We posted this charming debate scene from The Dark Knight way back in May 2008. But it has gained new relevance this week, because we can now reveal that John McCain used the actual script of this fictional comic-book-character debate between The Penguin and The Batman during Wednesday’s bizarre spectacle. [Look See We Posted This In May/And Boing Boing, Today!]
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“He’s crooked as a warped shelalegh.”
Yup, that’s McCain.
I don’t agree with Batman’s economic proposals, but his National Security policies are rad.
[re=138432]cal[/re]: I want that on a t-shirt
Unfortunately, this is pre-9/11 Joker. Today, he’d probably shove the microphone through Batman’s eye socket and win de facto.
If only the Penguin had been elected back then… we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years.
[re=138454]Varchar[/re]: ah, but today’s Batman is more of a badass, too (plus, much, much hotter).
Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon: He was so crooked they had to corkscrew him into his coffin (or words to that effect).
Yer a tomata, Rock!
It’s ironic that even as I type, the South Pole spring is beginning to melt the ice floes right out from under the Penguin. . .
There goes one the size of Ohio!
P.S. That moderator needs some motherfuckin’ Gas-X at 0:53.
Is that Walt Disney as the moderator?
Adam West. Still the coolest White Dude ever.
Please don’t cryogenically freeze W’s head!
Tut tut. Can John McCain help it if he has enthusiastic fans?
Burgess Meredith is wonderful. In “92 in the Shade” he had one of the greatest lines in movie history (verbatim from the book): “The French have a word for it. I call it pussy.”
[re=138476]StrangelyBrown[/re]: [re=138470]NewSpence[/re]: When are they going to clone Walt and bring him back? My kids want to know who the show was “brought to you by.”
“MY FRIENDS”
[re=138464]Doglessliberal[/re]: Escalation. Where does it end? To apply Maloy-from-The-Untouchables’ logic here: “They pull a policy, you pull a gimmick! They get one of theirs from the Senate, you get one of yours from Alaska!” Eventually, the country just needs to end prohibition. Or, in this case, decide how it means to survive an electoral process that invariably descends into madness because it exists in a 24hr media meat grinder coupled with YouTube.
[re=138469]norbizness[/re]: No, he’s a gay homo terrorist who’s in the tank for
ObamaBatman. Don’t you see how he’s looking him up and down, with that lusty lust in his gay homo eyes?Now I see. THIS episode is what started the purple tophat, monocle and cigarette holder fad in the Sacramento County Republican Party. Always wondered.
PS: Pengey is a member of Skull and Bones. But that’s a secret.
The Penguin makes more sense than Palin and isn’t as scary as McCain, or the other way around.
Boing Boing sucks Wonkette dust.
Wondermidget!
That reminds me, when will there be a full DVD release of all the old batman shows? GET ON IT!
It all makes sense. The guys in the “GOON” shirts symbolize Fox News.
[re=138521]jasonarewhy[/re]: hehe
I think the Penguin is more of a caricature of McCain than the other way round. Just look at that dinner footage from earlier, McCain only took off his purple top hat because that bishop was there. Plus Irish cop stereotypes really hate McCain. Think about it.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
If only McCain could have been so eloquent as the Penquin, he wouldn’t be scurrying about the country trolling for rotten sardines, er,votes, as we speak.
this is frickin’ genius.
[re=138506]JadedDIssonance[/re]: Not until Warner Bros. (DC) and Fox stop fighting over the rights, unfortunately.
So the Commish and Chief O’Heara are in the tank?
Prescient. Both when originally shot and when posted by Wonkette. Interesting that Schieffer was still moderating debates way back then.
The bit with the umbrella at the end is classic.
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