Is George W. Bush the Batman?
If you saw The Dark Knight (and, if you haven't, why not?!) and noticed some similarities between the film's titular character — a psychotic outlaw who dresses in a costume and uses his vast wealth to exact his own form of justice — and President George W. Bush, then you're not alone.
Lots of right wing pundits feel the exact same way. In fact, here's radio host Glenn Beck on CNN…
But Batman goes into another country and with a C-130 snatches a guy out, and then throws him back here into Gotham. So there's rendition. At one point the Morgan Freeman character says to Batman, wait a minute, hang on, you're eavesdropping on everyone in Gotham? And Batman says, yes, to stop this terrorist.
Morgan Freeman says, I can't be a part of it. And yet Morgan Freeman does become a part of it, and they find the Joker. One of the ways they find the Joker is through eavesdropping. I mean the parallels here of what's going on is to me stunning…
Beck also said that Bush's willingness to "die as the worst president ever because of the war on terror" is "exactly the message that Batman carries."
Well, at least he got the "worst president ever" part right.
Anyway. So, what? Now we're drawing our collective morality from blockbuster movies with fictional characters about completely made-up events instead of from best-selling Bibles with fictional characters about completely made-up events? I suppose it's a fair trade off.
But you know what? I think the conservatives are choosing the wrong movie at which to look for guidance. I think we should be looking for the deep meanings and lessons of Step Brothers.
Yes, what I'm saying is that George Bush should go over to Iran and rub his sweaty balls all over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's drum kit.
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George W. Bush’s sentence-by-sentence speaking skills are deteriorating. Apparently, this may be due to a mental illness called “presenile dementia.” Bush may or may not be secretly still drinking heavily. Bush lied, and thousands of people died. Bush suffers from narcissism and megalomania. Moreover, Bush has been arrested three times. Bush was arrested for disorderly conduct. Bush was arrested for stealing. Bush was also arrested for a serious crime—driving under the influence of alcohol. There are reasons to believe that Bush suffers from a learning disability. Bush’s learning disability would explain a lot of things. All in all, Bush is a severely mentally ill individual. Bush is not fit to be the president of the United States.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Bush isn't stupid. He just made the wrong decision, in my opinion, and it's resulted in a crash in the US economy (much of which probably would have happened as a result of 9/11). I reserve the right to call him a liar until I have all the facts. I'm just glad I didn't have to vote for him in '00 and '04. Then again, who the hell were you going to vote for? Gore or Kerry? It's like capital punishment. Do I want lethal injection or a slow, painful death?
Wait a minute! Did that one guy just say George Bush "wrote" THE DARK KNIGHT? Isn't he too stupid to spell his own name? It's just one person's opinion, for f***'s sake! So maybe Bush WAS inspiration for this movie. You're free to make up your own mind whether Bush/Batman made the right decisions or not. If what Glenn Beck says of Bush (that he is willing to be ridiculed as the "worst president in history" to, at least in his opinion, keep America safe) I can at least respect that of the president, even if I disagree with some of his decisions. And that doesn't make either one of us stupid or smart. We're all just doing the best we can. Am I glad to see him go in November? Probably.
I'm not going to judge a man's integrity without all the facts. I THINK he lied about Iraq (but then again, Clinton lied to his own wife – we can't trust any of these dipsh-ts), and rather than being angry, I want to know why. I don't buy into the crap that he's finishing Daddy's job. If it was based on the idea that they could go in, hammer 2 dictators and bring democracy to the Middle East, fine. It certainly hasn't worked out for them, but I want to hear the reasoning behind some of these decisions so we don't make the same mistake again. Most of the wars the US has gotten into since 1945 have been total failures. Let's figure out why. And don't give me the pro-war versus anti-war spiel. We should be guided by facts, not agenda – whether it's liberal or conservative. The idea that this movie is either liberal or conservative propaganda is hilarious. It's just escapist theater. Enjoy it or don't on that level. It shouldn't be used to support any political view.
All this is great stuff, but I can't even vote in the next US election. I'm Canadian. One that is generally conservative but for Universal Health Care at that. So call me a Bush hack, I dare you.
Well, Bush is immersed in a fictional world, he does hide behind a mask, he does have a phony speaking voice, and he is utterly batty.
So Glenn Beck is saying Bush is a vigilante who views himself as being above the law. That might just be the most accurate thing he has ever said.
Bottom line:
Even if breaking the law was for the good of the people
Batman got the Joker, Bush hasn’t got Osama (how many more years?)
The truth:
Karl Rove- Joker (he is crazy)
Cheney- Two-face (tries to hide his evil side)
Bush- Village idiot (too stupid to be a villain, just a dumb criminal)
You know…i bet George W. wrote Batman himself. makes complete sense that the entire focus of a superhero movie would be about making George W. Bush look good. In fact, I think he footed the bill for the movie himself…..Or maybe all those parallels are kind of stupid, and you could probably find paralells for anything you want in just about anything you want. Way to find another way to whine about our president, you are completely original.
Yeah, I know I'm late on this one. I've been meaning to write about this for a while now but missed my chance. Then, since Beck just talked about this again yesterday, I figured I'd have my chance to vent.
You think the Left Behind books are badly written? Try reading that book it's supposedly based upon.
Way to be late on a topic, Cubby. I got a link to this weeks ago from the AOL homepage. I believe the writer there concluded that Dubya was Batman because they're both rich guys who blow stuff up in their spare time. Also, congrats on slipping in an unnecessy jab at the Bible; this is part of why it's hard to get a large portion of the religious population in America on the side of liberal issues. Now, if you'd wanted to take a jab at the Left Behind series, I'd have been right there with. Man, those books are badly written…