Rush Limbaugh is on dope again. No other explanation for this...

[Archae]

I mean, this bad guy, "Bane," has been in Batman comics since 1993, and the movie started filming 2 years ago.

But in Rush's conservafairyland, Hollywood called the bad guy "Bane" as a dig against Romney.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: 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?

[...]

LIMBAUGH: 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."

http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/07/17/limbaughs-dark-knight-risesromney-conspiracy-do/187171

[arcane1]

1. "there's now discussion out there" = voices in his head

[Scuba]

6. +1

[GarroHorus]

2. Lots of comic nerds are Republicans

He's gonna turn them off to Romney over this shit.

[nolabear]

3. Yup, just like they modeled The Penguin after you-know-who.

Holywood conspiracy, no doubt about it.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Worst.discjockey.ever

[Scuba]

5. Rush sucking up to his boss.

[Blue Owl]

7. OMG Rainier Wolfcastle's "McBain" character has been a liberal set-up all along

I knew it, I KNEW it!

[rustydog]

8. How long has it been since the script was written, re written, submitted then bought?

After that, how long was the casting process? how long did it take to film then edit the movie?

Rush, you cannot be this fucking stupid.
You can be this fucking scared though.

[Lex]

9. Rush is counting on his listeners being idiots.

Which pretty much works for him.

[Chiyo-chichi]

14. To borrow Rush's phrase, they are "brain dead." Or is it BANE DEAD?

BANE DEAD?

Thanks for spoiling the ending of the new Batman movie.

[meow2u3]

17. BAIN DEAD!!

Rush is BAIN DEAD!

[Lucy Goosey]

10. He does know about the word "bane," right?

I mean, the word "bane" means "A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse."

Limbaugh knows this, right? Is his audience dumb enough that they don't?

[woofless]

11. Yes. Yes,

and Yes.

[PDJane]

12. Yes.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. I saw a clip from yesterday - he sounded drunk to me

I won't rule out oxycontin but I don't know what effect it has, having never known any oxy addicts.

[Meiko]

22. It can be mistaken

for alcohol intoxication. The relapse rate for Oxycontin users is pretty high just like with all narcotics. It is possible he is using again.

[1StrongBlackMan]

15. This crazyness gives me room to ask ...

Did romney (or whomever named the firm) not have a thought that someone, somewhere would draw a phonetic association between the companies name and what it did?

[maxrandb]

16. I think he's got it backward

The truth is more likely that "Rmoney" was looking around for a catchy name to his blood-sucking vulture capital firm and stumbled upon the Batman Comic villain BANE.

Batman didn't steal this from RMoney...Rmoney stole it from DC Comics!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. It's a 20-year-old character who has already appeared in Batman films

Limbaugh is a fucking idiot.
Between this weirdness and his bizarre rant yesterday, it's pretty clear he's back on the Oxys.

[RockaFowler]

21. Yeah but the last one was the Clooney one

And well you know Clooney is a Democrat. It's a conspiracy!!

[HopeHoops]

19. Look. I take oxycodone (similar stuff). It makes you loopy, but not THAT fucking loopy!!!

[Kalidurga]

20. You just can't make this stuff up...

I bet the Onion is really ticked off about now.

[Speck Tater]

23. The Obama campaign obviously...

...used a time machine to go back in time and alter history, cleverly planting that character name in the past. Of course the time traveler got fired for misspelling it.