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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Comic Books / Election 2012 / Film Rush, Romney, Batman, Obama, Bane, and Bain
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:44 AM
"Do you think it is accidental that the name of the really vicious, fire-breathing, four-eyed, whatever-it-is villain in [The Dark Knight Rises] is named Bane?" Rush Limbaugh shouted yesterday. "A lot of people are going to see the movie. And it's a lot of brain-dead people—[the] entertainment, 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're going to start paying attention to the campaign later in the year, and Obama and the Democrats keep talking about Bain—not Bain Capital but Romney and Bain—that these people will start thinking back to the Batman movies: 'Oh yeah, I know who that is!'"
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