So... Rush Limbaugh thinks Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is some sort of political conspiracy

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So… Rush Limbaugh thinks Bane in The Dark Knight Rises is some sort of political conspiracy

Bain Capital was founded in 1984, founded by Bill Bane and Mitt Romney among others. In 1993, DC Comics created the Batman villain “Bane”, because it’s a cool sounding name and the word “bane” is relevant to his villainy. Heath Ledger dies in 2008, forcing Christopher Nolan to change his plans for the third Batman movie, and he chooses Bane for the villain, just in time for a presidential election year where Nolan must have known (been instructed) that Mitt Romney would be the nominee and his time at Bain Capital would be a big political issue. OBAMA HAD HEATH LEDGER MURDERED, a year before Obama knew he would be inaugurated as President.

“Have you heard, this new movie, the Batman movie — what is it, the Dark Knight Lights Up or something? Whatever the name of it is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises, Lights Up, same thing. 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’s now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time, the release date’s 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, whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane? … Anyway, so this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there’s now discussion out there as to whether or not this was purposeful, and whether or not it will influence voters. It’s going to have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is going to be huge, lot of people are going to see the movie. And it’s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd. And they’re going to hear ‘Bane’ in the movie, and they are 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, but Bain, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie — ‘Oh yeah, I know who that is.’ There are some people who think it will work. There are some people think it will work. Others think — ‘You’re really underestimating the American people who think that will work.’”

– Rush Limbaugh on his syndicated radio show today.

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I swear to fuck that when I posted the Romney/Bane picture yesterday morning, I was waiting to see how long it would take for Limbaugh to make that connection and come out with some idiotic rant about it. And yes, I know Limbaugh is just a comedian, but people actually take him seriously.