Your Media at Work: Wall Street Journal Says Bush is Batman

Posted by PhysioProf, Feministe at 1:22 PM on July 25, 2008.

Yes, the Wall Street Journal. Not The Onion.

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From today's Wall Street Journal:

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.

No, it's not April Fools Day, and I'm not just kidding around and posting an Onion article. This is your Mainstream Media at work again with Teh Awesum Jernalizm!!! I'm telling ya', the deranged fucking wackaloon right-wing is losing it completely.

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However... [Report this comment] Posted by: Xynyx on Jul 25, 2008 3:09 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] However, there is one overriding significant difference: "The Dark Knight" is FICTION! George Bush may live in a fantasy world as well... but unfortunately, his fantasy world is our real one. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Holy Guacamole Batman! [Report this comment] Posted by: Miki on Jul 25, 2008 3:43 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Dick Grayson & Dick...if your trace the Dick with your finger, it kinda looks like a dick...sorry, I can't help myself. Oh yeah, their heads are imploding. The whole article was a stunning read. It showcases perfectly the moral hubris of the right. Left and right, all Americans know that freedom is better than slavery, that love is better than hate, kindness better than cruelty, tolerance better than bigotry. We don't always know how we know these things, and yet mysteriously we know them nonetheless. That's real moral complexity. And when our artistic community is ready to show that sometimes men must kill in order to preserve life; that sometimes they must violate their values in order to maintain those values... If you've violated your mysteriously known "values," then you haven't maintained those values, and probably never had any to begin with. Hence the logic, a wrong makes a right, if the right does it. A wrong is wrong if a liberal does it, or those islamo-fascists. I wasn't surprised to find no analysis of corruption within the police, the law, the system. But before the stunning example of conservative blather goes and appropriates popular culture, he should probably know that if it is a "W," it's for Wayne. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Holy Guacamole Batman! Posted by: curiousdwk There was a time [Report this comment] Posted by: pkricker on Jul 26, 2008 5:19 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] There was a time when the WSJ was a viable publication. It was a tool for wise investing and as such it tended to be fairly accurate, if a little biased. Apparently it has abandoned that mission completely in favor of blindly beating the drum of conservative right wing lunacy. This is not the first time they've given ink to some nut case. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: There was a time Posted by: isnamthere Equation [Report this comment] Posted by: zipper696 on Jul 26, 2008 9:01 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Wall Street Journal = Respected media Rupert Murdoch = Neanderthal Rightist Murdoch+Cash = Buy Wall Street Journal Murdoch "WSJ will be unchanged" Shortly thereafter most WSJ management retire/quit/walk away Shortly after THAT Murdoch lackeys installed Shortly after THAT WSJ becomes Weekly Wingnut News [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Bush - The Superzero [Report this comment] Posted by: DreamFast on Jul 26, 2008 9:59 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] 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,... ********************* Obviously the WSJ writer has absolutely no idea what Batman is about. One of the prime tenants of Batman is to not kill. While Bush the Superzero, wallows in killing. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] This is the best the Wall Street Journal can do? [Report this comment] Posted by: monkeywrench on Jul 26, 2008 11:36 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Compare Bush to a movie derived from a cheap TV show which was itself derived from a COMIC BOOK?! Oh, if Fearless Leader Bush were only the stuff of comic books; but no, he's all too real, and the WSJ can't tell the difference between brutality and phony-baloney "heroism." Meanwhile, the lives of americans increasingly follow the Kafka-esque arc of another TV show/movie – "Night Gallery." Today's MSM "journalism" makes MAD magazine look positively brilliant by comparison. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Corporate Media [Report this comment] Posted by: frank69 on Jul 26, 2008 4:44 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Bush is not at all like Batman. Bush is more like Bat Shit. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] I get the comparison . . . [Report this comment] Posted by: joefixit on Jul 26, 2008 6:16 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Batman=Vigilante . . . but Batman is not dragging an entire nation into his personal battle . . . and he is also something of an outlaw. While this may be attractive as a fiction, as in cowboy lore, his actions have been patently illegal. I am still dumfounded that Congress has played Alfred the Butler to Bush's Batman. Has the American public been playing the innocent bystanders or the enabling readership? And I used to love comic heroes. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] an administration of foot-tappers [Report this comment] Posted by: isnamthere on Jul 27, 2008 4:42 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Bush certainly enjoys sliding down the bat pole [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] In what episode... [Report this comment] Posted by: ShrubtheWarcriminal on Jul 27, 2008 6:07 AM Current rating: Not yet rated** [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...did Bat Man kill more than 4000 of our soldiers, maim 30-50 thousand more, kill 1 million innocent civilians, destroy a country, an economy, to save a damsel in distress? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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