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RUSH: Have you heard this new movie, the Batman movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or whatever the name is. That\u2019s 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 <\/a>ran and around which there\u2019s now this make-believe controversy? Bain. The movie has been in the works for a long time. The release date\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Somebody else made that happen.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: In case you\u2019re wondering what\u2019s going on. I am so astounded by this I have told the broadcast engineer to play that whenever he feels like it. So he\u2019s on his own. He\u2019s getting no help from me. He can put that sound bite anywhere at any time he thinks it\u2019s called for. It\u2019s totally up to him. I don\u2019t know when it\u2019s gonna happen. I had Cookie roll off the little excerpt of that big, long bite, and this thing\u2019s gonna show up \u2019cause I can\u2019t tell you how it\u2019s affecting me.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If you\u2019ve got a business, you didn\u2019t build that. Somebody else made that happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just stop and think of that, just from the standpoint of logic. And then I had to read today that some conservative commentator, “Well, the president, he\u2019s right. He actually is right.” I\u2019m not gonna embarrass the guy by mentioning his name \u2019cause I\u2019m not trying to pick a fight with the guy. I\u2019m trying to point out that we have a bunch of people that want to be thought of as the smartest people in the room and the most reasonable and they don\u2019t want to be lumped in with me having a reactionary take on this. So they\u2019re going out of their way, “Oh, no, I don\u2019t think the president hates the country. Oh, no. No, no, no. In fact, I think the president, on some level it\u2019s obvious he\u2019s right, so simple to see.” Then later on they point out their disagreements with it, but after that what\u2019s the point? <\/p>\n

So, anyway, this evil villain in the new Batman movie is named Bane. And there\u2019s now a discussion out there as to whether or not this is purposeful and whether or not it will influence voters. It\u2019s gonna have a lot of people. This movie, the audience is gonna be huge. A lot of people are gonna see the movie, and it\u2019s a lot of brain-dead people, entertainment, the pop culture crowd, and they\u2019re gonna hear Bane in the movie and they\u2019re gonna associate Bain. 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, Romney and Bain, that these people will think back to the Batman movie, “Oh, yeah, I know who that is.” (laughing) There are some people who think it\u2019ll work. Others think you\u2019re really underestimating the American people to think that will work.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: You didn\u2019t build that. Somebody else made that happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. (interruption) At the polls, will the brain-dead people show up at the polls? I don\u2019t know. See, I think you have to assume they will. I think you have to plan on the fact that they will show up and vote. No, just from the standpoint of you\u2019ve gotta get your own turnout. You can\u2019t go into an election thinking, “Well, that group\u2019s not gonna show up. The young, yeah, they got disappointed. Obama\u2019s not who they thought he was. Ah, college students, they\u2019re not gonna show.” You can\u2019t think that way. You have to think they\u2019re gonna show up. You have to count on it. You have to plan for it and come up with a way of neutralizing it. <\/p>\n

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The Bane character in this movie was a terrorist. He\u2019s out to destroy Gotham, New York City, which is the case in every Batman movie. But instead of sounding like Romney, he sounds like an Occupy Wall Street guy, in truth. Now, there\u2019s a story in the Washington Times Communities today: “Amanda Read: Is Mitt Romney…Batman? — Opponents of Mitt Romney have noticed that the name of Batman\u00c2\u2019s villain in the upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises is homonymous with the name of an investment firm that Romney founded in 1984. The childish ‘aha\u2019 moment was not unpredictable. Americans have tolerated condescension remarkably well for the past four years, so we can presumably take an insult to our ability to spell — or ability to follow a storyline, for that matter.”<\/p>\n

But, anyway, I didn\u2019t really know what the point of this story is. They\u2019re trying to point out that in Batman the good guy and the rich guy are one and the same, and that\u2019s Bruce Wayne. And so what this gal is saying here is: Hey, instead of falling in with the evil guy being Bane, let\u2019s just say Batman is Romney. Batman\u2019s Romney, he\u2019s the evil rich guy, he\u2019s the good rich guy, he\u2019s out to save New York. The rich guy\u2019s the good guy. Of course the evil guy is always rich too in these Batman movies. You may think it\u2019s ridiculous, I\u2019m just telling you this is the kind of stuff the Obama team is lining up. The kind of people who would draw this comparison are the kind of people that they are campaigning to. These are the kind of people that they are attempting to appeal to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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