Creator of Batman Villain ‘Bane’ Calls Democrats’ Batman-Themed Attack on Romney ‘Ridiculous’
- Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:39pm by
Jason Howerton
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"Dark Knight Rises" villain Bane, or Mitt Romney? Can you tell? (Warner Bros Pictures)
Don’t put it past the Obama campaign to use a new comparison being drawn by Democrats between the maniacal, mask wearing, venom gas-breathing villain from the final installment of the Batman movies, “The Dark Knight Rises,” and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Who would that make President Barack Obama — Batman?
“Bane” is the name of the ruthless villain that terrorizes Gotham City in the latest Batman movie. As you probably already figured out, that sure sounds awfully similar to the investment company Bain Capital previously run by Romney, which the Obama campaign is claiming was an outsourcing, job killing, heartless corporation under the former Massachusetts governor. There must be a connection, right? No.
Still, Democratic advisers and lefties are trying to push the ridiculous Bane-Bain comparison.
Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner writes:
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.
As the Friday release date has neared, liberal blogs were the first to connect Batman‘s toughest foe with Romney’s firm. But now even some conservatives, concerned Romney isn’t fighting the Bain attacks hard enough, see a similarity in the epic DC Comics fight and the political campaign.
One person who is particularly unamused by the forced comparison is comic book writer Chuck Dixon, who created the character of Bane with Graham Nolan in the early 90s.
According to The Washington Times, Dixon responded to the news on his website’s message board:
“I saw it on FB like two hours ago. Ridiculous. Tho’ I got a cold feeling in the pit of my stomach that Rush (Limbaugh) may pick up on this. And that would be the second time he pegged me and Graham as liberals on his show.”
In another post, he wrote: “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?”
More from The Washington Times:
The DC Comics character Bane is best known for releasing all of Gotham City’s criminals from Arkham Asylum. Batman is pushed to the point of exhaustion as he rounds them all back up, but Bane is waiting for him and breaks Batman’s back. Bane brings forth chaos, anarchy, and lawlessness. Mitt Romney is not the first person to come to mind as far as the character of Bane is concerned. In fact, the chaos that Bane brings is reminiscent of Occupy Wall Street protests.
Other than the silly name play by the Obama campaign, the comparison is ridiculous, especially because Selina Kyle (Catwoman), a thief who steals from rich individuals and is played by actress Ann Hathaway in the film, whispers to ultra wealthy Bruce Wayne, Batman’s alter ego, in one trailer: ”There’s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne,” she says. “You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits you’re all going to wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.” (video below)
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Comments (39)
lylejk
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 12:00amYes, Bane’s been a foe of Batmans for decades now, but I still say there are no such things as coincidences. The Hollywood elites figure Romney was going to be the next candidate (doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure the odds) and planned this one out. Still, you have to admit that Bane has a lot of muscle and did break Batman’s back (not that BO is Batman; more like Hong Kong Phooey; lol). Let’s hope Romney breaks the back of this Administration come Nov. lol
:)
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 4:44amWell, obviously if they had used a rocket scientist to figure out who would be the nominee, the rocket scientist would have told them that Newt Gingrich was the man, and they would have picked the pudgy, round-headed Penguin instead.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 7:58amThis is a hoot!
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:37amThat‘s why Liked the punisher best when you became his foe you didn’t get a another chance to kill innocent people….it was game over
Report Post »mcmeador
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:43pmI guess the left is trying to preemptively counter the obvious parallels that even 2-year-olds will see between Bane’s revolution and their own movement.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:02amSomeone forgot to tell Rush, AND read comments below and on the next page~LOL!
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:42pmBane = MItt?
Damn. Mitt is huge. I suggest he arm wrestles Obama for it. Would be a fair contest if Obama actually wrote his own speeches by hand. All that rhetoric and pausing, the “um…” involved. Obama would have 28 inch guns after his time in politics.
(sadly, Obama isn’t writing his own speeches).
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:01pmDesperate ******** reaching again. Yet another epic liberal fail.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 7:22pmYour are so right! Dangerous is what I call the nutcases at the Obama camp and desparate! They are playing typical vile, disgusting politics so typical of Chicagoians! Always the nastyier the better!
Report Post »cbrown
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 1:34pmDemocrats in 90′s worked with DC Comics to create a character “BANE” knowing that their Presidential candidate will have an opponent from Bain.
Next we need to find out how to retroactively retire.
Report Post »TRK
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:13pmOf course there is no connection between Bane and Bain Capitol. The films Batman Begins and the Dark Knight are anything but liberal themed. In fact in the Dark Knight Batman resembles George Bush more than Obama or any other lib. He violates international extradition laws to bring a felon back to be forced to turn state’s witness. He uses enhanced interrogation techniques to get information from criminals, pushing a mob boss off a balcony and beating the snot out of the Joker to make him talk.He then uses a device developed at Wayne Enterprises that allows him to eavesdrop on every cellphone in Gotham to learn the location of the Joker.He has all the criminals in Gotham p##ing down their leg at the thought of running into him. Another major theme is sacrifice, what Bruce gives up to be Batman, D.A.s Harvey Dent and Rachael Dawes and in the end citzens of Gotham are willing to give up their lives for others to be able to survive. This has been a great series of films so don’t let some idiot lib ruin it for you with some weak attempt to gain advantage over Romney. Go see it! It looks awesome!
