Fox News Paints Fans of Dark Knight Rises as Obama Thugs

By: Jason EasleyJul. 18th, 2012more from Jason Easley

Fox News has turned the Bain/Bane Batman conspiracy theory into an attack on the fans of the movie, who the network believes are ugly threatening Obama thugs.

Here is the video from Media Matters:

The segment started out normally enough with Fox News’s Dennis Kneale wondering if The Dark Knight Rises will be able to catch The Avengers for the summer box office crown, but then it took a gentle right wing detour to conspiracy land,

Now, The Dark Knight Rises has had far more buildup as it opens at midnight on Thursday. On the Rotten Tomatoes movie site, 95% of fans say they want to see it, 86% of the critics reviews are raves, which is why some of the doubters now have begun to bash Batman’s latest vehicle. I mean the film is self indulgent two hours and forty minutes long. Under two hours is the norm, and when a scant few critics dared call out the Caped Crusader, one guy called it nonsensical. The fan boy responses got so ugly and threatening that the Rotten Tomatoes site shut down comments for the first time. Now that site by the way is owned by Warner maker of The Dark Knight Rises, and one more thing, the trilogy has always been a metaphor for America itself. Is it mere coincidence that the name of the villain is Bane, spelled differently from Bain Consulting and Bain Capital?

Fox News anchor Jon Scott drolly replied, “Mmmm, I that Bane has been around for a long time though.” Not to be deterred Neale responded with, “Maybe, so.”

Maybe? Definitely. The character Bane has been around since 1993, and is making his second movie appearance.

Facts aside, did you notice what Fox News did there? They created a portrait of Batman fans as intolerant, ugly, and threatening thugs. A few commenters were dissing The Dark Knight Rises, and they were jumped on by a mob of fans.

Here is Bill O’Reilly on March 22, 2012 claiming that the left doesn’t want to hear opposing points of view:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed that Obama was turning loose his liberal thugs on Fox News:

Here is Karl Rove claiming that Obama is political thug who threatens the Supreme Court:

Fox News was painting fans of The Dark Knight Rises with the same brush. Fans of the movie are Obama supporters who are buying into the Bane/Bain propaganda who are ugly and threatening to anyone who questions their views. Neale’s comments were actually an attempt to delegitimatize Batman.

Fox is worried that there is an anti-Obama message inside The Dark Knight Rises, and the summer blockbuster is all part of an Obama plot to win reelection in November.

In short, FNC was trying to tell their audience that everyone who is going to see the movie is a no good, ugly, threatening liberal.

Fox News never had to come out say that the same fans are Rotten Tomatoes who disagreed with the criticism are liberal Obama thugs. Their viewers have been conditioned by their constant messages about the left’s intolerance. They get it. The Bain/Bane conspiracy combined with the comments on Rotten Tomatoes are proof of the Obama conspiracy to use Batman to attack Mitt Romney.

Those few critics who were fighting the brainwashed Obama masses on Rotten Tomatoes are just like Fox News who is doing battle against the liberal media machine.

It is a pile of BS, but is a load of bull that a couple of million mostly older white Americans believe everyday with a religious fervor. It also just so happens that Fox News’s audience of 65 and overs are the least likely demographic group to go see The Dark Knight Rises.

Not content with spreading silly conspiracy theory, Fox News is now attacking the fans of the film.

Fox News let all of their senior citizen tea partiers know to be afraid when they see a young person in a Batman t-shirt coming towards them. That person who looks like your grandson or granddaughter is really an Obama thug in disguise, and they probably have a death panel waiting with your name on it.

Fox News Paints Fans of Dark Knight Rises as Obama Thugs was written by Jason Easley for PoliticusUSA.

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21 Responses to Fox News Paints Fans of Dark Knight Rises as Obama Thugs

Paws

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:09 pm

These people have taken an extra dose of the crazy pills, I think. They are losing it.
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Kathy

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Are they serious? This is a movie. A mooo-veee. It is not real. And the word “bane” as in “bane of my existence” has nothing to do with Bain Capital. I don’t like everything Mr. Obama does, but how on earth am I expected to even consider an alternative when the right wingers are so, well, idiotic?
Might I add that perhaps using Bain as a business name was illconsidered?
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Sally

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:21 pm

Well, let’s add in all comic book fans as the next group bashed by the right. Let’s see: women, the elderly, the ill, children who want an education, union workers, any minority, Latinos, the unemployed, and now comic book readers. Yes sir, the GOP will be supported by people who look like and are as wealthy as Mittens this fall. Gonna be a landslide.
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- majii
  
  Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:40 pm
  
  At this point we pretty much know what to expect from Fox News and many of its viewers. They had a hissy fit when they discovered one Spiderman character would be gay and another one when they discovered that one of the characters playing a Norse god in “Thor” would be a black actor. Fox will do anything it can to blame all of the ills of society on liberals. The network’s news readers and viewers remind me of GWB. When he was asked if he had done anything wrong during his presidency, his reply was, “Not that I can think of.” It’s ironic that the party of personal responsibility always refuses to accept responsibility for its actions.
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A Walkaway

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:34 pm

I see a major dose of projection here. Based on our (my wife and I) experiences, the Fox followers are the ones that will make threats, and not only make them but try to follow through on them. It is the conservatives that people should be afraid of, not the liberals.

I’m also wondering if a “nice” conservative-leaning troll got in there and got hammered and was doing the “Boo Hoo PERSECUTION!” cry. You all know how telling the truth is viewed by the conservatives… the Tea Party “Good Christians”. It’s bullying in their eyes, because we use facts to counter their lies, and we prove them wrong. That’s verboten, because according to them, they’re never wrong and we’re “going against God/The Bible” when we do (maybe we know it better than they do?).

