Batman = Dubya: Andrew Klavan Lays It Out:
September 12, 2008Yeah, I know this is an already “old” concept in today’s insta-post world. But the author grabs the liberal mindset by the nape of the neck and drags it across the creek and puts in the flood plain where it belongs. Check it out:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/
President…and Superhero [Peter Robinson]
“There seems to me no question,” wrote novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan this past summer,
that the Batman film ‘The Dark Knight’…is at some level a paen of praise to the fortitude and moral courage shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war.
ME (on today’s Uncommon Knowledge, after reading that passage back to him): Aw, come on.
KLAVAN: See? That’s just the response I’m always getting. “Aw, come on.” Well, “Aw, come on” is not argument.
R.D. Walker :
Date: September 12, 2008
Klavan: Unabashed, unapologetic, intellectual, bourgeois conservative.
I can hear it now. “Klavan? Ah, c’mon!”
Roy Ryder :
Date: September 13, 2008
Actually, I always considered the Lord of the Rings trilogy the most apt cinematic comparison, with King Theoden as Bush. Oops, I’m letting my geek show.
Adam :
Date: September 15, 2008
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