Actually, Dick Cheney does sound like "The Penguin".
But that just wouldn't fit into Andrew Klavan's textual handjob to George W. Bush.
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
The main point that Klavan uses is that, in the film, Batman uses illegal surveillance to find The Joker and his henchmen. What Klavan doesn't seem to realize is that the two are not equivalent, but mutually exclusive.
Batman had actual and reliable intelligence that The Joker was in Gotham and was prepared to have the surveillance equipment destroyed when the job was done. Bush's position was slightly different, to put it mildly.
And there's so much more that happened this year, and the bulk of it happened close to Novemeber:
It's the crazy lady from the McCain "townhall":
Oh, oh, oh.............can we get the cool MTV, John Woo, action film angle on this?
This next one was so incredible, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
Michelle Malkin got her knickers in a twist when Dunkin Donuts spokesperson, the every lovely Rachel Ray, wore a scarf that offended her delicate sensibilities:
Sigh. You all know I’ve been a fan of Dunkin Donuts for quite some time–and have touted their strong position in favor of immigration enforcement.
Charles Johnson notes, and many readers have e-mailed about, Dunkin Donuts’ spokeswoman Rachel Ray’s clueless sporting of a jihadi chic keffiyeh in a recent DD ad campaign. I’m hoping her hate couture choice was spurred more by ignorance than ideology.
A terrorist scarf?!
If you care to take a glance through the comments section of the thread in question, you'll get a first hand look at some interesting interactions I had with the lunatic fringe who would likely see the face of evil in an Old Navy fleece pullover if Malkin told them to.
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