally and they affected his brain. Rush is his own brand of crazy and that’s the truth.
This comment just won the internet for the day.
And I’m sure the fact that Bane first appeared as a Batman villain in 1993 is all part of Obama’s plan…..
Of course! He created the character in 1993 because he knew that it would come in handy in 2012. He’s the one who told Nolan to go for Batman Begins four years before his election. He’s just THAT good!
If he is that good he deserves all the votes he gets and the ones he is not getting
Part of a plan that began in 1961 when they “faked” that birth certificate.
Seduction of the Innocent was right!
You’ve all been duped!
Wertham Rules!
That’s just ingenius Star trek type sh%t! Maybe Obama can travel back in time to 1993 to have the villian renamed Bush!
I don’t think Rush is good with his comics references; but he may have something with how Dems might work the campaign. On the republican side, four years have been spent criticizing and blaming Obama’s behavior and policies with few definitive selling solutions: sorry Mitt you have work to do.
And of course the voter is not stupid.
Lol…
lolololololol
Yes, they’ve been planning this since 1993, when the first Bane comic book came out. Crafty, crafty dems.
That’s like saying the Joseph Smith/Mormon episode of South Park was created to attack his religion.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
I love that episode!
I’m actually upset to even be spending the time to post on this, but I’m speechless because people will actually believe this.
I know ! Right ?
Don’t worry. The sort of people who will believe this were neither informed nor interested in becoming informed to begin with.
Unfortunately, they can still vote.
You can explain to this jackass that the script was written 2 years ago before Mitt was even in the conversation.
Rush buddy, you’re an idiot.
So are his listeners.
That’s why they will believe it.
They already believe a plot started before the President was born to get him elected 50 years ago.
Something 20 years old is just the next stage of the plan to conspiracy psychos.
I like how he added at the end… “You may think it’s ridiculous, I’m just telling you this is the kind of stuff the Obama team is lining up.” …what kind of stuff exactly there Rush? The kind of stuff you completely made up? It’s like: Obama kills puppies because he thinks it will win him the election. No he doesn’t, Rush. Well he’s doing nasty shit LIKE that, trust me.
The irony is that the bullshit he made up – about subliminal messages so ridiculous no one will believe them – will be believed by his dumbass followers.
Seriously this is why America is tearing itself apart. Sad.
FWIW I don’t think Limbaugh actually believes this stuff (or the majority of the truly crazy stuff he says) – he just knows his listeners will, and every time his listeners get a little more angry he gets a little more rich. He’s not a (complete) idiot … just completely cynical and disingenuous.
/\ This. This x1000. Guys like Limbaugh and Beck aren’t as stupid as they seem. They are just trolls who say things to get attention because the more attention they get the more money they receive. We are best off treating them as we do any troll on the internet, by ignoring them.
Yes, the Democrats went back in time and invented this “Bain” character in the mid-1990s.
they ‘retroactively’ introduced this character
LOL
ohhhh I see what you did there. lol, nice.
Let the nerd rage begin!
The character of Bane was created in 1993. Rush is a liar and fear-monger, and with a loyal audience rabid audience, scary too.
This hurts my head.
I said something like this in comments on some guy’s blog a couple days ago. Of course I was kidding.
(Note to self: label jokes clearly. Cretins may be reading.)
Not sure if this is Rush making a joke or is serious. Does he know that the Bane character was created in the comic book 20 years ago? Maybe I missed something, just asking.
I think he’s just saying that Democrats may write non-stories about “Bane” = “Bain” so he decided to get out in front of it with a non-story of his own. As people are talking about it, it seems to have worked!
So he negated the effect of a story that no one was writing, by making an issue out of it?
Actually, Chris Lehane (Democratic Strategist) HAD been making an issue about it. Rush’s comment is the only one getting press, though, even though it was later.
Rush is always straddling the line between making a joke and being serious … that’s his shtick. The problem is that his ditto heads are so deplorably ignorant that they take it completely seriously, with predictable results.
What. A. Moron.
Rush has been saying dumb shit for decades. I say we let those that pay actually attention to him suffer and let the rest of us get on with our lives.
The problem is, he’s saying that dumb shit to a national audience of voters, and some of them will believe it. Misinformed voters are this nation’s biggest problem, and the cause of most of our other problems.
Yes, the Obama campaign is so set on manipulating the public that they used their time-machine to go back to 1993 to create the character of Bane so that they could use it in the latest Batman movie, which they started writing a few years ago… before Romney was the presumptive GOP nominee. While there, they also brainwashed Rush so that he wouldn’t notice that Bain Capital has pretty much gutted Clear Channel, the very company that pays him.
They are so devious, they had the comic book folks name him that over a decade ago so they could sleeper cell this shizzle until right now. Bwwwahahahahah.
A simple wikipedia search would have shown the Bane character was created in January 1993… clearly showing that G.H.W. Bush created him before leaving office! Bane is a super strong American that breaks Blackman’s back. I mean Batman. DUH!!!
The character Bane long pre-dates Romney’s status as a Presidential candidate. It’s amazing that someone pays this man good money to constantly blather these blatant lies.
Somebody send Rush a strait-jacket…and a copy of the Batman comic in which Bane first appeared some umpteen thousand years ago.
Heh…it was 20 years ago – not “umpteen.” My bad.
holy crap, 1993 was 20 yrs ago…
HAHAHAHAHHAHHHHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH Thats’s honestly incredible. Wow, just wow
Anyone who makes the comparison between baine and bane is making a big stretch. Baine is just another one of the many villains of Batman. That’s it. In fact, isn’t Batman supposed to be conservative who approves of wiretapping everyone’s phones and hunting down terrorists in other countries unilaterally? And isn’t catwoman ironically supposed to be a kind of villain who steals from the rich and gives to the poor? Or what about the fact we were desperate and all turned to a man/president that we didn’t fully understand or know anything about, hmm. That sounds familiar. Seems to me that the film has a conservative leaning. what’s next? the joker sounds like joker and Reagan liked to make jokes, so Nolan’s poking fun at Reagan? Give me a break people.
Wow, that’s so wrong, there’s nothing really to say.
Rush is an idiot. I bet he didn’t even read the comic book.
Maybe he’s just saying they chose to write that particular villain into this particular film and tried to time it to coincide with the elections? Far-fetched, I know, but that’s the best I can come up with…
ENTIRELY TRUE.
due to DC Comics’ clairvoyance almost 20 years ago, the character BANE was created for this singular moment when Christopher Nolan (clairvoyant point #2) would find himself at the helm of the third part of a highly successful (clairvoyant point #3) reboot of a movie franchise just when a candidate named after baseball equipment was in a tight race for president.
oh, and the baseball equipment guy would definitely have worked for the only private equity firm ever that had questionable business practices… that shares a name (though not spelling) with the aforementioned comic book character.
oh, and DC comics also knew that by 2012, the American public would have lost all understanding of homonyms (clairvoyant point #4).
Don’t forget that — clairvoyant point #5 — both BANE and Romney are caucasian.
Well that isn’t saying much. Other than Obama and Morgan Freeman, the dead commissioner and the Mayor of Gotham, everyone in both camps is white/non-Latino.