Obama Camp to Compare Romney to Venom-Breathing Terrorist in Batman Movie …Update: Batman Villain Creator Calls Comparison “Ridiculous”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, July 16, 2012, 8:00 PM
More hope and change...
The Obama Campaign will set out to compare the venom-breathing terrorist Bane to Mitt Romney.
The Washington Examiner reported:
This summer’s much-anticiapted Hollywood blockbuster, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is getting an unusual boost from Democrats and other foes of Mitt Romney who are eager to tie the Gotham crushing villain to the GOP presidential candidate. Their angle: the mask-wearing, “Venom” gas breathing bad guy has a name that sounds just like Romney’s former investment firm that President Obama has been blasting as a jobs killer.
“Bane” is the terrorist in the new movie who drives the caped crusader out of semi-retirement in the final Batman movie. Democrats, who believe they have Romney on the ropes over the president’s assault on his leadership at Bain Capital, said the comparisons are too rich to ignore.
“It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood,” said Democratic advisor and former Clinton aide Christopher Lehane. “Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society,” he added.
UPDATE: The Batman villain creator called the Democrat attacks on Romney, “Ridiculous!”
The Washington Times reported:
Comic book Writer Chuck Dixon created the character of Bane in the early 90′s and his reaction to the news above, according to his message board on his website Dixonverse.net, was “I saw it on FB like two hours ago. Ridiculous. Tho’ I got a cold feeling in the pit of my stomach that Rush may pick up on this. And that would be the second time he pegged me and Graham as liberals on his show.”
He later added, “Overgrasping Dems? Hey, if it gets Obama supporters into theaters. Maybe they’ll buy thousands of Bane toys to throw at Romney. It all adds to MY Bane capital. I wonder if the Romney campaign will contact me?”
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bg commented:
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we really need to grow up..
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
http://minx.cc/?post=331048
Ace makes a good point:
Democrats: Hey, in Batman? Yeah, The New Movie? There’s a Villain Named Bane, So, You Know. Draw Your Own Conclusions.
Great strategy.
One problem: Bane may sound like “Bain,” but when Bane talks, he talks like Obama. The whole plot of the movie is Bane’s attempt at “hope and change,” by which we mean violent revolution against the capitalist class.
Do they not know this, or do they actively want that association?
It’s like V for Vendetta, Part Deux
Watchers vs. Readers. The watchers are in the dark, and like it that way.
“Besides… reading, research, and comprehension are hard. If Brian Williams or Steven Spielberg didn’t SHOW me what is reality, then I wouldn’t have a clue.” — the average Leftist.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
From the previously-linked AoSHQ thread:
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So if Romney is the villain Bane, these jagoffs are saying that Obama is Batman……….you know, the Batman that has the homoerotic relationship with Robin.
I’m thinking that they REALLY didn’t think this through.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 16, 2012
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ponderon commented:
Guess Obama is playing the Dark Knight……..what a bunch of loons……..
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Wanted:
Photoshop of Obama as Batman in a compromising posture with Reggie Love as Robin.
ASAP.
ponderon commented:
Here’s another Obama crime……….http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/16/obamas-gutting-of-welfare-reform-is-illegal/
bg commented:
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Taq.. ht penderon
re: Bane
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bg commented:
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oops re: #7 July 16, 2012 at 8:22 pm bg
penderon = ponderon
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Swifty commented:
I had read somewhere a while back that there’s a slam of the #OCCUPY movement in this Batman movie.
donh commented:
The Batman foe BANE preceeds Obama by several years…but the coincidental timing of Obama’s Bain Capital attack… to this movie release….and putting the Bane villian into this movie is all a very well orchetrated attack by the Hollywood scientology cult….> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bane_(comics)
bg commented:
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OT..
July 15, 2012
Britain’s Intelligence Chief Warns Iran
Closing on Bomb, Predicts Israeli Attack
July 16, 2012
Hillary Clinton issues new Iran warning on Israel visit
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valerie commented:
#1 July 16, 2012 at 8:02 pm
bg commented:
What do you mean “we”? We are grownups that can do math and type. Christopher Lehane either does drugs or is truly desperate.
I wasn’t part of the Right-Wing Conspiracy, and neither were you. If he’s going to play on the Dark Side, I hope he gets his money up front, because this client ain’t no Bill Clinton.
bg commented:
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re: #7 July 16, 2012 at 8:22 pm bg
not nearly enough, but about damn time (#29/30/32) anyways..
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valerie commented:
#10 July 16, 2012 at 8:34 pm
donh commented:
I hope somebody from Baen Books will chime in!
bg commented:
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valerie #12 July 16, 2012 at 8:35 pm
“we the people” in general..
fact is there is so much more serious stuff going on, and we’re talking
about a loony cartoon writer stretchering his corrupted imagination..
but hey, since nothing is real, we might as well fly with
it, because the truth is, “we” ain’t seen nothin’ yet..
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
Batman and Larry Sinclair: Blowin’ in the Batmobilez!!
In *(adult) Theatres 3Q 2012!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
“Blow” has at least two meanings in my previous.
Alana commented:
I think they ought to keep this sort of nonsense up. Eventually, even the stupider Americans are going to decide their intelligence is being insulted.
Neo commented:
Memorable quotes for
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Elrond: Strangers from distant lands, friends of old, you have been summoned here to answer the threat of Mordor. Middle Earth stands upon the brink of destruction; none can escape it. You will unite or you will fall. Each race is bound to this fate, this one doom. Bring forth the ring, Frodo.
Boromir: [Frodo puts the ring on a stand for all to see] So it is true. In a dream, I saw the Eastern sky grow dark. But in the West, a pale light lingered. A voice was crying, “The doom is near at hand, Isildur’s Bane is found.”
[reaches for the Ring]
Boromir: Isildur’s Bane…
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