Well, I’m only just getting around to reading this, seeing as how I’m really not into batman. (although I do see several excellent comments here).

Anyway, based on the comments, this seems as good a place as any to post these video links. I stumbled across them after linking to several from the Sy Hersh piece, and one thing just led to another. I’d never seen these videos before.

I admit that I’m a bit skeptical of the first one. NOT because I wouldn’t expect this from him, (I would) but just because I can’t imagine how it could ever have fallen into ‘unauthorized hands’ or made it onto youtube.

The other two are definitely the real thing.

Rare (Banned) Bush Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fws4RxWtnOg

The BEST Speech (ever) From George W Bush. It’s great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmLE7paJU8&feature =related

He’s Drunk Here…AGAIN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDtbO9BimM

Meantime, one thing I *DID* notice here in the article that fits the W profile.. At the top there, it says “World Without Rules”. That’s W alright.

It is not surprising that some dumb right-wing nut makes the “Batman” connection to Dubya. Batman is entirely fiction, make believe, fantasy, not real. Dubya and Cheney et. al. personify the fantasy world that the Right Wing lives in.

Right Wingers always are pointing to movies that they do not like as examples of the degrdation of society, and point to movies they do like as examples of their correctness. Funny isn’t it, how they seem to like dark movies in which many people get killed…

More funny is that movies that bring up things like justice and integrity and honor and love are always denounced by them.

Chris Hedges recent lament about the decline of newspapers did not mention what has happened to the Wall Street Journal. There was a time when there was a separation wall between news and the editorial page. It was from the WSJ I first learned that Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton when they using slave labor for a pipeline in Burma. In fact, some of the best journalism could be found there, but no more. Rupert, the ex-Australian media pirate has destroyed it. Another fine example of Gresham’s law.

I just saw the movie last night and it certainly doesn’t hold up as a right-wing defense of Bush, as Klavan would have us believe. I would define the film’s position, if it has one, as equivocal or conflicted, like Batman himself, on the issue of taking the law into one’s own hands and of employing extralegal means to fight criminality. Batman, of course, is a vigilante and always has been. He is also a character in a comic book and in films based on a comic book. Bush, alas, is not, although he sometimes seems to be. I have to agree with Klavan on one point, however. I saw “300” and thought it was a thinly-disguised defense of the invasion of Iraq, although I have been known to make too much of things. One other point: In “The Dark Knight,” Batman beats the crap out of The Joker to get information out of him about two characters who have been kidnapped. The Joker gives him the information, but based on the result I wouldn’t say it was a successful interrogation. The movie and life are a little more complicated than Klavan would have us believe. Perhaps he should see the movie again (or once, because I’m not sure he has seen it at all)and rethink his position.

Yes Bush is exactly just like Batman.  He comes into office trying from day one to fabricate a reason to invade Afghanistan and Iraq-- works with his neocon cohorts to devise the 9/11 fraud and then goes onto invade Afghanistan and Iraq based upon the fraud and fabricated threat evidence all of which was publicly denied by all the intelligence services of the USA including the CIA which publicly said Iraq was no threat to the US.

Then he goes in sacrificing our young bright soldiers for these frauds and steals vast amounts of money from the US treasury in so doing.  Aside from mass murdering millions of Iraqis and destroying Iraq he has also done massive damage to the US image and it’s economy by not only stealing from the treasury but stealing from the future with massive deficit spending.

Oh and picking up largely innocent Islamic peoples and subjecting them to methods of torture which were designed to solicit false confessions… e.g. confessions supporting his fraud.... Yes he’s exactly like Batman… How ridiculous. 

The Wall Street Journal is now officially a scum rag.

Klavan may have a point here...but he has the wrong caped crusader...W should be 60’s TV’s campy Batman, Adam West...clunky graphics, primitive special effects...in other words, not reality-based.

Of course, an argument could be made for Bush as Frank Gorshin’s 60’s TV’s Joker character, because as we all know, every clown has a “W” in it.

As a matter of fact, how do we know the author isn’t Cheer’s Cliff Klavan, kind of a know-it-all without the “know...”

laughed my ass off reading this shit.i seem to recall hitler loved puppies and believed he was doing good works too.

The unfortunate thing here is Batman is in a world of make believe, while Bush is in OUR world of reality. Bush is a disgrace to this great Nation and has been every since he was elevated to that high office. What he has done TO this great nation makes Nixon look like a real statesman! It will take decades to rectify the damage he has heaped on the nation. He will go down in history as, without any doubt whatsoever, the worst president this nation has had to suffer through.

well it has certainly been a long, “dark night” for the rest of us. . .

WSJ for the most part can be safely ignored - it will not lend any insights other than to promote Bush White House talking points and Republican party ideology. If you want to know where the Republican Party is coming from, you can pick up most of these business rags and get a good laugh or two. Recently Businessweek ran an article on how hard it was to get by on $ 250,000 a year, in response to Obama saying he would raise taxes on those making over that amount. The writers of this tripe live in a different universe than the rest of us.

