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The Bat Man Would Know How To Avert The New Depression

Hmm so yes, this is what it’s come to: our national financial crisis was predicted by a comic book movie about a villain with a lumpy white sliced-up face. This mashup of George Bush’s sad address from last night and Heath Ledger’s bravura performance as an insane person with drymouth is dreadfully offensive to the beautiful legacy of The Joker, who would have suspended the filming of his movie in order to tend to the nation’s business in Washington DC. Also why isn’t Sarah Palin running around in a neoprene cat suit listing the regulatory accomplishments of her running mate? Fail. [YouTube]


10:31 AM on Thu September 25 2008
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Batman is in the tank for Harvey Dent. Also he’s in the tank for driving around in tanks.

  2. We’ll never know. Video is already in the Memory Hole

  3. Is the Joker using McCain’s make-up artist - Tifanie?

  4. Cogito Ergo Bibo says at 10:39 am, September 25th, 2008

    Hopey is addressing the Global Initiative on CNN live, right now, in NY. Isn’t that what Grampy was sticking around NYC to do, as well?

  5. Obligatory “What are you, dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I’m the goddamn Batman” post.

  6. Cogito Ergo Bibo: no, he was staying for letterman. oh.

  7. Cogito Ergo Bibo says at 10:43 am, September 25th, 2008

    Valerie: Ha! Well, Katie had better legs, so mission accomplished.

  8. Oh wow, I clicked the Batman tag thinking there wouldn’t be much, there are so many Bruce Wayne-related posts you’d think this was a comic nerd blog

  9. Batman could defeat the economic collapse if he was given time to plan.

  10. Carrie_Okie says at 10:46 am, September 25th, 2008

    mattbolt: Dukakis was in the tank first!

  11. medievalist says at 10:46 am, September 25th, 2008

    Hmm… Sarah Palin in a Catwoman outfit… nah… Tina Fey in a Catwoman outfit, now you’re talking!

  12. medievalist: pleeeeese make it so.

  13. InsidiousTuna says at 10:54 am, September 25th, 2008

    I am sooooooooooooo happy right now.

  14. Inadequate Blackmail says at 10:55 am, September 25th, 2008

    mattbolt: Ok, I really did laugh out loud at that one.

    Anyone follow the link at the end? I didn’t. But I like to hope it leads to a site full of 16 year old wannabe cyberterrorists who think The Joker is awesome.

  15. Strictly for the Tardcore says at 11:00 am, September 25th, 2008

    I’m not sure which is more impressive… that somebody found the time to do this, or the fact that the Joker looks competent by comparison to Dubya.

    Actually, I just realized: Dubya’s the Riddler! He has shitty evil schemes, tells everyone what he’s doing before hand, speeks in cryptic, indecipherable verse…

    Which would make Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi the Super Friends. And WALNUTS! would have to be Solomon Grundy.

    medievalist: …proceed.

  16. DoctorCulturae says at 11:00 am, September 25th, 2008

    Whew! Good news. We’ll all be secure and protected:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYxTzDFofZQ

  17. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 11:01 am, September 25th, 2008

    So, the Joker is John McCain, and Barack Obama is…

    The Batman?

  18. That does it. I’m suspending operations today, and will join Capt. Sen. John McGrommits National Day of Economic Mourning.

  19. medievalist: Michelle Pfeiffer has more native intelligence in her left nipple than Sarah Palin has in her entire family. She should run for VP. I’d be reassured.

  20. Lionel Hutz Esq.: I don’t like your insinuation that Barack Obama is some sort of “Dark Kinght”…

  21. Serolf Divad says at 11:10 am, September 25th, 2008

    medievalist:

    Yeah but Palin could wear the Catwoman outfit while 7 months pregnant and you’d never know it. Let’s see Tina Fey try that!

  22. medievalist says at 11:13 am, September 25th, 2008

    Quacker: Hmmmm… Perhaps we could drop Biden and run “Obama/Michelle Pfeiffer’s Left Nipple ‘08.”

  23. medievalist says at 11:14 am, September 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: Was Catwoman ever armed? Palin needs to be a comic book/movie supervillan who shoots things from helicopters.

  24. Strictly for the Tardcore says at 11:17 am, September 25th, 2008

    Serolf Divad: I would love to see her try that, personally. Fey’s hotter pregnant than 90% of women are not.

    Godot: Man alive, but do I hate that argument. As far as Batman defeating the economic crisis: Bats can’t hit it, can’t find its weak spot, can’t use a store of lethal red kryptonite on it, can’t use Scarecrow’s fear gas to make it afraid of water, and Wayne Enterprises stock is selling at twenty cents a share.

  25. Strictly for the Tardcore says at 11:18 am, September 25th, 2008

    medievalist: We can dress her in a shitty red costume and call her “Deadshot”.

    If any of you people get that joke, I should award you my screen name.

  26. Inadequate Blackmail: 16 year old wannabee terrorists? That’s brilliant! How do I invest in that?

  27. HollowBrain says at 12:51 pm, September 25th, 2008

    What no pencil trick???

  28. PoliTacky says at 1:20 pm, September 25th, 2008

    Sarah Palin as Catwoman? Definitely not the Michelle Pfeiffer version, more like crazy Sean Young, off her meds, showing up at the Warner Bros. lot after the role’s already been cast in a homemade costume, gibbering like a baboon on PCP.

  29. I think I would be more comfortable with a deranged, dayglo, painted up maniac running things for the next 4 years. But Hillary lost, so it’s goddamn Barack or goddamn McCain.

    Thank you, I’ll be here all week.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  30. HollowBrain:

    Just imagine that the “pencil” is the federal government’s “penis.” The “Joker” is “George Bush” and he’s going to make it “disappear” by forcefully thrusting it into our collective rectum.

    If you catch my drift.

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