WSJ Editorial: Batman Is President Bush

Via TNR, the Wall Street Journal publishes an editorial by Andrew Klavan declaring "The Dark Knight" really depicts our fearless leader:

A cry for help goes out from a city beleaguered by violence and fear: A beam of light flashed into the night sky, the dark symbol of a bat projected onto the surface of the racing clouds . . .

Oh, wait a minute. That's not a bat, actually. In fact, when you trace the outline with your finger, it looks kind of like . . . a "W."

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.

And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society -- in which people sometimes make the wrong choices -- and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.

No word yet on what Patrick Leahy thinks.

Comments

[novowel4me]

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

[Grunty1]

You were lucky, I need to clean off my desk...

[DwH]

Comparing him to a fictional character is all they have. He certainly isn't comparable to a real-life hero, or to a real-life preseident for that matter.

More hogwash. I hope Klavan gets a chance to wash out some of W's underwear this summer.

[ApolloniaCreed]

...only if it's a "dingbat"

[Cathexis]

George W Bush is a fictional character who is entertaining to watch but can't do any actual real-life harm?!?

Thank God! And here I thought that all of the damage to the economy, America's image, our national integrity, our military, and our environment had been REAL!

PS: I'll never see the GOP-version again!