Holy War Crimes Trial!

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According to this piece in today's online edition of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal ("fair and balanced, but still stodgy"), The Batman we all knew and loved in The Dark Knight is actually a far darker character than even Christian Bale made him appear:

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.

Did this dude see something in the IMAX version, or an early release by the Mormon bowdlerizers of Hollywood films, to reach this conclusion? Because I didn't see any such thing in the movie I saw earlier this week.

I didn't see The Batman bomb Metropolis back to the stone age on account of an attack on Stately Wayne Manor by a band of terrorists from Smallville.

I saw The Batman use cellular technology to triangulate and capture an enemy. I didn't see him storing that data or demanding that Alfred provide full immunity to Cingular, Verizon and Sprint for any cooperation they may have lent to his Bat-efforts.

And I've never had ANY hint that "W" will EVER acknowledge that "the emergency is past." Rather, the dude seems hell bent (which rhymes with Harvey Dent) on asserting that the emergency will always exist. You know, like Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Keep this drivel out of the Journal, wouldya? At least when you're peeing on Obama on Faux News, I have advance warning for it.

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

The emergency has not passed and we HAVE been at war pretty much constantly with Oceania. I have one word for you: Moors.