After years of meticulous fact-checking to
correct my delusive conservative correspondent, "G," he finally
confided: "But I like being partially right."
Six words are worth a million pictures.
It is a happy coincidence that Bane and
Bain are homonyms.
The brewing ideological battle between
"right"and "left" will hinge on the routine malfeasance (all of it perfectly "legal") that is practiced by predatory capitalism on
the one hand and casino capitalism on the other.
Consider this pertinent article, "Why
Won't Romney Release More Tax Returns?" by USC law professor, Edward
Kleinbard. http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/18/
Rush Limbaugh faces backlash over Batman villian and Mitt Romney conspiracy claims
The Conservative American radio host Rush Limbaugh has been ridiculed after he suggested that a villain in the new Batman movie could have been named to cause embarrassment to Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Batman's nemesis in the Dark Knight Rises film is named Bane, pronounced the same as Bain, the investment firm of which Romney was chief executive.
Democrats have used Romney's association with the company to attack him, suggesting that the company was exporting American jobs to low-wage countries during his tenure.
Speaking about the name of the movie villain, Mr Limbaugh, who is well known for his conservative views and criticism of liberalism, said: "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 is now this make-believe controversy? Bain.
"The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date has 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, what-ever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?"
"A lot of people are going to see the movie, and it's a lot of brain-dead people, entertaining the pop-culture crowd. And they're going to hear 'Bane' in the movie and they're going to associate 'Bain' and 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, not Bain Capital, Romney and Bain that these people will think back to the bad man."
After his comments were aired on his radio show it was pointed out that the character Bane first appeared in the Batman comic books in 1993.
Asked about the connection, the film's director Christopher Nolan said: "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 peculiar comment to make."
Morgan Freeman, who stars in the film, called the comment "ridiculous" and added: "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."
Later Mr Limbaugh clarified his comments saying: ""I never said that the villain was created by the comic book character creator to be part of the 2012 campaign. I said that Democrats were going to use it, which they are."
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