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What Bush and Batman Have in Common
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 25, 2008 | ANDREW KLAVAN

Posted on 07/25/2008 10:55:56 AM PDT by Bratch

A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .

Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."

There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: batman; bush; darkknight; georgebush; georgewbush; greatpresident; hollywood; moviereview
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To: vince2285

Ping


21 posted on 07/25/2008 12:36:18 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: Notforprophet
Her brother comes across as a 3 dollar bill.

Maggie was hot in "Secretary." A damn shame she didn't get cast as Tony Stark's secretary instead of that bird-like skank Gweyneth Paltrow.

22 posted on 07/25/2008 12:37:40 PM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
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To: Pride in the USA

It does! And hearing Rush talk about it today helped too. I really wanna see this.


23 posted on 07/25/2008 12:47:58 PM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: Notforprophet
Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal not sexy?! LOL, turn in your Man Card, buddy. :)

You can have her, NFP! I don't need a man card to know what is sexy and what is not.

24 posted on 07/25/2008 12:54:41 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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So this is what Batman and Two-Face was fighting so hard for? Bleh.....
25 posted on 07/25/2008 1:14:30 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: Names Ash Housewares
But just like during McCarthyism

What does that mean?

26 posted on 07/25/2008 1:32:02 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I am voting for McCain because he is white.)
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To: Bender2

I’ll wait for the Blu-Ray DVD. >:-}


27 posted on 07/25/2008 1:40:15 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Bratch
Grabbed this a while back... Seems to fit well here.


28 posted on 07/25/2008 2:00:49 PM PDT by Mike-o-Matic
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To: blackie
Here in my small Texas town, it cost me $2.25 to see The Dark Knight before 6PM. No way will I pay $8 to $10 bucks to see a film nor drive 120 plus miles round trip to and from Dallas to see one.

And no one is going to convince me Maggie Gyllenhaal is sexy. I've spent 60 years knowing sexy when I see it, and Maggie ain't by a long shot!

Now, Katie Holmes is sexy, but after she went the Tom Cruise route, I'd have to be very drunk to take her home for fun and games.

All in all, I'd rather have Alisyn Camerota over Maggie, Katie or most Hollywood babes.

I bet she's old enough... to know better--

But still young enough... to still have a yen!

29 posted on 07/25/2008 7:21:28 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“What does that mean?”

Writers could not make stories about paranoia of communism.
But they could make stories about aliens and make the same point.

Example.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street

I think that Nolan and his writers are doing the same thing with the war on terror with Batman.


30 posted on 07/25/2008 8:20:34 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares
Writers could not make stories about paranoia of communism.

The only problem is, it wasn't paranoia. There WERE Communists collaborating with the Soviet Union in the State Department, in the Defense Department, in the highest levels of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, and in Hollywood.

Cold War era documents have proven beyond any doubt that McCarthy was right.

Conservatives should never go along with the lie that concerns about communism were paranoia.

31 posted on 07/25/2008 8:25:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I am voting for McCain because he is white.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Cool your jets.

You’ll find no friend of commie preverts here. ;)

Just pointing out how political climate can influence writers then and now.


32 posted on 07/25/2008 10:54:50 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Bender2

Movies cost $5.50 (geezer discount) here in a theatre seating multiplex.

I agree with your assessment of Alisyn Camerota, she ain’t to shabby. She looked great this morning doing her Fox and Friends weekend anchor job.


33 posted on 07/26/2008 8:03:33 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Bender2
Now, in 2008, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Rachel Dawes and she has the sex appeal of a well used burlap sack

I agree. While she's not bad looking, she's just plain.....I do not see why she was cast in that role.


34 posted on 07/26/2008 2:06:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Bratch
For anyone that didn't catch the "pencil trick", it's below.

Warning: not for the squemish.







35 posted on 07/28/2008 8:24:02 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --- Edmund Burke)
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To: Bratch

bounce


36 posted on 07/29/2008 11:17:24 AM PDT by mpackard (Proud mama of a Sailor.)
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