Below, audio of Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, wherein he posits that the villain of “The Dark Knight Rises” being named BANE is a deliberate attempt to help the Obama campaign by smearing his Republican challenger Mitt Romney (re: former head of BAIN Capital.) No, really.
UPDATE: Amusingly, The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard, posits that the film is actually much more of an anti-“Occupy” capitalist power-fantasy that “Mitt Romney would be thrilled” with. I’m not reviewing or opining on the film at all until Friday’s “Escape to The Movies,” but I’ll say that I don’t disagree with this particular thematic assessment.
Not that I expect that ANY of what Devin Faraci has colorfully named “The Bat-Jihadists” (or “Mujhabatdeen”) might be READING THIS and spurred to, oh, visit the contact page for Rush’s radio show and have themselves a lil’ old party or anything…
Y’know, I’m probably not a favorite person among the Nolan/Batman fanboys – we’ve had our differences in the past, etc. But if they insist on unleashing full-tilt troll-storms on any media personality who doesn’t break out the 10/10 rubber-stamp for their prefered movies… I can’t help but think it’d be just swell if some of that venom and vitriol got sent “Rushbo’s” way. Hate-spewing reactionary vs. hate-spewing reactionaries, and all that.
I mean, not for nothing, but part of the attack-the-critics mentality is that bad reviews might hurt the film’s chances at setting/breaking some arbitrary boxoffice record, no? Well, unlike ANY film critic, Limbaugh actually does have the clout to turn his sizable following “against” a media property – I don’t like it any more than anyone else, but he is about that powerful.
MOVIEBOB CENTRAL 
Hey Bob, you're a left-wing Limbaugh. Remember that.
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@guyinthehat
Do you follow Bob on twitter? He literally said anyone who claimed The Amazing Spider-Man was better than the Raimi films would be removed from his “to take seriously” files.
I never said he hated Nolan trilogy, but he does seem to dismiss everyone who defends Nolan or the Trilogy as being raving fanboys while he's being objective. Granted the idiots making death threats don't help those who genuinely love the films objectively. However Bob has really overgeneralized those who would call themselves “Nolan Fans”.
I don't care if he doesn't like Amazing Spider-Man. I think it's flawed and at best matches Spider-Man but doesn't come close to Spider-Man 2. My problem is he very easily throws the term “Fanboy” around but gets pissed whenever he's accused of being one.
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Warren- I do follow him on Twitter, that's why I discovered he had a blog, I must've missed that post then.
That's actually a pretty good point and similar to one I've brought up before that I was given backlash on somewhere in the “Oh Baby!” article. Bob is completely willing to damn anyone else for doing the exact same things he does but when he does it it's not the same and it's okay.
Earlier he opined on Twitter that fans of TDKR are way too over-the-moon about the movie and says he'd say mean things to him but he remembers he was a teenager once too. Never minding the fact that he himself has gone way over-the-moon both in rage and fanboyish excitement (see: Green Lantern & The Avengers reviews). I like his articles and his reviews but I find myself liking him less and less the more I realize just how hypocritical and mean spirited he can be.
*prepares for backlash*
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