It doesn’t look like a damned W, it looks like a bat.  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  But fascists have a deep, Freudian need for symbolism.

The notion that George W. Bush is some sort of a doppelganger for Batman would be a hoot if it weren’t so pathetic.
The proper answer to, “What character from Batman does GWB most resemble?” would be The Joker if Bush were smarter and didn’t lie so much.

Mr. Klavan seems determined to prove that the Joker, compared to some, is a rational guy.

Holy Ludicrousness, Batman! But I actually kinda see some truth in it. “The Caped CRUSADER”, dubya, I mean, does seem to fancy himself to be carrying the White Man’s Burden, I suppose, “civilizing” all the little savage, barbarous natives of far-away oil rich lands by taking their resources away from them and spreading the White Man’s Culture and Religion. Yes, I actually see what Mr. Klavan is saying. 

Holy New World Order, Batman! Who cares about morals and justice and social order when there are hundreds of little dusty people with turbans in the desert, just waiting to sink their fangs into the White Man’s civilization? These people can’t govern themselves, so why don’t WE govern them ALL?!?!?

Holy Collapsing Economy, Batman! The Arab war-machine is out to get us and they must be vanquished. Quickly, let us sink zillions into war and make the Middle East a smoking crater before they catch on to the fact that we’re trying to systemically take over their land and destroy their culture! And let’s pay off all the corporate debts while we’re at it. Don’t worry about the whining masses of unemployed and homeless American citizens. They’ll thank us later.

EE-HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEE!!

HEY ROBERT!!!

Did’ja miss this???

Murdock strikes again…

Ex-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan exposed Fox News as a propaganda tool for the White House on Chris Mathews Hardball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OpIXfXKO8

Just noticed at the top of the poster:

“WELCOME TO A WORLD WITHOUT RULES”

Yep, that sounds like Lord Bush. Constantly making and changing the rules of the game until he comes out on top. In other words, he cheats.

Louise, they are also short on integrity and insight.

nrobi, you forgot the National Enquirer, Star and the rest of the scandal rags out there for the entertainment of the masses.

W can be found everywhere, that’s one of the fun things about being able to read.

Wee-wee, whine, worthless, white, wimpy, wealth, war ...

Likewise, there’s no shortage of words starting with I. However, in the right-wing press, Intelligence is in short supply. As so clearly demonstrated by the really strange fellow who wrote this article.

Of course Batman, in fact the whole concept of super hero’s doesn’t work in the real world, and there’s only one reason. It’s not about moral versus amoral. It’s not about right versus wrong [Wrong, another W word, by the way] It’s not even about the limits placed on production by the budget. It’s simply this ... 6 billion people and their associate problems can not be addressed by one single person ... super or not.

Not even that ‘w’ who suffers from the pathetic illness that tells him he can do no wrong. No not even THAT ‘w’ can grasp the wide ranging complexities that lead to violence. If he could, that silly little dubya, never would have started a war he couldn’t finish.

So who reads the Wall Street Journal?

Well for starters, those wealthy repubs, who daily check to see how much more of their bottom line has disappeared? Thanks in no small measure to the policies in the whacky world of W!

Is this the level of opinion and paeans of praise that we can now expect of the WSJ? 
I am horrified that this most honored and well thought of paper has now sunk to the level of depravity of the New York Post. For this opinion, rightly belongs in that rag of a “newspaper” the New York Post.
Yet here is this piece of drivel, written not for the discerning and excellent minds that have read the Wall Street Journal for many years, but an “opinion” that cannot even claim to belong in such an honored paper.
I, can see that the WSJ is now going to be something that will not be worth the powder to blow it up with.  The WSJ will now be known as nothing more than apologists for the administration of the shrub and the self-aggrandizing lives of those who think that the powers of a “war-time” president, can and do include the suspension of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
For many years, even though the WSJ, was certainly a conservative mouthpiece, I would read it not only for the financial news but for the insightful opinions that were from time to time slipped through into their opinion section. Now, no more! 
I can see that the WSJ has been corrupted to the point that they are nothing more than the NY Post wrapped in an honorable and old tradition of real news. This is frightening in the most meaningful way, Rupert Murdoch, has taken a once great newspaper and made it nothing more than Fox News Lite. 
Without doubt, it will be a long time, if ever, that I read the WSJ again.

Yeah and Rupert Murdock is Robin…

I know these old rich guys wrecking the country are delusional, but this is quite a stretch to see a “W” in the batman symbol. It is clearly the letter “V”. What did you get an American education, can’t tell the difference between a W and a V.

And since when did Bush have any moral anything, let alone courage?

Silly rabbit… Bush is the Joker… they both have the same evil laugh - he he he.