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RUSH: It has been quite instructive. This has been very, very illustrative, ladies and gentlemen. Yesterday on this program I uttered some words about the new Batman movie, and the evil villain named Bane. I made some comments about it. Doesn\u2019t matter what. I have had more reaction to that than anything, including the Fluke thing. I\u2019ve had my brother telling me that Twitter is going nuts. I\u2019ve been getting hateful e-mail, supportive e-mail. More people are concerned about whatever I might have said or didn\u2019t say about a Batman villain than they are about their own jobs. It\u2019s incredible. But, as I say, it\u2019s quite instructive, and it\u2019s quite illustrative.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I even said yesterday at the end of my whole Batman discussion that Batman is more like Romney. I made the point that the rich, wealthy hero in the Batman movie is more like Romney and that the Bane guy seems more like an Occupy Wall Street guy. And yet here I am supposedly articulating a conspiracy between the comic book creators and the Obama campaign, that somehow they created this villain with the same name as Romney\u2019s venture capital company, private equity company.<\/p>\n
No. All I said yesterday was that the Democrats are going to try to make that linkage. I got our old buddy Jon Stewart here, in fact, doing the same. We got sound bites out the wazoo on this. Snerdley came in here, people were calling him at three o\u2019clock in the morning, “You better tell Rush he\u2019s got this all wrong. These guys are very conservative, these Batman creators, they\u2019re very conservative.” This thing spread like wildlife. A comic book villain, a comic book character… A discussion about a comic book villain gets people more irritated and agitated than Obama\u2019s assault on the private sector<\/a>, than Obama\u2019s assault on jobs.<\/p>\n Oh, and now the left is out there saying we took Obama out of context on this. “You\u2019re not reporting on the sentence he said before. He was talking about you didn\u2019t build the roads yourself.” You got a successful factory or successful business, you didn\u2019t do that, you didn\u2019t build the road. Okay, fine, if you want to make that claim. Somebody tell me, is having a road in front of your business what makes it a success? If having a road in front of your business, every business would be a roaring success. I don\u2019t care how you leftists try to spin it, you\u2019ve got a guy who deeply resents the private sector, deeply resents capitalism. He\u2019s campaigning against capitalism. The president of the United States campaigning for reelection is running against capitalism, and you can try to mask that and deflect that all you want but the truth is the truth and it can\u2019t be denied.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Yes, I know, Snerdley. The Batman thing, it is quite indicative, is it not? Snerdley said that it unglued him. He\u2019s getting calls at two or three in the morning. “You tell Rush that he\u2019s got this wrong.” You know, even the creator, Chuck Dixon, weighed in on it. I had a story in the Stack yesterday but I didn\u2019t get to it. One the creators, Chuck Dixon, said (paraphrased), “Oh, no. Oh, no. Now Rush is gonna call me a liberal again. Hell, I\u2019m not a liberal. He called me this on the last Batman movie.”<\/p>\n These Batman movies thematically, if you look at them open-mindedly, tend to be conservative in terms of right and wrong\/good and evil. But like I pointed out yesterday, Batman is Romney. The good guy\u2019s Romney. This Bane character, I pointed out the spelling is different.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n By the way, my brother\u2019s book, the Great Destroyer<\/a>, is five or six weeks now on the New York Times best-seller list. It\u2019s far exceeded his goal, and it\u2019s still out there. It\u2019s being purchased in droves. The Great Destroyer. It documents everything up until the time it was published. Everything Obama has done. Everything he\u2019s said. It is a handbook. If you get in an argument with a liberal or you\u2019re trying to persuade anybody, doesn\u2019t matter, it\u2019s all right there. In fact, the best line he had about his own book is he said when he went back to start reading it from cover to cover to get ready for his interviews, he was shocked at how much was in it, and it\u2019s his own book.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called The Great Destroyer.<\/p>\n Okay we\u2019re gonna start audio sound bite number five. Well, before we start with audio sound bite number five, I have here ComicBook.com<\/a>: “Rush Limbaugh: Five Reasons He\u2019s Wrong About Bane In The Dark Knight Rises — Today, Rush Limbaugh became the second talk show host to make some controversial comments regarding the upcoming summer blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises. Of course, the first was David Letterman who may or may not have spoiled the ending of The Dark Knight Rises.<\/p>\n “Limbaugh didn\u2019t drop any spoilers, but he did lay out a possible political conspiracy theory revolving around the villain Bane. Limbaugh asked, ‘Do you think it is accidental that the name of the really vicious fire-breathing, four-eyed whatever-it-is villain in this movie is named Bane?\u2019 He then went on to suggest that Bane might have been chosen as the villain as a political agenda against Mitt Romney, who ran a venture capital company called Bain. Here\u2019s five reasons that Russ [sic] Limbaugh is wrong about Bane in The Dark Knight Rises,” and they go on to talk about the fact that Bane was created in 1993.<\/p>\n Romney was not there in 2001.<\/p>\n He left in 1999.<\/p>\n The Democrats and Obama are running around claiming that Romney laid off all these people. Romney wasn\u2019t there. The irony is that the guy running Bain Capital at the time in 2001 who laid off all these people, is now a bundler and fundraiser for Obama. So they\u2019re blaming Romney for something that happened when he wasn\u2019t there that was done by an Obama fundraiser. So they will do anything to keep Bain in the news, and all I was trying to say yesterday was that the Democrats are gonna take the occasion of this movie…<\/p>\n By the way, this did not occur to me in independent thought.