Didn’t Rush and the conservatives pull something similar… about the movie “Independence Day”? I think they tried to claim it was Pro-Clinton or something like that.
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- Reynardine
  
  Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
  
  Actually, Bob, it’s called DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It got that name among psychotherapists and social psychologists exactly because it’s so predictable.
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  - Neon Vincent
    
    Jul. 21st, 2012 at 3:24 pm
    
    Thanks for introducing DARVO into the conversation. I looked it up and found out that it’s a pattern of behavior among personality-disordered abusers. That’s a great insight into the behavior of the Right!
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TigerLily

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 3:58 pm

are you serious?
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Laughing@GOP

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 7:12 pm

So, if Mitt Romney is Bane, then that makes Newt Gingrich the Penguin, Ron Paul the Riddler (never know what crazy thing he will say next!), Rick Perry as Two-Face (you just know that fool is lying), Michele Bachmann as Catwoman (really – can’t you just see her with 1000 cats?) and Rick Santorum as the Joker….thanks Fox for clearing that up for us!
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Mary

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 7:48 pm

Fox news and their crazy cult members seem to be sicker by the day..They are running scared. Anyone with a brain and a soul knows mitty is going to lose….
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JaneyD

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 9:02 pm

Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons (which is on Fox) says of the GOP:

Worst political party, ever. And when I say worst I mean they are so stupid that they actually believe that it is Fox “News.” I give both 10 negative stars.
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dusty

Jul. 18th, 2012 at 9:05 pm

never forget. tinky winky was gay….
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Chris

Jul. 19th, 2012 at 1:22 am

Oh…. my….god.
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mike

Jul. 19th, 2012 at 12:25 pm

Even if you don’t count the comic book on the theory that they had a choice of villains, the production schedule for the movie means the story line was in place long before anybody knew Romney would be the nominee. Yeah, they tweak the story right up to release, but the choice of main characters happens pretty early on.
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sherrie heckendorn

Jul. 19th, 2012 at 2:21 pm

What can you expect from fox news? They went to court to be able to legally lie in the USA. They are allowed to lie, slant the news and even use propaganda as its their ’1st amendment free speach’ because they are broadcast news. Once that happend, none of our mainstream media can be trusted. Tell everyone you know and especially those over 60 as they still believe if its on the news its true. We are now the new media.
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Gary Vaughn

Jul. 19th, 2012 at 9:57 pm

First attack girl and boy scouts that have been a tradition as long as I have lived, and I read super hero comics growing up. I would love to see my grand dad as he was a devout democrat, sadly I would either see him die again from laughing, or a vein popping in his head.
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Joe Mama

Jul. 20th, 2012 at 7:23 am

…and after all that incitement from Faux News, someone went on a rampage last night and killed 14 and injured ~50 people in a CO movie theater screening of this movie. Pathetic.
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j

Jul. 20th, 2012 at 8:42 am

OMG – The dreadful news overnight – innocent people gunned down, they have got the shooter, I wonder if he was a FOX fan.
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Custer'sWorstNightmare

Jul. 20th, 2012 at 12:51 pm

And THIS Folks is why FOX&all the rest of the so called”Conservative Clown Car”need to be drug into Court&made to be ACCOUNTABLE for inciting Violence&Accesory to Murder.The Party of”Responsibility”takes NONE for their so called”Entertainers”like Beck&Rush whipping the already paranoid into violence again&again&FOX is JUST as guilty.HOW many people have to die at the hands of an enraged Gun Nut before we stand&say enough is enough?The Rights Bible Politics has been getting people killed for a LONG time.In just under 20 years,The Oklahoma City Bombing,all the Congress folks who’ve been firebombed,shot at,Ordinary people harassed,Threatened,Their Animals Mutilated with the words”Liberal”carved in a Family Pet left for a Democratic Challengers CHILDREN to find.Gabrielle Giffords,George Tiller, Mexican Cartel Violence because they get 80%of ALL their weapons from the U.S. due to Lax Laws demanded by The NRA&the ignorant Pitchfork wavers who support it and now,These poor people of Aurora.ALL at the hands of The Party of”Pro-Life”,who incite hate,bigotry,praise ignorance&dismiss education,who demand we too bow at the altar of their Vengeful Abrahamic God who carries a Tac-9 to pray or die.Then they demand Weapons that were meant for The Battlefield be let loose on the streets&then try to blame us when things go horribly wrong.No,these tragedies lay SQUARE at the feet of The So Called right,who are terribly,terribly WRONG.The Blood of thousands of innocents,including Gang Violence in The Streets can be laid on their shoulders.We MUST stand&NOT back down to these Bullies,the sick,Psychopathic Bullies,whos answer to everything is to Spray&Pray.They brand us The Fascist Nazis in brown shirts,but it is THEY who are the TRUE Fascist Theocratic Nazis.They project to deflect,and they followers are too stupid by Their design to see it.Damn them to hell,damn them all.Yes,I AM angry,I am FURIOUS at all the Pain& Suffering,The Countless Lost Lives,and The Loss of our Country to Armed Zealots who profess to be”Good Christians”,&continue to kill in Gods Name,allow such atrocity to Flourish so they can Fap their Precious Egos playing”Lookitme”with their Assault weapons.It’s TIME they ALL see The Inside of a Courtroom&then,JAIL.
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Deb Hussein Obama

Jul. 20th, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Reading this article 2 days after it was written, and reeling with grief over the shootings in Aurora Colorado. When will Fox News stop this kind of behavior. Was the shooter an Obama hater? Did he listen to the fox news report that dissed batman fans, and called them Obama thugs? One really has to wonder.
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