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on July 18, 2012 at 8:42amthe creators of the movie should sue the democratic party of deformation of their art and copywrite infringement if they are true upset about this liberal move.
Report Post »The true is they are 1000% behind the progressive and they are only upset that conservatives might keep their hard eran free market capital at home instead of seeing the new movie. Much like the avengers director they’ll turn politial once they cash in .
slr4528
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 6:06pmObama is the anarchists who only enforces those laws he agrees with and guts other laws like welfare reform. Who cares…I think everyone is over Hollywood.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:44pmWell Romney is not a Felon and they can’t prove that he is. Financial disclosures filed in Massachusettes back up Romney’s case and show that he drew at least $100,000 in 2001 from Bain as a former executive and from other Bain entities as a passive general partner, but a memorandum to investors in a Bain equity fund that was circulated in June 2000 suggests Romney was not involved in the management of investmens. The memorandum lists backgrounds of 18 managers or senior private equity investment professionals of Bain Capital, and Romney is not among them. He needs to come out swinging and turn the tide toward the Failed policies of Barack Obama and Progressives because this is the real direction the country wants to take…
Report Post »Madmilo
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:43pmOblamer is more like DingBat Man.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:42pm“Bane brings forth chaos, anarchy, and lawlessness”….
Romney…? I think not, It sounds like the out of control New Socialist Party of America (formerly known as the Democrat Party) and their destructive shills known as the Occupiers
Report Post »Elcigaro
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:36pmBatman for Obama? One less film to see this summer. Choke on it Hollywood lib supporters.
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:57pmLehane is so far off its almost laughable. He‘s entirely wrong here and doesn’t know enough about the character to realize just how far off he is.
Just to touch on one point that the article itself didn’t:
‘ 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. ‘
Character biography on wikipedia:
Report Post »“Bane’s origin story is established in the story “Vengeance of Bane”. He was born in the fictional Caribbean Republic of Santa Prisca, in a prison called Peña Dura (“Hard Rock”). His father Edmund Dorrance had been a revolutionary and had escaped Santa Prisca’s court system. The corrupt government, however, decreed that his young son would serve out the man’s life sentence, and thus Bane’s childhood and early adult life were spent in the amoral penitentiary environment.”
piper60
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:42pmAll this is is: 1. a desperate plea for attention from Obamas legions, and 2. Yet another attempt to distract the American People from the economy and Obama’s record of abuses to it.
Report Post »battles
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:08pmDefinition of ‘bane’: Something causing misery or death.
Report Post »Good description of Obama, liberals, and the democratic party.
Balpit
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:46pmHey, if Superman (another DC character) no longer fights for “the American way”…
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 4:41pmWho said Superman no longer fights for the American way?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 5:05pmIt was announced in a dc comic regarding Superman
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 9:32pmRICKC — Nothing like that was ever announced in a single issue of Superman. Ever. Knee-jerk conservatives who had no idea what they were talking about made that claim.
The issue in question, Action Comics 900 sees Superman intervening in post in Tehran to prevent the government from killing the protesters. For 24 hours, he stands in front of the protesters, not moving, not speaking, but simply staring down the Iranian military. His actions let them know he will not allow the Iranian government to massacre its own citizens.
But it causes a diplomatic incident. The Iranian government Superman’s actions to be act of war, claiming he is a tool of American foreign policy. Superman decides to renounce his citizenship, because he cannot act as he needs to if his actions are going to be seen as the tool of any particular nation, nor can he act if it would endanger his adopted home.
Of course, knee-jerk reactionary conservatives couldn’t be bothered to read the actual issue or understand any of the subtext. All they were concern with was pointing and screaming, “Marxist!“ and ”Traitor!”
Report Post »Jim
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:42pmHey Obummer, why don’t you come to reality and stop living in the fantasy world that the world loves you…. you only have a few and the dumb… You will see that in November… REMEMBER NOV 6, 2012.
Report Post »NathanHale2
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:37pmPut wings on Obummer and he would look like a Fruit Bat.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:28pmAm sure all of the usual naive , cartoon reading liberals who live in Obama Fantasy Land will love to watch this…between tweets, of course…
Report Post »myway
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:25pmPow! Boom!! Tickled all the way to the bank.
Report Post »ksmike
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:16pmAren’t these the same hypocrites who got their tidy whities in a wad when anybody in 2008 said Barak HUSSEIN Obama, or Barak Osama? They didn’t like it when their guy was associated with evil, but it is okay to do it to the Republican candidate? These guys are evil incarnate–the whole of the Demagoguerat leadership and their minions. I just hope the undecided voters are intelligent enough to see through it and remember what shape this president got our country into in the first place. Of course, they elected him last time, so my hope wavers.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:08pmComrades if this is silly then so is Dear Leader lies and phoney accusations!
Report Post »Since the commies don’t seem to miss much nothing they do will surprise me.
progressiveslayer
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:03pmSubliminal messages aren’t needed for the typical mental defective Obama voter,no these messages are directed at the precious ‘independents’,the group that will decide the outcome of the next and many elections.
Report Post »WillG
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:02pmRidiculous is an understatement.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:53pmBane’s tactics in the film are actually closer to OWS and their black bloc buddies. Terrorism, occupation, destruction of property..it’s a JZS wetdream.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 3:03pmLOL, as JZS described the OWS as brave heroes some time back.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:49pmHoly Desperation, Batman!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 2:48pmMitt is way closer to Bruce Wayne than Obama ever thought about. Neither one of them is Batman.
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