<\/p>\n I read stories two nights ago about how this was a plan the Democrats had: an attempt to link the character in the movie to Romney because it\u2019s the same name phonetically: Bain. (It\u2019s spelled differently in the movie: B-A-N-E.) And the Democrats are going to try to do that. Independently of the comic book creators, independently of the movie people. The movie people, what are the odds that they\u2019re liberal Democrats and plan on doing whatever they can to elect Obama? Pretty good. You can\u2019t find conservatives in Hollywood that either come out of the closet or are in positions of power anywhere.<\/p>\n So, anyway, controversy erupted. Here\u2019s the sound bite. We have time to squeeze this in. It\u2019s a montage from last night, media comments about all this.<\/p>\n PETER ALEXANDER: Rush Limbaugh all fired up…<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: 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?<\/p>\n BERNARD MCGUIRK: Listen to Rush Limbaugh from yesterday…<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: This evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane.<\/p>\n MICHELLE MILLER: (b-roll noise) Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh is talking conspiracy!<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: Do you think that it is accidental?<\/p>\n GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Rush Limbaugh says Batman\u2019s new movie could impact the election.<\/p>\n RUSH ARCHIVE: This evil villain in the new Batman is named Bane. And there\u2019s now discussion out there as whether or not this was purposeful and will influence voters.<\/p>\n ERIC DEGGANS: I think Rush Limbaugh should just take …<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s how the montage went. There are a couple of people in this whole thing that actually thought I had a point.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: In an exclusive interview with our blowtorch affiliate in Phoenix, KFYI yesterday, the creator of Batman, Chuck Dixon, pointed out that he and the collaborator, Graham Nolan, created this Bane character back in 1992. He said: “Graham and I are both staunch conservatives, so from our angle, there\u00c2\u2019s no liberal agenda. I\u00c2\u2019m a life-long right-wing extremist.” That\u2019s KFYI, Phoenix. Now, let\u2019s put this in perspective. The news media laughs and yawns, and then after they laugh and yawn, they decide, “You know what? We\u2019ll run with this.” Obama, deputy campaign manager, calls Romney a felon. They laugh at it, they yawn, and then, “You know what, it\u2019s not true but let\u2019s run with it anyway.” <\/p>\n They\u2019re having kittens \u2019cause I noted the bad guy in the Batman movie is named Bane and that some Democrats are gonna try to connect the evil character to Bain Capital and Mitt Romney. As I said yesterday, it was the Democrats who first made the comparison between the villain\u2019s name and Bain, not me. I was just reporting the news that I had read a couple of nights ago. I even read a couple of conservative people: “If they think they\u2019re gonna be able to pull that off, they\u2019re crazy. If they think people will go watch a Batman movie with an evil character named Bane and associate the guy with Mitt Romney, they\u2019re crazy.” <\/p>\n This idea was out there long before. I was just commenting on it. Again, the instructive thing here is it\u2019s a comic book character and it\u2019s caused all this hubbub. Here\u2019s a guy named Michael Meehan. The guy worked for John Kerry, the haughty John Kerry, who, by the way, John Kerry, served in Vietnam. And on CBS This Morning they\u2019re doing a story on this connection between the Batman villain named Bane and Romney\u2019s old company, Bain Capital. Democrat strategerist Michael Meehan said…<\/p>\n RUSH: Duh. Duh. So here you have a major Democrat strategerist suggesting that I\u2019m on to something, that they would love for you movie goers to compare or think of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital when you watch this new Batman villain regardless the intention of the creators of the comic book characters. Now we move on to The View. I thought The View was on hiatus so that all these babes could read 50 Shades of Grey.<\/a> I had heard that The View had gone into reruns so that the hosts could all read that mommy porn book, 50 Shades of Grey. <\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: The View babes, I thought they were on hiatus so they could all read the book. It\u2019s as close as any of them are gonna get. But then I\u2019m told, “No, no, no, they\u2019re reading 50 Shades of Grey Hair, not 50 Shades of Grey.” So they\u2019re still there. And Whoopi Goldberg, she had to chime in on this Batman business.<\/p>\n GOLDBERG: Rush Limbaugh is claiming that the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, has a hidden agenda, a liberal plot to run Mitt Romney, to ruin Mitt Romney. To clear the record, Bane first appeared in Batman in January of 1993. The rough story outline was completed in 2008, which is quite before Romney got the nomination. So they would have to be pretty deep, psychic, to know that Romney was going to run and so that they should send the subliminal message of Bane being the bad guy. But to me, it\u2019s kind of like the Teletubby, remember when they said that the Teletubby was gay? It\u2019s Batman, fool!<\/p>\n RUSH: Right, and we\u2019ve got it from Michael Meehan, Whoopi, the Democrats are gonna do everything they can to link this character to Romney. Why? They have no moral core whatsoever. They\u2019re nothing more than radical ideologues and that\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. The only thing they\u2019ve got is to try to politically kill Romney. Here\u2019s “Maude” Behar. She had to get her two cents in.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/DarkKnightRises.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>RUSH: My brother was getting tweets all night long. He calls me.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Meehan071812.jpg\"\/)