If it ain't Tweety, it's Faux: They're pushing a comparison of Shrub with "Dark Knight"!1

[UTUSN]

We should have had a series all along labelled like Octafish's "Know your B.F.E.E.," for Tweety and Faux, when we document those two propagandizing for Shrub-- CHURCHILL and "war pResident" references.

When it's about Tweety, call it, "If it's not FAUX, it's Tweety."


So this A.M. they had this "cultural expert" on claiming that he "sees" veiled (masked) references to Shrub in the Dark Knight: to wit, that they both HAD

* "to fight terrorists"

* "to resort to violence to combat violence"

* "to push the limits of (violating) our civil liberties"

* and the kicker, "to sacrifice their popularity among the people they were protecting."


They said there was no Robin, per se, but that (some deputy commisioner or somesuch in the movie) was in charge of turning on and turning off (the civil liberties, and that THIS was CHEENEE.


The "cultural expert" also twisted what we have all heard in literature classes, that in times of political repression, authors resort to code language and symbolism as in fables, fantasy, and science fiction, to communicate messages of freedom. He PERVERTED this observation to say that Batman/Shrub was MASKED because (something like, unpopular to praise him right now). The "cultural expert" said that when movies are UNmasked and are openly LIBERAL, they become "boring," like Rendition or (the anti-Iraq one). Barf!1


ON EDIT (this paragraph): Oh, and the disgusting capper: The "expert" said that he could see the comparisons SO clearly, that by the end of the movie he expected to see a "W" flashed in the spotlight into the sky!1


I don't go to movies just for pleasure much except for a new Hamlet or Gladiator, and I make a special effort when something politically controversial comes along (Passion of the Christ, Brokeback Mountain)-------but I definitely will NOT be seeing Dark Knight.

[DS1]

1. I guess they left the part about Batman's actions only making the terrorists stronger

and more violent out. Not that I didn't see this coming after watching the movie.

[UTUSN]

2. Are the producers/writers of the movie wingnuts, as in "24"? n/t

[EV_Ares]

3. A non-issue, think about it. Fox! look at all of the tabloid type stories they do for their

cult listeners. Not surprising that they would attempt such a feeble thing of this sort. Laughable as always.

[liberal N proud]

4. Why is it so hard for people to realize this shit is organized

not with in the network but across all news agencies?
Time after time these fuckers repeat the same message from FAUX, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and around again.
We don't have multiple news reporting agencies in this country, we have the perfect propaganda machine. It looks like there are different networks but they all repeat the same thing with just few insignificant words changed.
We will never beat the right wing with this type of propaganda generating network.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. To beat his wife? nt

[TexasProgresive]

6. Close but wrong cause he's just right for the

JOKER. Warped sense of humor and a pathological killer.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. They're courting 13 year olds to vote for Boobya? WHAM!! SOCKO!!

[NashVegas]

8. Their "Cultural Expert" Is Mostly Full of Shit

Stop looking at the movie as a battle of good v evil and instead look at it as control v chaos, and whether or not their perpetrators represent benevolent or destructive aspects of each.

Sure, Bush has sacrificed his popularity, but he has not sacrificed an ounce of control, rather, he has increased and consolidated his powers while in office. In setting up his little loop, Batman was not acting on behalf of authoritarian control. He made an individual choice to violate the law and accept the consequences (Lucius quitting). In The Dark Knight, all the forces that most represent the traditional concept of evil are also those who are trying to exert the most control: Joker, Dent (even before he was Two-Face, the control drive was present), and Eric Roberts' character.

He is correct on one thing: when art works are unmasked and openly political - regardless of whether they are conservative or liberal - they are worse than boring! They're like being bludgeoned over the head. Examples: Different Strokes; Atlas Shrugged.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. That's exactly it. Control vs Chaos.

[DU9598]

9. I agree with them in some way . . .

A secretive billionaire with a trust fund who is unelected, yet finds it to be his right to spy on all citizens through their cell phones and in the end people's lives are put in jeopardy and buildings in the nation's biggest city get blown up. Yep, they are right.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. Except that Batman *on his own* gives up that power. Bush tried to make it permanent